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T-Mobile has halted the sale of new Sidekicks. All models are now listed as "temporarily out of stock" on the company's site. Additionally, a warning has been added to the post on T-Mobile's forum which reads: "Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power."

Is the the original Smartphone now dead?

How do you know if bad guys have piggy-backed onto your wireless network?

Remember when AT&T petitioned the FCC to investigate Google Voice? Well, now it is official, the FCC is investigating Google Voice...for the reasons laid out by AT&T.

Allen Ginsberg may have seen the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, but today I saw 60 of the best minds of *my* generation doing something more constructive: Putting their heads together to figure out the digital future of National Public Radio (NPR).

In today's podcast: IBM faces mainframe antitrust investigation; Clickfraud scheme steals from Google; and UFO hacker appeal rejected.

A ZDNet blogger claims that Yahoo! has been passing personal information about Iranian protesters to Iran's government. In the last few minutes, Yahoo! has denied the claim. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it could possibly be true.
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This company is moving its payroll system from one mainframe to another. But the first week that the new system runs in parallel with the old one, the total payroll is off -- by eight cents.

Recently my wife used a credit card (which she hadn’t used for many months prior) to make a small (less than $20) purchase via her cell phone - not at a retail store or via the internet. Just a few days later she received a telephone call at home from the credit card issuer seeking clarification about what they considered unusual activity. When she called them back, using what she knew to be a veritable phone number for the company, they told her that they’d flagged the card because they’d detected an unusual charge attempt.

First, Red Hat's claimed the lion's share of the Linux market, then Novell said Red Hat's not that much in the lead, so where does the truth lie?

Okay, count how many times you've gotten a complaint from a less-than-knowledgeable user whose document couldn't be read on a friend's computer. "But they're both Word files!," the poor newbie cries. Uh, no. Almost invariably, one of them was created with Microsoft Works.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer apparently disagrees with one of Microsoft's key business strategies --- to make money from free services and software such as Bing, Microsoft Live, and the upcoming Web-based version of Office. At his recent announcement of new mobile software, he said that "Free is not a business model...You'll have to ask our competitors if they'll make money on free things."

XenDesktop 4 brings the capability to dynamically assign the optimal virtualization approach to each client based on that user's role, location and the type of device they ride in on.

It can be difficult to quickly highlight the key benefits of virtualzation to a management team if you don't fully understand them yourself. Outlined below are a few key benefits of virtualization that every tech savvy individual should know.

Another theme I want to talk about here on Security Levity is spammer tactics. I'm sure you remember the huge growth in image spam in 2006. At the time, it was typically used in stock kiting (or pump-and-dump scams). As we noted in our recent threat trends report, we're seeing it again. Yes, like Arnie's Terminator or the typical horror movie monster, it's back.

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Touch applications have been around for decades.  You see many of these early single touch applications in supermarkets, bank ATMs, restaurants and airport check-in kiosks.  With the advent of the iPhone and Windows 7, multitouch applications are entering the mainstream of hand-held and desktop computing.