P-to-P users expose US government secrets

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News: Microsoft describes technology behind software plus services
News: Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent deepen mobility partnership
News: AirMagnet analyzes 802.11n Wi-Fi
News: Storm worm gets smarter
News: Google, Sprint team on WiMax mobile services
ITWhirled: Geek Comic of the Week: Bag of Toast


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P-to-P users expose US government secrets
Contractors and U.S. government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks, in many cases overriding the default security settings on their P-to-P software to do so, according to a company that monitors the networks.


SourceForge unveils the winners of the 'open-source Oscars'
Popular open-source software development site SourceForge.net hosted the equivalent of the open-source Oscars on Thursday evening, billing the event as a big party, not a painfully long and formal awards ceremony.


Making sense of AMD's processor road map
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Thursday gave journalists and analysts a peek at its road map of upcoming processors, including more details on the company's quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores.

Related Reading: AMD unveils strategy to 'Bulldoze' the competition
Executives at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are pursuing a new strategy to combine CPUs and graphics processors into one unit and put them into everything from workstations to HDTVs to wireless phones.


Cisco to acquire equity stake in VMware
Cisco Systems Inc. plans to acquire a 1.6 percent equity stake in virtualization software player VMware Inc., mirroring a step Intel Corp. took earlier this month.

BLACK HAT: With Black Hat approaching, a rush to patch iPhone
With security researchers set to reveal details of a critical security flaw in the iPhone at the Black Hat 2007 conference next week, Apple Inc. now has fewer than seven days to patch a critical vulnerability in the product.


Microsoft describes technology behind software plus services
Microsoft Corp. gave some of the clearest examples yet on Thursday of its vision for software plus services.


Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent deepen mobility partnership
Alcatel-Lucent SA plans to extend enterprise security into cellular networks through its own fixed-mobile convergence systems and Aruba Networks Inc.'s "follow-me" security technology as part of a planned joint venture.


AirMagnet analyzes 802.11n Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi management company AirMagnet has launched an 802.11n laptop analyzer, ready for the host of performance issues expected from the emerging fast wireless LAN standard.


Storm worm gets smarter
Newer variants of the widespread Storm worm have introduced a new technique for evading security experts -- detecting when they are running in a virtual environment and changing their behavior if they are.


Google, Sprint team on WiMax mobile services
As part of its strategy to increase its presence in as many Web-enabled mobile devices as possible, Google Inc. has agreed to collaborate with Sprint Nextel Corp. to offer a range of Internet services to users of the U.S. operator's planned new WiMax network.


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Geek Comic of the Week: Bag of Toast
If robots and cyborgs coexisted, would they run political campaign ads smearing one another? Is there any point to practicing with Wii controllers? Does time travel automatically involve Abe Lincoln and dinosaurs? This whimsical comic answers these questions and more.