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Latest identity theft scam targets business executives

Data centre energy consumption has doubled since 2000

3 hurdles for Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise play

HP offers new integrity servers, OS upgrade

Opinion: Where are all the woman in ICT?

In case of emergency, go to MySpace

Law professor calls for end to wireless carrier abuses

Microsoft slams IBM for fighting Office Format standardisation

Vista launch week sales less than Windows XP

Scientists develop mind-reading brain scans

Cisco boasts new wireless LAN architecture is secure by design

Alliance will push enterprise adoption of open-source code

When it comes to broadband, US plays follow the leader

Can't see invisible text? Your mobile phone can!

Eli Lilly recovers confidential documents but loses secrets to the Web

Google Earth gets KML search

Friday, 16th February 2007

Headlines

	Latest identity theft scam targets business executives
	Data centre energy consumption has doubled since 2000
	3 hurdles for Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise play
	HP offers new integrity servers, OS upgrade
	Opinion: Where are all the woman in ICT?
	In case of emergency, go to MySpace
	Law professor calls for end to wireless carrier abuses
	Microsoft slams IBM for fighting Office Format standardisation
	Vista launch week sales less than Windows XP
	Scientists develop mind-reading brain scans
	Cisco boasts new wireless LAN architecture is secure by design
	Alliance will push enterprise adoption of open-source code
	When it comes to broadband, US plays follow the leader
	Can't see invisible text? Your mobile phone can!
	Eli Lilly recovers confidential documents but loses secrets to the Web
	Google Earth gets KML search

Tim Lohman,
Editor

This afternoon, a group of 10 companies has formed the Open Solutions Alliance aimed at improving the ability of separate pieces of open-source code to form a combined system.

Also making news, a recent spike in identity theft among business executives reported this week highlights a troubling new tactic that criminals are using to commit fraud against not just consumers but businesses themselves.

Mail your comments on this afternoon’s news:

editor@itnews.com.au

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Latest identity theft scam targets business executives
Small to mid-size companies that allow their employees to open lines of credit in the executive's name, could be most at risk.
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Research/Trends

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Convergence

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Hardware

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Version 3 of HP-UX 11i has been enhanced for improved virtualisation.
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Jobs Centre

Opinion: Where are all the woman in ICT?
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In case of emergency, go to MySpace
Scientists propose using social network websites in the event of major calamities.
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Government/Law

Law professor calls for end to wireless carrier abuses
Columbia law professor Tim Wu says consumers are fed up with misguided, and in some cases, outrageous and perhaps illegal policies.
By Staff writers

Applications

Microsoft slams IBM for fighting Office Format standardisation
Microsoft Slams IBM For Fighting Office Format Standardization.
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Operating Systems

Vista launch week sales less than Windows XP
An NPD Group report suggests Microsoft's gamble on its new operating system will help keep dollar volumes from dipping faster than the number of shrink-wrapped boxes sold.
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Research/Trends

Scientists develop mind-reading brain scans
Clinical studies from a think tank in Berlin could lead to specific thoughts being picked up by brain scans and turned into the appropriate actions..
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Convergence

Cisco boasts new wireless LAN architecture is secure by design
Vendor says the new solution helps the enterprise meet strict government and industry mandates, and safeguard critical corporate assets.
By Staff writers

Operating Systems

Alliance will push enterprise adoption of open-source code
The alliance hopes to reduce the number of skills needed to bring open-source code inside the enterprise and make it easier to deploy.
By Staff writers

Telco/ISP

When it comes to broadband, US plays follow the leader
The United States often views itself as a paragon of technology innovation and deployment. In some cases, that view is correct, but not when it comes to broadband deployment, where the country lags considerably behind other major nations. Here's why.
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Can't see invisible text? Your mobile phone can!
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Government/Law

Eli Lilly recovers confidential documents but loses secrets to the Web
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Internet

Google Earth gets KML search
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