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How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT?
Replacing Fiber With 10 Gigabit/Second Wireless
Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu
The 100 Degree Data Center
Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks
Coping Strategies for Women in IT
IT Certification Less Important Now?
Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession?
Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam
First Secure Quantum Crypto Network Up and Running
Not Your Daddy's IT Force Anymore
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Windows 7 Beta Released To Public After Delay
A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room
Do Nice Engineers Finish Last In Tough Times?
FTP Hacking on the Rise
Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?
Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS
Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation
Microsoft Pushes Windows To Battle Linux In Africa
Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd?
Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle
New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring"
Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns
Ophcrack Says Your Password Is Insecure
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?
Software Piracy At the Beijing Branch Office?
Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh
Stored Data to Exceed 1.8 Zettabytes by 2011
To Purge Or Not To Purge Your Data
Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy"
Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On
Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic
Tech Workers in Higher Demand
Alienware Puts 64GB Solid-State Drives In Desktops
All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat
Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System
Dismantling the Myth of IT Being a Dead-End Career
Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack
Exchanging Pictures To Generate Passwords
Gartner Says Open Source "Impossible To Avoid"
Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs
Google Chrome Is Out of Beta
How Do You Justify the Existence of IT?
How IT Increases Productivity
Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs To US
Interviewing Experienced IT People?
Landing IT Work Overseas
Microsoft Ties Windows Live Services to OS
New Hack Exploits Common Programming Error
New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback
Online Community For a Call Center?
School Kids Get Virtual Web Lockers
Seven Wonders of the IT World
The Case Against Web Apps
The Engine of US Jobs
'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies
.ANI Vulnerability Patch Breaks Applications
83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7
90% of IT Professionals Don't Want Vista
Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case
Adobe PDF Exploits In the Wild
Can You Trust Anti-Virus Rankings?
Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager
Conficker Worm Asks For Instructions, Gets Update
Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back
Cybercriminals Building New, Stealthier Networks
Designing Software With Privacy in Mind
Do Women Write Better Code?
EPA Sends Data Center Power Study to Congress
Emoticons in the Workplace
Even Dirtier IT Jobs
FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B in Bids
Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers
Google Says Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise
Guerrilla IT, Embracing the Superuser?
Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist
IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth
IT Workers Face Dangerous Stress
Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter
Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.'
Is the IT Department Dead?
Japanese Researchers Aim to Replace the Internet
Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True
Microsoft 'URL Tracer' Hunts Typosquatters
Microsoft Offers IE7 to All, Pirates Included
Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch
Most Users Think They Have AntiVirus Protection, While Only Half Do
NZ Teen Arrested as 'Spybot Mastermind'
New Botnet Dwarfs Storm
Nine Ways to Stop Industrial Espionage
Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide
On World of Warcraft's Network Issues
RIAA Website Hacked
Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App
SSLStrip Now In the Wild
San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network
Should IT Unionize?
Software Engineers Ranked Best Job in America
Spammer Perjury is Worth Prosecuting
Storm Worm Botnet Partitions May Be Up For Sale
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
U. Washington Crypto Course Now Online for Free
WGA Meltdown Blamed On Human Error
Windows XP SP3 Build 3205 Released w/ New Features
Yahoo Co-Founder Yang Now In Charge
10 IT Power-Saving Myths Debunked
400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009"
A CIO's View of Ubuntu
Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit
Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day
Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling
Attacking Sandboxes
Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative?
Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software
Busting People for Pointing Out Security Flaws
Cisco Announces 802.11n Products After All
Colleges Wrestle With Thumb Drives
Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester
Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case
Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability
Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins
F-Secure Suggests Ditching Adobe Reader For Free PDF Viewers
Farewell To the Floppy Disk
Fire Your IT Boss
Forensic Computer Targets Digital Crime
Google Launches Powerpoint Competition, Web Ads for Mobile Devices
How To Suck At Information Security
Huge Traffic On Wikipedia's Non-Profit Budget
IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes
IT Workers Are Getting Fatter
Identifying (and Fixing) Failing IT Projects
Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC
Internet Bandwidth to Become a Global Currency?
Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF
Lack of Innovation in IT Holding Companies Back?
Lotus Notes 8.5 Will Support Ubuntu 7.0
MS Giving Exploit Writers Clues To Flaws
MS Partners Bailing Over Delays In Releases
Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good
Malware Spreading Via ... Windshield Fliers?
Microsoft Flip-Flops On URI Protocol Handing Flaw
Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America"
Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick?
Multifunction Printers — The Forgotten Security Risk?
NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More
Nmap From an Ethical Hacker's Point of View
Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked
Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function
One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released
Open Source Helps New IT Grads Get Foot in the Door
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop?
Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS?
Profile of the Russian Business Network
Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month
Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan
Schneier Mulls Psychology of Security
Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008
Sophisticated, Targeted Breakins Uncovered
Spam Flood Unabated After Bust
SplunkBase Brings IT Troubleshooting Wiki to the Masses
Sun Unveils RAID-Less Storage Appliance
Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up
The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning
The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker
US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers
USPS Server Meltdown
VMware, Cisco Plan Data Center OS
Vista SP1 Release May Be Near
What If Yoda Ran IBM?
What to Do When Your Security is Breached
When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense?
Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution
Why South Korea Is Shackled To Windows
Windows Genuine Advantage Servers Out
Microsoft Responds to 'Save XP' Petition
Berners-Lee Challenges 'Stupid' Male Geek Culture
Cellphone App Developed that Could Allow For 'Pocket Supercomputers'
Chicago Cancels Municipal Wi-Fi Plan
Gen Y Workers Reinventing IT for the Better
How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape
How to Backup Your Smart Phone
IBM Beats Microsoft Over the Head With Their Own Code
LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40?
Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML?
Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing
New Technologies Attack the One-World Problem
New Way to ID Invisible Intruders on Wireless LANs
New Zero-Day Vulnerability In Windows
One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies
Oracle Patch Day Becoming Irrelevant
Saving in OOXML Format Now Probably A Bad Idea
State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives
Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall
Tech Workers of the World Unite?
Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements