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TOP STORIES - August 15, 2008 • FCC's Free Wireless Broadband Plan Deadline Looms • IBM Builds Canadian Supercomputer • Is Russia Behind the Georgia Cyber-attacks? • Virtual Iron Pumps Up Virtualization Suite • Google Says UPS, CNN E-Mail Viruses Stood Out in July BREAKING NEWS NBC Olympic Coverage Shines as Silverlight Proving Ground With its Silverlight RIA technology, Microsoft is helping NBC break records in online viewership. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Russia's Cyber-war Against Georgia • What to See at the Microsoft PDC • How eWEEK Got Hacked at Black Hat • Is Hosted E-Mail Right for Your Organization? FEATURED VIDEO eWEEK NewsBreak IBM Unveils $360M Plan for Green Data Center; Delta Rolls Out Wi-Fi in the Sky to 330 Planes. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • RIM Begins BlackBerry Bold Release • Gartner Analysts Decry Facebook, Twitter Bans • Google Blasted over Gmail, Google Apps Outages • Motorola's U.S. Mobile Phone Sales Plummet IN THIS ISSUE FCC's Free Wireless Broadband Plan Deadline Looms The deadline is nearing for a possible Federal Communications Commission proposal to require the winner of its spectrum auction to offer a free broadband network supported by advertising. READ MORE >> IBM Builds Canadian Supercomputer The mammoth machine, which will help researchers study matter in the universe, will need its own building for storage and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Ziff Davis Enterprise Enterprise Standards for Mobility Enterprise workers of all ranks seldom leave the office these days without a mobile device in hand. But despite their ubiquity, mobile devices often are used to only a fraction of their capability, thanks to the absence of an industry-standard platform for application development. Watch Video. ADVERTISEMENT Is Russia Behind the Georgia Cyber-attacks? A security researcher claims to have uncovered evidence suggesting a link between the Russian government and the cyber-attacks launched against Georgia. READ MORE >> Virtual Iron Pumps Up Virtualization Suite The supplier of x86 virtualization technologies plans to release Version 4.4 of its Virtual Iron virtual infrastructure suite, which will include a power management feature dubbed LivePower. READ MORE >> Google Says UPS, CNN E-Mail Viruses Stood Out in July Google's Postini data centers last month tallied the biggest volume of e-mail virus attacks to date in 2008. READ MORE >> Getting the Most for Every Dollar See how other mid-sized companies are using corporate cards and other strategies to control expenses. DOWNLOAD NOW >> How to Offer the Strongest SSL Encryption This white paper details the effect Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) has on the encryption levels your site can offer to its visitors. DOWNLOAD NOW >>