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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Area Codes Blur Boundaries. Calls can now be made from any area code no matter where the caller is actually located -- using cellular and internet phones. But doing business with pre-selected area codes has troublesome implications for some companies. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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Hormel Spam trademark case canned. Court rejects action against Spambuster [The Register]
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Cisco IOS flaws found. Cisco last week warned of several vulnerabilities in its IOS software that attackers could use to bring down routers in enterprise and service provider networks. [Network World on Routers and Switches]
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Review: The World's Cheapest Business PC?. At just $200, Wal-Mart's Linux-based PC might be a pleasant surprise for Windows-weary business users. [Linux Pipeline]
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perdurable: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. perdurable: very durable; long lasting. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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Teen sentenced for unleashing Blaster worm. Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, was sentenced Friday to a year and a half of prison time for releasing a variant of the Blaster worm in 2003 that was used to attack more than 48,000 computers. [Computerworld News]
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Microsoft to change name of 'Windows XP Reduced'. Microsoft will change the name of the stripped-down version of Windows XP it has been ordered to sell in Europe after criticism from the European Commission. [Computerworld News]
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Photos: AT&T's history of innovation. Throughout much of its long life, AT&T and its Bell Labs subsidiary were on the forefront of technological progress. [CNET News.com]
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