Stories by Stephen Lawson

WSJ: Yahoo, Google revise plan

Yahoo and Google have revised the terms of their search advertising deal to ease concerns that have stalled its approval by the US Department of Justice, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's Web site on Monday.

Vendor touts 100Gibt/s optical encryption

Researchers have created an optical network component that they say can encrypt data travelling at 100Gbit/s, far outpacing current electronic encryption technologies.

Sun warns of revenue drop, big loss

Sun Microsystems on Monday warned of a big loss for the first quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, issuing preliminary results that also showed revenue falling.

EMC to support Fibre Channel over Ethernet

EMC will support a line of Emulex network adapters that use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE), giving a big-name boost to an emerging technology that could become the common transport across an entire datacentre.

HP to buy LeftHand Networks

Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for US$360 million (NZ4535 million) to fill in its storage virtualisation and iSCSI lines with products for medium-size companies and remote offices and branches.

A pro's tips on successful ATM fraud

A bank-machine hacker who reportedly was arrested earlier this month in Turkey gave would-be fraudsters tips on how to install rogue card-reading devices, including advising them to target drive-through ATMs (automated teller machines) and avoid towns with fewer than 15,000 residents.

U.S. mobile users unplugging landlines

More than one-quarter of mobile-phone users in the U.S. have effectively stopped using their fixed-line phones for voice calls, according to a survey by research company J.D. Power and Associates.

Stock smackdown hits tech harder than most

Worries about consumer spending, advertising and the ability of IT companies to raise money appear to have hit many tech stocks harder even than the overall market on Monday, one of the worst days on Wall Street since 1929.

Trojan can grab extra personal banking data

A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up sensitive information such as bank card numbers and PINs (personal identification numbers).

EMC, Lenovo offer SMB backup service

Lenovo and EMC on have announced an effort to free small businesses from the hassles of data backup by offering a no-limits storage service for Lenovo's SL series laptops based on EMC's Mozy backup product.

Mozilla project taps typed commands

An experimental extension to Firefox's Mozilla web browser lets users substitute simple text commands for complex web tasks such as putting links to maps in email messages.

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