In what is turning into a bare-knuckle contest of blade server vendors, Hewlett-Packard is touting the results of a study it sponsored that claims its systems use 27 percent less power that IBM’s blades.

The study compared HP’s c-Class blades to IBM’s BladeCenter H servers. The study looked at power consumption and external air flow in a number of blades servers and 1U (1.75-inch) rack-mount systems in typical data center situations.

This is the third of four articles Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has written on Lotusphere 2007 and all the new Lotus announcements. In this last article, he goes further in-depth on each of the key announcements and provides you with more perspective and analysis

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Mozilla Foundation issued a critical fix designed to address vulnerabilities in a recent security update for the Firefox browser and SeaMonkey application suite.

The security flaws were discovered in Firefox 1.5.0.9 and 2.0.0.1, as well as in SeaMonkey 1.0.7, according to a security advisory posted by Mozilla.

Security researchers say the initial fix, issued in mid-December, was designed to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, SeaMonkey and Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client. But that particular fix introduced a flaw that could allow JavaScript code from Web content to be exploited, then lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The rate of identity theft-related fraud has risen sharply since 2003, a report from research firm Gartner suggests.

Gartner’s study shows that from mid-2005 until mid-2006, about 15 million Americans were victims of fraud that stemmed from identity theft, an increase of more than 50 percent from the estimated 9.9 million in 2003.

It should be noted that the 2003 statistics and the mid-2006 statistics came from two different sources–and hence, two different statistical methodologies.

The SCO Group reported results for its first quarter ended Jan. 31, 2007. While it wasn’t a pretty picture, the company’s cost-cutting efforts seem to have placed profitability for the year within the realm of possibility.

Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2007 was just over $6 million. This was down from $7.343 million for the comparable quarter of the prior year. This resulted in a net loss for the latest fiscal quarter of just over $1 million.

"The Recruiter Roundtable" is a monthly feature of Yahoo! HotJobs that collects career and job-seeking advice from a group of recruiting experts throughout the United States. The question put before their panel this month is:

What is the most common mistake candidates make in discussing or negotiating salary, and how can they avoid it?

Cybercrime is getting cheaper all the time, as shady characters sell tools to help criminals spam, phish, hack, and crash. And a new treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate could wind up passing the costs of combating cybercrime directly to American businesses.

From an economic standpoint, when the cost of crime goes down, frequency goes up. How does the legal system fight back? One way is to increase enforcement and catch more people.

But when it comes to cybercrime, no one really expects law enforcement to keep up technologically with criminals–it’s an arms race the criminals keep winning. An alternative is to raise the penalties, in hopes of deterring criminals who weigh the benefits of committing their crimes against the risk of getting caught.

Microsoft is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google for what the software giant argues is the Web search leader’s "cavalier" approach to copyright protection.

In prepared remarks to be delivered to the Association of American Publishers, Microsoft Associate General Counsel Thomas Rubin argues that Google’s move into new media markets has come at the expense of publishers of books, videos and software.

IBM Lotus Component Designer V6.0 can employ Web services in a component to leverage the potential and variety of Web services on the Internet and within your organization. This article details the use of a fictitious Web services in a Lotus Component Designer component.

The auction behemoth is being skewered by Vladuz, the Romanian impaler, and the e-villagers are whispering that he’s sucking customer and service rep account lifeblood directly from eBay’s internal databases. Is he that spookily talented, or is he just another, albeit talented and lucky, phisher who also stumbled on an email with internal accounts?