Gregg Doherty's Radio Weblog

Friday, September 12, 2003

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1.	Via Licensing Announces Preliminary AVC/H.264 Licensing Terms. Not really, but at least they're trying to act fast.

11:24:25 PM

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1.	The Hacker Behind "Hacking the Xbox"
2.	2.4GHz Wireless Video from Model Rocket
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3.	P2P Forums has a conspiracy theory about mysterious dots in movies and MPAA watermarking.
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4.	Sun steals page from Microsoft's playbook. Sun Microsystems this week will take the covers off its long-hyped Project Orion and Project Mad Hatter at the SunNetwork conference in San Francisco.
5.	Sun inches toward low-cost computing. SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. demonstrated Oracle Corp.'s new database software running on a cluster of its Intel Corp.-based servers this week, its latest step toward offering customers a low-cost alternative to its proprietary Unix servers.
6.	Sun Network: Welcome to the post-boom Sun. As it prepares for its annual user conference in San Francisco next week, Sun Microsystems Inc. has a lot to prove. The company that once boasted of being the "dot in dot com" has watched its position as an industry leader erode over the last few years as the iconoclast image and corporate culture that served it so well during the Internet boom has worked against it during leaner times.
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7.	BugTraq exec claims Wired Misquoted Schwarz about Symantec wanting to criminalize full-disclosure - Hackers network anti-virus and security

10:24:12 PM

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1.	Second that on McNealy's report card

9:23:45 PM

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1.	Oracle to hand over Ellison e-mail
2.	Judge lifts hacker's PC restrictions. A federal judge says Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker, can go free on bail with only limited restrictions on his computer use until his next court date.
3.	SGI shoots for movie storage. Silicon Graphics aims its new data storage efforts at broadcasting and media production companies.
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4.	We tried the Vietnamese restaurant that replaced Thai Spice at Parmer and Mopac, and it's really good.

8:23:26 PM

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1.	Sports Illustrated to charge online fees
2.	IBM signs MTV Europe for digital media
3.	Sun to go holistic at conference. Sun Microsystems says its SunNetwork conference will show that its own staff gets the message that customers prefer pre-built packages of hardware and software over piecemeal components.
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4.	Disney Completes Dali Animation
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5.	Hacker Lamo free on bail after court appearance. Accused computer hacker Adrian Lamo has been released on bail after being charged Friday in federal court with breaking in to the computer network of The New York Times.
6.	Informatica to acquire Striva. Informatica said Friday that it plans to acquire Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Striva for $62 million in cash and stock.
7.	Web services portal standard approved. The OASIS standards consortium has approved a standard that members say will make it easier and cheaper to publish data on Web portals.
8.	Borland brings modeling to .Net. Borland is bringing modeling and designing capabilities to the .Net development community in a new incarnation of its Together tool.
9.	Novell to drop ZENworks from Linux tool bundle. Novell said it plans to use newly acquired systems management tools instead of including its own ZENworks technology in a Linux software package that's due to go into open beta-testing next month. ADVERTISEMENT: EnterpriseSoftwareHQ: Management Software - Free software research at EnterpriseSoftware\|HQ, headquarters for buyers and sellers of enterprise software. Quickly investigate hundreds of today's top vendors, create a short list, and even send RFPs - all in a fraction of the usual time!
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10.	Hacker Lamo free on bail after court appearance. Grand Jury expected to hear evidence
11.	Send p-to-p packing. Make sure your company does take the blame for employees who swap music files
12.	The death spiral. Will IT ride today’s approach to anti-worm and anti-virus software to certain doom?

7:23:06 PM

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1.	Web hosting company confirms hack attack. Interland says it was the victim of a hack attack in late August and early September, but it remains mum about the details.
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2.	US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline

6:22:44 PM

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1.	GNOPPIX: Bootable GNOME CD
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2.	'Water phone' cuts off the world. A gadget that is a cross between a telephone and a flotation tank aims to help you focus on phone calls.
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3.	Update: Oracle first quarter earnings rise 28 percent. Net income at Oracle Corp. rose 28 percent year-on-year for the quarter to Aug. 31, the company reported Friday.
4.	Symantec pumps up security appliance family. Symantec Corp. this week announced a family of all-in-one security appliances that will give customers a variety of ways to beef up security without adding multiple devices to their networks.
5.	Hacker Lamo to appear in court. Itinerant computer hacker Adrian Lamo will appear in federal court Friday in New York to face charges of breaking in to the computer network of The New York Times Co.

