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Book review: RESTful Web Services

You know your next Web application would benefit from a Web API, but you can't justify it to Management. Here's how to do it anyway

Verizon to merge Cybertrust into managed security services group

Gang blamed for credit card fraud losses nabbed

New Web metric likely to hurt Google, help YouTube

Novell to SUSE users: Don’t worry about Microsoft’s stand on GPLv3

Company says SUSE, customer protection won’t change despite Microsoft’s position on GPLv3.

Clinton urges Indian businesses to invest in U.S.

iPhone, new iPods to spur flash prices

Insurer may jump in to cover iPhones

Groups offer range of ideas for 700MHz auction

Barracuda adds zero-hour threat protection to antispam appliance

New technology catches malware in real time

Service protects kids’ cell phones from predators

Nortel plans wireless product line

Wireless LAN 802. 11n access points, controllers, and unified switches

AMD invests in ailing chip company Transmeta

Cisco co-founder launching optical network start-up

Len Bosack of Cisco fame promises “fundamental change” in telecommunications via stealthy new company XKL

Fraudsters use charities to test credit cards

Indian business people want action on H-1B visas

Army medics get new handhelds for battle applications

Credit card thieves donate to charity

Small contributions test validity of cards while avoiding suspicion

GE’s CEO says India won’t grow at the expense of U.S.

CIOs, CSOs struggle with conflicting roles

Relationship of CIO and CSO must balance security, risk and the need for innovation

Six burning VoIP questions

Chinese cities to top as favored offshore centers, says IDC

Court holds Belgian ISP responsible for file-sharing

FastSoft speeds up WAN with FastTCP technology

Start-up founded by CalTech researchers

Security company launches eBay for bugs

Baidu signs ad-supported music partnership

Integration key issue in Massachusetts review of Open XML

The Commonwealth’s review of the format, however, could spark other states to re-evaluate their failed legislation

Gov’t report: Data breaches don’t often result in ID theft

UK company says it’s close to unlocking iPhones

Wall Street Beat: M&A lifts IT as Nasdaq soars

Solar Web hosting company powers Live Earth sites

Diagnosing the health of the Internet

Akamai makes real-time data on speed, traffic and attacks available online

Google loses Gmail trademark case in Germany

Unlocked iPhones coming in one week or less, hacker says

EU fines Telefónica €152M over broadband pricing

EBay launches Kijiji classifieds in U.S.

Denmark to test Open XML, ODF next year

SAP admits to ‘some inappropriate downloads’ in Oracle case

E.U. examines high-def DVD formats over competition concerns

Reshuffling at Taiwanese tech companies met by applause

Sony looks back, and forward, at 10 years of Vaio

EC approves Fujitsu buy of GFI Informatique

WORLDBEAT – In India, bands and elephants at work

Fidelity National Information Services: Ex-worker stole 2.3 million customer records

Former database administrator responsible for data breach

Security gateway goes open source for all

Untangle looks to make money supporting its combo antivirus, antiphishing, antispyware offering

After attacks, U.S. government sending team to Estonia

Organized, financially driven online criminals a main corporate threat, IBM security exec says

Director of IBM Internet Security Systems Kris Lamb says online criminals are focusing on highly repeatable, highly undetectable types of attacks using bots and malware.

Is securing your network worth the money?

Security researchers detail P2P threats, vulnerability disclosures and hacker profiling at recent Carnegie Mellon confab.

Zoho taps productivity apps in mashup with Facebook

Kernel space: Linux security non-modules and AppArmor