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What to watch at Black Hat and Defcon

Here are the five big themes at the annual Las Vegas hacker conferences taking place this week

HTC unveils new TD-SCDMA smartphones for China push

The Taiwanese smartphone maker also announced partnerships with China Mobile and Gome

HP says prefab data center cuts costs in half

The sheet-metal structures can be built in four to six months and are highly energy efficient, HP says

SAP reports revenue up 12 percent, earnings up 15 percent

SAP expects that full-year revenue growth will accelerate if currency exchange rates remain unchanged

China cracks down on illegal music sites

Two dozen websites went offline after authorities released a list of music providers without government permits

Nvidia tunes 3D offerings for businesses

The new 3D Vision Pro products are designed for business meetings and presentations

Black Hat: Most browsers can be made to give up personal data

IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari all have a feature that can be exploited, expert says

Black Hat may keep quiet about plans for controversial talks

Goal is to avoid external pressure not to discuss important security issues, says founder Jeff Moss

Yahoo changing its model for building media products

The new model, already tried with Yahoo Finance, aids adding new features across markets

Founder: Black Hat reflects a changing industry

NAC decisions you need to make now

HP unveils prefab data centers

Prefabricated building components can cut the upfront cost of designing and constructing a data center in half

Search engine optimization techniques for hackers

Microsoft Hohm outs home energy hogs

Bug reporting could be a hot topic at Black Hat

June zero-day leads to 'radical' changes in disclosure landscape

WAC and JIL get together to push mobile app development

The Wholesale Applications Community will join forces with the Joint Innovations Lab from September

Will Legal iPhone Jailbreaking Spur X-Rated Apps?

Which Internet Service Providers Are Really Fastest?

Is iOS4, iPhone’s new OS, a Battery Hog?

IT career site Dice launches network for tech recruiters, job hunters

Dice Talent Network combines social recruiting tools with a specialized job board environment

Online sales of Dell Streak could begin Wednesday

Blogosphere rife with reports that five-inch tablet will run on AT&T network and be available tomorrow

Apple shifts to newest Intel CPUs in iMac refresh

Dumps aging Core 2 Duo, drops Nvidia graphics from the line

In L.A., Google Blowing Big Cloud Marketing Chance

Microsoft posts preview of ASP.Net MVC 3

A striking disconnect between CSOs and hackers

Security execs tend to live in a world apart from the hacking community, which means missed chances to accomplish big things

Gmail and Calendar: How to do cool stuff

Federal lawsuit claims Apple’s iPad overheats in minutes

Shuts down in direct sunlight, allege irked owners in complaint seeking class-action status

Droid X is now hard to get, just like Droid Incredible and Evo before it

Shortage of components could hurt Motorola and Verizon, but could help Android and Google

Google Android Market looks to protect apps

AT&T to be ‘premier’ Windows Phone 7 vendor

Carrier remains bullish on Microsoft's mobile OS

No Dell Streak sale in July, spokesman says

Company catches Web mistake on Streak pre-sale offer

Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco

Avaya seeks to dominate unified communications, but Cisco and Microsoft stand in the way

How can enterprise WLANs manage the bandwidth crush from mobile devices and multimedia apps?

802.11n Wi-Fi is not the answer alone

Should you even bother looking at Windows Phone 7?

Microsoft's latest stab at the smartphone market should appeal to Windows shops

How can employee-owned mobile devices be secured and managed on corporate networks?

Companies increasingly allowing employees to keep their iPhones or other devices, but with strings attached

Is Sprint losing its WiMAX/4G gamble?

Delayed handset delivery, LTE’s emergence among Sprint’s challenges

What’s the impact of carriers’ new ‘capped’ wireless data plans on corporate networks?

At least in short term, most companies expected to stick with unlimited wireless data plans

How can wireless and wired security be brought together, rationalized and managed?

Cisco, 3Com and others have been working on common security capabilities

How are large-scale, dense Wi-Fi networks affecting radio management issues?

Wi-Fi coverage management increasingly moving from manual to automated

Yahoo will invest in hackers with good ideas

Independent hackers have in the past helped Yahoo convert ideas into products

Japan pushes high-tech in World Cup bid

The country is proposing holographic TV and video game-like coverage for the 2022 football championship

XML pioneer pitches functional programming for concurrency

MIT Design Could Speed Up the Internet

CIOs Reveal Their Picks for Beach Reads

Gartner: CIOs Should Plan for Recession No. 2

Telecom Giant Takes to Web 2.0

A gradual rollout of microblogging and social networking tools is improving communication and collaboration at Alcatel-Lucent.

What Windows Phone 7 <i>doesn’t</i> have becomes a hot topic

Some say Microsoft just needs time to get things right

UK launches computer security training exercises

The exercises are designed to provide training and greater awareness of job opportunities

Entrepreneurs see profit in iPhone 4 antenna problems

iPhone mess triggers free offers and off-the-wall solutions