According to Net Security, more than a third of US employees ignore their companies' IT policies.

JOhn Pironti, member of ISACA’s Education Board, said that the most often broken policies are not using peer-to-peer networks while at work, causing breaches in the confidentiality and security of an entire corporate network.

According to the study, most employees do not really care, over 65% of the professionals said they are not very concerned or not concerned at all with their privacy. Over 63% said that they don't care about the security of their information while at work and over 74% think that downloading personal software on the work computer is not wrong.

The national study was commissioned by the nonprofit, independent organisation ISACA.

Microsoft has announced that it will release next month an updated version of Windows XP to OEMs.

The updated version of Windows XP will contain Service Pack 2c and will resolve the shortage of product keys caused by the unexpected longevity of the operating system. This update will allow OEMs to ship Windows XP Professional up to its end of life on the 31st of January, 2009.

The end of life date for Windows XP Professional is the 31st of January, 2008 but System Builders have 12 more months before they have to find an alternative operating system.

The memory standard association JEDEC has completed the development and publication of the DDR3 standard.

The association hopes DDR3 will be accepted by companies due to its improvements in performance and reduced power consumption, compared to DDR1 and DDR2.

DDR3 uses a 1.5V power supply and can work at higher temperatures, among other features such as dynamic on-die terminations, output driver calibration and write leveling.

The capacity of the DDR3 memory modules can reach 8Gb.

Microsoft has purchased Aquantive for around $6 billion, paying $66.50 for each share, at a moment when the usual price on NASDAQ was $35.87.

Aquantive is based in Seattle and owns the Avenue A and Razorfish solutions.

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer said the acquisition was intended to grow MSN and its other net offerings, including Windows Live, Office Live and Xbox Live.

The Mozilla Foundation has released an alpha build of its upcoming FireFox 3.0, with the code name Gran Paradiso.

This alpha has the mark 3.0b4, and it is being distributed to web designers and developers, so that they can check to see if all the features or add-ons function in this new generation application.

This is a public build that is not meant to replace your current browser. However, it works really well and is very stable.