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Thursday, October 08, 2009

First look at new Windows Mobile 6.5 phones; Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts exploited in scam

Compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts exploited in fake shopping scam; Oracle not interested in Cisco rival Brocade
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First look at new Windows Mobile 6.5 phones

The first phones based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 made their debuts this week, a showing that Microsoft hopes will make the company relevant in the mobile market. Take a look. Read full story

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Compromised Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts exploited in fake shopping scam
In the wake of the posting in online forums of stolen account and password information for thousands of Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo e-mail accounts, there's evidence of yet more abuse that entails attackers exploiting that information to hack into compromised accounts over the last few days to send spam aimed at stealing credit cards.

Oracle not interested in Cisco rival Brocade
You can eliminate Oracle from the list of possible suitors for Brocade, which reportedly put itself on the block this week.

Nobel prize latest in long line for Bell Labs
With the Nobel award for physics being given this week to Willard Boyle and George Smith for the invention and development of the charge-coupled device, Bell Labs has now amassed 13 Nobel prize winners.

Net Neutrality DOES NOT Mean the Internet's Demise
Once again our esteemed colleague Johna Till Johnson predicts that the Internet sky is falling -- this time she ominously foretells that net neutrality will destroy peering and make the Internet as we know it go poof. This is nonsense! Peering is a win-win arrangement created and sustained in a net neutral environment, and it will not be destroyed by the status quo.

Laptop theft gives 850,000 doctors the blues
Another stolen laptop ... and this time we have 850,000 doctors swallowing the bitter pill of knowing that their sensitive professional and personal information may have fallen into hands bent on identity theft.

Microsoft, Red Hat hypervisors are friends. The companies? Not so much
Microsoft and Red Hat have made good on their February promise to validate that their server operating systems will function properly on one another's hypervisors. Most reporters and pundits aptly note that this just made good business sense and in no way means the two frienemies will fall into each other's arms like best buds, like, for instance Microsoft and Novell.

Samsung Android phone gets a name, release date
After weeks of anticipation, Sprint today said that starting on Nov. 1 it will sell Samsung's first Android handset available in the United States.

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October 08, 2009

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  5. Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's
  6. For sale: Cisco data center rival Brocade
  7. Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed
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  10. Review: HP blade takes a stab at Cisco

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