iPhone, 4th of July scams, predicted; Elgan: Independence Day (from the grid)

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Computerworld Wrap-Up
July 03, 2008
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In this issue:

* Expect iPhone, Fourth of July scams, security firm says
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3333169/218080743/124026/2/

* Elgan: Independence Day (from the grid, that is)
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3333169/218080743/124027/2/

* Judge orders YouTube to expose user viewing habits and history
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* Ex Newark IT contractor pleads guilty to defrauding Cisco
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3333169/218080743/124029/2/

* Energy Star for servers may be ready by year's end, EPA says
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* Visto patent wins backing ahead of RIM trial

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* Opera patches multiple bugs in flagship browser
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* Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3333169/218080743/124033/2/

* Mozilla's Firefox 3 sets geeky world record for downloads
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* Opinion: Mainframers know more than you think
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* Blog post: Preston Gralla: New IE 8 security tools are not enough to stop the Firefox onslaught
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FROM OUR TECH DISPENSER BLOG NETWORK
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Virtualization - Welcome Back to the 90s.

I've been thinking about this for a while, but this blog post by Pascal Meunier pretty much sums up my feelings about Virtualization. Back in the 90s, when the Internet was new-ish and just becoming important, all the machines running it were Unix boxes ...

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TODAY'S IT BLOGWATCH
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Firefox keeps on growing and growing and growing and...

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Mozilla's Firefox Web browser continues to gain market share, smashing records as it does so. Not to mention the objects in the mirror that aren't closer than they appear...

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TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Reasons to Go

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THIS WEEK'S COMPUTERWORLD EDITORIAL
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Taming the Beast

Employees at Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT have managed to tame the IT career beast by rejecting the notion that a culture of isolation is acceptable.

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