Borders fracture iTunes offerings in Europe ... Microsoft issues emergency Windows patch

HIGHLIGHTS
News: Borders fracture iTunes offerings in Europe
News: Intel looks to bury AMD's 'elegant' Barcelona chip
News: Don't use WEP, say German security researchers
News: Microsoft issues emergency Windows patch
Opinion: Storage Survey
ITwhirled: You can always build a better mousetrap -- or Post-It
Podcast: Microsoft releases emergency patch ... EEye replaces CEO ... US H-1B visa limit reached in record time


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Borders fracture iTunes offerings in Europe
The European Commission's complaint against Apple Inc. and the major record labels over a possible violation of European rules on cross-border trade has served to highlight the inconsistencies in how music is released and priced online.

Intel looks to bury AMD's 'elegant' Barcelona chip
Intel Corp. is betting on a combination of manufacturing prowess and pragmatic chip design to outsell Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s upcoming quad-core Barcelona processor.

Don't use WEP, say German security researchers
The Wi-Fi security protocol WEP should not be relied on to protect sensitive material, according to three German security researchers who have discovered a faster way to crack it. They plan to demonstrate their findings at a security conference in Hamburg this weekend.

Microsoft issues emergency Windows patch
With attackers finding more ways to exploit a critical flaw in its Windows operating system, Microsoft Corp. has published an emergency software patch. The update, released as expected Tuesday morning, actually fixes seven separate Windows vulnerabilities, but security experts are most concerned about a bug in the way Windows processes .ani Animated Cursor files.

Cisco targets SMBs with unified communications products
Cisco Systems Inc. is aiming ever lower with its network gear for small businesses, rolling out a set of products on Tuesday to meet growing demand in that segment for unified communications.

Sun gives UltraSparc a power boost
Sun Microsystems Inc. has brought new, faster UltraSparc IV+ processors to market, continuing to promote its homegrown chips even as it sells servers with processors from rivals Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Security vendor eEye drops CEO
EEye's board of directors has asked CEO Ross Brown to leave the company after just over six months on the job, replacing him with Kamal Arafeh, the company's senior vice president of sales and marketing.

BT to help SMBs build online presence
BT Group PLC is testing an online service to help small and medium-size businesses build an online presence with nifty features such as blogs, podcasts and click-to-call capabilities.

Licensing deal with Marvell a first for Sun's new unit
Sun Microsystems Inc. is licensing its multithreaded 10G-byte Ethernet networking technology to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. in Sun's first deal since the creation of a separate Microelectronics group within the company one week ago.


OPINION

Storage Survey
By James Gaskin, ITworld.com

HP just paid for a survey of 1,200 mid-sized firms with between 100
and 1,000 employees spread across seven countries. According to the
executive summary, respondents want to improve customer satisfaction
(86 percent) and improve product quality (81 percent). How storage can
do that, I don't know, but companies also worry about business
continuity, upgrading servers, and price. But the details between
countries in the survey surprised me.

Read the full article here.

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ITWHIRLED

You can always build a better mousetrap -- or Post-It
A group of freshman engineering students, working in a competition to improve an everyday object, took something seemingly perfect -- the sticky note -- and made it better: you can write on their version without using a pen or pencil.

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