Best Smartphones for Under $100 No need to pay big bucks for a high-quality, full-featured smartphone. We've rounded up the best inexpensive models across the four major carriers. Whether you're a social networker, a business executive, or a multimedia addict, there's a wallet-friendly smartphone for you. Products of the Week Our round-up of intriguing new products from EMC, Numara, ArcSight among others. A data breach with a twist An employee at a Wyoming bank screws up and sends a bunch of confidential customer information to the wrong Gmail account. When the inadvertent recipient fails to even acknowledge a subsequent "please delete that" plea from the bank, the bank sues Google to force the company to cough up the recipient's contact information. Desktop takes back seat at Linux conference Leaders in the Linux community seemed resigned to the fact that Linux still hasn't made headway in the desktop market, but they made it clear on Monday that their success in other markets, such as mobile, is at least as important. Scammers auto-generate Twitter accounts to spread scareware Scammers are using machine-generated Twitter accounts to post messages about trendy topics, and tempt users into clicking on a link that leads to servers hosting fake Windows antivirus software, security researchers said. Botnet PCs stay infected for years A hardcore of PCs controlled by botnets stay that way for years, an analysis from security vendor Trend Micro has found. Researchers overwhelming vendors with security flaws Booming numbers of security researchers are uncovering so many flaws that vendors are finding it almost impossible to patch them all in a reasonable timeframe, the latest SANS report has found. Trans-Atlantic cables gets green light The PIPE Networks undersea cable system, PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1), has successfully undergone tests, through the transmission of IP packets between Australia and the US, ahead of its launch next month. Seagate ships self-encrypting drives for enterprises Seagate said it is offering its self-encrypting drive feature with its entire line of enterprise-class hard disk drives and that it has partnered with Intel and LSI to integrate its encryption technology with the two companies' security management firmware. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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