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Digital Vandalism Spurs a Call for Oversight. Some experts say it is time for the government to bolster a basic sense of stability in cyberspace that societies expect from critical public resources. By Amy Harmon. |
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More Companies Are Routing Calls via Internet. Some companies are switching from conventional telephones to systems that route calls via the Internet, which can result in substantial savings after the initial investment. By Adam Bauman. |
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Blackboard Expands Reach in Deal to Set Up Chinese Colleges With Its Software. Blackboard, an electronic-learning company, entered a partnership with a Chinese education company that provides Internet services. By Brian Knowlton. |
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Ticketmaster Auction Will Let Highest Bidder Set Concert Prices. Late this year, Ticketmaster plans to begin auctioning the best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com. By Chris Nelson. |
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Going Gold? Maybe, if Enough Cellphones Ring. The music industry may be having trouble persuading people to buy its songs online. But the cellphone market is another matter. By Alec Foege. |
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Arrest Made in Attacks on Computers. A Minnesota teenager who authorities said created a virulent version of the Blaster Internet computer worm was arrested. By Sarah Kershaw and Laurie J. Flynn. |
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Server-Computer Sales Rose in 2nd Quarter. Sales of server computers rose for the first quarterly gain in two and a half years, a market research company said. By Bloomberg News. |
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Enlightenment for a Web Site That Went Too Far. Enlightenment. By Micheline Maynard. |
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Virus Aside, Gates Says Reliability Is Greater. Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, talked last week about what the company is doing to keep hackers at bay. By John Markoff. |
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This Company's Shareholders May Regret It if They Don't Sell. Among the bad Internet investments that were sold to gullible buyers in early 2000, Register.com stands out. |
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Now on the Web: The Total Price. Spurred by competitive pressures, more online merchants are disclosing how much their goods and services cost after taxes, fees and shipping charges. By Bob Tedeschi. |
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Using the Sun to Stop Blackouts. Two men have invented a system that enables a change to backup solar power within seconds after a power failure. By Teresa Riordan. |
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You Call This a Midlife Crisis?. Is Microsoft's corporate metabolism finally slowing? The senior management team has a ready answer: not in your dreams. By Steve Lohr and John Markoff. |
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CNET News.com
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Week ahead: Nat Semi gets ready. The semiconductor company is slated to announce earnings, breaking the post-Labor Day lull for the tech sector. |
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Winning the info battle. Strategy + Business examines how business leaders can learn a lot from how the military manages the flow of real-time information. |
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Sun, Siebel: Let's stick together. The tech giant and the business software maker agree to strengthen an existing partnership to make sure their products work well in combination. |
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Selling your personal data. Harvard Professor John Deighton asserts that consumers should capitalize on the value of their personal information and get something in return. |
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Protests delay software patents vote. The European Parliament delays voting on a controversial software-patents directive, following protests and criticism by computer scientists and economists. |
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Slashdot
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AMTP as an Alternative to SMTP |
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Increased Software Vulnerability, Gov't Regulation |
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IBM's Billy Goat Squashes Worms |
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Studies In Ornithopters |
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Linux Gets Mobile(phone) |
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KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report |
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New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex |
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MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for J2ME |
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Mobile Game Applications Need Scripting Too |
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Balloonists Attempt World Altitude Record |
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Radio.root Updates
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system.verbs.builtins.radio.weblog.render changed on Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:07:45 GMT: Add TrackBack auto-discovery RDF bits inside an HTML comment. Fixes HTML validation errors. |
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Hack the Planet
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Cem Kaner: Software Customer Bill of Rights. |
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Silicon Strategies: Intel tricks out 90-nm TCP/IP processor. Hot Chips is starting to really live up to its name. |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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No-frills travel hits roads. Stagecoach launches £1 fares between some UK cities in an attempt to bring no-frills travel to the roads. |
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France Telecom wants more Orange. Orange shares soar 15% after France Telecom announces plans for a £5bn share buyout to win 100% control of the mobile phone firm. |
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New 3G handset offers much. Third-generation phone firm 3 is expanding the range of handsets on offer. |
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Familiar faces in Nintendo line-up. Many of the Nintendo games for the Christmas run-up return to familiar characters and brand names. |
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US brings film piracy fight to UK. The US film industry seeks an injunction against a firm it alleges encourages DVD copying. |
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Game graphics hit their limits. Video game graphics have almost got as good as they are going to get, says a leading game maker. |
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Sunday service goes broadband. A Bath vicar experiments with virtual sermons to bring the Church to the PC-using masses. |
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PlayStation 2 touts its wares. Sony showcases the latest titles for its PlayStation 2 console at a games event for consumers in London. |
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Germans test hi-tech road tolls. A new toll system for heavy lorries faces major difficulties two months before it is due to come into operation. |
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US youth charged over net virus. An American teenager is charged with releasing the MSBlast worm, infecting computers worldwide. |
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Dixons ditches Freeserve for AOL. British retailer Dixons ends a deal to promote Freeserve, the internet service provider it created, and hooks up with AOL instead. |