5:22:26 PM

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1.	Microsoft Doubles Annual Cash Payout. Microsoft, which is the world's second-biggest company by market value, will now spend $1.74 billion a year on the dividend. By Kenneth N. Gilpin.
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2.	USB adds support for streaming devices. An industry group that develops and promotes the USB interface announces the availability of a new USB specification that supports streaming-media devices.
3.	Ultrawideband gets new standards hearing. An international standards body will try again next week to settle on an industrywide blueprint for UWB, a wireless technology meant to rival Bluetooth.
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4.	Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy?

4:22:06 PM

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1.	Copy-protected CDs take step forward. For the first time in the United States, BMG Music is releasing a disc loaded with anticopying protection, a move that opens a new round of experimentation for record labels.
2.	Oracle earnings on the rise. The software maker reports on-target quarterly earnings that climbed 28 percent over the same period last year, even with a downturn in new software license sales.
3.	Apple, Beatles come together over lawsuit. Apple Corps, the corporate arm of rock legends The Beatles, confirms it has again sued Apple Computer for trademark infringement. This time, iTunes is the problem.
4.	IBM aims to help diagnose skin cancer
5.	Point, click, call. With Net-phoning on the rise, several VoIP leaders, including Microsoft, resurrect an idea pioneered two years ago: Web site icons that let people point, click and make a call.
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6.	H.R. 3057: To the Asteroids, Moon and Mars
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7.	Symantec pumps up security appliance family. Announces all-in-one Gateway Security Appliances
8.	Hacker Lamo to appear in court. Will face charges of breaking into The New York Times' computer network

3:21:45 PM

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1.	TiVo offers rebate on DVRs
2.	Nvidia exec settles SEC earnings case
3.	Sun updates J2EE for Web services. The computing giant releases an early version of source code for version 1.4 of the Java flavor, with support for a new WS-I Web services standard.
4.	Study: Wi-Fi proliferating in homes. More people are using wireless networking technology Wi-Fi in their homes than in offices or public places, according to research firm IDC.
5.	Week in review: Facing the music. The record industry unleashes a barrage of lawsuits against hundreds of alleged file swappers, but its attack on copyright infringement could leave the industry with a black eye.
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6.	Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent
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7.	Streaming audio using water (and other radio hacks). N5M And that Linux kernel broadcast in full

2:21:25 PM

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1.	Nokia stuffs phones with features. The Finnish company announces new mobile phones, including one with a camera, Internet browsing, infrared connectivity and FM radio.
2.	Grid computing used to predict the future. The experiment, launched in the United Kingdom, endeavors to give scientists a glimpse into how the climate might change over the next 50 years.
3.	Software firm Informatica snaps up Striva. The business applications maker says it will pay $62 million in cash and stock for the privately held company, in an effort to bolster its tools for mainframe customers.
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4.	Blind Lake
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5.	Music industry starts legal fight. The US music industry files lawsuits against hundreds of people accused of swapping "pirated" music online.
6.	'Water phone' cuts off the world. A gadget that is a cross between a telephone and a floatation tank aims to help you focus on phone calls.
7.	Digital TV beats 'red button blues'. More viewers are switching on to interactive TV, which is encouraging news for the ad industry, say experts.
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8.	Cabinet stalls on ID cards, Blunkett says he'll win anyway. And he's right - ignoring this one just feeds it

1:21:06 PM

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1.	Barnes & Noble shelves e-books. The bookseller discontinues sales of the downloadable books, according to a statement on the company's Web site.
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2.	Cringely on Identity Theft
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3.	Microsoft doubles dividend. The software giant pleases shareholders by announcing that it will double the size of its dividend to 16 cents a share.
4.	'Snoopers' charter' unveiled. Official agencies will be able to access e-mail and phone data, under measures unveiled by ministers.
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5.	News briefs. Bomb scare empties OracleWorld
6.	Oracle first quarter earnings rise 28 percent. Net income at Oracle Corp. rose 28 percent year on year for the quarter to Aug. 31, the company reported Friday.
7.	Online retailers let slip Toshiba, Palm PDA plans. If you are in the market for a new PDA (personal digital assistant) and considering a model from Toshiba Corp. you might want to hold off on your purchase. Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has published details of two as-yet unannounced models from the Japanese company.
8.	BEA Systems establishes R&D center in China. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- BEA Systems Inc. opened a research and development center in Beijing on Thursday, to support the company's Asian expansion plans. The center is the first such facility opened by the company in Asia, according to a statement.
9.	Limited Office 2003 release set for Monday. Select Microsoft Corp. customers will get early access to several of the vendor's new Office System products on Monday, the company said.
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10.	WorldCom 'not guilty' on Oklahoma charges. The saga grinds on
11.	Linux on desktop not cost-effective for most, says Gartner. Next week: analysts do it in harmony...
12.	TRAMS changes hands. MBO

