Om Malik / GigaOM : SiPort Shooting: No Layoffs, Killer Was Fired   —  The reports of layoffs at SiPort, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company that prompted killing of three executives are wrong, according to a statement issued by the company.  Like me, everyone assumed that there were layoffs and that led to the shooting.

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SiPort Shooting: No Layoffs, Killer Was Fired (Om Malik/GigaOM)

The Windows-based app is designed to detect inappropriate network activity, simplify threat analysis, verify standards and policy compliance, monitor applications and content, and identify threats.

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NetWitness To Release Free Cyber Forensics Software

After promising long ago that Mac software for the Pulse Smartpen was in the works, Livescribe finally delivered on that promise, today announcing that the OS X beta client will be available for download next week. The Mac version of Livescribe Desktop not only does the same things it’s PC counterpart can do (digitized notes, Paper Replay audio syncing, handwriting recognition), but it has a couple of new tricks up it’s sleeve as well. The Mac version of Livescribe desktop can export audio as an AAC file or export your notes as a PDF (via OS X built-in function).

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Livescribe Pulse Smartpen is Finally Mac Compatible [Smartpens]

Adobe’s Flash Player is on 98 percent of all desktop computers, but it is still struggling to make the jump to mobile phones. If you want Flash on a mobile device, right now you have to settle for a compromised version: Flash Lite.

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Adobe To Demo Flash On Mobile (But Only Windows). Still “Working” On The iPhone.

Filed under: Cellphones ASUS’ P565 has been pretty much unofficial until now, though we did see some alleged photos and specs of the device not terribly long ago. The phone has just been officially listed on the ASUS site, however, and we’ve got a quick rundown of its stats (which are pretty much exactly what we’d seen before).

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800MHz CPU-packing P565 handset appears on ASUS site

Smart card manufacturer will deliver millions of debit and credit cards up to 2011.

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Commerzbank Awards Three-year Contract for Payment Cards to Giesecke & Devrient

Equipment leasing option enables financial institutions to provide merchants with check scanners.

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Jack Henry Launches Leasing Program for Remote Deposit Capture Check Scanners

Governor Marc Racicot will leave AIA in February 2009.

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Leigh Ann Pusey to Become AIA President and CEO

Rebecca Fann named Safeco VP and Northwest Regional General Manager.

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Safeco and Liberty Northwest Announce New Northwest Regional Operations

When NASA released this image from their Lunar Orbiter 1 back in 1966, the first photograph ever of the Earth rising above the Moon’s surface, it was low resolution but they still amazed the world.

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NASA Scales Up 1966’s Moon Image to Amazing Ultra-High Resolution [Sunday Eye Candy]