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Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Surveillance Works Both Ways. What happens when the watchers become the watched? They don't like it much. Kim Zetter reports from Seattle. [Wired News]
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Torvalds knifes Tridgell. Kernel source row turns nasty [The Register]
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An Updated Organizer With Room for Digital Music. Palm hand-helds have evolved from modest boxy organizers to svelte pocket computers. PalmOne's new Tungsten E2 joins the family this week. By J. D. BIERSDORFER. [NYT > Technology]
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For Workers, 'The World Is Flat'. New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman's new book, The World is Flat, explores the effects of outsourcing and globalization. The book, subtitled "a brief history of the 21st century," connects recent business trends with social issues. [NPR Topics: Business]
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Lucent Wins $36 Million To Upgrade U.S. Army Networks In U.S., Europe . Lucent Technologies said it has been received several contracts totaling $36.3 million to perform communications infrastructure upgrades at U.S. Army installations in North America and Europe. [Networking Pipeline]
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Supreme-Court Transcript Shows Legal Reasoning In Grokster Case. The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday released the transcript of last month's oral arguments in the contentious Grokster file-sharing copyright-infringement case. [Linux Pipeline]
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Firefox Site Keeps Packing 'Em In. The number of people visiting the Mozilla Foundation website, usually in order to download the Firefox browser, has more than doubled over the last nine months, a research firm says. [Linux Pipeline]
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Microsoft Longhorn Could Be Threatened By Court Ruling. Data-networking firm Alacritech Inc., which has filed a patent-infringement suit against Microsoft Corp., was granted a preliminary injunction that could threaten the release of Longhorn. [InternetWeek]
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Oracle, Sybase to offer RFID integration solutions. Database vendors Oracle and Sybase this week made significant RFID announcements related to integrating RFID and traditional enterprise data. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Spansion IPO to free AMD from lackluster memory group. AMD's decision to put its Spansion LLC flash memory unit up for an initial public offering will merely formalize the split between the company's two major operating divisions, but the removal of an unprofitable business could accelerate future development of AMD processors, analysts said Thursday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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IBM posts Q1 profit, but it's below expectations. IBM today reported a profit and revenue for its first quarter that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations, and company officials blamed difficulties in closing key deals for the gap. [Computerworld News]
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Data brokers didn't notify consumers of past breaches. Executives at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis said they have had past data breaches that they have not reported to victims. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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SNW: Users say storage needs outpace technology. IT users interviewed at this week's Storage Networking World event say the demand for more data storage capacity is outpacing their ability to consolidate infrastructures and improve systems performance. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Sun gets second Microsoft patent payment. Companies also are expected to soon release more details on their collaborative efforts. What's it like to negotiate with Bill Gates? [CNET News.com]
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