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California Moves to Ban Unsolicited E-Mail Spam. Gov. Gray Davis of California signed a bill today that outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request. By Saul Hansell. |
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Yahoo Launches New Product Search Engine. The new products search is directly integrated into Yahoo's main search engine and features a full range of products from across the Internet. By Reuters. |
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Verizon to Allow Land Numbers for Mobile Phones. Verizon announced an agreement that will enable its customers to turn the telephone number on a home or office line into the wireless number for a cell phone. By The Associated Press. |
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Hand-Held Computers to Help City Collect on Parking Tickets. New York City is buying hand-held computers to help traffic agents issue parking tickets in hopes of reducing errors and producing more accurate ticketing. By Michael Cooper. |
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Intel Sees New Laptops Running for a Whole Day. Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, expects that in just a few years laptops will run for a full day on a single battery charge. By Reuters. |
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More Online Comparison Shopping. Consumers regularly use comparison shopping sites to find cheap computer gadgets. But will they flock to these sites to find cashmere sweaters? By Bob Tedeschi. |
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Music's Struggle With Technology. The current fight over file-trading technology resembles a grand battle in the 1990's over encryption technology. By John Schwartz. |
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Computers May Help Fix Doctors' Handwriting. Hospitals are trying to cut down on the potential for mistakes caused by hard-to-read handwriting. Computers are making the task easier. By The Associated Press. |
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Technology Briefing: Software. LEVEL 3 LOWERS SALES FORECAST;. |
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Technology Briefing: Internet. AMAZON.COM ADDS SPORTS PRODUCTS; DEALTIME TAKES SHOPPING.COM NAME; VERISIGN ASKED TO SUSPEND NEW SERVICE;. |
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Technology Briefing: Hardware. GILLETTE TO START FUEL CELL VENTURE;. |
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Jupiter Probe Ends Mission After 14 Years. NASA's aging Galileo spacecraft was deliberately plunged into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere, bringing a fiery conclusion to a 14-year, $1.5 billion mission. By The Associated Press. |
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Think Debate on Music Property Rights Began With Napster? Hardly. The music industry has grappled with the uncertainties wrought by new technologies for over a century. By Lisa Napoli. |
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For Motorola, Chief's Ouster Seen Bringing Strategy Shift. Last week, Christopher B. Galvin, Motorola's chief executive, and the board decided they did not see eye-to-eye. But with or without Mr. Galvin, the company faces challenges. By Barnaby J. Feder. |
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Call Centers Struggle in Face of Do-Not-Call Rules. Telemarketers failed to stop the federal government from establishing a national do-not-call registry. Now they are scrambling. By Matt Richtel. |
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Scientists Discover First Gene Tied to Stroke Risk. Researchers say they have discovered the first gene that underlies common forms of stroke, a disease that affects more than 600,000 people a year in the United States. By Nicholas Wade. |
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Gates Helps Fight Malaria. Bill Gates urged the world to intensify its battle against a disease that kills more than one million people a year, mainly in Africa. By Reuters. |
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New Sun Microsystems Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board. Researchers have discovered a way to transmit data inside a computer 60 to 100 times as fast as the present top speeds. By John Markoff. |
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Advanced Micro Devices to Introduce 64-Bit Chip. Dwarfed by a dominant rival and losing money at an alarming rate, Advanced Micro Devices is introducing the Athlon 64-bit microprocessor. By Steve Lohr. |
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A 'free' divide forms |
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Cisco to buy back $7 billion in stock |
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OpenSSH patches second flaw. The open-source project for secure communications technology, known as OpenSSH, plugs a second security hole that affects only users who have turned off a critical security feature. |
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Microsoft touts communications services. An executive at the software giant talks up the new Live Meeting Web conferencing service and future technologies aimed at helping office workers share information. |
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Patent holder unplugs porn network. A holding company with a stack of streaming media patents briefly shuts down a network of pornography Web sites in an ominous sign for mainstream providers of streaming Web content. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Microsoft Limits Internet Chat Service (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. is shutting down Internet chat services in most of its markets around the world and limiting the service in the United States to help reduce criminal solicitations of children through online chat discussions. |
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Hack the Planet
