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Eighth Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day kicks off search for SysAdmin of the Year.

Linux tool points out power-wasting applications

This year's most important Linux application may be a simple utility that helps users spot long-standing bugs that make systems waste power.

Mozilla CEO denies Google decided Thunderbird’s fate

Wi-Fi traffic testing application on tap from VeriWave

Software tracks, measures and reports wireless LAN performance

Making sense of AMD’s processor road map

Microsoft details online software service strategy

Microsoft Services Platform at heart of software plan

EU’s Intel case simpler than that versus Microsoft, AMD says

Help arrives for finding the right open-source code

Nacchio sentenced to 6 years, $52M fine

Wikia search engine gains a Web crawler

IM attacks up nearly 80%, Akonix says

File sharing and instant messaging networks taking it on the chin

Start-up to extend desktop phone, PC functions to cell phones

Emphasizes VPN capability for smartphones

Microsoft trying to get code open-source certification

Online legislation-writing effort gets good reviews

Google plans YouTube antipiracy tool for September

California report slams e-voting system security

Defying naysayers, Iridium finds a business model

Amp’d is latest mobile niche casualty

Microsoft’s Ballmer asks investors for patience

DOJ charges former Safenet exec with stock backdating

Mozilla ponders separate organization for Thunderbird

Microsoft leads series of Web-hosting announcements

Software-as-a-service provides new opportunities for hosting industry

Firm uses virtualization, quake tech to boost business

Microsoft VoIP server and client complete

Office Communications Server could bring down wrath of Cisco, IBM

Cisco Networkers: Gyrating dancers, rollerbladers and some guy named John Chambers

When will HP’s software shopping spree pay off?

Opsware buyout pricey but could give HP an edge over big software rivals

Lenovo opens manufacturing plants in Mexico and India

EU, US make breakthrough on GPS, Galileo interoperability

Microsoft to discuss milestones, goals at analysts meeting

Pre-Internet laws hinder IT use in Japanese elections

Q&A: Security top concern for new IETF chair

Leading standards body gets serious about bolstering Internet security

Database admin stole more data than thought

Ganging up on retail theft

Bluesocket-Pingtel deal furthers dual-mode wireless technology for business

Bluesocket-Pingtel will go against VoIP heavyweights Avaya, Cisco, Nortel and Siemens and a newly announced alliance of Alcatel-Lucent and Aruba Networks

Researchers reveal another Firefox flaw

Wall Street Beat: Earnings, M&A, IPOs stir IT market

Hey charger! OLPC gets power boost from Aussie coder

SOX: Five years of headaches

Sarbanes-Oxley compliance looms large for big enterprises and small companies alike

AMD unveils strategy to ‘Bulldoze’ the competition

Riverbed software optimizes traffic from laptops to data centers

Traffic is reduced and accelerated with an appliance at just one end of WAN connections.

Microsoft describes technology behind software plus services

With Black Hat approaching, a rush to patch iPhone

China’s SMIC reports yet another loss

HP service helps keep data centers cool

U.S. standards committee still undecided on Open XML

California city connects with open-source networking

SAP, Siemens hope to benefit from German Web 3.0 project

Open Solutions Alliance member on interoperability

DIGITAL GEAR – Wireless USB makes a splash

Next-gen 911 system nears completion

Cisco, Nokia engineers lead effort