12:20:45 PM

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1.	Technology and the limits of media ownership. Just what was so objectionable about the Federal Communications Commission's decision to slightly relax a few limits on media ownership?
2.	Microsoft to open Office doors early. The computing titan says it will allow some of its business customers to download its new Office desktop application bundle about two weeks sooner than originally planned.
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3.	Phone Plus Sensory Deprivation Equals...
4.	Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version
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5.	Music industry starts legal fight. The US music industry files lawsuits against hundreds of people accused of swapping "pirated" music online.
6.	Digital lifestyle edges closer. Young people are taking the lead in embracing a digital lifestyle, according to a BBC research.
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7.	News briefs. Bomb scare empties OracleWorld ADVERTISEMENT: RFID/Smart Label Printing White Paper from Zebra - Learn about how smart labels help prevent asset loss, track shipments, and process customer transactions, and see how the technology could help your business.
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8.	Oracle profits jump, new licence sales fall. Cash machine
9.	Show me the Terrorists. Letter Insurance Scam?
10.	Free IT training bonanza targets London SMEs. Grab it while you can
11.	Want 50Mb per second? Forget fibre. Ethernet To The Home

11:20:26 AM

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1.	Earnings alert: Upbeat Oracle. The software maker reports on-target earnings that climbed 28 percent, despite a licensing slowdown...Adobe credits its PDF unit for revenue and profit growth...Novell posts loss, announces job cuts.
2.	The next threat to start-ups. The rope-twirling humorist Will Rogers summed up the political thoughts of many of his fellow Americans with a memorable quote: "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as it does when a baby gets hold of a hammer."
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3.	Microsoft-Antitrust.gov Opens for Public
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4.	Wi-Fi whistle blower faces criminal charges. Cracked a network to show how easy it was
5.	'I Married an Extropian' - reader. Letters DARPA's brains trust unravelled
6.	Nokia handset supports DIY cover designs. Bring your own pics
7.	Oracle profits jump, new license sales fall. Cash machine
8.	Telewest upgrades Birmingham. Someone has to...

10:20:09 AM

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1.	Oracle earnings rise despite slowed sales. The software maker reports on-target first-quarter earnings that climbed 28 percent over the same period last year, even with a downturn in new software license sales.
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2.	Exposing Personal Information in the Whois Database
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3.	Oracle sales disappoint. The world's second largest software group reports a 28% rise in profits, but there is still no sign of the long-awaited upturn in sales.
4.	Lawsuits 'not scaring swappers'. Music-swapping on the internet is not slowing despite a flurry of lawsuits, according to industry monitors.
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5.	Law seeks 'deposit' of web sites with UK libraries. 'Hopeless mess'
6.	Beatles' label sues Apple - again. Three strikes and out?

9:19:46 AM

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1.	Apple sells 10m tunes on the net. Apple says it has sold more than 10 million songs on its iTunes Music Store since its launch four months ago.
2.	Broadband looks to up its appeal. With more people able to get broadband, the focus is now on how to get the most out of a fast connection.
3.	Floatation phone cuts off the world. A gadget that is a cross between a telephone and a floatation tank aims to help you focus on phone calls.
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4.	News briefs. Bomb scare empties OracleWorld
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5.	E-mail fraudsters target Barclays. Gone 'phishing'
6.	MPs to investigate 'Broadband Britain'. What is the state of the e-nation?
7.	SCO vs Linux - the arrows fly. Combat by open letter

8:19:28 AM

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1.	Microsoft goes to Hollywood. Microsoft's decision to submit Windows Media Series 9 as a standards candidate in Hollywood underscores the software giant's ambitions to take its multimedia technology beyond the Net.
2.	Here come the nanotubes. Carbon Nanotechnologies, which produces carbon nanotubes for IBM and research institutions, plans to expand production, a move that could help jumpstart commercial deployment of nanotubes.
3.	A Gentleman's C for Scott McNealy. CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says that if Sun's CEO has proved one fact beyond dispute, it's that he's no Bill Gates.
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4.	Sharp Announces 3D Laptop
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5.	News briefs. Bomb scare empties OracleWorld ADVERTISEMENT: AT&T-Cisco Portal Examines IP VPN Services. - The IP VPN Portal from AT&T and Cisco Systems features numerous resources and tools, including a Webcast on how to increase productivity, lower costs and extend the power of your network.
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6.	Mobo makers ready Athlon 64 boards. Socket 754 and 940 parts coming soon
7.	Mobile phone rage rock Nigeria, the Turf. United we stand
8.	Hands-on: Nokia's N-Gage. Review Warts 'n' all

