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Zeus botnet bank thieves were careless with own security
Suspects charged with stealing more than $9.4 million from U.K. banks using the Zeus botnet apparently spent more time figuring out the logistics of stealing the money than they did on securing their cyber operation. Read More


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15 Essential Games of This Generation
Here are this generation's must-have games for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PC. Read More

$1M of IT debt below the waterline of every big app
If you get antsy wondering about the implications of ignoring those last-minute fixes when rolling out a big application, now you have ROI ammo to justify going back in for a final polish. Read More

Astronomers discover planet that could support life
NASA, NSF-funded research spots planet that could sustain lifeAstronomers have found a planet, or exoplanet 20 light years away and up to four times the mass of Earth that could sustain life. Read More

Comcast: We will meet our IPv6 deadline
Comcast says it will meet its 2012 deadline of transitioning its network to support IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications schedule. The ISP is halfway through a nine-month public trial of IPv6 that has attracted 7,000 of its business and residential customers nationwide. Read More


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Intel will not position the Atom for server markets
Intel will not position its Atom processor for the server market, even as some vendors are building servers around collections of hundreds of low-power Atom processors, a company executive said. Read More

Red Hat urges Patent Office to deny most software patents
Red Hat's legal team has found a silver lining in the Supreme Court's Bilski decision, and wants the USPTO to use it. Read More

Worlds collide: Apple iPhone app manages mainframe
IPhone, iPad apps manage IBM mainframe systemsTalk about two systems that are worlds apart. Network management vendor William Data Systems says it has created an Apple iPhone app that lets users manage IBM's z/OS mainframe environment. What's up with encryption? Read More

Unable to tweet, Bill Gates starts a Chinese microblog
What does the world's wealthiest man do when he can't tweet? For Bill Gates, a trip to China this week has meant a jump to a Chinese micro-blogging platform. Read More


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This paper will show how NetApp storage efficiency and data protection features allow for a higher level of protection without compromise on risk or cost. Read now!

Will IBM/Blade Networks Hurt Juniper?
With Blade Networks in hand, IBM would now package Blade Networks and IBM blade servers together to counter Cisco UCS systems featuring integrated networking and compute. While this wouldn't kill Juniper, it would limit Juniper and others to the remaining laggards that want to buy seperate networking and server boxes. Read More

Android texting app requires no hands
A free Android application to be unveiled on Thursday at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco will let mobile phone users send and receive text messages without touching or looking at the phone. Read More

Home TelePresence coming from Cisco?
The blogosphere is alive with speculation that Cisco next week will unveil a home version of its TelePresence virtual conferencing system for $200 to $500. Read More

How To Make Your Cable Company Hate You
I cancelled my cable TV subscription three months ago. My Time Warner bill had been rising steadily--$1.50 here, $2.75 there--at regular intervals. When it reached $85 a month, I'd had enough. I cancelled my cable service, vowing never to return. The 24-hour shopping networks, cricket matches in Bangalore, colon-cleansing infomercials--I wouldn't miss any of it. Read More

Tech employment steady, latest Census figures show
While total U.S. employment dropped by almost 6 million people from 2008 to 2009, jobs in the computer/mathematics sector remained almost constant, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Read More

Personal robotics to top $19 billion in 2017
The personal robotics market will grow to more than $19 billion in 2017, driven in large part by sales of telepresence and security robots featuring high-quality cameras, microphones and processors that allow the robots to serve as interactive substitutes for human beings. Read More



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