EMC upgrades home, small-business NAS drive with online file sharing
EMC today unveiled several upgrades to its Iomega StoreCenter ix2 NAS drive, including Web access to files for home and small-business users and access and management from the device to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing service. Read more...

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Kundra takes leave, Google raises privacy flags
Well, at least the issue is not unpaid taxes this time -- but Vivek Kundra, the brand-new, first-ever federal CIO after just a few days on the job is already on a leave of absence after the office of the Washington, D.C., CTO was raided by federal agents. Kundra had been the District's CTO before President Barack Obama appointed him the nation's CIO. In other news, Google peeved privacy advocates by announcing a behavioral advertising program and separately saying it is testing a new service that will transcribe voice-mail messages and make them searchable.

The stateful LAN: Layer 7 visibility and control
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SOA Security: The Basics
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Sun adds SSD to its x64 servers, blade systems
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