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Much has been written about greening the data center, but very little proof has been presented to support all of its promises.
That could be changing with a recent report from Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Accenture Lawrence Berkeley Labs and the U.S. Department of Energy, among others. The study found that using the right techniques and […]

After reporting a 13 percent second-quarter jump in profits, EMC saw its shares rise as much as 7 percent. The company reported profit of $377.5 million compared with $344 million in the year-before period, reports MarketWatch.
EMC, which owns approximately 86 percent of VMware, garnered headlines earlier this month after replacing Diane Greene as CEO with […]

So-called “spam king” Robert Soloway has been sentenced to 47 months in prison.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman likened him to a polluter who had fouled the Internet, though his sentence is a far cry from the possible 26 years cited in earlier reports.
According to court records, Soloway sent more […]

A University of Michigan study shows that 75 percent of 214 banking Web sites surveyed in 2006 had at least one design flaw that could threaten security, reports Network World.
A key problem that study author Atul Prakash found was an underutilization of SSL encryption, according to Finextra.com. The 47 percent of sites not using this […]

Wall Street seems to have given Yahoo a pass on a second quarter of profits at the low end of expectations, which already had been lowered.
Yahoo’s net income dropped by nearly 19 percent while revenue grew at a sluggish 6 percent, reports the International Herald Tribune. The Los Angeles Times quotes Sanford C. Bernstein analyst […]