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ITworld.com Wrap-Up
March 27, 2008
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In this issue:

Google's paid search growth soft again in February
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105454/0/

Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105455/0/

Oracle buying Web app test tools from Empirix
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105456/0/

Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105457/0/

Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches 0-days faster?
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105458/0/

YouTube rolls out usage analytics
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105459/0/

Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105460/0/

YouTube morons get 30 days in jail for taco theft
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/101019/0/


OTHER RESOURCES
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Reputation-Based Email Security
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/102332/0/

2008 Internet Security Trends Report
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/102329/0/

Multi-layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/101558/0/


UNIX TIP
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More on bc
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld

In a previous column, we looked at bc, the surprisingly high precision
and big value capable Unix tool that you will find on most versions of
Unix today. The bc utility is not just a command line tool, however. You
can also write numerically intensive scripts in bc. The tool
incorporates enough syntax to assign values to variables, write and call
functions, collect responses from users and print annotated results.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/104270/0/


IN THE NEWS
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Google's paid search growth soft again in February
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105454/0/
For the second straight month, a comScore report suggests that Google's
revenue engine is slowing down, highlighting again the perils of the
company's overwhelming dependence on a single type of online advertising
to fuel its business.

Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105455/0/
Expensive legal battles have caused TorrentSpy, the search engine for
the BitTorrent file-sharing service, to shut down.

Oracle buying Web app test tools from Empirix
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105456/0/
Fresh off a strong third-quarter earnings report, Oracle announced
Thursday that it has agreed to acquire a set of Web application testing
products from Empirix for an undisclosed sum.

Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105457/0/
The trash-disposal giant Waste Management is suing SAP, saying top SAP
executives participated in a fraudulent sales scheme that resulted in a
failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation.

Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches 0-days faster?
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105458/0/
Apple's teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than
Microsoft's may not quite match the facts, according to new research
revealed at the Black Hat conference on Thursday.

YouTube rolls out usage analytics
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105459/0/
YouTube account holders will now be able to access usage statistics for
the videos they upload, such as where viewers are geographically located
and how they found the clips.

Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105460/0/
Comcast, under fire for slowing some BitTorrent traffic, will work with
the P-to-P (peer-to-peer) vendor to come up with better ways to address
media downloads and network management, the companies announced
Thursday.


TOP STORIES
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Even Apple will be hated one day
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/104287/0/

How to get Vista SP1
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105204/0/

Best Buy offers gift cards to HD DVD buyers
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/105205/0/

The seven dirtiest jobs in IT
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/103938/0/

Microsoft warns of new Word attack
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/104631/0/


ITWHIRLED
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YouTube morons get 30 days in jail for taco theft
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3028848/158421455/101019/0/
Master criminal Robert Echeverria and some of his friends cooked up a
diabolical scheme in which they pretended to be a corporate CEO and his
flunkies in order to scam awful fake Mexican food from Del Taco. Their
biggest mistake: bragging to YouTube -- and thus to the Internet at
large -- at their success in getting sub-$5 tacos for free. Now
Echeverria will be going to jail to contemplate his misdeeds.


Subscribe to the ITwhirled alert - weird tech news direct to your inbox.
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This whitepaper, written by Hurwitz & Associates Partner Robin Bloor,
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because anti-virus, the main defense against them, is terribly flawed.
But now a far more effective technique is proliferating. Instead of
trying to recognize malicious software, application whitelists focus on
authenticating valid software. This approach enables whitelists to block
a far wider variety of malicious software than AV products could ever
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