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Skype investigates tool that reveals users' last known IP addresses

Skype said it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue.
Judge rules that UK ISPs like Sky, O2, Virgin must block Pirate Bay

The ruling includes all ISPs, such as Sky, O2, Virgin Media, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk and BT. The ISPs had previously refused to block access to the site last year unless they were issued with a court order.
Chinese residents charged with selling pirated software worth $100m

Xiang Li, 35, and Chun Yan Li, 33, of Chengdu, China, are accused of operating websites, including Crack99.com, that sold allegedly pirated copies of software. The two defendants sold pirated products from 150 software companies between April 2008 and June 2011, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Toshiba NPEngine streams 64,000 video streams at 40GB a second

Toshiba has developed hardware for servers that encodes and sends video streams without using CPU or memory, greatly increasing the number of streams that can be broadcast from a single machine.
Red Hat joins billion-dollar revenue club

Red Hat is the first open source software company to generate a billion dollars in annual revenue.
Avira is now offering free antivirus software to Mac OS X users too

German security company Avira has released free antivirus software for Apple Macs, joining a host of security software providers offering protection for OS X.
Oracle application upgrades driven by end of support

Two new Oracle user group surveys show that customers have a mixed bag of plans for ERP (enterprise resource planning) application upgrades, with concerns over expiring support windows cited as the leading impetus for ongoing or upcoming projects.
Yammer adds SAP to list of integration partners

Enterprise social network Yammer has announced new integration with SAP, enabling updates from SAP?s software to appear as activity stories in Yammer?s news feed, Ticker.
Mobile users easily tracked through GSM network leaks

GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new research from the US.
Citadel banking virus adopts 'open source' development

A computer Trojan that targets online banking users is evolving and spreading rapidly because its creators have adopted an open-source development model, according to researchers from cyberthreat management firm Seculert.

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Sirius CTO: UK businesses must start tapping SME talent

The time has come for small and medium businesses to get the recognition they deserve, according to Andrew Savory, newly-appointed Chief Technology Officer at open source systems integrator Sirius
Old rules no longer apply in the fight for IT spending

The lines which once marked the boundaries between providers of software, hardware, services and business advice have all but disappeared.
iOS vs. Android battle echoes Mac vs. PC clash: What's next?

Smartphones and tablets are becoming the PCs of our time, and there are two major players in the game. Apple's iOS and Google's Android dominate smartphones, with RIM and Microsoft being niche players.
Web developments: 3 cool new features for Internet users

It isn't often that software companies listen closely to their customers. Sure, every software exec I've ever met pays lip service to that, but few actually do it. So it's great to report that the Mozilla Foundation, which publishes the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client, is responding to numerous complaints that its rapid upgrade cycle is causing big headaches for users.
What cloud computing means for the real world

There are more than a few critics of cloud computing; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my mind different perspectives on the cloud. I've tried to set aside the views of the IT executive, who seems to dominate the debate.
Twelve top programming mistakes to avoid

The dirty dozen of application development pitfalls, and how to avoid these all too common programming blunders.
Amiga: 25 years later

The Commodore Amiga is 25 years old. The computer made its debut at a black-tie, celebrity-studded gala at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York's Lincoln Center. InfoWorld predicted it would be the "third milestone" in personal computing after the Apple II and the IBM PC. Here's why it was the biggest cult PC ever made.
Great ideas from the Labs

What, you're not using Microsoft Speed Launch? It's a free application that lets you instantly launch any application, Web site or document using any word or phrase you choose.
Ten reasons why the PC is here to stay

Steve Jobs says the iPad signals the end of the PC era. Here's why he's wrong.
The future of MySQL in a post-Sun world

Now that Oracle holds the keys to the MySQL copyright, the question remains: What does the future hold for the popular open source database - and the organisations that rely on it?

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