Posts on ‘November 5th, 2008’

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By Jon Stokes | Published: November 05, 2008 - 07:00AM CT
With identity theft and online banking fraud on the rise, users are understandably nervous about which computers and networks they use to check their bank accounts or carry out money transfers. IBM’s Zurich lab has come up with one possible way of attacking [...]

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November 4, 2008 - 1:00 pm PDT - by Sarah Evans 7 Comments

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also writes a PR and social media blog.
On an average business day, more than 2,000 press releases are distributed by the [...]

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By Joel Hruska | Published: November 04, 2008 - 02:00PM CT

Former IT engineer Steven Barnes has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to computer intrusion charges. But wait till you hear how it happened.
Baseball bats and server passwords

Neither black nor white.
Barnes, a one-time employee of Akimbo Systems (then known [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on November 4, 2008

Google and other tech companies won a big battle in Washington today. In an Election Day meeting, the FCC approved the unlicensed use of “white spaces” spectrum newly freed up as a result of TV broadcasters going from analog to digital broadcasts. Google has [...]

Via the New York Times
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Published: November 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - During past downturns, layoffs were mostly a private affair. Big companies tended to issue vague press releases filled with jargon about “downsizing,” and start-ups often gave people the pink slip without telling the world anything at all.
Chris Kalani complained on his personal [...]

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by Michael Arrington on November 5, 2008
a study by Anderson Analytics confirms what everyone already suspects: LinkedIn users are rich.
Nearly 60% of users have incomes of $93,000 or more. Executives with an average income of $104,000 make up 28% of the 2,000 random users polled for the study. Another 30% are [...]