7:19:15 AM

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1.	Sharp to ship 3D notebook. Wants to encourage content development
2.	Jury dismisses AMD religious prejudice claim. Plaintiff's career not harmed by 'I'm a Muslim' revelation
3.	Mobo makers ready Athlon 64 boards. Socket 754 and 940 parts ready
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4.	The Worms of Sept. 11. This may be a day of solemn remembrance for most, but for some virus writers it's merely another opportunity to remind us that they're still out there.
5.	Ex-Apple Employee Slams Company. In an online forum, a former Apple marketing director lashes out at co-workers for creating a 'diseased and dysfunctional' culture, which he says led to the company's downfall. By Leander Kahney.
6.	Why Ecstasy Researcher Is Smiling. Johns Hopkins scientists have retracted their research on the dangers of ecstasy. That could prove helpful to a rival researcher eager to study the drug's therapeutic effects. By Kristen Philipkoski.
7.	Disney Reanimates Dali's Flick. Salvador Dalí, the outrageous Spanish artist, considered Walt Disney a compatriot in subversive art. They tried to make a film together but shelved the project. Now, the Disney studio is reviving the very un-Disneyesque work 57 years later. By Jason Silverman.
8.	One Extreme Makeover, Coming Up. Turn your beige box into a twin-engine, fan-cooled V-8! Linus Torvalds meets Martha Stewart in the obsessive, custom-fabricated computer world of casemodding. By Cory Doctorow from Wired magazine.
9.	Video Game Seeks Life Online. When Half-Life 2 comes out this fall, eager fans of the game will be able to buy and download it online. It's cool for those who want instant gratification, but the download service could roil the video-game business. By Suneel Ratan.
10.	Manhattan Mob Meets Its Maker. 'Bill,' the man who started the flash mob phenomenon earlier this summer, stages the final impromptu gathering in New York City. Time for the mob to move on, he says. Michelle Delio reports from New York.

6:18:55 AM

5:18:36 AM

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1.	GeForce FX Architecture Explained
2.	Beer-Coated CDs are Optical Biocomputers
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3.	Windows faces web worm woe. Microsoft has discovered new vulnerabilities in Windows that could mean a repeat of the MSBlaster virus outbreak.
4.	Software aims to predict climate. Computer users are being urged to join a huge UK experiment to predict the new century's climate.
5.	Broadband looks to up its appeal. With more people able to get broadband, experts are turning their attention to get the most out a high-speed net connection.

4:18:26 AM

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1.	Panel Unsure When NASA Can Return Shuttle to Flight. The panel that will oversee the space shuttle's return to flight said that it was not sure when NASA could achieve that goal but that time was not of the essence. By John Schwartz with Warren E. Leary.
2.	Satellite Tracking of Suspects Requires a Warrant, Court Rules. The police cannot attach a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect's vehicle without a warrant, the Washington Supreme Court said in the first such ruling in the nation. By The Associated Press.
3.	A Rally in Technology Issues Pulls Other Shares Higher. Stocks chugged higher Thursday, led by technology issues like the software maker Adobe. By Reuters.
4.	Ill Scientist May Be Evacuated From Station at the South Pole. Rescue planes are flying from Canada to the southern tip of Chile to be ready to evacuate a seriously ill member of the scientific team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. By Denise Grady.
5.	Technology Briefing: Software. ADOBE SHARES RISE ON STRONG RESULTS; CARREKER STOCK SURGES ON PROFIT NEWS;.
6.	Technology Briefing: Hardware. HEWLETT WINS FIRST TRIAL ON INK CARTRIDGES; INTEL AND XEROX TO INTRODUCE IMAGING CHIPS; TRIQUINT SHARES RISE ON RAISED FORECAST;.
7.	Technology Briefing: Telecommunications. CHIP MAKER CREATES FUEL CELL FOR MOBILE PHONES;.

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1:17:27 AM

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1.	Beatles Bite Apple
2.	VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos

12:17:07 AM