EMC acquires network-configuration player (Network World)

The number of pure-play network change and configuration-management vendors decreased again Tuesday as EMC announced it had purchased Voyence for an undisclosed amount.

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Slideshow: 12 Things You Need to Know About Ruby on Rails (eWeek)

Why Ruby on Rails is to application development what Apple is to desktops.

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Web 2.0 Entails 'Sleeping Giant' Security Risk (Campus Technology)

As increasing numbers of enterprises climb aboard the Web 2.0 bandwagon, it's more important than ever for software developers to keep security in mind during the development process. So says Danny Allan, director of security research at Watchfire, the Waltham, MA-based Web-app security company acquired by IBM in July.

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Attack code out for critical Kodak bug in Windows (Network World)

A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system.

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Comcast to employees: talking about blocking P2P can get you fired (Ars Technica)

As Comcast is peppered with questions from its customers over its practice of blocking some P2P traffic, the company is giving customer service reps a script to work from. Deviating from that script is grounds for termination, Comcast employees tell Ars.

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Virtualization: Agility More Significant Than Cost Cutting (Baseline)

Although much of the excitement about virtualization has focused on the cost-cutting it enables, the real value comes from business agility, according to participants at the Ziff Davis Enterprise 2007 Virtualization Summit.

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