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TOKYO EDGE – December’s coolest gadgets

Proofpoint upgrades filters to catch image spam

Machine learning, image analysis spot hidden text

Hurd: HP will cut more to continue transformation

WORLDBEAT – French radio stumbles over podcasting

U.S. agencies target bogus business opportunities

HP showcases new software group

Company uses its Software Universe to detail product strategy after closing $4.5 billion Mercury buy

Symantec touts security outsourcing services

New outsourced security offerings allow customers to bring Symantec experts in-house

Symantec puts encryption on the backup server

Microsoft fixes IE, Windows Media Player flaws

US gov’t: Intranet system not meeting Navy goals

Breach at UCLA exposes data on 800,000

Sun Solaris getting security, virtualization boosts

Microsoft exec praised Mac ‘to change Vista process’

Code Green fights e-mail data leaks

Appliance for medium businesses scans, blocks sensitive data from leaving corporate networks

‘Rock Phish’ blamed for surge in phishing

Cisco’s Chambers has his eyes on the tube

Video growth means greater network utilization, new markets for Cisco to play in, and more sales of its core routers and switches.

Expert warns on wireless security in Asia

E-discovery vendor Zantaz acquires Singlecast

Lower-cost rivals challenge VMware lead

ITU – IPTV tunes into competition

Vista to benefit partners more than Microsoft

Infosys becomes first Indian company in Nasdaq-100

New type of memory chip may replace flash, HDD

Sun goes multilingual with Java SE 6

Fujitsu Siemens offers SAN bundle for small businesses

Encouraging closed source modules part 3: elimating the “API update tax”

Unstable driver APIs, thought to be one of Linux's strengths, impose costs on both proprietary and GPL developers.

Hyperic open source tool manages VMware

Management software maker discovers, monitors and manages VMware virtual resources

EU telecoms ministers OK mobile-phone price regulation

Eclipse clears developer clutter

UWB gets approval in Europe

U.S. Veterans Affairs CIO: We’re more secure

WS-I moves forward on interoperability, SOA

Altiris adds Linux patch, virtual support to management software

Systems-management software maker adds patch features, virtual server support to management suite

Cisco, Citrix expand click-to-call

Congress passes ‘pretexting’ phone records bill

Celtel launches mobile net service

Vendors have security, VoIP and router mgmt. tools on tap

EMC Smarts, Netreo, NetScout and Network Physics separately announce products to manage advanced nets.

AT&T adds data centers to its network

AT&T expands presence in China and United States.

IDC: Americans are cool to mobile data services

Encouraging closed source modules part 2: law and the module interface

Where do you draw the line between what's part of a GPL-covered work and what isn't? Does NVIDIA need to tap-dance around the GPL to get a proprieary module into the kernel, or is there an easier approach?

Massachusetts CIO reflects after resignation

Louis Gutierrez recalls a painful second tour as head of the state's IT department

Security hole found in Windows Media Player

Florida man pleads guilty in DDOS attack

ICANN sees progress on revamped DNS

ITU – Motorola’s Zander: Future is in emerging markets

ITU – Ericsson sees $70 3G mobiles possible next year

Elpida, Powerchip to invest $13.9B in DRAM venture

Police raid IBM’s Moscow office

Software corrals enterprise smart phones

Network Chemistry, Synchronica and Trend Micro roll out management, security tools.

Microsoft: 1 million Zune sales by June 2007