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Today’s airlines live and die by their online systems. Their websites must combine performance and availability with functionality and efficiency — and the customer experience is everything, especially when competitors are only a click away. And when you’re the world’s longest continuously operating airline — Qantas — your customers can be anywhere.

Not surprisingly, news late Sunday night that U.S. special forces assassinated al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden caused a massive surge in Internet traffic, according to content delivery network Akamai.

Federal court papers name a former Akamai Technologies employee who allegedly revealed insider information to stock traders who were later charged with reaping millions of dollars from the information in what the FBI calls the largest hedge fund insider-trading case in history.

In a military career that spanned almost two decades, Michael Smith worked in defense communications as a Russian linguist and was assigned to war-torn countries. He was in intelligence for several years, and after his active duty he joined the Army National Guard and was an Infantry Squad Leader for more than six years. While serving in the National Guard in 2004, he was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and spent countless hours on patrol in treacherous parts of the country where locals weren't always friendly, and hidden bombs were a constant threat.

In what the company CSO calls a cloud-computing game changer, Akamai Technologies has released its Edge Tokenization electronic payment security service.

As a manager, I love seeing employees show initiative. So it isn't easy to say no when someone does that. But as a security manager, I am rigidly opposed to anything that would make us vulnerable. This week, initiative and security clashed.

Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul Sagan discusses how Akamai is dealing with the recession and the impact it's having on demand for Internet content and services. He also offers his thoughts on U.S. plans to expand broadband Internet access and network neutrality.