Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Monday, October 06, 2003

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1.	Microsoft to Alter Web Browser for Ruling (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it will make technical adjustments to its Web browsing software as a result of an August ruling that the software giant infringed on a patent licensed by Eolas Technologies Inc.
2.	Ruling Opens Cable Lines (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Cable companies would be required to open their networks to rival high-speed Internet service providers under a federal appeals court ruling yesterday that could lead to more choices for consumers and subject the industry to the same competitive pressures roiling the telephone market.
3.	Sony PSX Console to Hit Japan Stores by Year-End (Reuters). Reuters - Sony Corp said on Tuesday it would begin selling the "PSX," an all-in-one game console and entertainment system, in Japan by the year-end, in a bid to boost the company's sagging electronics sales. Sony, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, said the PSX would feature a satellite TV tuner, DVD recorder, hard disk drive (HDD) recorder and PlayStation 2 (PS2) game player.
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4.	EE Times: Motorola spins off semiconductor group. Now when it implodes it won't take Moto down, too.
5.	EE Times: Startup throws cold water on hot CPUs. This is really more of an advance in packaging than in cooling, since water cooling doesn't change the size of the heat sink.
6.	H. Shafi, P. J. Bohrer, J. Phelan, C. A. Rusu, and J. L. Peterson: Design and Validation of a performance and power simulator for PowerPC systems. Mambo!
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7.	Nokia pushes N-Gage gaming mobile. Nokia has been talking up the prospects for its mobile gaming phone, the N-Gage, as it goes on sale globally.
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8.	Microsoft Sued for Weak Security. A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claims the company's software is vulnerable to viruses and its complex security warnings aid crackers rather than the general public. The suit alleges unfair competition and violation of two consumer rights laws.
9.	Military Training Is Just a Game. U.S. armed forces increasingly turn to video-game developers to train and recruit troops using role-playing simulations. Not just shoot'em-ups, the games aim to teach soldiers to be leaders or to think like terrorists.
10.	Nobel-Prize Speculation Runs Wild. From black holes to carbon nanotubes to the knock-out mouse, Nobel pundits say the field is wide open and the rumor mill in motion ahead of next week's Nobel science awards.
11.	Feds Want Cameras in Cockpits. The Federal Aviation Administration is considering installing video cameras on commercial flights, allowing people on the ground to monitor pilots and passengers in case of terrorist acts. Airline pilots are fiercely opposed.
12.	VeriSign to Shut Down Site Finder. Bowing to threats from ICANN, the big Web-address provider agrees to pull the plug on the controversial new service, which lets it capitalize on Web surfers' typos. ICANN says the service endangers the stability of the Internet.
13.	Quirky Scientists Win Ig Nobelity. Celebrating cutting-edge scientific discoveries such as how best to drag a sheep to be sheared and necrophilia in mallard ducks, the Ig Nobel awards honor scientists who fail to draw mainstream attention for their research. Mark Baard reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
14.	Waiting for DVDs, the Sequel. The next generation of DVDs will take advantage of the improved resolution of high-definition television. So what's taking so long? Also: Avoiding the next Betamax. A Wired News column by Peter Rojas.
15.	Broadband: Pick Cheap or Speedy. The rivalry between DSL providers and cable companies for broadband dominance is taking on a new flavor. Increasingly, cable firms are touting high speeds, while DSL services tempt with low rates. By Staci D. Kramer.
16.	Game Biz Mystified by Code Theft. The motive behind the recent theft of source code of Valve's Half-Life 2 remains a mystery. But the crime is forcing other game developers to take a second look at security in their industry. By Suneel Ratan.

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1.	Security worries prompt P2P upgrade. Earthstation 5 releases a new version of its software, minus a feature that one programmer says could let attackers delete files.
2.	Software makers promise smoother activation. Companies mull the lessons learned from consumer protests over the early usage of antipiracy technology in software, in particular in Intuit's tax software.
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3.	Stolen Video Game Source Code Circulating (AP). AP - Stolen copies of the source code of a highly anticipated computer game are circulating on the Internet, a sign of the video game industry's growing value — and vulnerability.
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4.	9th Circuit Overturns FCC's Cable Modem Decision
5.	McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'
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6.	SecurityFocus: Linux vs. Windows Viruses He focuses too much on email; a buffer overflow in inetd could take down Linux machines just as effectively. The number of worms/viruses doesn't matter, either; it only takes one.
