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Quantum cryptography to secure ballots in Swiss election

Advanced form of cryptography uses photons to exchange encryption keys

Wall Street Beat: Google, VMware, Business Objects shine

3Com says Bain, Huawei deal not a security risk

Shareholders filing suits to block $2.2 billion buy

What does it take to hire and retain technical talent?

Finding and keeping talented IT employees isn’t easy as IT departments take on more responsibilities.

How The Onion tackles tech

The lighter side of IT, courtesy of parody newspaper The Onion

Gateway aims home desktop at multimedia niche

Free your mind with Freemind

Tech group, broadcasters slug it out on white spaces

Mobile Firefox likely to work on Symbian

California state site can’t shake porn problems

FTC targets spammers hawking weight-loss products

Google boxes the rest of us in

Dell hands control of desktops to IT departments

Virtual business

Small carriers: Spectrum auction rules will limit bids

‘Flat IP’ mobile networks face new security challenges

Low-cost laptops are great, but who will pay?

France breaks deadlock on patent translation accord

Does software life begin at 40? IBM updates IMS database

Samsung reveals latest music phones

Google brings universal search to Search Appliance

Oracle fixes glitch in PHP Web applications

New driver better links databases and open source apps

Microsoft adds PHP to InfoCard support list

How Sprint’s next CEO can right the ship

Analysts discuss ways Sprint can boost marketing, network integration

E-mail boosts productivity; IM poses threats: survey says

Most prefer e-mail to phone, find potential security issues with IM, blogs.

Cell phones, text messaging and the 10 rudest office behaviors

Samsung reveals latest music phones

Microsoft not worried about Google Apps

CEO Steve Ballmer talks about future of Web computing, Vista problems

Five easy ways to save power in your data center

Simple ways to save money, energy in the data center

IT buyers prep for 2008 cost cutting

Microsoft Vista, open source rollouts relatively low on priority lists, Goldman Sachs survey finds

Dell aims to simplify IT, unveils diskless-desktop bundle

Centralized IT control and data security said to reduce labor costs

Tufts research aims to ‘read the minds’ of computer users

IE, Outlook, Word get critical bug fixes

Google buys Finnish social-networking company

Researchers: Current education inadequate to fight phishing

Canonical chases deal to ship Ubuntu server OS

Taiwan group expects PRAM chips in three years

DRAM price falls 25 percent

Sony to cut PS3 price, launch new low-end model

3Com waiting for details of Bain/Huawei acquisition bid

.Asia domains start sale Tuesday

Sun’s new servers powered for virtualization

Company also previews new hypervisor, virtualization manager

Readers speak out: Why IT workers are dissatisfied with salaries

Long hours, bad management, outsourced jobs make IT workers say that the pay isn't enough

BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming

Looking beyond peer to peer, BitTorrent DNA can distribute video and software downloads

Canonical chases deal to ship Ubuntu server OS

Akamai unveils IP application accelerator

New service can accelerate all IP-based applications, company says

Ballmer claims Red Hat violates Microsoft IP

Comments at London event echoes similar previous Linux threats

Sun delivers first UltraSparc T2-based servers

10G Ethernet tests show promise for data centers

UNH plug fest shows technology can handle protocols, adapt to cabling

Extreme aims new switch at Cisco, HP gear