Microsoft warns of Windows 2000 flaw, IIS exploit. The critical security vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to gain control of a machine running Windows 2000 and IIS Web server. [Computerworld News]
6:41:31 PM    

AT&T Wireless wants to be world traveler. The company, looking to win over more international dialers, announces a slew of new roaming agreements with wireless carriers in about 100 different countries. [CNET News.com]
6:40:39 PM    

New audio standard nears green light [CNET News.com]
6:40:07 PM    

Search engines target Weblogs. Feedster indexes RSS feeds to make blogs searchable [InfoWorld: Top News]
6:39:33 PM    

Heads to take computer classes. 10,000 course places available for staff less able to use modern technology than their pupils. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
6:38:40 PM    

Our Genetically Modified Future. In its 10th anniversary issue, Wired magazine takes a look at the potential for 'new and improved' humans, plants and even bacteria. By Charles C. Mann. [Wired News]
6:37:57 PM    

Revealing Ohio's Buried Treasure. Centuries ago, earthen structures of great scientific and cultural significance were built in the Midwest, but farmland and parking lots replaced them in the modern age. A new digital project will create virtual renditions of these earthworks. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
6:37:31 PM    

Healing powers go online. A website listing plant remedies could offer traditional healers a chance to share in the profits of drugs. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
6:36:13 PM    

Oracle's 'Mr. Linux'. Ever since Larry Ellison gave him the green light, Wim Coekaerts has been working on putting together a Linux strategy for the big database maker. [CNET News.com]
6:35:22 PM    

We'd love to go wireless but what about security?. Risky business [The Register]
6:33:53 PM    

Gaming set for record year. More and more people are buying video games and consoles, says a report. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
6:33:16 PM    

Gateway sheds 1,900 jobs. The struggling US computer maker cuts almost a fifth of its workforce and closes one in three of its shops. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
6:32:54 PM    

Online music pirates dodge capture. It is becoming harder for internet service providers to stop illegal file-sharing, say analysts. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
6:32:10 PM    

Student owns up to Texas Uni cyber-heist. Lone cracker theory [The Register]
6:31:07 PM    

LCD growth on display. Driven by high demand for flat-panel displays and televisions, shipments of liquid-crystal displays increased more quickly than expected during the fourth quarter, says a report. [CNET News.com]
6:30:33 PM    

3D flat screens, coming your way. Sharp is showing off a prototype of a 15-inch flat-screen monitor, due this year, that projects a three-dimensional picture. [CNET News.com]
6:30:00 PM    

CeBit cleans up with new tech. This year's extravaganza in Germany features PeopleSoft's IM plans, a Linux deal for Oracle, Palm's OS 5 in phones, and Media2Go and other software from Microsoft. [CNET News.com]
6:29:28 PM    

Portable flat panel contains computer [CNET News.com]
6:28:28 PM    

Apple dips toes into supercomputing. The company is selling a version of its server that can be linked in groups to build a low-budget supercomputer, following in the footsteps of bigger rivals that sell Intel-based products. [CNET News.com]
6:27:27 PM    

Crypto-Gram: Practical Cryptography. In "Practical Cryptography," we took a single problem and discussed it deeply. The most common problem cryptography solves is what I call a secure channel: Alice and Bob want to communicate securely over some insecure communications line, so they need to establish a secure channel on top of that insecure line. [Tomalak's Realm]
6:26:33 PM    

Boingo, T-Mobile team on wireless roaming. The two companies are co-developing software and services to improve roaming between Wi-Fi hot spots and GPRS networks. [CNET News.com]
6:25:28 PM    

Dialing for dollars in the Big Easy. At this week's CTIA conference in New Orleans, Qualcomm CEO Irvng Jacobs asks, Who needs Wi-Fi? Also: Motorola's chief on getting back to basics. [CNET News.com]
6:24:41 PM    

Making open source pay -- a developer's dilemma. Open-source developers can become a consultant for the software they create, or build proprietary extensions to their open-source applications to create a more well-rounded package and sell that for real money. [Computerworld News]
6:23:48 PM    

Study: Human error causes most security breaches. Better training and certification of IT workers could go a long way to reducing the number of security breaches, according to The Computing Technology Industry Association. [Computerworld News]
6:22:55 PM    

BBC: "Developers of file-sharing services have redesigned the applications to use random ports." [Scripting News]
6:21:58 PM