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China's Firefox growth kicks Aussies off top user list

Australia has missed out making it into a list of countries containing the most Firefox users, with the number of Chinese users of the browser taking over Australian ones between November and December. Read more »

Russia steals malware gold from China

Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report. Read more »

Chinese hackers back off from CNN attack

Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world. Read more »

Software AG charts a cautious course in China

Most technology companies are looking at China as a burgeoning revenue hot spot, but Germany's Software AG is playing it cool about growth prospects in the mainland. Read more »

Microsoft to give students free developer tools

Microsoft wants more students using its software tools and it thinks it has hit on the right business model -- it's going to give away its software. Read more »

Inside the Top500 supercomputers

Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Read more »

SAP goes on-demand in Web software makeover

Enterprise software giant SAP on Wednesday unveiled a midmarket on-demand service, Business ByDesign, putting it in competition with the on-demand offerings of Salesforce.com, NetSuite and archrival Oracle. Read more »

Cisco partners sell fake routers to US military

Cisco admits its partners sold counterfeit Cisco products to the US military, posing a serious threat to military and critical national infrastructure, according to the FBI Read more »

Novell CTO defends 'unstable' Xen claims

Novell chief technology officer (CTO) Markus Rex has hit back at criticism the company included an "unstable" Xen virtualisation environment in its new Linux server, pointing to support from hardware partners. Read more »

SAP to double programming staff in India

German software maker SAP plans to hire 1,900 software programmers to work in its Bangalore, India, development center by the end of 2006, the company said Tuesday. Read more »

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5 reasons restricting hacking is not like gun control

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- Let's get it out of the way: Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people. People with hacking tools can steal your personal data, shut down your system and deface your web site -- but is that any reason to ban them? Read more »

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