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DailyTech: The Korea Communications Commission is reporting that hackers believed to be located in China broke into the servers for the Nate portal and Cyworld blogging sites. The attackers stole personal information — including phone numbers, e-mail addresses, names and coded data — for 35 million South Koreans. South Korea has recently suffered a series […]

Cnet: Google is launching a new program called Page Speed Service that it claims can boost website load times by 25 to 60 percent. For now, selected Webmasters can use the service for free, but the company eventually plans to charge for it. Google’s Ram Ramani described how the service works in a blog post: […]

Mashable: Are end users already getting bored with Google+? A report from Experian Hitwise says that U.S. visits to the brand new social network declined 3 percent last week to 1.79 million. And average time spent on the site dropped 10 percent, from 5 minutes, 50 seconds to 5 minutes, 15 seconds. However, a spokesperson […]

Computerworld: A new online survey conducted by Sybase finds that half of workers would prefer to choose their own mobile devices. In addition, 56 percent of those surveyed said that work-related mobile apps make them more productive. Other key findings include the following: 45 percent of workers say they would use an enterprise app store […]

TechCrunch: Yesterday, online retailer Amazon.com reported stronger than expected sales for the second quarter — $9.9 billion, a 51 percent year-over-year increase. Although net income was down for the quarter, it beat analyst expectations, sending the stock price soaring. Wednesday morning, the company’s shares were trading at $225, giving it a market cap of $101.81 […]

NetworkWorld: In a new NetworkWorld survey of 200 IT pros, 70 percent said their Web servers would be upgraded to IPv6 within the next two years. In addition, 65 percent say they will upgrade their internal networks to the new protocol within the same timeframe. The survey also found that 86 percent of those surveyed […]

The Register: In a new survey conducted by PriceGrabber, 35 percent of U.S. consumers said they plan to purchase the iPhone 5, even though they haven’t yet seen the device. What do they think the new phone will offer? 59 percent want better battery life 55 percent want a lower price 46 percent want 4G […]

Dark Reading: A new survey finds that many IT security professionals choose to get certifications because they believe they’ll be passed over for promotions or new jobs if they don’t have them. According to “The Value of Information Security Certifications Survey,” 55.4 percent of IT security pros agreed that peer pressure and fear of being […]

eWeek: Randy Vickers, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), resigned his job last week with no official explanation. A key part of Vickers’ job was responding to cyberattacks against the U.S. government, which have escalated recently. Lee Rock, the former deputy director for the agency, will act as interim director […]

eWeek: Over the weekend, Google+ began deleting the accounts belonging to people that it believed had not used their real names, leading to numerous complaints from users. Now the fledgling social network is changing its policy slightly to address privacy concerns. It will now notify users before suspending their accounts. Also, although it will still […]

Bloomberg: HTC and Apple are embroiled in a bitter patent dispute, but now HTC says it’s willing to make a deal. “We are open to all sorts of solutions, as long as the solution and the terms are fair and reasonable,” said HTC CFO Winston Yung. “On and off we’ve had discussions with Apple, even […]

ZDNet: Microsoft has reached an agreement with Suse (now owned by Attachmate) to extend their server interoperability pact. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will pay $100 million for Suse Linux Enterprise certificates which allow Microsoft customers who also use Suse Linux to get support. In addition, although Microsoft believes that Linux violates hundreds […]