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Computer security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will hold aworkshop on computer security for small-business owners from 8:30a.m. until 4 p.m. Sept. 26 at John Marshall Law School's Center forInformation Technology and Privacy Law, 315 S. Plymouth Ct. Theworkshop, which costs $35 to attend, covers practices to secure e-mail, payroll and customer data and technologies to protect againsthackers, viruses and cyber-criminals. Registration information isavailable at http://csrc.nist.gov/securebiz.

Vonage calls Chicago

Vonage, the Edison, N.J.-based provider of digital home telephoneservice under the Vonage DigitalVoice brand, launched service in …