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Smarter information technology can give businesses the competitive edge. From cloud computing and new web services to greener data centers and better security management, explore the ways IT is evolving to meet demand.

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ALL SPECIAL REPORTS

: An Operating System for the Cloud; Google is developing a new computing platform equal to the Internet era. Should Microsoft be worried?

: Delivering Security on Demand; Companies are increasingly offering security products as services, but is it the best approach?

: Catching Spammers in the Act; Researchers show how spammers harvest e-mail addresses and send out bulk messages.

: Computer Clusters That Heat Houses; A novel water-cooling system makes it more efficient for computers to heat buildings.

: Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence; Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook.

: A Touch of Ingenuity; An inexpensive pressure-sensitive pad could make surfaces smarter.

: No Reboot Required; Ksplice uses new technology to build security updates for Linux that can be installed without restarting.

: Who's Typing Your Password?; By watching how passwords are entered, a company hopes to make log-ins more secure.

: Cuil Tries to Rise Again; Last year's "Google-killer" plans a comeback with social search.

: Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud; New technology offloads processing from a mobile device to its cloud-based doppelganger.

: Big Blue Sees Clouds on the Horizon; IBM's big cloud-computing plan starts with virtual desktops and software application testing.

: A Smart Phone Built on Web Tools; Palm's new smart phone targets Web developers as well as a loyal fan base.

: Moving Data around the Clouds; A startup hopes to make it easier to hop between cloud-computing services.

: Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud; A "fast array of wimpy nodes" could replace behemoth server infrastructure.

: A Way Out of E-mail Overload; OtherInbox manages a user's automated e-mails.

: OurTube; "Open video" could beget the next great wave in Web innovation--if it gets off the ground.

: Search Spammers Hacking More Websites; The head of Google's Web-spam-fighting team warns that spammers are increasingly attacking websites.

: Firefox Aims to Unplug Scripting Attacks; How websites can block code from unknown sources.

: A Better Way to Shoot Down Spam; Junk mail can now be identified based on a single packet of data.

: EmTech@MIT Preview: Greening IT; A special notice from the publisher of Technology Review: as companies wake up to the need for datacenter efficiency, they are faced with a bewildering array of problems.

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