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AT&T to hike prices on dial-up

Another inconvenient truth: Al Gore’s Web site hacked

GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement

Fantasy football, IM throwing productivity for a loss

Fantasy Football IM chat eats up employee time at work, survey reveals

Microsoft working to close 8-year-old Web proxy vulnerability

Hollywood studios sue China Web site, cafe over piracy

UK kids warned MySpace isn’t private – OMG!!

French gov’t plans to disconnect content pirates

Taiwan promotes powerful UMPC for WiMax

PS3 sales jump in US on heels of price cut

Hotmail co-founder launches online office suite

Firefox adds security, search with 3.0 beta release

One year later: Did Vista’s focus on security pay off?

Studies show online holiday spending uncertain

Security concerns cloud virtualization deployments

IT managers worry the intangible boundaries in virtual environments might not keep out the bad guys

AOL eyes mobile ad revenue through new UK portal

OpenSocial targets social apps API ‘balkanization’

OLPC asked to free XO laptop

A Google climb to $900 would face headwinds

Group pushing for open data portability stack

HP fires back at IBM over I/O virtualization

Rivals’ dispute centers on compatibility with third-party vendors

Under pressure, T-Mobile unlocks iPhone in Germany

One year later: Did Vista’s focus on security pay off?

Wireless LAN vendor Aruba’s revenue up, but still in red

WLAN vendor’s losses are shrinking, however

Wall Street Beat: HP fails to spark market

Swatters tricked AT&T while making fake 911 calls

Industry must completely rethink security protocols for mobile devices, security pro says

Mocana CEO Adrian Turner recommends monitoring device applications rather than running virus scans

Microsoft hires former Sun, IBM executive to lead sales

U.K. gov’t department chief quits over fears of lost records

African nations agree to $1 billion Indian satellite project

Hackers jack Monster.com, infect job hunters

Monster.com compromised by an IFrame attack

12 spam research projects that might make a difference

Image spam, phishing hot topics in the research community

Q&A: MySpace hacker tells his story

Samy worm creator hopes to be online again

Vista sales hit 88 million, up 47% since July

Oracle tops corporate software usage study

In search of a quality kernel

FCC awards spectrum to public-safety group

NFL’s digital video operations keep teams abreast of competition

IBM server help NFL manage video, game stats and salary cap

Mozilla rolls out Firefox 3.0 Beta 1

Free software group files copyright lawsuits

Verizon tests 100Gbps network

Carrier hopes to deploy 100G network speeds commercially

High-tech toilets are lighted, play music and test your vital signs

Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day. Is yours up to snuff?

Free software from Paglo makes IT system data searchable

IT search engine comes from the creators of the open source Packetyzer and RogueScanner products

Tricky wireless environments call for tricky WLAN equipment

Beam forming, mesh hopping from Ruckus deliver on WLAN performance

Microsoft’s new multicore-computing guru speaks out

Research executive focused on building Microsoft software that exploits hardware advances

Flickr adds tools for mapping origin of photos

Jajah offers shortcut numbers for long-distance calls

IBM takes on HP with I/O virtualization

IBM says product eases blade server provisioning and reconfiguration

Virtual management start-up lands $10 million

Fortisphere announced it closed $10 million in Series A round funding

IBM making ‘agile’ moves