7.	Mobile Review: Sony Ericsson P900. There's probably no chance of us P800 owners getting the firmware bug fixes. :-(

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1.	First-ever virtual hurricaine. The most powerful computer in the world has burst into hurricaine: Virtual hurricanes have appeared in computer models of the Earth's climate for the first time. The swirling storms are visible in the first results from the Earth Simulator in Yokohama, Japan - the world's fastest supercomputer... Whereas most climate models divide the Earth into blocks measuring hundreds of kilometres across, the powerful Earth Simulator can run models with cells as small as 10 kilometres. This means that detailed features of the weather - such as tropical storms - can be included. Link (via Robot Wisdom)
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2.	Nokia debuts cell phone gaming device. The handheld game player is also a cell phone, but live, head-to-head action only takes place for now using a Bluetooth wireless connection, which has a range of just a few feet.
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3.	LookSmart to Lose Key Microsoft Deal (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Internet division will end its licensing agreement with LookSmart Ltd. in January 2004, the Web search company said on Monday, cutting off LookSmart from its biggest client.
4.	Court Reverses Ruling on Cable Internet Service (Reuters). Reuters - In a pivotal decision that could shift the competitive balance among Internet service providers, a U.S. appeals court on Monday said the Federal Communications Commission erred last year in ruling that cable-based ISPs were not obliged to give rivals access to their networks.
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5.	Secure records package gets DOD approval
6.	DOD getting its IA act together

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1.	Court rejects FCC cable ruling. A federal appeals court rejects the Federal Communications Commission's opinion that cable broadband services should not be regulated like phone companies.
2.	Microsoft drops LookSmart search tool. The software giant is ending its deal to use LookSmart's listings on its MSN pages, as it gets ready to make a big Web search technology push of its own.
3.	Sharp tunes in its desktop displays. The company announces a pair of flat-screen monitors with television capabilities and also unveils a new notebook computer.
4.	Fujitsu, Siemens team up for IT services. The companies announce a pact in which Siemens Business Services will support Fujitsu customers in North America and Europe, while Fujitsu will help Siemens in the Asia Pacific region.
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5.	MSN to Drop Its Contract With LookSmart (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division will drop its contract with Internet search firm LookSmart Ltd. in January, marking a new stage in the software giant's long-term plan to develop its own search tools.
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6.	Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact?
7.	Software Fashion
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8.	Verisign defends Site Finder service. Company says worries about Internet stability and spam are overblown
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9.	Day the music died at MP3.com. The domain remains the same

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1.	Charter files suit against RIAA. The cable company files a lawsuit in an effort to bar the recording industry from obtaining the identities of its cable customers that have allegedly traded songs illegally online.
2.	Netscreen locks up secure-network deal. The security device maker announces an agreement to buy Neoteris, a leader in the fast-growing market for virtual private networks based on secure sockets layer technology.
3.	Microsoft shakes up partner program. The software maker is revamping the way it shares the wealth among its allies in a drive to reward expertise, not just volume, and so boost sales to small and midsized businesses.
4.	Ex-Viewsonic employee pleads guilty to hack. A former network administrator for computer-monitor maker pleads guilty to illegally accessing a company server and deleting critical data two weeks after the firm had fired him.
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5.	Court Overturns FCC Cable Modem Decision (AP). AP - A federal appeals court opened the door Monday to additional rules on high-speed Internet access over cable television lines, overturning a Federal Communications Commission decision that competitors say has kept them locked out of the cable systems.
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6.	HP disaster-recovery services head jumps to IBM. Months after taking over the position, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s director of business continuity for the Americas has resigned for a similar role at IBM Corp.
7.	Update: Motorola to spin off semiconductor business. Motorola Inc.'s embedded and networking semiconductor business will be separated from the rest of the company's operations and spun off as a new entity, Motorola announced Monday.
8.	P-to-P vendors forge ahead with business plans. Under attack from the U.S. entertainment industry and some members of the U.S. Congress, the largest peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors are forging ahead with business plans that some critics find ironic: the distribution of music and content licensed from the very industry that calls them "outlaws."
9.	PeopleSoft expects revenues to top estimates. PeopleSoft Inc. expects to top its financial guidance for the second quarter in a row, the company said Monday in a preview of the earnings report it will release later this month.
10.	ClearCube expands reach, usability of blade PCs. Blade PC vendor ClearCube Inc. Monday announced an updated version of its technology for connecting users to its blades that uses IP (Internet protocol) as the transmission standard.
