Gregg's Security News Aggregator

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

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1.	EarthLink to collect more subscriber information. The Internet service provider says it will begin collecting more personal information about its subscribers in an effort to better market to them.
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2.	CAPS-II -- doing the math

11:25:59 PM

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1.	Short, but the Very Image of a Star. Action figures are populating stores and Web sites as digital scanning and production methods make it easy to re-create characters from movies, television, sports and video games. By Michel Marriott.
2.	The Next Best Thing To Getting Inside His Head. When you are sitting next to a friend playing a video game, sometimes the only way to win is to give your opponent a shove that will knock the game controller to the floor. It is a strategy that evens up the odds but invites retaliation. Now Gamester offers an alternative to a fistfight on the couch: Clash Pads, a pair of game controllers for PlayStation 2 that allow players to interfere with each other's controllers. By Charles Herold.
3.	With Silicon's Help, a Change in Status for the Lowly Battery. Computer chips and sensors can now help prolong battery life and speed the charging cycle. By Peter Wayner.
4.	Soaring Into the Air With a Boost From a Laser Beam. Transmitting electricity without wires, a century-old dream, moves a bit closer to realization. By Noah Shachtman.
5.	Great Tunes, but Where's The Cover?. Evocative cover graphics are strictly optional now that so much music comes in digital form. By J. Greg Phelan.
6.	Forgeries Prompt Grocers to Reject Internet Coupons. Several chain stores are refusing home-printed Internet discount coupons in some states because of what the grocery industry says is a surge in forgeries. By Ian Austen.
7.	A Signal From the Sky Lets You Stay Tuned. Q. What makes satellite radio different from standard radio stations, aside from my having to pay for it?
8.	In Amazon's Text-Search, a Field Day for Book Browsers. A new keyword-search feature at Amazon is raising some tough questions for booksellers. By Lisa Guernsey.
9.	A Collaborative Event Calendar and Stump the Bookseller. Your Social Secretary. By Pamela Licalzi O'connell.
10.	Ads Aren't All the Browser Tool Is Blocking. The Google toolbar, a thin row of buttons and a query window that sits within the Internet Explorer browser, has become a big hit. By Lisa Guernsey.
11.	Sound Engulfs a Room Without Untidy Wires. Wiring the left, right and center speakers of a surround-sound system is easy enough because they are at one end of the room. More of a challenge is unobtrusively connecting the speakers along the room's sides. Two new home theater systems, the Niro 1.1 and 1.1 Pro, get around that by putting all five channels' worth of speakers, along with a small subwoofer, into one box. By Ivan Berger.
12.	Can't Get No Satisfaction? Change the Camera Angle. The Rolling Stones' "Four Flicks" DVD set, set for release next week, includes a feature that lets viewers create an impromptu director's cut. Three songs on the four-disk set have an option called Select-a-Stone that lets the viewer choose any of five camera angles without interrupting the performance. By Tom Mcnichol.
13.	Electronic Messages Become a Beacon In the Darkness. The night sky over Yamaguchi, Japan, will glow this month with the light from electronic messages transmitted over the Internet. "Amodal Suspension," a public artwork by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist based in Montreal, allows visitors to the project's Web site (www.amodal.net) to send short text messages that are then beamed into the sky by 20 computer-controlled searchlights at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. The project, commissioned for the center's opening on Nov. 1, will run through Nov. 24. By Matthew Mirapaul.
14.	An External DVD Drive Flaunts Its Fluency. So many DVD formats, so little time. If owning a DVD recorder seems appealing but remembering which blank DVD format it accepts does not, Iomega's new Super DVD Writer All-Format U.S.B. 2.0 external drive may be ideal. It records and reads discs in all current DVD and CD formats. By J.d. Biersdorfer.
15.	Letters to the Editor. Quixotic Inventions.
16.	Camcorders With Tape? How Quaint. Panasonic and Gateway offer smaller camcorder models that do away with the tape. How well do they work? By David Pogue.
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17.	Apple says could move to Intel, but happy with IBM. The latest version of the Mac OS X operating system could easily run on Intel chips, Apple CEO Steve Jobs says, but the company has little interest in changing processors.
18.	Fujifilm to raise CD media prices
19.	Mirapoint names new CEO
20.	Red Hat sews up Linux for hobbyists. The Linux seller plans to release a version of the open-source operating system for fans on Thursday, part of a move to split its product line to improve profitability.
21.	Industry cheers Novell's Linux buy. Computing industry stalwarts such as HP, Oracle and even Microsoft welcome Novell's planned buyout of SuSE Linux, saying the move will mean a stronger business partner for their own wares.
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22.	Qualcomm Profit Jumps 53 Percent (Reuters). Reuters - Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O) on Wednesday posted a 53 percent increase in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, helped by a tax benefit in its investment unit and strong demand for its wireless chips that allow users to surf the Web at high speeds.
23.	Microsoft Puts $500,000 on Virus Writers' Heads (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp., beset by widespread criticism of security flaws in its software, on Wednesday put up a bounty to track down the authors of two computer bugs that choked the Internet earlier this year.
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24.	New Wireless Security Standard Has Old Problem?
25.	Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red
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26.	Red Hat released Fedora Core 1 (previously known as Red Hat Linux 10). Now the hard part of really integrating the community into the development process begins.
27.	EFF: FCC Adopts Hollywood "Broadcast Flag" Mandate.
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28.	Moto, LG up - Ericssony down. Worldwide phone sales boom
29.	Sun's services queen ready to take on the Big Bad. McNealy has Mac attack
30.	FCC locks down US TV. Broadcast flag approved
31.	Sun and AMD set date for Opteron coming out party. Exclusive Boxes, boxes and more boxes
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32.	WORM_SEXER.C
33.	Who oWnS Gartner Research ?

