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    Computer problem grounds United flights 19 June, 2011 06:01:42

    United Airlines had to cancel flights on Friday night after a computer breakdown affected key systems, including those for its website, flight departures and reservations.
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    Travel search players unite to oppose Google-ITA merger 27 October, 2010 06:10:00

    Major online travel players Expedia, Kayak, Sabre and Fairlogix have banded together to oppose Google's planned acquisition of ITA Software and ask the U.S. government to block it on the grounds that it will hurt competition and drive up prices.
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    Happy birthday Windows 7: Inside 7 big enterprise rollouts 23 October, 2010 04:52:00

    Light up the candles. Windows 7 turns 1 today. Happy birthday to an OS that debuted in the worst of a recession and went on to exceed expectations, racking up approximately 240 million licenses to date.
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    Google buys ITA for $700M 02 July, 2010 06:44:00

    Google has reached an agreement to buy ITA Software, a maker of air travel flight-information software whose customers include major airlines and online travel agencies.
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    Paperless boarding passes for smartphones hit SFO 03 September, 2009 04:32:00

    San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the Bay Area's first airport to employ a secure barcode-scanning system for paperless boarding passes so travelers with Internet-connected smartphones, like BlackBerrys and iPhones, can check-in using their handhelds. The system, which is currently being used on an experimental-basis, has the potential to save airlines money on printing costs and reduce paper-waste, as well as relieve potential stresses to travelers of misplacing boarding passes.
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    Data centers go underground 29 July, 2009 08:20:00

    As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual.
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    Expand Networks and VMware selected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for VDI strategy 23 June, 2009 11:13:00

    Expand Networks, the leader in optimising WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualisation, today announced that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is implementing Expand Networks’ WAN optimisation technology to complete its organisation-wide virtualisation strategy of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Deployed in the datacentre as a virtual image on existing VMware ESX Hypervisor, Expand’s Virtual Accelerators will enable the rollout by ABS to migrate employees across the country to VDI.
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    Expand Networks Partner with Global Satellite Specialist to Optimise Bandwidth to Enable Increased Throughput 19 June, 2009 12:14:00

    Level 421 Partner with Expand Networks to Deliver Increased Bandwidth Capacity over Remote Satellite Links for Corporate Customers
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    With global revenue dropping, Symantec posts big loss 29 January, 2009 06:55:00

    Symantec posted a big loss Wednesday, citing the tough economic climate, but the company's quarterly earnings still were better than analysts had expected.
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    Users Who Know Too Much (And the CIOs Who Fear Them) 06 March, 2007 14:17:29

    An April 2006 survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 45 percent of adults who use the Internet said it has improved their ability to do their jobs "a lot".
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    Eyes Everywhere 07 November, 2005 15:12:28

    Business activity monitoring offers a constant watch on business processes
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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