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The open-source Apache Software Foundation pulled its Apache.org Web site offline for about three hours today because of server hack caused by a compromised SSH key.

More than 38 million Netbooks shipped in the second quarter of 2009, helping them capture a 22.2 percent share of the portable PC market, according to a report released Monday from DisplaySearch.
Quarterly demand for Netbooks, or mini-note PCs, jumped 40 percent over the first quarter, according to DisplaySearch’s latest “Quarterly PC Shipment and Forecast Report.” This surge contrasts with notebook shipments, which grew 22 percent over the same period.

People eager to get a copy of the latest version of the Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, should be wary of sites offering free copies because they are likely to get some nasty malware instead, according to antivirus company Trend Micro.

Trend Micro said in a blog posting on Wednesday that it had discovered several fake Snow Leopard download sites that serve up a DNS (domain name system) changer Trojan dubbed OSX_JAHLAV.K instead.

Changes that used to take generations—economic cycles, cultural shifts, mass migrations, changes in the structures of families and institutions—now unfurl in a span of years… Game-changing consumer products and services (iPod, smart phones, YouTube, Twitter, blogs) that historically might have appeared once every five or more years roll out within months.

The highly controversial practice of expensing stock options comes up frequently when we are training managers. Understanding options and how they impact financial statements is part of becoming financially intelligent.

Some believe that expensing stock options helps to more truly represent a company’s financial standing; thus it’s appropriate. Others believe that expensing options hinders the ability of small growth companies to succeed.

During the past 15 years, companies have flocked to a handful of cities in India and Eastern Europe for offshore service functions. As a result, the most popular sites are now overheating; demand for young professionals is outstripping supply, wages and turnover are soaring, and overburdened infrastructure systems are struggling to serve the explosive growth.

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India leads the world in providing offshore services in business and technology, with revenues of $58 billion in 2008, out of a global total of $80 billion. McKinsey estimates this is just the beginning: the global market for offshore business and technology services could grow to about $500 billion by 2020.

Ellison, who is 64, founded Oracle in 1977. According to the SEC filing, he owns 1.18 billion shares of Oracle, or 23.4 percent of the company’s total stock.

Security breaches – Nothing damages a company’s reputation faster than security weaknesses that enable hackers to access critical business information. These weaknesses are rarely in the functional logic of an application. Rather they hide in architectural and coding flaws that frequently pass undetected through testing. The cost of security breaches can be staggering, especially in states that require notification of every customer who was potentially at risk.