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Standard for secure mobile phone payments is on the way

Latest Medicare computer-system glitch costing beneficiaries money

Agency has had security and other cash-handling transaction problems in recent months

FCC approves plan for auctioning 700MHz spectrum

IBM to bring together mainframes and game chips

Google ‘frantic’ about Personalized Home Page glitch

IBM opens SOA center for U.S. government agencies

Lab will design technology tailored to fit federal needs

Qualcomm boosts Q3 forecast

Google Website Optimizer simplifies design

University picks Impulse Point NAC over Cisco’s for price

One Safe-Connect security box costs less and won’t block traffic

CA details plans to connect products

With integration work underway, the management software maker details the next stage in its product development

Cisco’s wireless network chief speaks out, sort of

Galloway coy about 802.11n, touts WLAN integration and VoIP progress

Falcon to be the major piece of MySQL 6.0

NY teen hacks AOL, infects systems

Groups raise concerns about patent reform bill

Deferred revenue drives Microsoft to solid Q3

Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings fuel optimism

Yahoo’s Filo: Emerging markets critical

Cisco watchers warn of enterprise slowdown, service provider pressure

Industry analysts say Cisco could be hurt by less spending on network gear

Microsoft touts trust-based ID

Microsoft says the perimeter defense surrounding networks today can be replaced with a distributed security model

E-mail harvesters hit with $1 billion antispam lawsuit

AT&T expands its local VPLS reach

Carrier brings VPLS to more customers, but service is still not available nationwide.

Stealthy wireless LAN start-up Aerohive promises new approach

NetScreen veterans try their hand at advancing WLANs

Student evades Cisco NAC; gets suspended

Cisco adjusts its default settings following student hack

Top six time-wasting practices CIOs should avoid

OLPC raises hundred-dollar laptop price to $175

When and why you should roll out 10G Ethernet for storage

Microsoft ships first public Longhorn beta

Adobe to open-source Flex SDK by end of year

Toshiba sales rise but chips, phones squeeze profits

Nintendo sales surge, but Wii misses target by a hair

Sony’s MemoryStick HD camcorder is smallest yet

Microsoft ups security stance with new labs

European Parliament sparks criticism with IP changes

Kernel space: How much memory am I really using?

Sony planning quad-HD digital cinema push

BenQ to spin off BenQ, change name

‘Evil twin’ Wi-Fi access points proliferate

Orange seeks to deflect EU limit on roaming charges

INFOSEC – FaceTime offers Skype manager for business

Computer dealers accuse Sun of blocking used sales

Antenna’s visual tools drive simpler mobile app development

As Web 2.0 evolves, security becomes an issue

Video search engine Blinkx to go public

Banks file class action suit against TJX

Book review: Object-oriented PHP

Understanding and using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) even in scripting languages is becoming de rigueur these days. This book teaches PHP developers how to use OOP via a series of extremely practical examples.

How Digg.com uses the LAMP stack to scale upward

ITXPO – New home networks may constrain IT

Sidebar: Fast new home networks sprouting

Experts: U.S. vulnerable to major cyberattacks

New approaches to malware detection coming into view

McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and start-ups share their plans