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Countdown to balloon attempt. Pilots Andy Elson and Colin Prescot target Tuesday for their attempt on the world manned balloon altitude record. |
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Online sci-fi shooter listens to fans. As Unreal 2004 launches, big challenges face developers to keep their growing population of players interested. |
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Self-parking car hits the shops. Toyota launches a "green" car which is clever enough to park itself. |
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Mice sign on the dotted line. Scientists have found a way for people to sign their name online using a mouse instead of a pen. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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IBM in final talks with P&G for outsourcing deal. Procter & Gamble is in final, exclusive negotiations to award IBM a business process outsourcing (BPO) contract to provide human resources services to its employees. |
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Business Analytics obstacles remain. Any effort to introduce a new category of software more complex than a desktop notepad faces vectors of organizational resistance and technical hurdles. BA is no different. Although the returns can be astronomical, the barriers are just as high as any other project. The most common barriers include the following. |
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Looking for a competitive edge. Irving Tyler, CIO of Quaker Chemical, a developer and producer of chemical specialty products for heavy industrial and manufacturing applications, has leveraged BA's strengths to give his company an edge against larger rivals. |
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McData preps for automated storage. Looking to bring increased intelligence and automation to storage networking, McData acquired two companies with the technology it believes will get the company there faster than the competition. |
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Company uses BA test reviews to help build drug compounds. Drug-discovery company Infinity Pharmaceuticals develops and integrates capabilities in synthetic chemistry, chemical genetics, informatics, and biological screening. |
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Does BA beat BI?. The leaders of big organizations, especially businesses, can pay a terrible price for driving forward while gazing in the rear-view mirror. Many who did this at the turn of the millennium raced headlong into the Permafrost Economy on the fuel of wishful thinking and soothing official lullabies. Meanwhile, data in their own systems could have shown them both the coming chill and actions likely to buffer it. That is, the data could have if these leaders had invested in a software category called BA (business analytics). |
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Update: Teenager arrested in Blaster case. BOSTON - A Minnesota teenager appeared in federal court in St. Paul Friday to face charges stemming from the release of a variant of the virulent W32.Blaster Internet worm that ravaged computer systems worldwide earlier this month. |
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XML exposes rich network data. Web services management is coming of age. |
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Documentum unwraps integrated publishing system. Uniting once disparate publishing tools onto a single platform, Documentum next week will unfurl its Enterprise Publishing Solution. The integrated set of products is designed to create content once, then simultaneously publish it in multiple formats through print and Web processes. |
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Sun, Siebel strengthen ties. Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems are forging a software development partnership with a goal of boosting performance of Siebel CRM applications running on Sun's Solaris operating system and Sun ONE middleware stack. |
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InfoWorld: Security
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Report: FBI to arrest Blaster writer on Friday. Teenager is identified as author of a variant of the W32.Blaster worm |
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For want of a wall…. Don’t let your company be the source of the next big attack |
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Tight budgets are no excuse to be lax on security. Looking for an excuse to recruit a security professional? Just scan recent headlines. |
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Update: Teenager arrested in Blaster case. Suspect allegedly modified original worm |
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SecurityNewsPortal.com
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Teenage Worm Coder Busted for Internet MSBlaster Worm Attacks - Security hackers trojan virus alert networking |
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The Register
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Palm issues, sells shares for $19.1m. Follows last week's $18m issue |
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Bath church casts net, catches 500. Watchers or worshippers? |
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Panasonic intros credit card camcorder. Reg Kit Watch Plus: Turn your Palm into a radio |
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Apple 'will not participate' in Boston Macworld. Stands firm as IDC shifts show from NYC |
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Sex, lies and Data Protection Act leave SMEs in peril. Show Me the Money |
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Freeserve makes first (monthly) profit. Dixons? Pah! |
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Telstra plays host to world's largest party line. Crossed line cock-up |
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Hardware sales carry on falling at Morse. 'Challenging year' |
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Mobile calls at landline prices. Coming soon |
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Freeserve mulls Wanadoo rebranding - again. 'Never off the agenda' |
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Wired News
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Space Supply Capsule Docks. The only remaining supply lifeline to the International Space Station, a Russian cargo space capsule, successfully docks. Along with the basics of fuel, water amd food, the U.S.-Russian crew get comedy films, CDs, chocolate, fresh fruit and a satellite phone. |
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Digital Rift Needs Global Help. The first World Information Technology Forum concludes international cooperation is necessary if poor countries are to tap the flow of information and technology driving the modern economy. States must work with the private sector to build infrastructure. |
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Reeling in Kids' Online Time. Some parents use old-fashioned methods to limit the time their kids get to spend on the Internet. Others worry about unhealthy addictive patterns in the kids' computer use but don't want to be the bad guys. |
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European Patent Law Draws Fire. Members of the European Parliament want to pass a law that governs patents for computers and related technology. But critics say the measure will stifle innovation and hurt small developers. By Julia Scheeres. |
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Everyone Wants a Bite of Apple. Why is Apple so tempting? Creative culture, killer products, zealous fans and Steve Jobs. Memo to Sony: Bite! An essay by Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. |
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Handcuffing a One-Armed Bandit. First they lost their arms, now they'll lose their brains. The slot machine will soon be a dumb client, just waiting for you to sit down, slide in your ID card and download a game. By Daniel Terdiman. |
Monday, September 01, 2003
