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The Federal Communications Commission will soon release a report on the feasibility of opening up unused spectrum, or white spaces, for use with wireless broadband. The FCC engineering report will share results of several years of data collection, including field tests on Broadway in New York City and at FedEx Field in Maryland.
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Runs on banks can now happen invisibly and more swiftly than ever thanks to the Internet. Customers who have lost confidence in the financial security of their banks can withdraw money in large quantities without leaving their homes.
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The hits keep coming when it comes to U.S. data breaches. The Identity Theft Resource Center reports data breaches in 2008 have already exceeded the record breaches of 2007. Enterprise breaches continue to lead the pack with breaches tied to mobile data topping the incident reports.
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E-discovery providers stand to gain from the Wall Street financial crisis, as potential customers such as investors, shareholders and pension funds prepare to pursue or defend lawsuits. E-discovery firms such as Kazeon, Autonomy, Clearwell Systems, Attenex, Symantec, Seagate Technology's MetaLINCS, Iron Mountain's Stratify, LexisNexis, Recommind and some other smaller companies are in good standing to gain business from what many expect to be a surge in litigation surrounding the Wall Street financial crisis.
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Because they are providing exactly the right services at exactly the right time, enterprises in certain subsectors of IT are beginning to get busy helping clean up the Wall Street/Main Street financial debacle. Companies in e-discovery, archiving, enterprise search, risk management and secure file transfers are among those "lucky" ones.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the software package called "Magellan Learning Suite" to go with the laptops, which will include Windows XP and Office in addition to development applications, free e-mail and instant messaging.
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The Google-Yahoo deal announced in June to share advertising was widely seen as an effort to help fend off Microsoft's efforts to acquire Yahoo, by bringing Yahoo an additional $800 million in annual revenues.
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The offline nature of passport data makes it impossible to validate in any meaningful way. This weakness made it easy for hackers to devise systems for cloning and modifying passport RFID chips.
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Craigslist's founder is stumping the country for a more responsive and transparent government that puts everything the government does online. He's not just talking either, putting his support behind a variety of sites that track legislation, members of Congress, their staff, federal spending and lobbyists. If only the U.S. Senate would cooperate.
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The U.S. House approves the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act rewritten the by U.S. Senate that includes a two-year extension of the Research and Development Tax Credit. The incentives added to lure House members who voted against the Wall Street bailout bill Sept. 29 tacks another $108 billion to the $700 billion tabbed for the financial markets rescue. Since the December expiration of the R&D tax credit, U.S. businesses have been unable to assume the credit in their 2008 financial reporting results or to forecast project costs.
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Skype says its co-owned China venture monitors users' text messages and chats for politically sensitive keywords and stores information about those users in places accessible to the Chinese government.
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Stocks were set to fall at the open on Thursday as a freeze in the credit markets and caution about the fate of the $700 billion financial sector rescue plan kept investors on edge before a House of Representatives vote.
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The popular, but expired tax credit now finds itself attached to the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, otherwise known as the Wall Street bailout bill. Since the December expiration of the R&D tax credit, U.S. businesses have been unable to assume the credit in their 2008 financial reporting results or to forecast project costs.
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Lawmakers send the Broadband Data Improvement Act to the White House for President Bush's signature. Broadband mapping bill would require the Federal Communications Commission to change the way it counts deployment of high-speed Internet services and calls for ambitious plan to measure the gaps in U.S. broadband coverage. Legislation also calls for matching funds for public-private partnerships working on broadband deployment projects.
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McAfee bought Safeboot late last year. CheckPoint bought Pointsec. And now Sophos is buying Utimaco. With all these purchases, look for sophisticated encryption capabilities to be rolled into corporate client security suites over the next few years.
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