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AT&T sees businesses wading slowly into IPv6

Customers taking a gradual approach to migration

1-in-4 worms spread through infected USB devices

Flash drive attack vector remains popular, says security company

Intel closing in on deal with Infineon, reports say

In effort to get a stronger footing in smartphone market, Intel reportedly ready to buy Infineon's wireless chip unit

FTC settles complaint about fake video game testimonials

The agency goes after the online practice of astroturfing in its complaint against a PR agency

Auditor: FCC should collect more data about mobile industry

The FCC should look harder at special access and early termination fees, the GAO says

U.S. military wants to exert influence over private cyber infrastructure

Effort calls for new government policies affecting the commercial sector

Intel’s upcoming laptop chips will play Blu-ray 3D

Laptop chips based on Sandy Bridge will have a dozen new graphics features to boost multimedia performance

Google Voice: 5 Truths Behind the Hype

MIT builds swimming, oil-eating robots

Nanotechnology used in autonomous robots that could work in swarms to clean future oil spills

Microsoft flaunts customer dumping VMware

Microsoft Hyper-V wins over VMware virtualization at CH2M Hill

Microsoft boosts access to secure development guidelines

iPad quickly adopted as e-reader on Wattpad

Smartphones widely used for e-reading of cloud-based e-book content

Intel eyed McAfee for years, Gelsinger says

The company long considered McAfee or Symantec acquisitions to leverage CPUs in security

China policy could force foreign security firms out

The country is enforcing rules that require companies to use Chinese security products

Citrix targets laptop security with new virtualization software

Automatic encryption, bare-metal hypervisor added to XenDesktop

Model Metrics builds mobile cloud apps

The company aims to make it easy for businesses to extend cloud apps to mobile users

Server sales post biggest jump since 2003, IDC says

HP unseated IBM as the top server vendor during the second quarter.

Alibaba buys Auctiva, a developer of tools for eBay sellers

The Chinese e-commerce company is pushing deeper into the U.S. with its second acquisition there

Facebook dislodges Orkut from top position in India

The number of social networking users in the country is booming

Bossies Awards 2010: The best open source software of the year

New Firefox 4 beta unveils tab manager, sync

Also debuts Windows hardware acceleration, but off by default

Startup offers free social media analytics service

Viralheat offers Web users and publishers a limited slice of the data it collects from the social Web for paying customers

TeliaSonera prepares to launch LTE in over 200 cities

Easy access to fiber will decide in what order new towns and cities get access to LTE

Visa offers new guidance on securing payment applications

The latest best practices complement existing payment application security standard, credit card company says

Creation of common EU patent system faces legal setback

An opinion from the European Court of Justice could be a blow to IT innovators

Eucalyptus strengthens its back end

The company has updated version 2.0 of its open-source cloud platform

Security chiefs at home: No such thing as ‘off duty’

Digital pen system cuts paperwork for dent repair company

Carmedic uses digital pen and paper to transmit data wirelessly

Microsoft leaks IE9 look, reveals ‘Chromifying’

Company's Russian site posts screenshot, details of UI three weeks before beta launch

Gosling: Oracle could still live up to 2007 Java pledge

Oracle had called for a 'vendor-neutral' body to oversee Java, but that was before it bought Sun Microsystems

EMC offers upgrades to automated tiering, Clariion and Celerra arrays

Performance on arrays get a boost with Intel's Westmere processor

LG to make e-paper for new generation of devices

New flexible e-paper could go into color and newspaper-sized e-readers, or even tablets

Social Security Administration to award massive network deal

Carriers await multi-million dollar award of data services after secretive legal delay

Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard

Red Hat's Delta Cloud APIs may be overseen by the Distributed Management Task Force

Ring! It’s Gmail’s new voice feature calling

Taking a stab at Skype, Google enables Gmail users to make phone calls over the Net

Windows DLL exploits boom; hackers post attacks for 40-plus apps

Publish exploits to subvert Firefox, Chrome, Word, Photoshop, Skype, dozens more

Infected USB drive blamed for ’08 miitary cyber breach

Malware was uploaded to network run by the U.S. Central Command

Analyst rains on rumor parade for Apple’s Sept. 1 event

Expect the usual emphasis on iPod, but 'no big deal' for Apple TV

Craigslist under fire (again) for ‘adult services’ ads

Popular classified ads site in hot water over alleged prostitution ads

Data center switch maker teams with VMware to optimize gear for virtualization

Arista Networks' VM Tracer designed to ease configuration, management of VMs

Apple exec stashed $150,000 in shoe boxes

Bail for Paul Devine is set at $600,000 plus any money he has in foreign bank accounts

Rustock botnet responsible for 40 percent of spam

The botnet has ditched encryption in order to send out more spam

Building a private cloud: Get ready for a bumpy ride

Ruby on Rails 3.0 due this week

Location-Based Services: 5 Myths Debunked

Free tool from Team Cymru aims to help fight malware

Non-profit internet research firm says WinMHR tool will bring PC protection to third-world countries that need more security

CIO 100: How to Build an IT Culture of Trust

Ten Ridiculous New Tech Acronyms

Foursquare Privacy Basics: 5 Tips to ‘Secure’ Your Check-Ins

Group complains when Facebook blocks image of pot leaf

Facebook is censoring Just Say Now's legalization campaign, the group says