Slideshow: 6 Key Skills CIOs Seek in Entry-Level Workers (CIO Insight)

Entry-level IT pros need more than tech savvy; they must possess soft skills to survive in today's business climate.

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VM Security Risks: Phantom or Menace? (eWeek)

Virtual machines are threatening to crack the walls of data centers with a host of potential security threats—nothing that's been publicly exploited yet but a fact that's borne out by a slew of vulnerabilities patched over the past seven months by major virtualization vendors VMware, Microsoft and XenSource.

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Gmail delivers a knockout punch: IMAP changes the "freemail" game (Ars Technica)

Google has sweetened its e-mail offerings by rolling out IMAP capabilities in all Gmail accounts, and for free. While casual users may not look twice, the addition makes Google's software-as-a-service much more attractive to businesses looking for easy e-mail solutions.

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Drexel Puts Course Capture To Work on Desktops (Campus Technology)

Audio and even video capture of lectures is becoming more common on college campuses, which post the material to their Web sites so that students can revisit a lecture after the fact. But Drexel University in Philadelphia, long known as a technology powerhouse, is using the university's academic capture product in another way. There, instructors are far more likely to produce recordings from their desktops, including individual commentaries to a student from a professor.

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EBay: The Place for Microfinance (BusinessWeek)

On the online auction giant's new MicroPlace site, investors can lend as little as $50 to would-be small business owners around the globe

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Cisco Nabs Navini for $330M (Red Herring)

Networking gear giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday said it plans to acquire WiMAX device maker Navini Networks for $330 million in cash and assumed options. The planned acquisition of the seven-year-old Richardson, Texas-based company is Cisco’s entrée into a technology field it has long eschewed in favor of Wi-Fi for wide-area wireless broadband communications.

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