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HP, Intel, Yahoo join forces on cloud computing research
News A new "test bed" project will give the three companies, as well as partnering researchers, access to top-notch hardware for exploring the future of the hot server-outsourcing technology.
Tags: Web services, Utility computing, Servers, Storage, Business applications, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Google Inc., India
Paul Allen's Charter to sell US$1.1b in shares, US$550m in notes
News Charter Communications, the cable-television company controlled by billionaire Paul Allen, plans to sell US$1.1 billion in stock and US$550 million of convertible notes to fund its purchase of cable systems from AT&T Corp.
U.S. agency shuts down four spam rings
News In two cases, spammers sent sexually explicit e-mail messages using "zombie" computers, the Federal Trade Commission says.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Regulations
'Obama worm' probably a student prank, experts say
News Worm that spreads via USB drives and network shares and only displays picture of president once a week, appears to be more of a nuisance than a real threat, security watchers say.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Federal Government, Malware, Security, Worm, Trend Micro Inc., USB Flash Drive, Computer, Internet Worm, network
Motorola sues iPhone sales executive over trade secrets
News Michael Fenger, a former Motorola executive now working at Apple, has been sued by his former employer for allegedly revealing trade secrets to Apple.
Tags: Smart phones, Mac OS, Lawsuits, Legal, Apple Inc., Mobile, Motorola Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Europe, Stock
Keep users up to date with an Access form marquee
Techguide Instead of sending out an incessant stream of memos and e-mail, present the latest bulletins within your users' forms. Here's how to set it up.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Box, Letter, C, font, Missouri, Mail Merge, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 2007
Make your Access forms run faster
Techguide By giving a form less data to digest, you can make it run more efficiently. These two tricks can help.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Form, data entry, Mail Merge, performance, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Access, Illinois
China and U.S. lead in Internet attacks
News A new study from Akamai shows that more than 30 percent of all Internet attacks originate from China and the United States.
Tags: Network security, Web sites, Data security, PC security, Security Management, India, Akamai Technologies Inc., Attack, Internet Attack, Mbps
Google faces US$1B damages in trade-secret lawsuit
News Filing says Google purloined secrets from erstwhile partner, LimitNone, which sold a product that helps customers move data from Microsoft Outlook to Google Apps.
Tags: Lawsuits, Software, Google Inc., Lawsuit, software development, knowledge, Illinois, partnership, Google Apps, Google Gmail
Wolfram Alpha launches amid glitches
News Myriad problems prevented Wolfram Alpha from going live last week as planned, but the new search engine finally launched a few hours later.
Tags: Search, Twitter, Wolfram Research, Database, Search Engine, EPIC, performance, founder, Illinois, data center
More universities join Yahoo for Net-scale research
News UC Berkeley, Cornell, and UMass Amherst will get access to Yahoo's M45 cluster for large-scale data-processing research using software called Hadoop.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Supercomputing, Yahoo! Inc., Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, Carnegie-Mellon University, National Science Foundation, Internet
One final hurdle left for SBC-Ameritech merger
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WorldCom's US$90m settlement of overcharge suits approved
News WorldCom has won final approval of a US$90 million settlement of consumer lawsuits alleging the No 2 long-distance provider's MCI unit overcharged them.
One final hurdle left for SBC-Ameritech merger
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ICANN refuses to crush Spamhaus
News No can do says the top-level domain regulator, as the future of spamhaus.org remains uncertain.
Tags: Web sites, Legal, Government
