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    Security vendor Trend Micro's UK and Japanese Web sites were hacked last week; attackers managed to inject malicious iFrames into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages.

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    Facilities are as offline as they come. But the virtual world offers solutions for your physical one.

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    Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.

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    The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler.

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