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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Never Say Die: Live Forever. A famed computer scientist and inventor adheres to a strict health regimen so he'll live long enough for humanity achieve immortality. Ray Kurzweil predicts humans will make that goal in no more than 20 years. [Wired News]
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Open Source Is Important--But It's Not The Point. IBM vice president Jeff Smith explains the company's 'evolutionary approach' to opening its middleware stack and why using a proprietary approach sometimes makes more sense. [Linux Pipeline]
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LinuxWorld: Red Hat, Novell Launch Enterprise Linux Updates. Two enterprise Linux heavyeights will offer competing products but shared themes: security, scalability, reliability, and Linux 2.6 support. [Linux Pipeline]
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IBM program aimed at cultivating Linux ISVs. SAN FRANCISCO - IBM is readying a number of new marketing programs that the computer giant hopes will encourage another 6,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) to port their software to the Linux operating system over the next three years. At the Linuxworld Conference & Expo in Boston Tuesday, the company will unveil its IBM eServer Application Server Advantage for Linux initiative, code-named Chiphopper, which is designed to ease the job of making Linux software run across all of IBM's servers. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Fiorina to get millions, home security. Former HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina's severance package includes $21.38 million in cash; $50,000 for financial counseling, legal and outplacement services; and maintenance of her home-security system for a year. [Computerworld News]
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CTOs call for cybercrime commission. A group of 15 software CTOs from major software vendors is calling for a U.S. commission on cybercrime to raise the profile of cybercrime issues among lawmakers, consumers and other countries. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Platt in Pumps. Editorial: Carly Fiorina failed in her attempt to remake HP in IBM's image. That remains the task of her successor, says Computerworld editor in chief Don Tennant. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Why WiMax. Emerging Technologies: WiMax technology is moving more slowly than its hype would indicate, but it holds the promise of high-speed mobile connectivity, a new disaster recovery option and lower cost. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Sidebar: WiMax Basics. A list of key facts about the emerging WiMax standards. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Scandinavian Airline to add in-flight Internet on long-haul routes. SAS said today that it will offer broadband Internet service from Connexion by Boeing on all its long-haul flights beginning in March. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Ask Jeeves mulls Firefox-based browser. Ask Jeeves, Mozilla Foundation begin talks on Jeeves browser and on donating Jeeves' search technology to the open-source group. [CNET News.com]
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