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Spammers' War Against CAPTCHA Requires New Approaches Spammers broke CAPTCHA for a number of Web sites in the past two years. Security researchers say new approaches are called for. Microsoft is involved in two CAPTCHA-related research projects. - One of the well-reported security trends of 2008 was the defeat of CAPTCHA systems for a number of Web-based e-mail services, including Yahoo and Gmail. With spammers increasingly finding their way around these safeguards, making the hurdles spammers have to jump just a little higher is an imp... Tod Nielsen: Borland`s Loss, VMware`s Gain Tod Nielsen is Borland's loss and VMware's gain. Nielsen, formerly president and CEO of Borland Software, has been named chief operating officer (COO) at VMware. - Tod Nielsen is Borland's loss and VMware's gain. Nielsen, formerly president and CEO of Borland Software, has been named chief operating officer (COO) at VMware. Nielsen, who joined Borland in 2005 and oversaw the spin-off and later sale of its developer tools unit, was named VMware's COO on Jan. 5... IBM`s Palmisano: Government Investment Could Lead to 900,000 IT Jobs IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has told members of the Barrack Obama transition team that a $30 billion government investment in the IT industry could lead to the creation of more than 900,000 jobs in areas such as broadband access, healthcare IT and upgrading the electrical grid. - The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has advised the Obama team that a government investment of $30 billion could create more than 900,000 jobs for U.S. workers. Palmisano addressed Obama's transition team in December in response to a request from the president elect's adviso... Sun Updates JRuby Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have released JRuby 1.1.6, a new release of the JRuby Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter. - Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have updated JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, with the release of JRuby 1.1.6. Thomas Enebo, a software developer at Sun Microsystems and one of the core developers of JRuby, said JRuby 1.1.6 is the sixth point release of JRuby 1.1. ... How to Build Online Banking for Generation Y Growing up in a world immersed in digital technologies, Generation Y holds the highest of expectations about how they think their online banking experience should be. Knowledge Center contributor Shelby Hutcherson explains how regional and community banks can develop online financial services that attract and retain members of Generation Y, their toughest new customers yet. - Born at the dawn of the digital age in the early 1980s, the oldest among Generation Y have never known a world without personal computers and video games. The youngest of these so-called Millennials are still in their early teens, using their cell phones for texting more than talking, counting their...