11.	JBoss hires open source project leaders. The JBoss Group LLC has been busy hiring the lead developers at various open source software projects in a move to grow its business with new service offerings. ADVERTISEMENT: See Enterprise Business Intelligence in Action - See how business intelligence can be used to solve real business problems with this live demo from Information Builders

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1.	Innovation and the Internet. VeriSign's Mark McLaughlin says the company’s Site Finder service fell victim to critics who used the banner of technology purity to hold back the Internet.
2.	VeriSign says .com redirect isn't dead. The company fires back at critics of its controversial--and temporarily suspended--domain-name redirect service, saying Net regulators shouldn't have forced it to shut down.
3.	Many give the slip to VeriSign's "SiteFinder". As legal and political challenges to the domain name redirector mount, Chinese and other overseas network operators take technical steps to bypass the controversial service.
4.	Rambus to continue royalty quest after ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Infineon Technologies' appeal against the memory chip maker, clearing the way for Rambus to prove that memory makers are violating its patents.
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5.	Top Court Rejects Infineon Appeal Versus Rambus (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday Infineon Technologies AG's (IFXGn.DE) appeal of a ruling that threw out its fraud charges against Rambus Inc. (RMBS.O) and reinstated Rambus' claim that Infineon infringed its computer chip patents.
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6.	IBM Introduces 'Air Bags' For Laptop Hard Drives
7.	How Do You Manage Requests in Your Organization?
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8.	HP puts Madison-powered workstation into pond. Ecosystem on edge

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1.	PeopleSoft Raises Third-Quarter Forecast. The software company raised forecasts for the second time in a month, again citing strong sales and its recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, another software provider. By The Associated Press.
2.	Nokia Sees Millions of N-Gage Phones Sold in '04. Nokia expects its mobile gaming phone N-Gage to be sold in over 30,000 stores globally and targets hefty sales of the handset in 2004. By Reuters.
3.	Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail. The software engineers helped create the spam problem. Can they solve it? By Saul Hansell.
4.	Product Liability Lawsuits Are New Threat to Microsoft. Trial lawyers have watched as computer viruses and worms exploiting security flaws in Microsoft software have crashed computers and networks around the world. By Steve Lohr.
5.	Google Starts Counting Searches. The Web search service Google has quietly started placing a counter on its home page for a small number of its most frequent users. By Lisa Napoli.
6.	Rapid Growth of China's Huawei Has Its High-Tech Rivals on Guard. Huawei Technologies symbolizes China's new technological expertise and its desire to be more than the factory floor for the world. By Chris Buckley.
7.	Trying to Sell CD's by Adding Extras. Record companies are now bundling compact discs with extras to stoke consumer interest in hopes of ending a three-year sales slump. By Chris Nelson.
8.	Electronic Arts Makes Itself a Hollywood Home. The video game maker is betting that relocating its L.A. crew to a 250,000-square-foot studio will solidify its growing stature in the world of entertainment. By Eryn Brown.
9.	Are the Toughest Crowds on Broadway Online?. With the fall season starting, Internet forums are humming with gossip about the new round of shows. By Zachary Pincus-roth.
10.	As Tech Takes Off, So Does Anxiety. After slogging through three years of staggering losses, some tech sector funds have showed returns of more than 100 percent over the last 12 months. By Paul J. Lim.
11.	Where Nobody Knows You're a Music Thief. What's remarkable about the controversy over music sharing is not how many people are involved, but rather their fervent rationalizing. By Daniel Akst.
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12.	CollabNet to collaborate with Eclipse
13.	ThinkPads put brakes on crashes
14.	Boingo lands $10 million in funding
15.	EDS wins $40 million health deal
16.	Yahoo earnings hinging on search, advertising. As the Web portal prepares for its third-quarter earnings report, set for Wednesday, analysts are expecting the company to continue its streak of solid growth.
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17.	PeopleSoft Raises Its Outlook (Reuters). Reuters - PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O) on Monday said higher sales of its business software would drive quarterly results above its forecast, sending its shares rising in a further blow to Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL.O) hostile takeover attempt.
18.	PeopleSoft Raises Third-Quarter Forecast (AP). AP - Software company PeopleSoft Inc. Monday raised its third-quarter forecasts for the second time in little more than a month, again citing strong sales and its recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards & Co., another software provider.
19.	Latest Open-Source Revolution: Tech Support (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Historically, proprietary-software companies have maintained much more highly developed customer-support infrastructures than open-source software firms. Providing a user purchased the right contract, tech help would be just a phone call away.
