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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

What Avaya going private is all about; McAfee: Search results can be dangerous

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What Avaya going private is all about
While rumors swirled that Avaya was on the block, a report this week in The New York Times says a $8 billion deal with private-equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group could happen very soon. Should the deal go down, what does it mean?

McAfee: Search results can be dangerous
The odds of a search engine directing you to a risky Web site are getting slimmer, but some companies are better at filtering out bad links than others, McAfee reported Monday.

Salesforce.com, Google release first joint product
Salesforce.com and Google Tuesday announced a strategic global partnership, but it wasn't the widely expected tight integration between Google Apps and Salesforce.com's hosted CRM software. Instead, the two vendors brought out their first jointly developed and co-marketed product combining Google AdWords with Salesforce on-demand CRM.

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TechEd: Microsoft fashions software into cohesive plan
Microsoft Monday used the opening of its annual TechEd conference in Orlando, Fla., to bundle up a cornucopia of forthcoming products aimed at developers and IT managers that it hopes will foster a Windows-based automated corporate computing platform for years to come.

Sprint wins Air National Guard contract
On the heels of winning a piece of the government’s 10-year, multibillion-dollar Networx Enterprise contract last week, Sprint Nextel announced Monday that it has been awarded a new contract from the Air National Guard.

What women in IT want
The needs of existing and prospective female IT workers change over time, and job recruiters and human resources personnel need to recognize that, according to new research out of Pennsylvania State University.

Study: U.S. government still lacking data protection
More than half of U.S. government employees unofficially work at home on nights or weekends, raising concerns about the security of the data they're working on, according to a study released Monday.

Humans get bigger role in search
Just a few days after the introduction of a search engine that works primarily using human labor, Google says "me too."

Stealthy attack serves malicious code only once
A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.

Blogs

Buzzblog: Three for the price of one
Search engine returns getting measurably safer? Freakonomics guy forgets iPod but 'smuggles' crumb-covered kitchen knife onto plane. And, last but not least, leopards leaping at a ring-tone ruse.

New giveaway
Cisco Subnet is starting another giveaway - this time, the prize is a bundle of CCNP Quick Reference Sheets.

Another Linux distro maker strikes a deal with Microsoft
When Microsoft said it wanted to license instead of litigate, maybe it wasn't kidding. Microsoft has signed on another Linux software maker to a patent-licensing and collaboration deal much like the one it struck with Novell last year. Xandros makes desktop and server versions of Linux and has agreed to license Microsoft intellectual property.

Today on Layer 8, where we'll take horsepower over wireless connectivity any day:
With all of the electronic gadgets and components in cars and trucks these days, is it possible they could become mobile wireless network nodes too? That’s the idea behind a project at UCLA that uses about $1,000 of wireless technology deployed in cars which enables them to act as nodes in a truly mobile network.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. What Google bought in the past 12 months
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3. Did Street View spook Eric Schmidt?
4. Malware hidden in fake IRS notices
5. Adult filmmakers taking their lumps on ‘Net?
6. Is Apple enterprise-ready?
7. Google Desktop vulnerable to new attack
8. EMC buys authentication service provider Verid
9. Will Cisco suffer IBM's fate?
10. Michigan man fined for using free Wi-Fi

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