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HP+EDS: Now what?

Now that Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems have decided to tie the knot, where does that put them -- and us?

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Frankly Speaking: Security Team

How many people do you have working to protect your data, systems and networks? The way you're counting them, it's probably not enough.

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Frankly Speaking: Not Dead Yet

IBM just gave a new lease on life to the system formerly known as the AS/400.

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Frankly Speaking: Beating the net

You can beat Internet sabotage. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia did -- and it didn't require rocket science, either.

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Frankly Speaking: Recession now

Economist Martin Feldstein says the U.S. is already in a severe recession that could be the worst since World War II. And for IT, this one will be different.

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Frankly Speaking: The hard question

The hard question to ask about the U.S. Census Bureau's troubled "paperless census" isn't "What went wrong?" or "Who's to blame?" It's "What now?"

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Frankly Speaking: See the future

Thanks to statistics from a new survey, we now know that the decline in computer-science grads is just about over.

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Frankly Speaking: Sabotaging the Internet

Pakistan Telecom meant to censor YouTube just in Pakistan. Instead, it sabotage YouTube around the world. You could be next.

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Frankly Speaking: Pick a winner

The rules of thumb said HD DVD should have beaten Blu-Ray -- all except one.

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Frankly Speaking: How reliable?

Cheap, functional, reliable. You get to pick two -- at most.

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Frankly Speaking: Management sabotaged IT at Societe Generale

The big French bank took a $7 billion loss last month because of a rogue trader who knew how to get around systems designed to catch bad behavior -- and knew that managers wouldn't stop him.

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And speaking of IPv6...

It turns out the One Laptop Per Child project's XO laptop already uses either IPv6 or IPv4 -- or both. Best of both worlds, right?

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IPv6 tries, tries again

Today is the big day for IPv6 -- the day when IPv6 users can directly access the domain name system without requiring an IPv4 kludge...no wait! Wake up! Don't fall asleep!

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Frankly Speaking: 'Anchor fade' takes out the Internet

It's usually called "backhoe fade," but this time it's apparently ship anchors that are to blame for crippling the Internet across the Middle East and India. And those problems will hit us, too.

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Frankly Speaking: Loafing no more?

Sam Zell just told the 20,000 employees of the Tribune Co. that he trusts them on the Internet during work time -- and to prove it, he's getting rid of all Internet content filters.

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