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Thursday, February 03, 2005

Another big news day

Tech news is pouring in via the RSS feeds. I hope you find something interesting today!
4:55:06 PM

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Napster Goes Mobile. A new feature lets subscribers fill up their portable music players with as many songs as they want for 15 bucks a month. But will the technology seduce iPod lovers? By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
4:53:42 PM

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HP and EMC ready to settle ancient storage dispute. Team Fiorina gives in [The Register]
4:53:22 PM

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Webcams Transport Virtual Visitors. For personal encounters that go beyond e-mail and instant messaging, nothing is faster and more revealing than video chatting, as the trend is called. By By EVA HAGBERG. [NYT > Technology]
4:53:12 PM

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Best Practices for Disaster Recovery Across the WAN. How can you relieve the conflict between data replication needs and traffic demands across the WAN? Tune in to this webcast to learn more about how VERITAS and Peribit can help. [Networking Webcasts]
4:52:56 PM

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Cisco IOS flaws found. Latest Cisco news. [Network World on Routers and Switches]
4:52:40 PM

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European Legislators Shoot Down Software Patent Push. EU Parliament sends a proposal to legalize software patents back to the drawing board, handing European open-source advocates a major long-shot victory. [Linux Pipeline]
4:52:11 PM

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Survey: US federal workers lack telecommuting choices. WASHINGTON - Nearly two-thirds of U.S. government employees haven't been allowed to telecommute even after the U.S. Congress has established penalties for agencies that don't allow telework options, according to a survey released this week.

Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership
Learn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.

[InfoWorld: Top News]
4:51:47 PM

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discursive: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. discursive: digressive; rambling; also, marked by analytical reasoning. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
4:51:22 PM

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FBI under fire for failed Virtual Case File program. A Justice Department audit made public today criticizes the FBI's inability to put into place a modern case management system, even though it has already spent $170 million on the initiative. [Computerworld News]
4:51:05 PM

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Rowling to Potter fans: Watch out for phishing scams. Police suspect that organized crime gangs from Eastern Europe are behind a scam that offers electronic versions of the upcoming Harry Potter book in exchange for financial data from would-be buyers. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
4:50:52 PM

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Sirius to broadcast Super Bowl in five languages. Satellite radio company also plans to give away transistor radios to fans at the game. [CNET News.com]
4:49:58 PM

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Cell phone's for you...it's the judge. 44-year-old Aftab Ahmed was handed a groundbreaking sentence from the Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday. But it's not the sentence itself that's been making headlines. It's the way the sentence was delivered: over Ahmed's mobile phone. [Missing Links] [CNET News.com]
4:49:42 PM

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