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From New York Times:

Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age and heralded an explosion of consumer electronics products in the last 50 years, from personal computers to cellphones, died Monday in Dallas. He was 81.

His death, after a brief battle with cancer, was announced yesterday by Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based electronics company where he worked for a quarter-century.

The integrated circuit that Mr. Kilby designed shortly after arriving at Texas Instruments in 1958 served as the basis for modern microelectronics, transforming a technology that permitted the simultaneous manufacturing of a mere handful of transistors into a chip industry that routinely places billions of Lilliputian switches in the area of a fingernail.

His achievement - the integration - yielded a thin chip of crystal connecting previously separate components like transistors, resistors and capacitors within a single device. For that creation, commonly called the microchip, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.

From TechRepublic:

Companies will not have to worry about a large-scale virus outbreak targeting their “smart” cell phones for another 18 months, security experts predicted.

However, after that, even antivirus software is unlikely to help, Gartner analysts John Pescatore and John Girard wrote in a research paper published earlier this month. The paper looks at how enterprises should prepare for the growing threat from malicious software for mobile phones and PDAs. According to the authors, a fast-spreading phone virus or worm is unlikely to appear before the end of 2007.

From Yahoo! News (Reuters):

he National Football League said on Monday that it has been in discussions with a number of large U.S. wireless providers about delivering video clips of game highlights to mobile phones.

It is close to clinching a five-year deal with Sprint with an initial value of $200 million and the potential to increase to $600 million including ad revenue, according to a report on Monday in the trade paper SportsBusiness Journal.

From MSNBC:

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has reportedly joined the high-tech revolution and purchased the world’s hottest new gadget — an Apple iPod.

According to the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, The Sun, the 79-year-old British monarch is now the owner of a 6GB silver iPod Mini, purchased by a staffer for £169 ($309). While The Sun reported that the Royal iPod could hold up to 10,000 songs, Apple lists the capacity for the 6GB model at a more common 1,500 songs.

From E-commerce Times:

“There is a monster data market of information from sources that aren’t supposed to have that information,” says Jeff Moss, president of Black Hat, a Seattle-based computer security training and conference firm. “Inside employees who are misbehaving are very hard to stop,” he says. “It’s very frustrating.”

In the recent cases of customer data sales by bank employees, employers came face to face with their biggest security challenge: trusting their employees.

“It’s pretty much the toughest security problem to deal with,” says Rich Mogull, research vice president at Gartner Latest News about Gartner, Phoenix.