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How much does spam cost you? Google will calculate
How much is spam costing your company? Google unveiled a nifty little calculator Wednesday to help you add it up.

Update: Microsoft drops OneCare anti-virus product
Two years after trying to build a consumer anti-virus business, Microsoft has decided to throw in the towel.

U.S. court halts sale of spyware program
A U.S. court has ordered a software company to stop selling a program that secretly records keystrokes on a person's PC, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday.

NetWitness releases free version of security software
NetWitness, a vendor of networking threat-analysis software, is offering a free version of its NetWitness Investigator package by download, the company said Monday.

Spam drop could boost Trojan attacks
The dramatic fall in spam traffic reported last week after alleged rogue ISP McColo was taken offline will only be a temporary reprieve and could actually generate a new wave of Trojans, experts have warned.

Management is killer app for virtualization, says CA CEO
Management technology will allow virtualization to achieve its full potential, according to CA CEO John Swainson during his keynote at CA World 2008 (PDF) on Sunday.

Veritas service helps find hidden risks in datacenters
Veritas has launched a service aimed at helping companies get more out of their datacenter investments by checking for problems and advising on ways to fix them.

Global VoIP keeps Eaton connected
Acquire 35 companies in five years, and you will quickly see the need to reduce the cost of communication across your entire organization.

Morgan Keegan invests in resilience
For Morgan Keegan, the dire events of Sept. 11 drove home the importance of resiliency in advance of disaster. Inspired by those who rallied toward recovery in the immediate aftermath, and aware of the importance of operational continuity in the financial services sector, the regional investment firm began its project to build greater reliability into its systems the very next day.

Top 10: Worrisome financial news, Shanghai released, Xen coming to the iPhone
Start to finish, the week was full of news related to the sorry state of the global economy, with Sun capping things off by announcing it will cut thousands of jobs. Casting a little hopeful light on yet another week of dismal news was optimism from IT professionals who say that, unlike with previous downturns, they aren't being ordered to make drastic cuts. In somewhat brighter news, AMD launched its Shanghai quad-core Opteron chip, Citrix is bringing its XenApps and XenDesktop software to the iPhone, and Microsoft has released an updated, less-restricted API for its Live Search.