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1. Editor's Note: China's Security Syndrome
2. Today's Top Story
- Apple Ties For Third In U.S. PC Market
3. Breaking News
- FBI Analyst Sentenced To 10 Years For Stealing National Secrets
- Notebooks Bursting Into Flames Again
- Claims Of A Mac Worm Incite Blogging Brawl
- Oracle Adds Google Maps To Field Service Software
- Outreach Programs Help Pump Up Tech Degree Enrollment At UMBC
- McAfee's DeWalt Pushes For Legislation To Battle Cybercriminals
- Verizon Wireless Keeps Adding To Its Retail Customer Base
- IT Careers: New Master's Degree Emphasizes Ethical Hacking
- Lower Handset Sales Hit Motorola's Second-Quarter Earnings
- Sprint, Clearwire Confirm Partnership On WiMax
- Will Safari Make iPhone The Smartphone Of Choice In Business?
- The Dollars And Sense Of Virtual Data Centers
- SunRocket Subscribers Find Alternative Service, But Number Porting Is Slow
- Spammers Exploit Brazilian Plane Crash
- Microsoft Hit With A Second Xbox 360 Class-Action Suit
- Microsoft Faces Petition To Defeat Office 2007 Standard
- BEA Launches Web 2.0-Style Computing Inside The Enterprise
4. The Latest Personal Tech Blog Posts
- Needleworkers Knit iPhone, Nintendo, And Sew Full-Sized Ferrari
- Book Review: IT Manager Battles The Undead In 'The Atrocity Archive'
- Why Do You Need Third-Party Software Just To Turn Off Your iMac Display?
- Overseas Cell Phone Users: More Numerous -- And More Courteous
- Intel Intros Core 2 Extreme QX6850 As Price War Looms
5. Job Listings From TechCareers
6. White Papers
- Eight Challenges Of Information Privacy And Security Law Facing The Fax Industry
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"Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing." -- Evan Esar
InformationWeek Research's 10th annual Global Information Security Survey highlights some very different security concerns facing Chinese businesses as opposed to their U.S. counterparts.
While U.S. businesses are generally considered to have a mature and stable corporate environment that's been grappling with IT security issues for years, China's more recent movement to the global business arena means the country is just beginning to pay attention to a lot of IT security concerns.
Chinese companies are generally three to five years behind North American and U.K. companies in terms of IT security, Alastair MacWillson, managing director of Accenture's global security practice, told me. Accenture helped InformationWeek Research put together the survey, and MacWillson shares his expertise in a story titled "China's Evolutionary Leap." "Security hasn't typically been fantastically high on their priority list."
Chinese businesses have a lot of catching up to do, which might explain why the average percentage of IT budget spent on information security is a whopping 19% in China, as compared with 12% in the United States. "That's quite an astonishing figure," MacWillson says, adding that the Chinese companies that responded to the survey clearly understand that China is far behind in terms of IT security and are spending to catch up to where they need to be.
Read more and comment on this story at the InformationWeek Blog.
Larry Greenemeier
Apple Ties For Third In U.S. PC Market
FBI Analyst Sentenced To 10 Years For Stealing National Secrets
Notebooks Bursting Into Flames Again
Claims Of A Mac Worm Incite Blogging Brawl
Oracle Adds Google Maps To Field Service Software
Outreach Programs Help Pump Up Tech Degree Enrollment At UMBC
McAfee's DeWalt Pushes For Legislation To Battle Cybercriminals
Verizon Wireless Keeps Adding To Its Retail Customer Base
IT Careers: New Master's Degree Emphasizes Ethical Hacking
Lower Handset Sales Hit Motorola's Second-Quarter Earnings
Sprint, Clearwire Confirm Partnership On WiMax
Will Safari Make iPhone The Smartphone Of Choice In Business?
The Dollars And Sense Of Virtual Data Centers
SunRocket Subscribers Find Alternative Service, But Number Porting Is Slow
Spammers Exploit Brazilian Plane Crash
Microsoft Hit With A Second Xbox 360 Class-Action Suit
Microsoft Faces Petition To Defeat Office 2007 Standard
BEA Launches Web 2.0-Style Computing Inside The Enterprise
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Information Security: The Complexity Issue
Managing Security Complexity
Windows Vista: Meeting Expectations Or Falling Short?
