Last year’s penetration of Cisco’s network and theft of source code was only one of thousands of incidents, investigators find.

IBM acquired El Segundo, Calif., based Gluecode to pump its open source sector. Committing to participate in Gluecode’s Apache Geronimo project, the deal will help IBM to reach a previously difficult to penetrate small business market.

Researchers at Cornell take a baby step forward by creating robots capable of self-replication.

Management of the Galileo system had been the focus of two opposing groups, but the rivals have ended their battle.

The Cassini space probe has been sending back great information about Saturn and its rings and moons and just gave us another great piece of video. The video revealed a new moon in hidden in gas giant’s outer ring.

The trade deficit with other countries had been $60 billion USD but fell to $55 billion USD in March.

The National Australia Bank, which is Australia’s largest bank, is cutting 4,200 jobs or 10% of its workforce over the course of the next two years.

In the circles of power, fear is often admired as a potent motivator. In his classic discourse on power politics, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli offered the following thoughts on the question of whether it is better for a leader to be feared or loved: “If we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Okay, so I fell for it the first time. With everybody else, I sniggered about Bill Gates’ “goof” when he told a group of reporters in Seattle about when the new Xbox would launch. Two weeks later, Internet news is hot again with cat-out-of-the-bag stories.

Tired of the same old stuff on the radio or on the net? Annoyed that most of what you listen is decided by a handful of companies who control the record labels and another handful that control the radio stations? The Smithsonian has a solution for you. They have thousands upon thousands of downloads from all over the planet.

When first launched, Podscope was introduced has a spoken word search engine that focused on podcast content. However, Podscope’s capabilities have been expanded to include content from audio and video files.

According to a Dutch study published in the European Heart Journal, seven drugs–two antibiotics, two gastrointestinal medicines, and three anti-psychotic drugs have been cited as causes in about 15,000 cardiac deaths in the US and Europe each year.

There’s a new blogger on the GM FastLane Blog, with a new approach – talking to women.

Shares of Warner Music made their initial public offering (IPO) , but went down over 7% in their first day of trading even though they opened below Wall Street expectations.

A new download of the AIM client to be made available Thursday will include support for the 2GB e-mail service.

Electronic publishing solutions provider, Quadralay, announced the launch of WebWorks ePublisher Pro, its next-generation solution for creating online content.

In the minute that has elapsed since I sat down to write this column, PubSub reports that the blogosphere grew by nearly 1,000 new posts. And that’s just on a Sunday.

Canadian cable-television and mobile-phone provider, Rogers Communications is buying Call-Net in a share for share transaction valued at about C$330 million ($264 million).

The company expands its imaging and printing offerings with a new laser printer and a graphics service partnership.

Danish container-shipping company A.P. Moeller-Maersk is buying its Dutch rival, P&O Nedlloyd for 2.3 billion euros ($3 billion) in cash to lock down its industry leadership.

There seems to be an increase in the frequency of postings in Adsense forums from publishers noting that their earnings have slipped in the past few days. Of particular note is that a number of publishers are reporting drops in their per click’ earnings (to get this figure divide your total earnings for a day by the amount of clicks for that day).

Most people don’t realize how powerful a negotiating tool silence is. I discovered exactly how effective as I recently observed someone discussing a deal with a prospective customer this past week.