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Wall Street Beat: Cautious optimism reigns for tech

Despite lingering concerns about global economic stability, analysts for the most part remain confident that IT will continue to lead markets out of the recession. Read full story

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10 technologies from 2009's IT management start-ups to watch
Now that we've revealed the names of all 10 IT management start-ups to watch, here's a quick view of how each newcomer to the IT management market plans to wow IT buyers.

Fake Microsoft security e-mail spreads malicious code
It didn't take long for the bad guys to cash in on the confusion surrounding so-called faulty Windows patches. Cisco Security Intelligence Operations is reporting significant activity of spam e-mail messages that claim to offer a fix for security flaws in various Microsoft products.

SETI@home in spotlight following IT chief's job loss
Reports this week out of Arizona about how a public school district IT chief lost his job have put the use of volunteer grid computing efforts in the spotlight.

Hacker hits Adobe Illustrator with new attack
Adobe Systems' security response team is scrambling to fix a newly disclosed bug in its Illustrator software, even as it readies another security patch for next week.

Cisco has 84% of Tandberg locked up
Cisco this week said it now controls 84% of the outstanding shares in Tandberg. Cisco needs 90% to win the company, and Tandberg has until today to accept its $3.4 billion bid.

Why the FCC should stop Comcast from buying NBC
Comcast's proposed $30 billion purchase of NBC Universal is a bad deal for consumers, as well as for net neutrality.

Google offers free, public DNS server
Google is planning on offering a free, public DNS server, adding yet another prong to its many-pronged attack on making the Web faster. With this move, anyone would be able to set up a browser to access Google's public DNS server, rather than using an Internet Service Provider or corporate DNS server.

No harm, no foul, says judge in Express Script data breach case
A federal court in Missouri has thrown out a consumer class-action lawsuit that was brought against pharmacy benefits company Express Scripts over a 2008 data breach in which millions of customer records were believed to have been illegally accessed.

New study calls for cybersecurity overhaul in U.S.
The U.S. government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance said.

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December 04, 2009

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