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A Swedish court today found the Pirate Bay guilty of copyright infringement, otherwise known as pirating (surprise!). With all the news lately of pirates capturing ships off the Somali coast, it's easy to forget that online pirates are out there as well. But are other search players like Google going to get wrapped up in this?

The cable companies seem to be taking over the telephone business these days with their "triple play" bundles, but they're not the cheapest option. Could an independent like Vonage be a better alternative?

In part 1 of this post I talked about emerging cloud technologies, and how one management technology built for the cloud paradigm is at play in bringing cloud-like capabilities to your infrastructure. Pressing on with this theme, one more example helps paint the picture of what cloud really is, and why much of the baggage we get mired in (the hoopla about standardization) should be tossed out with the bathwater.

While everyone has been wringing their hands about the increasing number of spammers on Twitter, a small group of upstarts quietly began assembling while our heads were turned. It began with Shaq and Jon Mayer, then Britney and Miley popped up. Before anyone could stop it Ashton Kutcher was challenging Larry King to a digital duel and soon all of Hollywood was getting involved. Things have come to a head today, ladies and gentlemen. Oprah is in the house.

For years, Apple fans have claimed that Macs are invulnerable to attack, while belittling Windows as being full of security holes. Now the tables are turned --- not only has a Trojan infected Macs and created a botnet, but several well-known researchers warn that Mac OS X is less secure than either Windows or Linux.

A look at today's Swedish court verdict against the four men hosting the notorious file-sharing/torrent-search site PirateBay.org, and one of the men's defiant responses via videos.

In today's podcast: IBM, GlobalFoundries plan more advanced chips; Sun still open to merger talks with IBM; and Google sees 6 percent increase in Q1 revenue.

IBM unleashes 4k consultants in the Business Intelligence market

This pilot fish has some extra money in his medical flexible spending account at the end of the year, and he knows it's use-it-or-lose-it time, so he decides to try Lasik surgery.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches a Mac OS X Trojan construct a botnet for distributed denial of service attacks and sending spam. Not to mention Drop7...

Twitter, Facebook and other high-traffic social network sites have all suffered embarrassing performance problems. But there are ways to build such sites better.

There are four approaches to dealing with malware-infested Windows machines, and too many articles on the subject only consider the worst one. Here is a run-down on the pros/cons of each approach.

The release candidate of Ubuntu Linux's latest version, Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04 is almost out and it's looking like a good one. Here are the five best things you'll have to look forward to in this release.

The March Twitter numbers are in: Traffic more than doubled. At least that's what's being reported. Unfortunately, the figure is almost meaningless.

Let's be very clear on the facts. A company called comScore reported today that the number of "unique US visitors" to Twitter.com grew 131 percent during the month of March.

More than ever before, we live in an information-generated society. Gone are the days when most folks had to hear “news” not only hours, but even days after events unfolded. Today, we’re privy to up-to-the minute updates that often use live feeds. That said, not everyone in government participates in that type of data exchange. I’m not sure if it’s a generation gap or just a desire to retain the status quo.