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The Roku HD1000 is yet another box that lets you listen to MP3s through your stereo and view your digital photos on your TV, but it's high definition. (It's already obsolete, of course, since it doesn't have a DVI output.) And it runs Linux so you can write your own apps. I'm guessing it's based on the ATI Xilleon. |
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Red Hat renamed their "consumer" Red Hat Linux to Fedora, and now it's basically like Gentoo but based on RPM. |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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China joins EU's satellite network. China is to invest in the Galileo satellite tracking system which the EU is developing as a rival to the Pentagon's GPS technology. |
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BSkyB chief Tony Ball quits. Tony Ball, chief executive of broadcaster BSkyB, is to step down from his post, it is announced. |
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Drivers text and talk. One in four motorists make or receive calls on their mobile phones while driving despite an imminent ban. |
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Blunkett presses on with ID cards. The home secretary supports identity cards, while warning the government must 'change or die' amid public distrust. |
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Xbox boosts games range. Microsoft's Xbox line-up throws no surprises, but gamers can expect something for everyone in the coming months. |
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Fallen star Baltimore calls it a day. The high-flying technology company once worth $4bn sells its core business, effectively winding up the company. |
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Chatbot bids to fool humans. A program designed to talk like a human takes on international competition to be the most human of all. |
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Nigeria goes surfing with wheels. Nigeria successfully tests a plan to send satellite-enabled buses around the country to encourage internet use. |
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Action against site finding system. Changes to the way the net handles mistyped domain name queries could soon be suspended. |
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Bangladesh snooping plans row. Proposals by the Bangladeshi Government to monitor e-mails and phone calls have provoked outrage. |
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Anti-spam laws 'lack bite'. New UK measures to stop junk e-mails have been criticised as ineffective and hard to enforce. |
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'Relentless' pace of hack attacks. Websites that do nothing to protect themselves can expect to suffer a hack attack every few minutes. |
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Chip launch ushers in new era. AMD has launched its Athlon 64 chip for desktops which promises extra performance for the home user. |
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MSN shuts down its chatrooms. Microsoft's internet service, MSN, is closing all chatrooms on its global sites due to concerns about child safety. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Sun shows new way for computers to communicate. Researchers at Sun Microsystems have created a new way for computer components to communicate with each other that could ultimately spell the end of the integrated circuit board. |
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Abit improves system monitoring for PCs. Taipei -- Taiwanese motherboard maker Abit Computer Corp. wants to make the task of keeping PCs healthy and running smoothly a bit easier. |
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Microsoft unwraps Windows XP 64-bit beta. Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released the beta for its 64-bit version of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) forthcoming Opteron and Athlon64 processors. |
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Sun signs up five more OEMs for Java. Sun Microsystems Inc. has signed up five more hardware makers in its quest to prevent Java from being shut out of the personal computer. |
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Google test drives location search tool. Google Inc. is playing with the idea that with online as well as offline real estate what really matters is location, location, location. The company's Labs division unveiled a test version of a new search by location service Monday, allowing users to query for stores and services that are close to home. |
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Intel brings hyperthreading to luggable notebooks. Intel Corp. will bring its hyperthreading technology to its Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor, which is used in desktop-replacement notebooks, the company announced Tuesday. |
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Symantec adds antivirus to early warning system. Changes to Symantec Corp.'s DeepSight Threat Management System announced Monday will add data on computer viruses and worms to an Internet early warning system, providing enterprise customers with the ability to track the outbreaks on the Internet, Symantec said. |
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AMD fires up 64-bit chips. BOSTON - Ready or not, Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) strategy to bring 64-bit technology to the x86 world took its biggest step Tuesday with the launch of the Athlon 64 processor for desktop and notebook PCs. |
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Gov't agency uses buying power to encourage security. WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has started to use its immense purchasing power to influence cybersecurity, beginning with a Department of Energy (DOE) contract with Oracle Corp. that requires the software vendor to build in security configurations. |
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TI sues Qualcomm over handset chip deal. SAN FRANCISCO - Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has sued Qualcomm Inc., alleging the cellular technology vendor violated a December 2000 cross-licensing agreement, TI said Tuesday.
