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October 10, 2006

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In This Edition

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1. Review: Firefox 2.0 RC2 Is a Step ... Backward?

2. News: Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps

3. Blog: Google Purchases YouTube for $1.65B

4. News: Remote Workers Still Imperil Enterprise Security

5. News: Tomorrow's IT Workforce: Tech-Savvy, Business-Focused

6. Reporter's Notebook: Gartner Warns to Cut Infrastructure Costs

7. News: Ex-HP Chair Dunn Says Charges She Led Spying a Lie

8. Review: Trapeze Seeks IPS Help

9. Blog: Workers Still Writing Personal E-Mails, IMs

10. News: 'Click' Here for First 50GB Blu-ray Disc

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News and Views

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1. Review: Firefox 2.0 RC2 Is a Step ... Backward?

eWEEK Labs was disappointed to find that a couple of well-liked

search and cookie options have been changed in RC2.

Privacy-conscious users will be particularly disappointed by

the changes in cookie handling.

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Slide Show: Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 2

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2. News: Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps

Performance increases and power management will be

key issues at the Microprocessor Forum, where IBM will

tout Power6 while AMD will talk up quad-core Opterons.

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3. Blog: Google Purchases YouTube for $1.65B

The acquisition combines the largest and fastest-growing

video-sharing community online with the largest

search engine.

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4. News: Remote Workers Still Imperil Enterprise Security

A global security research study from Cisco finds that most

workers who access data networks remotely or carry

company-owned laptops are putting their employers at risk.

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5. News: Tomorrow's IT Workforce: Tech-Savvy, Business-Focused

Gartner analysts say young turks will replace aging boomers

over the next decade.

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6. Reporter's Notebook: Gartner Warns to Cut Infrastructure Costs

Business IT needs to catch up to the consumer market,

and companies will embrace virtualization to cut hardware

costs, say analysts at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo.

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7. News: Ex-HP Chair Dunn Says Charges She Led Spying a Lie

Former Hewlett-Packard board member Thomas Perkins

orchestrated a campaign to oust Patricia Dunn, the

ex-chairman of the computer maker, in response to a

probe she led to plug board-level leaks, Dunn tells the

news program "60 Minutes."

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8. Review: Trapeze Seeks IPS Help

Airdefense provides know-how, but its integration with

Trapeze Networks' Mobility Wireless LAN access solution

still has lots of room for improvement.

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9. Blog: Workers Still Writing Personal E-Mails, IMs

In a recent poll, Monster found that 27 percent of respondents

were certain they'd be fired if their online activity was

monitored and half thought they'd get a slap on the wrist.

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10. News: 'Click' Here for First 50GB Blu-ray Disc

Consumers will be able to buy the first 50GB Blu-ray

Disc--which boasts twice the capacity of a regular disc--when

Sony Pictures releases the Adam Sandler comedy "Click."

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