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Cisco study warns against "FarmVille"
If your employees are playing popular Facebook games at work - and undoubtedly, some of them are - they are opening up malware avenues for hackers and cybercriminals, according to Cisco. Read More


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Today's centralized identity infrastructure can't keep up with tomorrow's increasingly federated demands, from user-centric identity, to Identity-as-a-Service, and the cloud. In "The Emerging Architecture of Identity Management," Gartner outlines a vision for tomorrow's identity landscape--one with virtualization at its core. Download the report--free!

Apple's free iPhone 4 case program: What you need to know
On Friday, Apple unveiled the free case program to the public, so it's time to answer some questions surrounding how it works, who is eligible, and how you can get your slice of Apple's free pie. Read More

Researcher finds Safari reveals personal information
A feature in Apple's Safari browser designed to make it easier to fill out forms could by abused by hackers to harvest personal information, according to a security researcher. Read More

PS3 Netflix Disc-Free Streaming Coming by October
Tired of feeding your PS3 discs to access Netflix's streaming video service? Of playing second fiddle to Microsoft's Xbox 360, which offers the service fully integrated with Xbox LIVE, disc-free? Read More


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Facebook calls ownership contract a 'forgery'
Facebook is going one step further in its fight against the man who says the company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg signed away ownership of 84% of the social networking site seven years ago. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
Just days after Colorado officials warned businesses about scammers who are forging corporate identities to commit financial fraud, an official in Georgia said the same has been happening in that state as well. Also, cloud computing may not lead to the jobs blood-bath that many in the IT industry are predicting. Forty percent of computing professionals think that the advent of cloud technology will lead to more IT opportunities, not fewer. (5:05) Read More

White iPhone 4 delayed "until later this year"
The white iPhone 4 model is again delayed, Apple tersely announced Friday, giving the same reason it gave a month ago: unnamed manufacturing challenges. The new availability date: "later this year." Read More


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Verizon posts loss due to severance costs
Verizon Communications reported a net loss of US$198 million in the second quarter of 2010, down from net income of $1.5 billion in the second quarter of 2009, with the drop due to one-time charges, including a voluntary employee buy-out program. Read More

Certified Lies: Big Brother In Your Browser
Government capable of wiretapping millions of encrypted sessions, including those secured by IE, Microsoft's SSL, others. Read More

Japan promises holographic broadcasts in World Cup 2022 bid
Forget about any of the politics involved in trying to get a World Cup - let's just award the 2022 World Cup to Japan, which promised holographic broadcasts and other futuristic technology if they win the bid. Read More



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