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Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the third quarter of 2008, when they did it eight times more frequently than in the previous quarter, according to a report released Monday by Sophos.

Google executives are voicing a bit of cautious optimism that economic hard times may make many of its services more appealing.

The market seems to agree, as the stock picked up $30 a share (nearly 8 percent) in after-hours trading.

For about 6 months now, I've been itching to write a book on the PHP Streams Layer - one of my favorite features of PHP; and also one of the least known considering it's powerful abilities.

However, I've been hampered by the fact that I didn't think it would make that good a book, in that it would be rather short.

That was, until about a month ago I sat down and actually wrote out my table of contents... at which point I realized it would make a great book.