The legal risks of ethical hacking; Coolest robots of 2009; RSA's Innovation Sandbox

Daily News AM Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Change Your Storage Economics The Sun Unified Storage Systems. Storage made simple, just when you need it most. Get a 60-day free trial then buy at 20% off. Try It Now. Spotlight Story The legal risks of ethical hacking By Jon Brodkin Tracking down malicious computer activity can put researchers on shaky legal footing. Read full story Related News: Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Coolest robots of 2009 CCS Robotics builds autonomous robot bases that can be adapted to a variety of uses. The company ships a variety of products including SpeciMinder, a robot that delivers specimens within a hospital so nurses don't have to. The RoboCourier is a 'healthcare transporter' designed to makes deliveries within a lab environment. RSA's Innovation Sandbox RSA sponsored its first Innovation Sandbox award in which 10 finalist companies as voted by visitors to the RSA Web site demonstrated their wares then presented them to a panel of judges, who chose the winner based on their market impact, technological significance, quality of their management teams and quality and professionalism of their presentations. Conficker.E to self-destruct on May 5th? The evolution of the multi-faceted Conficker worm is expected to take another turn this May 5th when the latest version, Conficker.E, will simply self-destruct on infected machines, say a number of security researchers. First Android netbook to cost about $250 The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available to customers within three months, the maker's co-founder said this week. Universities get $5 million in grants to use IBM/Google cloud The IBM/Google cloud computing project for universities got a boost Thursday with the National Science Foundation awarding nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities participating in the initiative. Study: Not replacing laptops can prove very costly Companies looking to cope with declining IT budgets by postponing the purchase of new laptop computers are likely making a mistake, according to a new report released by technology consulting firm J. Gold Associates. Microsoft and Apple: A Tale Of Two Cities Mitchell Ashley compares the earning reports of Apple and Microsoft in his Converging on Microsoft blog. The two couldn't be more different. 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