Security: Just how effective are those multiple security questions posed by your financial institution? Ed Foster lays it on the line in today's Gripe Line: "Are financial institutions only covering their own behinds by forcing their customers to jump through additional layers of security checks?" In the opinion of one reader, "If the security gets so complicated that the rightful users have to write down their log in information, or make the questions simple enough to remember, have we really increased security?" Get the full story and weigh in with your own opinion here.

Green IT: Will energy-efficiency be the next front line in the ongoing chip war between Intel and AMD? InfoWorld's Ted Samson takes a closer look at this new war zone and finds the battle is heating up, with datacenter operators fixated on electric bills as well as their facilities' environmental impact. You'll find the full Sustainable IT here.

In the news: Mozilla is working to patch its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine. The founders of social networking site ConnectU have filed a lawsuit claiming that Facebook.com stole their ideas and technology. The suit seeks to have the hugely successful Facebook site shut down. Apple reported a Q3 profit of $818 million on record-high Mac sales. Steve Jobs predicts Apple will sell its one-millionth iPhone by the end of Q4.

Open source: SugarCRM has decided to adopt GPLv3 in the next version of its open source CRM software and move away from its own Sugar Public License. The company's decision is a sign of the wider debate in the open source community over the legitimacy of licenses and businesses not approved by the Open Source Initiative.

Posted by Caroline Craig on July 26, 2007 07:48 AM