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Data Breach Hits Google Employees

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-07-02

Reports have been trickling out of Silicon Valley of a potentially major personal data breach affecting Google employees. But the data breach didn't result from cunning hackers penetrating a
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HP VP Charged with IBM Espionage

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-02

A former Hewlett-Packard vice president who had previously worked at IBM was charged June 27 with trade-secret theft for spiriting away IBM pricing info and distributing to his HP superiors. Atul
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Open Source and IT Management

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-06-23

Bill Karpovich knows the score. He knows that when you talk about IT monitoring and management software, the discussion starts and ends with the "Big Four": Hewlett-Packard with its OpenView suite, IBM's
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For Microsoft, Management Is Key

By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-06-11

When talking about Microsoft and virtualization, most people want to know about the company's long-awaited Hyper-V, the hypervisor technology that sources say could arrive as soon as early July.
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Leopard Is No Phone's No. 2

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-06-05

Leopard rumors refuse to ride in iPhone's side car. Against all possible odds, the talk leading up to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held June 12 in San Francisco, is NOT about the iPhone. If
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Dangerous Domains

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-06-05

Think twice before you click on that .info or .hk URL. I can't recall the last time I came across either, but clicking on one or the other increases the risk you're visiting a no-no site. McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited," published June 4, details the most dangerous domains.

Organizing Our Jumbled Web Personas

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-06-04

After a decade and more of browsing, shopping and transacting on the Internet, millions of us have assembled a confusing clutter of Web site memberships, user IDs, log-ins and passwords. A lot of
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Doodling the Google

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-23

In little more than 10 years, Google has managed to become one of the most recognizable brands on Earth. One of the ways it has achieved this distinction, besides inventing a world-class Web search engine, is by
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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Online Medical Records

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-21

In my blog on May 19, I presented my arguments on why people should stop and think carefully before they decide to put their personal medical records on the newly launched Google
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Google Counters Lieberman

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-05-20

YouTube won't be the good soldier Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn) would like it to be. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has been on Google's case to remove videos from YouTube that are produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Lieberman claims

Placing Our Trust in Google Health

By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-20

The public launch on May 19 of the Google Health site raises the question about whether it's wise for people to make large corporations such as Google, which isn't even directly involved in
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Did Intel Bribe Dell?

By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-05-16

Journalists salivate over courtroom discovery. The raw evidence often lays bare all of the wheelings, dealings, buried bodies and canaries corporate lawyers and PR swallow before the public sees it. It can also drown you in paper and bore you to tears. AMD v. Intel, an antitrust claim brought by AMD

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