• What's in a name? Microsoft defends 'Windows 7' moniker

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
A Microsoft executive explained yesterday how the company figured out that the upcoming Windows 7 really is the seventh version of the operating system. Said one user in response: 'Wow. That makes total sense. Not.'

• Remote Control: NASA works to repair Hubble's failed computer

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
NASA scientists and engineers are trying to fix a computer failure on the Hubble Space Telescope that has hobbled the instrument and delayed a planned shuttle mission.

• FBI: Several nations eye U.S. cybertargets

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
The chief of the FBI's Cyber Division says cyberthreats have grown in sophistication in the past year.

• Vodafone give network neutrality a thumbs down

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
Vodafone envisions two networks, one of which will be private and based on IP Exchange and will charge users for guaranteed quality of service.

• Update: McCain protests YouTube's removal of his campaign videos

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
GOP presidential candidate John McCain asserts that YouTube acted too quickly to comply with unwarranted copyright infringement notices when it took down his campaign videos.

• Q&A: Exchanging e-mails with a pirate

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
After a link to grisly photos of a child murder appeared on The Pirate Bay, the site -- known for letting users share files via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol -- was embroiled in another controversy. Here IDG News Service interviews one of the site's founders about the controversy, an upcoming conference and BitTorrent file sharing in general.

• AOL-Yahoo merger: Remedy worse than the disease?

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
Industry experts caution that an AOL-Yahoo merger could create more problems than it solves.

• FTC, New Zealand hit one of world's largest spam operations

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
Government agencies in the U.S. and New Zealand say they have sued the people behind one of the world's largest spamming operations.

• Opinion: FTC's new Red Flag Rules cast wide identity theft net

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
On Nov. 1, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flag Rules will take effect requiring any institution that extends credit to implement a program to detect, prevent and mitigate instances of identity theft.

• Data boom requires storage overhaul, industry experts say

10/14/2008 11:00 PM
CIOs will need to consider a new, more holistic approach to storage that includes an executive focused on the risks and rewards of handling digital information, speakers at the Storage Networking World conference said this week.

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