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Intel-McAfee deal baffles security analysts
Security analysts today questioned whether Intel will see many short-term benefits from its deal to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion. Read More


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Cameron Diaz could wreck your PC, McAfee warns
Cameron Diaz's next film could easily be titled 'There's Something About Malware.' Diaz tops McAfee's annual ranking of the most dangerous celebrity searches on the Internet. Read More

Video: U is for Unified Communications
Puppet IT instructors Neal and Jackson are back, discussing the ins and outs of unified communications. Read More


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Intel drawn to vibrant security software market
Despite a lackluster economy, the worldwide security software industry just keeps growing. Led by Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, IBM and EMC, total industry sales are projected to hit at least $16.5 billion this year, up 11.3% from 2009, according to Gartner. Read More

RFID tags found to work better in building ducts
A research team at North Carolina State University has used a building ventilation duct to at least triple the normal distance that radio waves emitted from passive RFID tags can travel over open space. Read More


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This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More

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Judge limits damages in Oracle's suit against SAP... Swedish Pirate Party to host Wikileaks website ... Dell takes top spot in Indian PC market, unseating HP. (2:25) Read More

Intel buys McAfee: My two cents
Guess what? In today's market there isn't a single vendor who can deliver a security product suite anywhere near what's needed in the market. Get it, Wall Street? There is massive emotional demand but no supply. Here's the kicker -- without significant improvements in security, this whole Internet party hosted by companies like Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, etc. could get realy, really ugly soon. Read More

Intel's McAfee Buy: 3 Things it Could Mean
With gloomy talk of ever-evolving security threats on the Internet, Intel announced that it's acquiring the antivirus software vendor McAfee. Read More

The Audacity of Warner Brothers and Re-Spawning Zombie Cookies
Have you ever played a first-person shooter (FPS) deathmatch game, where immediately upon death, you instantly are reborn, aka re-spawn? In gaming, I think it's fun. In regards to privacy, I'd like to take my FPS gun and shoot into cyberspace at zombie cookies. Read More



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