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Slashdot: Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they're trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez' email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in ...
Slashdot: Quebec Gov Sued For Ignoring Free Software
Mathieu Lutfy writes "The CBC is reporting that "Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company's products rather than using free alternatives. "...Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from ...
Slashdot: Changing Customers Password Without Consent
risinganger writes "BBC News is reporting that a customer had his password changed without his knowledge. After some less than satisfactory service the customer in question changed his password to 'Llyods is pants'. At some point after that a member of staff changed the password to 'no it's not'. Requests to change it back to 'Llyods is pants', 'Barclays is ...
Slashdot: New Map From Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "NASA has received interesting results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, originally known as GLAST, which has allowed them to create new map of the gamma-ray sky. The secret to its ability to resolve gamma-rays is that they use layers of tungsten interleaved with silicon detectors. When a gamma-ray strikes ...
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HTTP/1.0 301 Moved PermanentlyServer: IBM_HTTP_ServerLocation: /rss/index.xmlContent-Length: 0Content-Type: text/plainContent-Language: en-USX-N: SDate: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:10 GMTConnection: close
 Yahoo!: Microsofts newest browser may block ads (AP)
AP - The next version of Microsoft Corp.s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.
Yahoo!: How do DNC Dems spread the word: Twitter, text, or telephone? (CNET)
CNET - When Barack Obama announced he was going to release the name of his vice presidential pick via text message, he affirmed that this method of communication is no longer relegated to teenagers, but has penetrated the mainstream. According to Nielsen research, 2.9 million people received the text, even though the mainstream media announced Joe Biden's na ...
Yahoo!: Product review: WARP your WAN for performance and reliability (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - I've had a Comcast cable Internet connection for years. Last year I got a shiny new fiber connection from Mstar. But rather than uninstall the cable connection, I asked FatPipe Networks if they'd be willing to let me perform an extended test of the company's flagship route clustering product, WARP.
Yahoo!: Vimpelcom says to sell Apple iPhone in Russia (Reuters)
Reuters - Vimpelcom , Russia'ssecond-largest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it hadsigned a distribution deal with Apple Inc. to selliPhone 3G in Russia.
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Consumers picked to test hydrogen car prototypes (AP)
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Security hole opens up password protected iPhones
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Linux Foundation plans end-user summit
IE 8 beta gives other browsers a run for their money
iPhone ad banned over 'all Internet' claim in U.K.
Sony CEO thinking over Ericsson joint venture: report
MSI intros two more Turion Ultra-powered notebooks
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·Cloned code finder offered for Visual Studio
An open-source technology has been launched to help developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 find duplicated code in their software projects.Called Clone Detective for Visual Studio, the product allows developers to analyze C# projects for source code duplicated elsewhere. These duplicates can lead to inconsistencies and indicate poorly factored code, according to the Clone Detective Web page at Microsoft's Code ...
·LG unveils netbook PC with embedded 3G at IFA
LG Electronics will launch in October a netbook-class laptop PC based on Intel's Atom processor that also includes 3G wireless, it said Wednesday at the IFA show in Berlin.The X110 will include an HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) cellular data modem that should be compatible with the newer 3G networks now being rolled out by most major carriers around the world. HSPA is typically capable of download speeds of several ...
·Cisco buys into e-mail with PostPath acquisition
Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration platform.PostPath makes PostPath Server, an e-mail and collaboration server the company touts as areplacement or supplement to Microsoft Exchange. An archiving edition of the software is available to store e-mails in a less cumbersome fashion than Ex ...
·Microsoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage, lost e-mail
Microsoft loyalists could be forgiven for feeling a little smug after all of the publicity over outages and lost e-mails at online services run by archrivals Apple's MobileMe and Google's Gmail.Microsoft, it turns out, isn't invulnerable. Some users of Microsoft's Office Live Small Business have also reported intermittent e-mail outages, accordingto interviews and postings at discussion forums for the Web service, wh ...
·Hackers resort to 'sick' kidnap spam
Hackers are claiming they have kidnapped children in a bid to infect PCs with a Trojan Horse virus, says Sophos.The security firm is warning users that e-mails entitled "We have hijacked your baby" are being sent to Web users around the globe. As well as asking for a $50,000 ransom for the "release" of the child, the messages also contain an attachment supposed to be a photograph of the child. Ins ...
·Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending
U.S. companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found.ChangeWave surveyed 1,947 people involved with IT spending in their organizations. The survey was conducted Aug. 11-21. Eighty percent of those surveyed were located in the U.S., along with small percentages in Canada and other countries.Thirty percent overall reported that third-quarte ...
·Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel
Oracle has developed prebuilt integration software for its CRM On Demand product and the on-premise Siebel CRM, providing customers with a single view of their CRM data, the company announced Wednesday.Companies can benefit from a hybrid approach to customer relationship management, because the on-demand model allows companies to more easily add new users, while enabling data from both systems to be analyzed at once, ...
·IEEE standardizes fast Wi-Fi roaming
The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between access points, improving the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs.The IEEE 802.11 standards were originally defined with single access points in mind, but in offices multiple access points are needed. Devices can move from one access point to another, but it takes around 100ms to re-associate, and several seconds to re-establish ...
·Samsung: Market for SSDs in low-cost PCs exploding
The popularity of low-cost PCs around the world is driving "explosive growth" for SSDs (solid-state drives), Samsung said Wednesday as it announced three new models of the device.SSDs are made from NAND flash memory chips and are used to store software, songs, pictures, documents, and other data on computers. The drives hold severaladvantages over common HDDs (hard disk drives), including being speedier, li ...
·Mozilla extension would tap into typed commands
An experimental extension to Mozilla Firefox lets people substitute simple text commands for complex Web tasks such as putting links to maps in e-mail messages.On Tuesday, Mozilla Labs released its first version of Ubiquity, which is related to software called Enso that was developed at a small Chicago company called Humanized. Mozilla hired three executives of Humanized in January, and Aza Raskin, the former preside ...
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