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The instructions include directions to report on the incident only those things provided on the central government’s Web site. Chinese media are not to allow any public discussion of Google nor create any topics or postings of their own on the subject. No investigations of the topic will be permitted.

For a copy of the memo and one analysis, see the posting at Mashable.

The prize for making a smarter, faster networks is a larger part of the computing dollar. The strategy is to gain control of the wide range of applications that are served up over the Internet at places like Google Docs and a myriad of other places. The phenomenon is an important part of what is known as “cloud” computing.

Writing for Information Week, Ashish Nadkarni says server virtualization is driving the bus that Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, VMware, Brocade and IBM hope lay claim upon.

Read the article here.

You can read the entire story here.

Among the targets of Intel’s alleged strong-arm tactics are  computer manufacturers including IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. On news of the FTC action, Intel Corporation shares closed down more than 2 percent Wednesday at $19.37 a share.

Read the entire story at Information Week’s Web site.

Alan Ralsky

Dubbed the “Godfather of Spam” Ralsky had been under indictment for a multi-million dollar international fraud and money laundering scheme. Ralsky, 64, his son-in-law Scott Bradley, 38, and associates John S. Brown and How Wai John Hui all received prison time.

They were convicted on bank fraud, mail fraud, and violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.

Reported in The Washington Post and in Information Week.

The $150 million is to be paid by Microsoft over three years for Yahoo’s part in developing the Bing search engine. As part of the deal, Microsoft will hire several hundred Yahoo employees.

Information Week has also reported that Microsoft will share with Yahoo the data it collects from the search site.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found evidence that about 1,300 computers in 103 countries had been penetrated by a computer spying operation apparently centered in China. Targets of the spying included embassies, various government offices and even some businesses. 

The spy operation is still functioning, and appears to have concentrated on gathering intelligence from Asian governments, including the Tibetan government-in-exile of the Dalai Lama.

The cyber-conspiracy group is called “GhostNet” according to reports in The New York Times.