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Cisco buys into WiMAX with $330M purchase of Navini

WiMAX vendor brings complete product line for wireless broadband access

Malware on the rise as criminals target vulnerable firms

World Series ticket sales to resume after Colo. stall

Kernel space: Fair user scheduling for Linux

Court leaks info of alleged ID thief

ID thieves have a 50-50 chance of going to prison

Hitachi to exit consumer PC business

Samsung manufacturing leap to make cheaper, faster chips

Controversial cybersecurity plan gets legal review

American Bar Association’s Committee on Cyberspace Law look at ramifications of Jericho Forum ideas

Skype’s original team leaves the VoIP provider

Enterprise mobility ‘daunting’ but doable

Benefits of enterprise mobility are clear, but the path to delivering them is less so

3 weaknesses in business intelligence today

Microsoft adds mobile, single sign-on support to Live ID

Microsoft launches Xbox 360 Arcade for families

Microsoft drops price to partners for hosted CRM

MySQL to get injection of Google code

Ballmer disses Google on wireless plans

Microsoft CEO says company has no plans to compete with carriers

Co-working: the ultimate in teleworking flexibility

Co-working sites make space, build community for telecommuters

Raytheon closes acquisition of Oakley Systems

Another data-leak prevention vendor snapped up by a technology giant

Citrix plans virtual desktops

XenDesktop will centralize control of workstations

Next-generation LANs, branches under consideration

Experts mull changing enterprise network environments

How Nortel, Extreme and others counteract counterfeiting

Not just Cisco warns buyers to beware cheap, uncertified switches

Cisco fights fakes via used-equipment remarketing

Cisco’s used-equipment operation authenticates, recertifies switches, routers

Seanodes pitching direct-attached storage virtualization

3Com brings gigabit to SMBs

New switches include a 10-port desktop device and a line of wiring-closet devices

Antispam start-up studies receiver’s reputation

Abaca determines spam based on how much spam receivers have been sent in the past

Intel: Patent reform still needed

Riverbed upgrades boost big WAN transfers

New hardware and software upgrades aimed at data centers and disaster recovery

IBM, MediaTek to develop wireless broadband technology

Palo Alto integrates firewall with Active Directory

Security policies can link machine, user and application

Opnet acquires Network Physics for $10 million

Network management vendor Opnet to add application performance management capabilities with Network Physics buy

Air Force flies toward Web application security

The U.S. Air Force gets its Software Assurance Center of Excellence off the ground

Taiwan inks WiMAX pacts with Alcatel, Sprint, others

HP, Taiwan company show-off WiMAX hospital station

Microsoft in compliance with 2004 ruling, EU says

How to lock up laptop security

Leading change, outsourcing and ‘The Art of War’

Google darkens its home page for a cause

Microsoft signs deal to work on international development

After theft, tech support call lands man in jail

Amazon helps vendor launch software-as-a-service e-procurement

Coupa On Demand available this week

HP overhauls Network Node Manager

Upgrades network management software long thought the cornerstone of software portfolio.

Interop’s little sister decked out for fall

New York show big on content, light on announcements

Storm Worm now just a squall

Appliance added to content-management suite

Endpoint-security software, management software round out Workshare’s suite

SAP looks to Microsoft, Adobe for friendlier UI

AT&T unsure about bidding in 700MHz auction

Data centers devour 5% to 15% of IT budget

Google continues to boom in third quarter

Africa’s EASSY cable set for operations in 2009