Three arrested over 12.7m PC botnet

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Authorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Cray, Microsoft join forces on cloud datacenters

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Supercomputer maker Cray’s custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacenters. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK

Microsoft re-releases Blue Screen of Death fix

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Microsoft is re-releasing the patch that caused Windows systems to crash in February with a Blue Screen of Death. by Richard Thurston ZDNet UK

Cisco embarks on media-centric Internet thrust

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The Internet is moving away from being a data transportation and messaging platform, into a space filled with integrated rich-media content, according to Cisco Systems. by Kevin Kwang, ZDNet Asia

Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support

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Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. by Stephen Shankland CNET News

The growing need for a flexible governance and risk management framework

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Neither regulations nor security threats are going away but the right approach to compliance and risk management can be less expensive than the way most organizations tackle these situations today, says Novell’s Jay Roxe. by Jay Roxe, Novell, Special to ZDNet

Reducing the high cost of low-value applications

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The speed of technology advancements and rapid pace of today?s business environment often force companies to rely on an application long after it has ceased to provide maximum value, says Keane’s Walid Farha. by Walid Farha, Keane, Special to ZDNet

Google execs convicted in YouTube Italy case

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An Italian court handed out guilty verdicts on Wednesday for three of four Google executives charged a case concerning a YouTube video posted of a teenager with Down Syndrome. by Stephen Shankland CNET News

Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs

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Mozilla has released fixes for five security holes in older versions of Firefox, while a security company has warned of a zero-day flaw in the latest version of the popular browser. by Matthew Broersma

U.S. trade body investigating Apple, RIM over patents

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The US International Trade Commission said it will launch an investigation into whether Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry infringe on a Kodak patent. by Daniel Terdimann CNET News