http://www.earthweb.com EarthWeb IT Management News & Views offers busy IT managers up-to-date reports and insightful analysis of IT industry trends. en-us Copyright 1996-2006 Jupitermedia Corporation rss@jupitermedia.com rss@jupitermedia.com http://backend.userland.com/rss http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3869931 Microsoft has been previewing a radical redesign of its MSN home page since last fall, but now it's time to start pushing it out to MSN's 100 million U.S. users. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.ecrmguide.com/news/article.php/3869926 CA makes another cloud computing acquisition, picking up IT performance and availability monitoring software vendor Nimsoft in all-cash deal. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.ecrmguide.com/news/article.php/3869911 As Google continues to court the enterprise application market, it has rolled out an online hub for developers to promote and sell their applications, even if they weren't developed using the Google App Engine. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3869891 More than 35,000 Arkansas National Guard soldiers are learning that their names, social security numbers and other personal data are at risk after an external hard drive vanished. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3869881 If your laptop is running either the Ultimate or Enterprise editions of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you can take advantage of the BitLocker feature to encrypt the hard drive. Here's how. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3869861 Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa, and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.cioupdate.com/research/article.php/3869821 Skills most in demand are networking, database and, surprise, surprise, security folks. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3869801 With Bing up slightly and Yahoo down slightly, and Google holding the line, is it possible that the combination of the No. 2 and 3 competitors in the search sweepstakes could be a wash? http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3869761 Symantec this week demonstrated a new Object File Server technology designed to help deal with secure data management and storage issues. http://redir.internet.com/rss/agroclick/itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3869741 Virtualization enables features like high availability and live migration, yet requires three factors to be fully functional. Plus: a virtualization vendor comparison.