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Though it should come as no surprise since Cisco announced it planned a “pause” in hiring, but Aaron Rakers, an analyst at Wachovia Capital Markets, noted the total number of advertised openings at Cisco has dropped 93 percent in a week.
Barron’s reports Rakers does a weekly check of job listings for the companies he covers. […]

Xerox has developed a new type of toner using nanotechnology that the company claims cuts overall power consumption in digital printers by 15 percent to 30 percent.
According to BusinessGreen, the fusion temperature, which is the temperature required to seal toner onto a page, accounts for 50 percent to 80 percent of the energy used by printers. Xerox’s […]

Google plans to build a new European server farm within two years near a small town in northern Austria, reports Agence France-Presse in a story on IOL.
The company announced Thursday it has bought 75 hectares at Kronstorf, population 3,000, near the city of Linz. It selected the site for the latest of its many data […]

The National Archives will have a whopper of a job come Jan. 20.
As President Bush leaves office, the National Archives and Records Administration takes custody and responsibility for preserving all the records from his presidency. It expects that to be 140 terabytes of data, reports Computerworld, with about 20TB of that in e-mail.
Ken Thibodeau, director […]

More than 420,000 pieces of counterfeit IT hardware were seized at U.S. ports during May and June, reports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
It estimates it seized $1.3 million in networking equipment and hardware components at 11 different ports, reports vnunet.com. On the street, that equipment could have been sold for an estimated $3.5 million. […]