Powerful earthquake disrupts Japan communications

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News: Powerful earthquake disrupts Japan communications
News: Symantec declares Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
News: No breakthrough in efforts to unlock the iPhone
News: Indian Telco buys Ethernet service provider Yipes
News: Italy arrests 26 for phishing operation
News: MS WPC: Partners praise Microsoft software-plus-services plan
News: After criticism, Sun fixes Java flaw
News: Dell faces overclocking issue on quad-core desktops
Feature: Chinese sport fans embrace e-commerce for 2008 Olympics
Q&A: Steven Sprague, Trusted Computing Group
ITWhirled: Germophobes, rejoice! The no-touch toilet paper dispenser is here


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Powerful earthquake disrupts Japan communications
A powerful earthquake that struck northern Japan Monday morning has caused disruption to communications services in the country.


Symantec declares Chinese offer a success, withholds numbers
Symantec Corp. declared its compensation offer for Chinese users who saw their computers damaged by a bad software update a success Sunday, but declined to say how many users had accepted the deal.


No breakthrough in efforts to unlock the iPhone
Hackers are working to unlock Apple Inc.'s iPhone, but the job appears to be more difficult than initially expected.


Indian Telco buys Ethernet service provider Yipes
India's Reliance Communications Ltd. has agreed to buy Yipes Holdings Inc. of the U.S. for $300 million in cash, with plans to extend its managed Ethernet services into additional countries, the companies announced Monday.


Italy arrests 26 for phishing operation
Italy has become the latest country to clamp down on phishing, with authorities there arresting 26 people for an alleged scam to swindle bank customers.

MS WPC: Partners praise Microsoft software-plus-services plan
Microsoft Corp. partners introduced to the company's software-plus-services strategy this week at its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) applauded the plan, though they noted a few challenges as the company makes the transition from selling business software to offering more hosted and Web-based services.


After criticism, Sun fixes Java flaw
Just days after a security researcher blasted its Java patching system, Sun Microsystems Inc. has issued a critical update to the consumer version of its Java software.


Dell faces overclocking issue on quad-core desktops
Dell Inc. has stopped taking orders for one model of its high-end desktop PCs, citing issues related to overclocking quad-core processors from Intel Corp.


FEATURE

Chinese sport fans embrace e-commerce for 2008 Olympics
Chinese sport fans have embraced an online lottery for tickets to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.


Q&A

Steven Sprague, Trusted Computing Group
Steven Sprague is one of the original founders of the Trusted Computing Group, a nonprofit forum to develop open standards for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies. Steven is a long-time advocate of securing PC platforms via hardware chips.


ITWHIRLED

Germophobes, rejoice! The no-touch toilet paper dispenser is here
Tired of making icky physical contact with anything in a public restroom? You might be interested in a new gadget that dispenses toilet paper just by detecting the proximity of a human hand. Of course, such technology has been around for years for hand towels, but apparently it took quite a bit of focus-grouping to determine just how much toilet paper should be spat out at a time.