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Needleworkers Knit iPhone, Nintendo, And Sew Full-Sized Ferrari
Book Review: IT Manager Battles The Undead In The Atrocity Archive
Why Do You Need Third-Party Software Just To Turn Off Your iMac Display?
Overseas Cell Phone Users: More Numerous -- And More Courteous
Intel Intros Core 2 Extreme QX6850 As Price War Looms
Talent Mindset Resources seeking Senior QA Manager in Hartford, CT
Tripp Lite seeking Business Manager in Chicago, IL
The NPD Group seeking Product Manager in Port Washington, NY
ConnectWise seeking Manager, Software Support Services in Tampa, FL
Agilent seeking IT Manager in Santa Clara, CA
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1. Editor's Note: China's Security Syndrome
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Apple was neck and neck with Gateway, lagging behind No. 1 Dell and No. 2 Hewlett-Packard, according to market researchers IDC.
The agent used text messages, Web-based e-mail accounts, and database queries to pull off the espionage.
Toshiba is recalling Sony notebook batteries. While the recalls haven't hurt notebook sales, experts have said that it could push some buyers to switch brands.
After an anonymous blogger claimed to have created exploit code for a Mac OS X bug, the online bickering has nearly overshadowed the original claim.
Integrating precise geographical information is one of the enhancements Oracle has built into Field Service Release 12.
While enrollment in computer science programs has declined at most universities, the University of Maryland is reporting a big increase -- including many more women.
The new head of McAfee says Congress needs to "modernize the law" and help law enforcement pursue hackers and online scammers.
The positive results are likely to spur an attempt -- opposed by Verizon -- to change the company's equity ownership.
Don't expect to see a big crowd for EC-Council University home football games: The program's inaugural master of security science class consists of only six students, and all are taking their courses online.
Sales from Motorola's mobile devices unit plunged 40%, causing analysts to predict the company will lose market share in the area.
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have confirmed reports that they will collaborate to build out a nationwide WiMax network.
BI software provider Information Builders says the iPhone's Web browser is its ticket to the enterprise.
To manage server sprawl, exponential data growth, power consumption, and nearly unmanageable infrastructures, many IT organizations are turning to data center virtualization and blade-server technologies. But careful consideration is needed.
Some subscribers complained that it's taking too long to port their old phone numbers to a new service, while others are suspicious that competing VoIP companies will fade out just like SunRocket did.
Spammers are luring unsuspecting users to a malicious Web site by sending out e-mails promising information about the crash and the victims onboard.
The suit alleges that the Xbox 360 console scratches expensive game discs, making them impossible to use.
The Foundation For Free Infrastructure Information claims more than 20,000 individuals have signed its petition.
BEA adds enhancements to its AquaLogic product line to let business customers use wikis, mashups, and social computing.
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Why shell out big bucks for a real iPhone, Nintendo, or Ferrari when a homemade replica that you knit or sew is just as good in every way? Except, of course, for the minor point of being completely useless.
You don't have many IT-manager action heroes in science fiction. Sure, you have a lot of hackers, breaking into networks and subverting authority. But not a lot of science-fiction heroes save the universe in between staff meetings, working the help desk, and rebooting the file server.
Turning down or off the display isn't just a matter of saving energy for Mother Earth. It is also necessary to produce a condition known to interior designers as "darkness." And the iMac, for some reason, lacks that most simple of hardware amenities: an on-off switch that controls just the display.
Sitting in a London theater last week waiting for the curtain to rise, we were startled to hear the loudest cell phone ring tone we'd ever heard broadcast over the theater's loudspeaker -- quickly followed by another, then another, then another until there was a virtual cacophony of conflicting bells, whistles, snippets of Europop and Beethoven echoing through the hall.
The news that Intel will launch its fastest quad-core processor yet, the 3.0-GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850, comes just as a bruising price war is beginning between the chip behemoth and its smaller rival, AMD.
5. Job Listings From TechCareers
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley are three federal laws that require secure handling of information either to keep it private or to make it available on demand. This paper will discuss each of these laws and the real impact they can have on fax management if information is mishandled.
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