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When Gmail crashed last Monday, affecting many organizations that depend on it for work e-mail via the Google Apps suite, widespread gnashing of teeth ensued.

What's so funny about information security? A lot if you read some of the bios that security experts have written about themselves in the official Black Hat conference guide. A tip of the Black Hat to the funniest excerpts from the official bios:

Plans by the NSW government to introduce a free wireless network early next year won't even get off the ground, according to experts, who claim it will be crippled by support costs and legislative problems.

The Asia Pacific region will lead a worldwide initiative launched today at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum (GLF) to drive high-tech growth across the globe.

Cisco Systems will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products.

Singapore this month offered users a preview of Wireless@SG, a free Wi-Fi service that will enter operation in January 2007 and cover nearly the entire country. Looking to test the service and catch a glimpse of Singapore's wireless future, I spent an afternoon working from a cafe inside a busy downtown shopping mall.

Two storage companies, Zmanda and Cleversafe, launched software and open source projects this week at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

Susan Webb enrolled in a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Edith Cowan University along with 20 other females and 130 males. By the time Webb graduated in 2003, the number of females had dropped to four. This led Webb to undertake a PhD about the declining participation of women in IT. Webb tells Computer world that it "ain't easy" to be a woman in IT and you need to have a thick skin...

IT staffers in the past week have been working to fend off attacks related to the recently disclosed Windows Metafile (WMF) vulnerability. With third-party patches already available, Microsoft released the official patch last Thursday, ahead of its original plan of issuing it on Tuesday of this week, which is when it will release its monthly set of security patches and updates. Computerworld Security channel editor Angela Gunn has put together an extensive FAQ on the vulnerability, how it works, what systems are affected and what you can do about it.

The CommunicAsia 2005 exhibition got under way Tuesday in Singapore, with thousands of exhibitors on hand to show off the snazziest of handsets and new equipment for building high-speed 3G (third-generation) networks.

Saying that the quality and variety of third-generation (3G) mobile handsets is lacking and that the technology has yet to make a persuasive business case, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) president and chief executive officer, Lee Hsien Yang, said that SingTel was not yet ready to launch a 3G trial service.