20.	Traverse City Secedes (The Motley Fool). The Motley Fool - This just in... Traverse City, Mich., is not part of the United States. Either that or the folks at AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE - News) need a geography lesson.
21.	Get Yourself and Your PC Ready for Winter (AP). AP - Autumn's chill winds announce the time for a little self-indulgence — it's going to be cold and dark before it gets warm and bright again, so here are a few things you and your PC can do to settle in for winter.
22.	VeriSign Pulls Plug on Site Finder (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - Less than a month after launching its controversial Site Finder Web navigation service, VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN) has suspended it, bowing to pressure from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an Internet standards body.
23.	Worker blogs raise some company concerns (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - An explosion in online diaries by workers is creating headaches, and opportunities, for employers.
24.	Fuel Cell Cars Will Make Hybrids Obsolete, GM Says (Reuters). Reuters - Less than a week after its biggest Japanese rival touted the economic and ecological benefits of hybrids, General Motors made a case of its own on Monday: only hydrogen-fueled cars will survive in the endgame.
25.	LookSmart Says Losing Microsoft MSN Deal (Reuters). Reuters - Internet search company LookSmart Ltd. (LOOK.O) said on Monday that Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) MSN Internet division will end its licensing agreement after Jan. 15, 2004, which will "adversely affect" LookSmart's earnings outlook.
26.	Nokia Sets Ambitious Targets for New Game Phone (Reuters). Reuters - Nokia set out ambitious goals for its new combined cellphone and game console on Monday, throwing down the gauntlet on the eve of a worldwide launch as it seeks to wrest control of the market from Nintendo.
27.	Motorola to Spin Off Chip Business (Reuters). Reuters - Motorola Inc. (MOT.N) on Monday said it would spin off its semiconductor unit into a separate company as it focuses more closely on its battle with Nokia (NOK.N) (NOK1V.HE) over the mobile phone market.
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28.	What's Wacky with Google?
29.	Femtosecond Lasers for Nanosurgery
30.	Data Recovery - Put to the Test
31.	Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI
32.	MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure
33.	Managing Linux Systems With Webmin
34.	SGI Compares Linux & System V Source Code
35.	Motorola To Spin Off Chip Division
36.	Will Vanderpool Make Linux More Popular?
37.	Newest Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective
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38.	Voxilla: Comparison of Features and Rates of Current U.S.-based VoIP providers.
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39.	ITV waits for merger verdict. The government will this week announce whether the proposed merger of Granada and Carlton can go ahead.
40.	Motorola takes chips off the menu. The US telecoms equipment giant is to spin off its semiconductor business, in what the markets say is a welcome strategic shift.
41.	Mobile net growing in popularity. Brits are looking at three times more web pages on their mobile phones than a year ago, figures show.
42.	Computing net promises power. A global network of supercomputers promises to revolutionise computing itself.
43.	Scan pioneer shares Nobel prize. A British scientist who helped develop modern hospital scanners has been jointly awarded a Nobel prize.
44.	Nintendo shares dive on losses. Nintendo's shares plunge 6% after it forecasts a big first half loss and cuts prices of its GameCube.
45.	US port 'hit by UK hacker'. A British teenager attacked computer systems at the Port of Houston while taking revenge on a fellow chatroom user, a court hears.
46.	Broadband heads for islands. Broadband technology is to be extended to Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles from Spring 2004.
47.	Contentious net service dropped. Verisign suspends its much criticised service that redirects users who have mistyped net addresses.
48.	Digital display dazzles London. A giant digital billboard in London's city centre uses advanced technology to interact its surroundings.
49.	Iraq awards mobile licences. Iraq awards three mobile phone licences in an important step towards rebuilding the country.
50.	Spam watchdog 'needs more bite'. The UK Government watchdog responsible for tackling spam needs greater powers, a group of influential MPs says.
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51.	HP offers Sun customers $25K Linux incentive. Hewlett-Packard Co. on Friday announced a new program aimed at luring users of Sun Microsystem Inc.'s Solaris operating system over to Hewlett-Packard machines running Linux. The bait? $25,000 in porting and migration services.
52.	Sony adds fingerprint reader to USB storage device. Sony Corp. has developed a version of its Micro Vault USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash memory storage unit with an integrated fingerprint reader.
53.	Companies chasing LCD innovations. Several of the latest innovations in display technology for portable electronics devices will be on display at the Ceatec Japan 2003 exhibition in Japan this week. The new and prototype displays offer a number of different advantages over existing displays and point to brighter, clearer and more compact screens coming to gadgets in the future.
