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• 9 IT Career Resolutions for 2013

  As 2012 comes to a close, IT job seekers should already be formulating a plan for career growth and professional development in 2013.

• Worst security snafus of 2012

  The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.

• Women in IT: How deep is the bench?

  Superstar women lead IT at some of the biggest global corporations, yet the path to the top isn't clear for the next generation.

• Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

  The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Microsoft-Yahoo deal: three reasons why Google should sweat it

  With the arrival of the Bing search engine and the Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership, it's been a hectic summer for search - not that you'll see market leader Google sweating.

• Microsoft-Yahoo's big hurdle: Google search loyalty

  The biggest challenge to the Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership may not be Google the company as much as Google the habit.

• Microsoft, Yahoo deal: why you stand to lose

  After a year and a half of negotiating, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a search deal partnership this morning that will make Redmond's new search engine, Bing, Yahoo's search platform and put Yahoo's sales force in charge of handling both companies' search advertisers.

• Bing's early lead over Yahoo not end of race

  Microsoft's Bing overtook Yahoo Search in only its fourth day of public release according to Web analytics company StatCounter, but it's too soon to tell how well the new search engine will fare in the long run.

• Yahoo brings social news site Buzz to India

  Yahoo introduced on Thursday to India its <a href="http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/">Buzz social news site</a>, which identifies the top news stories and blog posts based on user votes and search patterns.

• Yahoo to open research center in Beijing

  Yahoo has built a global research and development base in Beijing that it will formally announce next month, the company said Wednesday.

• Yahoo developer tool identifies locations in apps, docs

  Yahoo has created a technology that simplifies and automates for developers the process of identifying geographical references in the content that their applications process.