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Can cybercrooks successfully attack at will, and are those who report the details of these attacks causing more harm than good?

Using the phone's Safari browser to make calls could let attackers track the user's calls, prevent calls from being made at all, or redirect calls to 900-numbers.
Vendors need to come out with open products that integrate encryption, access control, and auditing.
Doppelganger Studios plans to expand its virtual world The Music Lounge based on real-life parts of Tokyo, Paris, New York, Milan, and Florida.
Apex is a programming language and online development tool that contains some proprietary technology, but is primarily based on Java.
U.S. antitrust authorities said Tuesday they approved plans by Flextronics International Ltd. to buy rival Solectron Corp.
As the young users of social networking sites enter the workforce, they're going to want to use them at work whether the IT department likes it or not,

The social mapping service automatically updates the location of other subscribers in a user's private network, with the location information displayed on a map on users' cell phones.
McAfee lets you test yourself at picking out malicious e-mails and telling real Web sites from fraudulent imitators.
Small businesses that buy ads from Microsoft Office Live will see their search listings appear on Web sites operated by Ask.com and its partners, in addition to Microsoft's Windows Live and MSN.com sites.
The iSuppli report characterizes Internet television as one of the most disruptive changes in decades, turning the Web into the world's largest on-demand, interactive video library.

The client-side software is aimed at helping consumers battle the growing botnet problem.
Louis Psihoyos claims that Apple used "images nearly identical or substantially similar to the plaintiff's copyrighted image" to promote the iPhone and Apple TV.
A survey of senior IT and business managers shows that 63% plan to deploy an IP PBX within the next 12 months.
About three quarters of people surveyed last month said they look to mainstream media, rather than the Internet, for political information.

A European court confirmed on Tuesday that it will rule on Sept. 17 on whether software giant Microsoft broke European Union antitrust regulations.
It's the same custom search available for consumers, but with no ads, and with APIs to allow enhancements such as adding a "buy it now" button for e-commerce sites.

It's designed for running home network appliances that store, organize and share photos, music, videos and documents. Six hardware vendors have signed up to make products based on the software.

Making the switch to an IP telephony platform is a complex process; here's how to do it right.
The hard drive is priced at $430, and includes bundled backup software. It comprises two 500 Gbyte hard drives that are recognized as a single drive.
A second contractor also was fined $300,000 for its failure to protect classified information.
The overall volume of U.S. search queries reached 8 billion in June, up 6% from May and 26% from June 2006, according to comScore.
The company says it has tripled the geographic availability of its nationwide fiber optic network while at the same time quadrupling the broadband capacity for existing customers.
The Symmetrix DMX-4 supports both high-speed Fibre Channel disk drives and low-cost 750Gbyte SATA II disk drives and reduces energy consumption by up to 33%.

About 7,500 zombie computers are getting an additional piece of malware -- a Trojan that redirects iPhone shoppers to phony and malicious Web pages.
Vodafone issued a statement denying a published report that it plans to acquire Verizon, while a major Vodafone investor demands that Vodafone restructure its Verizon investment.
Microsoft is lagging far behind Google and Yahoo, but it's closing the gap.

One-X Mobile Dual-Mode will allow people to move seamlessly between cellular and Wi-Fi networks without losing a call.
IBM will provide IT infrastructure management services to AstraZeneca locations in 60 countries. The services will include server and storage hosting, desktop management, network maintenance and management and help desk support.

Barack Obama is leading the Democrats when it comes to making use of mobile communications technology.
The Verizon Integrated Optical Service integrates dense wave division multiplexing, synchronous optical networking, and Ethernet.

The alleged ring leader of the phishing gang told police he was data processing consultant who helped Italian companies prevent credit card fraud.
Reliance Communications Ltd., India's second-biggest mobile services provider, said on Monday it was buying U.S.-based Yipes Holdings for $300 million cash, the latest in a wave of foreign buys by Indian firms.
DataMirror's technology will help IBM build products that allow for real time data integration, such as point-of-sale systems that instantaneously transmit sales information to databases at a retailer's corporate headquarters.
One patent application details advertising software that uses applications and data on a computer to provide context for and trigger advertising.
Williams-Sonoma is canceling the bulk of a five-year, multi-million dollar technology outsourcing contract with IBM less than three years into the deal.

The No. 1 tactical security priority for U.S. companies in 2007, according to 37% of respondents, is creating and enhancing user awareness of policies. But this is down from 42% in 2006.
Are we facing an IT shortage of crisis proportions, or systematically destroying a skilled and capable homegrown workforce?

Partners in initiative known as Dossia squabble over money, deliverables. Will the health industry ever get this right?
While viruses and worms remain the most pesky security problems, data theft concerns simmer beneath the surface, according to InformationWeek's 10th annual Global Information Security survey.