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Google has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own. Goojje’s home page is adorned with a Google-styled logo and the familiar paw print logo of China’s top home-grown search engine, Baidu. The Web site, whose name is a play […]

The SQL injection is hardly a new attack vector, but it’s emerging as one of the chief ways that hackers are able to gain access to supposedly secure data. eSecurity Planet looks at a new report that finds that not only are a majority of the UK’s online data breaches conducted via SQL injection, but […]

At the start of every new year, IT managers and C-level managers outline the key project initiatives they want and need to grow sales and reduce operating expenses. Project Manager Planet columnist Ron Ponce of Fog City Consulting lays out the keys to a successful implementation. 2010 has arrived and the focus is to make […]

Changes that Google and the Authors Guild made to an ambitious plan to create a massive online library were inadequate because they fail to address antitrust and copyright concerns, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) plan to put millions of books online has been praised for expanding access to books but […]

Internet search firm Google is finalizing a deal that would let the National Security Agency help it investigate a corporate espionage attack that may have originated in China, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The aim of the investigation is to better defend Google, the world’s largest Internet search company, and its users from future […]

Google has taken the unusual step of using real-world advertising to promote its Chrome web browser in Europe ahead of a regulatory change that will make it easier for consumers to switch Web browsers. In a departure from its usual dependence on viral and word-of-mouth marketing, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is running a billboard and newspaper […]

Booming demand for new, cheaper smartphones helped fuel a recovery in the overall handset market late last year, but rivalry for a piece of this lucrative business will turn fierce in 2010 as many new vendors enter the market. “The smartphone market will become ultra-competitive in 2010,” said analyst Neil Mawston from research firm Strategy […]

Lies, half-truths and distortions are commonplace when it comes to rumors of new products, product release dates and management shakeups in the software industry. CodeGuru has the latest scuttlebutt from a blogger who posted his version of Microsoft’s product release timeline through 2012. If it was a practical joke, Microsoft officials aren’t laughing. A man […]

Officials at the National Archives and Records Administration are dealing with a serious data security dilemma after discovering that a hard drive containing the names, Social Security numbers and other details of former Clinton staffers and White House visitors was either lost or stolen more than a year ago. eSecurity Planet digs into the details […]

The information technology job market isn’t going to set the world afire in 2010, according to staffing and recruiting firm Robert Half International. But those workers with lots of varied experience and the ability to adapt to new technologies and projects will have lots of opportunities. CIOUpdate explains why IT employment is still very much […]

The buzz in the gadget world has shifted from Amazon.com to Apple with the launch of its long-awaited iPad tablet, but analysts say the world’s largest retailer’s Kindle device is safe in its smaller market — for now. Industry watchers had speculated for months that Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new tablet would take a bite out […]

Book publishers predicted on Wednesday that Apple’s iPad would boost interest in online reading. But observers doubted the novel tablet computer would immediately revolutionize electronic publishing like the iPod changed music listening. At the unveiling of the new device, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated a new digital bookstore and application, iBooks, in an […]