54.	IBM Tivoli updates ID management. Automating identity management is the latest move from IBM Tivoli. The company announced on Monday that all of the components that make up its identity management software platform have been updated to allow automation of policies and processes.
55.	HP revs up Ethernet switches. Hewlett-Packard's networking division this week will unwrap a slew of new switches, hoping to drive the adoption of GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) in the enterprise and leapfrog competitor 3Com in market share.
56.	VeriSign suspends Site Finder following ICANN pressure. The controversial Site Finder service unveiled on the Internet last month by VeriSign Inc. was temporarily suspended by the company late Friday after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) demanded that the feature be halted immediately due to concerns about its effects on the Internet.
57.	Infragistics brings ink enablement to developers. Infragistics on Monday began shipping an update to its NetAdvantage software tools for Visual Studio that now lets developers build ink-enabled Windows Forms applications. Additionally, NetAdvantage 2003 Vol. 3 includes a new .Net UI, two new calendar elements for ASP.Net, the ability to export to Excel, and improved charting. The ink-enablement features were added to NetAdvantage at no cost to customers and will help developers create forms that are typically filled in with handwriting, such as those done on Tablet PCs. The new charting capabilities close the gap of programmability and data layered charts, according to Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics. Guida said that Infragistics will be demonstrating the new tools at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference (PDC), later this month.
58.	Fujitsu, Siemens collaborate on IT services. Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co. (SBS) and Fujitsu Ltd. have struck an agreement to boost the companies' presence in the area of IT services.
59.	Microsoft report prompts Forrester policy change. Forrester Research Inc. has changed its policy toward vendor-sponsored research following last month's publication of a controversial Microsoft Corp.-funded study that compared the cost of developing applications on Linux and Java to a Microsoft-based approach.
60.	Internap buys Sockeye on route-control land grab. An Internet service provider (ISP) that aims to guarantee packet delivery over all major Internet backbones plans to expand its services after its acquisition of route-control hardware and service provider Sockeye Networks Inc., which was announced Monday. ADVERTISEMENT: VERTABASE PRO - Project Mangement Made Easy - Top-rated, web-based project management application. Easy to use and robust. Visit the site for a Tour!
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61.	IBM Tivoli updates ID management. Platform now allows automation of policies, processes
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62.	IBM and EMC swallow each others' API pride. Storage swap
63.	Nokia to sell 'several million' N-Gages in 2004. Launches midnight tonight
64.	Legality of online pharmacies questioned. You want snake oil? We got snake oil!
65.	O2 launches mobile video service. Rugby pitch
66.	NetScreen nets Neoteris for $265m. SSL VPN power play
67.	US should follow EU lead on spam - MPs. Let's co-operate
68.	SCO can ditch its Benelux distie. 30 days notice for 30 years business
69.	Belgacom: minority shareholders eye windfall. Float plans
70.	UK teenager accused of 'electronic sabotage' against US port. Houston, we have a problem
71.	Iraq goes GSM. Wins for Kuwaiti, Egyptian bids
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72.	Singapore Chip Gets a Jump on Flu. The Genome Institute of Singapore hopes to release a chip this winter that can detect almost instantly whether a patient has flu, dengue fever, SARS or another respiratory illness.
73.	IBM: Keep Death Records Out. In a California trial to determine the validity of worker cancer claims, IBM wants a judge to exclude company records called the Corporate Mortality File from evidence, saying the documents might confuse a jury.
74.	Hollywood Riffs on Recall Scripts. An action movie hero who becomes governor of California? The Total Recall scenario is ripe for B-movie plots and silver-screen writers can't resist imagining how the films would play out.
75.	Faster Entry Sought for Generics. Despite efforts to speed up approval of generic drugs, Americans still spend billions extra for prescriptions because of delays engineered by brand-name pharmaceutical companies. Pending legislation could help. By Janis Mara.
76.	Sports Fans Turn to Cell Phones. Die-hard college sports fans who live outside their team's broadcast area can now get live games on their cell phones. But the service, launched this fall by a Georgia startup, doesn't come free. By Mark McClusky.
77.	Will You Buy a Car From This Man?. Described as 'Friendster meets Craigslist,' Tribe.net attempts to make online classifieds more useful -- and safer to use -- by creating networks of trusted individuals that do business together. By Leander Kahney.
78.	Students Toil as Spyware Hunters. A pair of high school seniors team up to track down the creators behind Xupiter, a particularly agressive spyware invading thousands of computers. They are donating many hours of their time to help bring them to court. By Michelle Delio.

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