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Court Rules That Trade Secrets Can Outweigh Free Speech. A court ruled that the First Amendment did not mean trade secrets could be published on the Web with impunity. By Steve Lohr. |
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Amazon Files Suits Against Online Spoofers. Amazon.com today filed federal lawsuits in the US and Canada to prevent 11 online marketers from sending out emails falsely identifying themselves as having come from the internet group. By Jonathan Loades-carter, Ft.com. |
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Technology Briefing: Hardware. McDATA TO ACQUIRE 2 COMPANIES; METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS RAISES FORECAST; WESTERN DIGITAL SETTLES SUIT; AGERE TAKES OVER IRISH COMPANY;. |
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Technology Briefing: Telecommunications. DEUTSCHE TELEKOM SEEKS POLISH STAKE;. |
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WorldCom Report Recommends Sweeping Changes for Its Board. A court filing aims to transform bankrupt, scandal-ridden WorldCom into a paragon of good management called MCI. By Barnaby J. Feder. |
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Software Maker Settles Claims on Accounting. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 (Reuters) — Computer Associates International said today that it had agreed to settle all outstanding litigation related to claims about its past accounting issues, and would take a related charge of about 17 cents a share in its current quarter. |
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Siebel won't appeal shareholder's claim. The enterprise software maker issues new corporate compensation policies and says it won't oppose a shareholder's application for reimbursement of legal fees. |
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Microsoft kidding on this virus fix? |
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EDS may ax more jobs. The computer services firm says it may trim its work force beyond the 2 percent cutback it announced in June as it struggles to improve its competitive position. |
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Rough going on the net frontier. Battered company networks are paying the price for weaknesses in software--with no letup from Sobig and other viruses in sight. Are software liability laws the answer? |
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Dell gets new storage chief. Darren Thomas, a Compaq veteran who also tried his hand at start-ups, will head up the company's storage division. |
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Eric Raymond's Homebrew SCO Poison |
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Ministry of NanoEthics? |
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UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? |
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board: Final Report |
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Why Virus Writers are Useful |
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What to Expect From Qt 4 |
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Practical Unix & Internet Security |
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Diamonds & the RIAA |
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P2P Spam? |
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Perfect Pitch for Those Without It |
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Radio.root Updates
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system.verbs.builtins.radio.backup.backupTemplates changed on Tue, 26 Aug 2003 06:13:31 GMT: Re-release. Some people did not have the latest version of this part, causing errors when performing backups. |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Crunch time for Universal sale. A key bidder pulls out, as Vivendi's board prepares to discuss options for selling off its extensive showbusiness assets. |
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Mobile phone masts 'must go'. Education chiefs are urged to remove mobile phone masts from all Kent's schools. |
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Site remedy for nursing shortage. Former nurses are urged to get back into the profession with the launch of a new internet training course. |
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Text service fights mobile spam. Vodafone is trying out a system to make it easier for people to report unsolicited text messages. |
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DVD injunction 'is lawful'. A court rules that an injunction against posting online code for copying DVDs does not violate freedom of speech. |
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Mobile gaming 'set to explode'. Consumers will be spending millions of pounds to play games on their mobiles by next year, say experts. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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IBM offers FAStT600 turbo-charge. IBM Corp. next month will offer some new enhancements to its FAStT600 storage server that it says will improve its performance and double the amount of data that the system can store. |
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Hitachi to ship 2GB, 4GB microdrives this year. Hitachi Ltd. will begin selling 2G-byte and 4G-byte versions of its Microdrive miniature hard disk drive later this year, the company said Monday. |
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CA settles shareholder suit over past accounting. Computer Associates International Inc. plans to settle all outstanding litigation related to claims about its past accounting, the company announced Monday. |
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Yahoo dips its toes in the blogging waters. The first blogging service to bear the Yahoo name has been launched by Yahoo Korea Corp. |
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AOL introduces blog tools, scores NFL deal. America Online Inc. (AOL) continued to court users with new content and services this week, adding both blogging tools and expanded National Football League (NFL) audio and video programming to its grab bag of Internet offerings. |
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Independent monitor recommends MCI governance changes. A court-appointed independent monitor has released a list of 78 changes, including creating an independent board of directors and establishing compensation limits on executives, that MCI must make in its corporate governance structure as part of government sanctions for accounting fraud. |
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Siebel settles suit, adopts new governance rules. Siebel Systems Inc. said Tuesday it is adopting several new corporate governance initiatives in the wake of a just-settled lawsuit that charged the company's board with excessively compensating Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tom Siebel through stock options grants. |
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SCO Web site attacked again. BOSTON - The Web site of embattled software maker The SCO Group Inc. was inaccessible again on Tuesday, fueling reports of another denial of service attack. |
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Time Warner Telecom may be next Sobig.F target. PARIS - Romanian researchers claim to have discovered a variant of the Sobig.F virus that looks to mail and domain name servers at Time Warner Telecom Inc. for information about how to modify its behavior. |
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InfoWorld: Security
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SCO Web site attacked again. Open source community implicated in second DoS attack |
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The Register
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Google heals the sick. Don't dial an ambulance, visit a search engine |
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PS2 nuts play Getaway for real. Game action re-enacted on London's streets |
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Email gossips put employers at risk. Harrassment case ends in £10,000 payout |
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Lik-Sang settles mod chip case out of court. Appeal dismissed, compensation paid, promise made to be good in future |
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Viral opportunity. Amusing sideshows to the SoBig - Blaster circus. |
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'Major upheaval' forecast for recovering router biz. 'Interesting' times, 'disruptive' pricing |
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South Korea asks WTO to overturn EU Hynix levy. Official complaint |
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Vietnam cuts cyber dissident's jail term. Not good enough, say campaigners |
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IBM goes turbo with midrange storage. Cache happy |
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BT to trial 1Mb ADSL in October. Said it would |
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Wired News
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DVD-Cracking Code Not Free Speech. The California Supreme Court rules that courts can prevent people from posting on the Internet code to copy DVD movies illegally. An appeals court had ruled that free speech was more important than trade secrets; the new ruling disagrees. |
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MIT's Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT's new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. |
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Spending Green to See Red Planet. As the Earth and Mars get chummy, newbie astronomers are hitting the stores in droves to purchase optical equipment. Although new tech makes it easy to find what you're looking for, the pros advise to try before you buy. By Suneel Ratan. |
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CAPPS Navigates Unfriendly Skies. The proposed airline passenger-screening program CAPPS II ran into turbulence this week, including a gang assault by activist groups and a boycott triggered by a proposal to have private companies gather data. By Ryan Singel. |
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Tennis Swaps Grace for Strength. Today's professional tennis is largely a baseline game, with players hanging back to contend with the crushing shots generated by modern rackets. As the U.S. Open gets underway this week, some of the sport's former top players say unlimited racket power is hurting the game. By Mark McClusky. |
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RFID Gussied Up With Biosensors. More and more people are becoming suspicious of radio-frequency identification tags -- tiny transmitters that track the whereabouts of products with stunning accuracy. So the food industry is adding biosensors to the tags in a bid to present them as essential terrorism-fighting tools. By Mark Baard. |
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