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InfoWorld: Security
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ASEAN countries to combine on cybersecurity. Each country to create its own CERT by 2005 |
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Warnings about new worm swirling. Swen spreads disguised as Microsoft security update |
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OASIS ratifies SAML 1.1. RSA supports latest version in products |
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TruSecure tackles risk management. Move seen as part of effort to repackage services |
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Symantec adds antivirus to early warning system. Changes to DeepSight give users more comprehensive picture of Internet security |
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SecurityNewsPortal.com
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FBI phishing for hacking evidence against Adrian Lamo - demand reporters notes |
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The Register
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India blocks Yahoo! Groups. 'Dumb pumpkin-faced potbellied dumbheads' |
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AMD unwraps 2GHz 64-bit Athlons. 3200+ for regular punters, FX-51 for gamers |
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Multi-core Athlons 'inevitable' - AMD. Cores célèbre |
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TI counter-sues Qualcomm. Loyalty royalties |
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eBay trader arrested in missing DVDs probe. zippymilk on bail |
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CCC Network Systems apologizes for Chapter 7 inconvenience. Data center darling done |
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Man beats Microsoft, becomes instant domain expert. Read the whole story for $49 |
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Captain Cyborg returns with Wi-Fi rhubarb!. Welcome back, Master of Gibberish |
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MSN torches chatrooms. 'Increasingly being misused' |
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EMC goes after SMBs. Mid-market love |
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Wired News
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Largest Arctic Ice Shelf Crumbles. The 3,000-year-old Ward Hunt ice shelf, the largest ice shelf in the Arctic, has broken up, report U.S. and Canadian scientists. The researchers say local climate warming is to blame, and casualties include species of plankton and algae. |
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Microsoft Gets Off Easy. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly says Microsoft must pay Massachusetts a meager $967,014.52 in attorney fees, less than half what the state demanded. Kollar-Kotelly calls her decision a 'generous award.' |
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FBI Seeking Reporters' Notes. The bureau's cybercrime unit, trying hard to convict a suspected cracker, is telling reporters who have interviewed him to expect a subpoena, raising age-old First Amendment issues. Noah Shachtman reports from New York. |
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The Growth Market in Walls. Side I and Side P are still going at it after 50 years, so Side I is building a wall to seal off its border with Side P. The company doing the construction will make a lot of money, but in the end there's a stiffer price to pay. From Wired magazine. |
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Putting Your Calls Into Context. Researchers are marrying the modest cell phone with accelerometers, skin sensors, GPS and a calendar to create a system that always knows where you are and what you are doing, thereby eliminating phone tag. By Debbi Gardiner. |
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ACLU Chief Assails Patriot Spin. Coming to a courtroom near you: Patriot Act II. As the Bush administration pushes to expand federal powers, the director of the ACLU charges it with misrepresenting the facts about the first Patriot Act. By Kim Zetter. |
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Termites Inspire Paper Pusher. Xerox engineers need a sophisticated alternative to the wheels and rollers in copy machines. Their inspiration came from not-so-sophisticated creatures -- termites. Nature is inspiring scientists in many other fields, as well. By Niall McKay. |
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Soccer Flick Has Legs Online. Droves of fans frustrated with the delayed release of Shaolin Soccer have turned to peer-to-peer networks to download a copy of the Hong Kong movie, and observers say there's a marketing lesson to be learned. By Katie Dean. |
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Army Admits Using JetBlue Data. Millions of passenger records served as the basis for a data-mining prototype that resembles Darpa's Terrorism Information Awareness project -- and one company has ties to both. By Ryan Singel and Noah Shachtman. |
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
