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Google Tuesday made available in beta an offline capability for its Gmail platform so business and consumer users can work with e-mail and eventually calendar items while disconnected from the network. Websense has acquired start-up Defensio for an undisclosed price, gaining tools to clean out spam and malware that gets posted as comments to blogs, user forums and social-networking sites. (6:12) Products of the Week
Cool new announcements from Nexsan, Sun and Coyote Point and others. Google unveils beta of offline Gmail option
Google Tuesday made available in beta an offline capability for its Gmail platform so business and consumer users can work with e-mail and eventually calendar items while disconnected from the network.
Plus: Google Mail gets its missing piece Obama to tap Symantec CEO Thompson for commerce secretary?
A big fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Symantec CEO John Thompson is in the running for U.S. Secretary of Commerce, according to published reports. Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
The world's six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Union: IBM layoffs now 4,200 -- may go higher
IBM's not-so-secret layoffs may have reached 4,200 Tuesday, according to Alliance@IBM, which believes that thousands of other employees will be loosing their jobs as well before the cuts end. AT&T sees income dip in fourth quarter of 2008
AT&T saw its income dip in the fourth quarter of 2008 as its $2.4 billion in earnings marked a 23% decline from the fourth quarter of 2007. Start-up VMops aims to ease cloud deployments
VMops' cloud-computing infrastructure stack, built to be like "EC2 in a box," includes a hardened version of the Xen hypervisor plus storage and network virtualization. London mayor asks Obama to drop case against British hacker
In a column published Tuesday in London's Telegraph newspaper, the mayor of London called upon President Barack Obama to call off the U.S. effort to extradite and prosecute the British hacker who in 2001 broke ... VA to pay $20M to settle data theft case
The Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to pay $20 million to military personnel to settle one of the government’s most high profile and embarrassing data theft cases. The VA data theft in 2006 involved the theft of a laptop from an employee’s home that contained the unencrypted personal records of 26.5 million military veterans and their spouses. The breach lead to several new laws concerning how the government and public companies are to treat such breaches. The laptop was ultimately recovered and the VA maintains that no personal data was ever compromised. | 
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