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Spammers handed record $234 million fine

The US CAN-SPAM law has chewed another alleged spam outfit, this time handing out a world record fine of $234 million (£116 million) to two individuals.

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News Headlines

Microsoft hits out at Vista insecurity claims
Produces own figures.
Mixed reaction to HP-EDS deal
Some positive, some not so positive.
Protection offered against chilly hacks
No more cold boot hack for laptops.
IBM blade touted as supercomputer for the masses
Playstation power.
Red Hat includes new USB capabilities in Fedora
Version 9 said to offer more flexibility to users.
Italian start-up offers cheap online backup
So cheap, you will never delete another file, apparently.
Microsoft seeks 40 percent of smartphone market
The sales target from hell.
Ipswitch goes distributed with WhatsUp 12
Net monitoring software takes aim at enterprise troubleshooting.
Adaptec adds low-end SAS/SATA boards
Goes RAIDing with smaller ROCs.
BlackBerry gets updated management tools
InterNoded and Zenprise show off upgrades.

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Mobile computing and the business space

Techworld's Business Advisor reports on the way the mobile-computing revolution is set to change how businesses use IT. Click here to watch Paul Trotter, the Editor of TW's sister title PCA, explain how.

Blogs

Cisco claims 50,000 11n APs
Still number one
Aruba's 10,000 802.11n access points are still short of the 50,000 that Cisco says it shipped - though Cisco did start sooner. New
From Peter Judge's The wirecutter blog »
Free email has turned out to be anything but
First Google's CAPTCHA, now whitelisting
The spammers just never give up, and here’s another trick the email security guys probably didn’t see coming. New
From John E. Dunn's The War on Error blog »
Virus runs amok at Sun conference
JavaOne show has them rolling in the aisles.
Attendees at last week's JavaOne conference had the misfortune to be struck down by a nasty virus. The unwelcome gatecrasher was not a virus of the digital variety however, but rather the unpleasant norovirus, that can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. New
From Tom Jowitt's Defragging the enterprise blog »
How to rebuild your cellular network almost for free
Across the pond, the great mobile phone roaming rip-off continues unabated.
If anyone wants proof of just how much we're still being ripped off on mobile phone roaming - once we venture outside the EU, of course - check out our sister publication Network World Canada. New
From Bryan Betts's Casting the Net blog »
Is the world ready for Green IT?
An idea whose time has not come.
I spent the morning at the Green IT conference and exhibition and very disappointing it was too - not so much for the content of the conference itself but the attendance ...or rather lack of it.
From Techworld staff's The green screen of death blog »
IBM's small business exchange
Nice idea - but not there yet.
There have been some weird coincidences in the world but Intel and IBM both launching an SMB marketplace on the same day takes some beating.
From Maxwell Cooter's The Blue Screen blog »
Heathrow T5 is actually quite good
Yes, really.
I had cause to use Heathrow's new T5 this week, so I figured I'd write a few words about it from an engineer's point of view. I've given each category a score.
From David Cartwright's Technically speaking blog »
The geek on the plane
Driving the hardware on the A380
I love technology, me, so when a maintenance issue got me a ride in a new A380 instead of the 747-400 I was a little stoked at the idea of trying out the latest chairside hardware.
From Simon Travaglia's One man, one desk, one chainsaw blog »
Seas of opportunity
When trouble hits, IT Directors should be ready to stand firm
As the world economy limps inexorably towards recession, it is with certain inevitably that corporate eyes turn towards cost savings. Invariably this will mean the call to IT to look at reducing “support overheads” by reducing helpdesk heads or infrastructure expenditure.
From Michael Wallace's From the corner office blog »
Resilience doesn't come cheap
Signing on the dotted line
I am now my account manager’s favourite client!
From Andy Reid, St Paul's School's Anatomy of a Project blog »

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White papers

Application development executives need better visibility to become more reliable business partners
After years of treating IT as a commodity and even a cost center, enterprises are finally turning to IT and to application development in particular for help delivering new business value. That means the application development organisation has to raise its game. New
Web services testing
The basics of web services, the underlying pitfalls and the testing strategies involved in deploying them securely. New
7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability Management

Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared.
New

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4ipnet MSG100 wireless office controller review

A handy and inexpensive device for multi-zone security, including enforcing access control on both wired and wireless network users.

