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The Solution Before the Solution - A friend of mine is deep in negotiations with a major computer publisher to see if they would be interested in a book (or series of books) about open source solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Thus far, the negotiations are not going as w...
Unlocking the iPhone Without the Soldering Iron - George Hotz, a New Jersey teenager, got most of the attention last week for hacking the iPhone, but at least one other group claims to have come up with a way of liberating Apple’s popular gadget from AT&T’s wireless network. A group calling itself i...
Yahoo Mail lets users send free text messages to cell phones - August 27, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Yahoo Inc. has closed the beta testing of its new e-mail service and will roll it out to its 254 million users over the next six weeks, the company said today. The beta testing of the new Yahoo Mail had been going ...
Hackers claim to untie Apple's iPhone from ATnT - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers have found a way to use Apple's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPhone on networks other than AT&T's (T.N: Quote, Profile, Research), opening up the coveted device to rival carriers and overseas customers, accordi...
Why I Went Linux
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The Hated, the Frustrated, and Personal Initiative – How things will change, and it is all Free!
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Warning to check open-source licensing
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Business users of open source software should review their open-source licensing agreements, audit their use, and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-source code.
The effective end of SCO’s attempts to prove its owner...
Hackers steal personal data from Monster.com users
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Hackers have stolen personal details of hundreds of thousands of users of US jobs website Monster.com, according to Internet security firm Symantec.
A total of 1.6 million entries, including information such as names, postal addre...
Google gives star-gazers a new perspective
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Google is attempting to interest millions of internet users in star-gazing with the launch of a new feature called Sky.
The programme is part of Google Earth, the popular free mapping service, and will allow users to view the night sky thro...
Tech giants Cisco, Microsoft team up
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Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer made assurances that there would be no corporate "jujitsu." Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers said he trusted Microsoft.
In an unusual press event to showcase their evolving business alliance, the leaders of...
Massively multicore processor runs Linux - A startup founded by an MIT professor claims to have "solved the fundamental challenges associated with multicore scalability." Tilera's first products include a 64-core Tile64 SoC (system-on-chip), PCIe Express add-in board for networking and video-...
Windows Reboots Triggered Skype Glitch - FRANKFURT, Germany - A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monda...
American Airlines sues Google over search words
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American Airlines, the world's largest airline, said on Friday it sued Internet search leader Google Inc (GOOG.O) for selling search words involving its name.
The claim is the latest in a string of cases filed worldwide by ...
Cisco sees growth as more hospitals go high-tech
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SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O) is best known for selling routers and switches to telecoms companies, but its strongest sales growth these days comes from an area that seldom gets much attention: hospitals.
Cisco has s...
Skype service back online after two-day outage - San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Skype Ltd. announced late Friday that all users could now again log on to the voice-over-IP service, marking the end of an outage that affected millions and lasted more than 48 hours. At 7:00 p.m. Eastern, Villu Arak, the ...
CIA and Vatican edit Wikipedia entries
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A US hacker's homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA and the Vatican.
Virgil Griffith's "Wikiscanner" points to Central Int...
