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Thursday, April 23, 2009

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Flaws in 'Internet SAFETY' bill

M. E. Kabay By M. E. Kabay
Friend and colleague Robert Gezelter points to serious deficiencies in the thinking behind legislation currently under consideration in the House and Senate. Read full story

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP, specializes in security and operations management consulting services. CV online.

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The State of Spam 2009, Part 4 Jamie de Guerre, CTO of Cloudmark, talks about the latest anti-spam technologies coming out of Cloudmark's research labs.

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04/23/09

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  1. Six things that could ruin Twitter (and five that won't)
  2. 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet
  3. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition
  4. VMware vows to overhaul data center with "cloud operating system"
  5. The FBI as an ethical hacker?
  6. The biggest loser in Oracle-Sun deal: SAP
  7. Why the Oracle/Sun deal is bad news for Microsoft and SQL Server
  8. AT&T expands its contact center portfolio
  9. OpenSolaris, Linux could merge under Oracle
  10. Microsoft could be a winner in Sun-Oracle deal
  11. Honda demos motion-assistance devices


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