Read this Data & Voice Networking review »

Reviews

Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount New
A lovely rack with up to 4 Terabytes of storage in one SAN would once have cost and arm and both legs, but not any more. As ever, we hunt for the economies.
View all Data Storage Reviews »
Lenovo ThinkPad X300
We got our hands on what might just be the best laptop of the year - can it possibly be as good as we heard?
View all Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking Reviews »
PortTracker
A useful appliance that allows you to monitor what is - and has been - connected to your network, as long as you're running Cisco switches.
View all Data & Voice Networking Reviews »
ClearMyMail spam filtering
Anti-spam software doesn't have a great reputation. A new approach is to run the whole thing as a service, taking the hassle away from the user. But is it really that simple?
View all Computer & Internet Security Reviews »
Windows Vista SP1
Microsoft is getting set to deliver the final bits of what has become an increasingly controversial patch cycle. Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which went 'gold' a few weeks back, was finally made available via Windows Update yesterday.
View all Operating Systems and Servers Reviews »
Uplogix Envoy - remote management
The Uplogix Envoy has been designed to make remote management of devices and despite a new quibbles, it does eveything that's asked of it.
View all Software Applications Reviews »
Alienware MJ-12 8550i workstation
Mention Alienware to most Internet users, and they will think of high-end games machines with every conceivable option on-board and a hefty price tag to suit. They’re less well known for it perhaps, but the company has also been carving out a similar niche in the professional workstation sector.
View all Mid-sized business Reviews »

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Spiceworks IT Desktop
The Spiceworks IT Desktop is a free network inventory, monitoring and help desk application designed, tested and used by 120,000 IT pros in 185 countries. It takes just minutes to install, has a friendly browser-based interface, and combines the features needed every day to manage a network in a small or medium-sized business. The Spiceworks IT Desktop is now available free for registered users of Techworld.com.

Articles

Briefings : 5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances, forcing companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday's crafts in favour of tomorrow's must-have talents. New
View more from the Data & Voice Networking Knowledge Center »
Insight : 5 things to consider before committing to SAP
AMR Research analyst Jim Shepherd details five SAP strategies in his report, and how they affect your technology decisions. New
View more from the Software Applications Knowledge Center »
Briefings : Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode
If you tell your laptop's radio to switch off when possible, are the power savings worth it? Craig Mathias investigates. New
View more from the Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking Knowledge Center »
Insight : NASA employee scammed with "dating" attack
The latest targeted attack incident being studied by security pros - a simple online dating scam that endangered NASA's secrets. New
View more from the Computer & Internet Security Knowledge Center »
Case Studies : Water-cooled servers gaining steam
Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency. New
View more from the Green IT Knowledge Center »
Interviews : The next big move in chip manufacturing
The time for change has come, says Joe Draina, associate director of International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative, in this interview with the Techworld-affiliated IDG News Service. New
View more from the Operating Systems and Servers Knowledge Center »
Insight : More skirmishing breaks out on the AutoCAD front
Just when it seemed as if a truce might be feasible, fighting has flared up again in the battle between the WAN optimisation vendors over just who can - or can't - accelerate the latest AutoCAD format for drawing files.
View more from the Data Storage Knowledge Center »
Insight : Why is being a VoIP company such hard work?
How many smallish companies have this list of woes in twelve months and get away with it? Here’s a rundown of Skype’s year to bury.
View more from the Mid-sized business Knowledge Center »

WHITE PAPERS

7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability Management
Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared.
A Blueprint for Better Management from the Desktop to the Data Centre
Explore our strategy to build an open management architecture that offers distinct value through sophisticated integration of otherwise isolated components.
Securing your Network from the Inside: Adding a Portable Layer of Protection
Discover how you can pre-empt potential security risks and quickly identify security threats – keeping your network and users safe.
IDC Report: Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Governance
This IDC white paper examines identity and security management solutions and how these integrated offerings can play a key role in enforcing security compliance.
IDC Executive Brief: The Rising Concerns Over Endpoint Security
This IDC Executive Brief examines how an integrated EPS solution with multiple security layers, has been proven to deliver the highest level of protection at the lowest TCO.

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