10:25:41 PM

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1.	Cisco holds steady, eyes rebound. The networking giant hits Wall Street targets with net profit of $1.1 billion and hints that a general economic recovery is already in the works.
2.	Longtime HP executive to retire. Webb McKinney, the Hewlett-Packard executive who helped oversee the company's integration with Compaq Computer, plans to retire in December, ending a 34-year career with HP.
3.	Oracle hits back in PeopleSoft suit
4.	'Critical' patch sent out for Office flaw. Microsoft issues the first major update for its recently released Office 2003, fixing a bug that could result in lost work.
5.	Will MS bounty cause mutiny among hackers?. Some security experts say the lure of money could disrupt relationships among virus writers, effectively shutting down the loose online circles where authors meet.
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6.	FireWire 400 data loss culprit remains a mystery (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. said last week that they had identified an issue with the Oxford Semiconductor 922 chipset used in FireWire 800 hard drives and were working to fix the issue. While Apple, Oxford and hard drive manufacturers have stated the issue only affects the newer Oxford 922 chips, users of FireWire 400 drives have been reporting symptoms very similar to the ones initially found with FireWire 800.
7.	Cisco Reports Higher First-Quarter Sales (AP). AP - Cisco Systems Inc. posted higher sales and profits for its fiscal first quarter Wednesday, the strongest indication yet that corporate spending on networking equipment is beginning to rebound after two years of declines.
8.	Sources: Penn State to Offer Free Music (AP). AP - In an apparent campus first aimed at undercutting the file-swapping craze, Penn State University will offer students free digital music listening and limited downloading from the relaunched Napster service, music industry sources said Wednesday.
9.	Microsoft Offers Reward to Stop Viruses (AP). AP - Applying Wild West bounties to modern Internet crimes, Microsoft Corp. set aside $5 million Wednesday to pay large cash rewards to people who help authorities capture and prosecute the creators of damaging computer viruses.
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10.	SAP moves to boost collaboration. Edging further into the middleware and integration infrastructure market, SAP AG is pushing out a revision of its Enterprise Portal application designed to run on a wider variety of platforms, handle more languages, and enable new types of collaboration.
11.	Update: Wanted by Microsoft: Virus writers. Stepping up its battle against computer viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp. has established a $5 million fund to pay rewards for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for releasing malicious code, the company said.
12.	Borland exec doubts Sun's desktop chances - Infoworld Staff. SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Borland President and CEO Dale Fuller is not optimistic about partner company Sun Microsystems's chance to unseat Microsoft on the desktop.
13.	Nokia: No diversification into enterprise networks. CANNES - Nokia Corp. has no plans to diversify into end-to-end enterprise networking products -- or at least not yet, Chief Executive Officer Jorma Ollila told attendees at Gartner Inc.'s Symposium/ITxpo conference here.
14.	Researchers urge consideration of spam incentives. Although most Internet users find spam annoying, some would not mind living with it, if they are given incentives such as discounts from their Internet service providers (ISPs), according to a study by two university researchers.
15.	Sutherland to double outsourcing staff in India. The Sutherland Group Ltd., a business process outsourcing (BPO) company based in Rochester, New York, plans to double the strength of its staff in Chennai, India, from 1,500 to 3,000 over the next three to six months, according to a company executive.
16.	IBM introduces Lotus Workplace products. Four Lotus Workplace software products launched Tuesday in Boston will make it easier and cheaper for users to collaborate and share information at work, IBM executives said.
17.	Mobile computing: PC redux?. SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile computing has some growing up to do if it is to have serious enterprise appeal. That was the consensus Tuesday at an Intel event aimed at fostering discussion about how best to address the nascent enterprise mobile computing market. ADVERTISEMENT: IDC Report: The Enterprise Services Bus Will Revolutionize IT - This analyst report focuses on the growing demand for a light-weight EAI solution to connect diverse applications & devices. It looks at the benefits of standards-based messaging technology that boosts ROI by optimizing existing network systems
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18.	Cybersecurity a balancing act, former FBI head says. Louis Freeh says businesses need to protect trade secrets
19.	Mimail variants spreading, target antispam sites. New variants contain instructions to launch DDoS attacks ADVERTISEMENT: Get strong 128-bit SSL security for your online business - To secure your servers with 128-bit SSL encryption, download a copy of the free VeriSign Guide, "Securing Your Web site for Business." You'll learn everything you need to know about encrypting e-commerce transactions, securing corporate intranets, and authenticating your Web site.
20.	CSI - Security certifications: Employers want them. Value of credentials debated
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21.	WORM_AGOBOT.L
22.	RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
23.	RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
24.	RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
25.	RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack

8:37:15 PM

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1.	Cisco Reports Higher 1st-Quarter Earnings. Cisco's results were the strongest indication yet that corporate spending on networking equipment is rebounding after two years of declines. By The Associated Press.
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2.	Apple eyes more sales to government, business. The Mac maker says it is experimenting with new sales efforts designed to boost sales of Macintoshes to business and government customers.
3.	Lotus targets e-mail holdouts. New additions to company's Workplace line of business software include products aimed at workers who don't use PCs much on the job.
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4.	Cisco Reports Higher First-Quarter Sales (AP). AP - Cisco Systems Inc. posted higher sales and profits for its fiscal first quarter Wednesday, the strongest indication yet that corporate spending on networking equipment is beginning to rebound after two years of declines.
5.	Wind River Systems Names Klein As CEO (AP). AP - Slumping software maker Wind River Systems Inc. announced Wednesday that industry veteran Ken Klein will become its new chief executive officer in January.
6.	Qualcomm 4Q Earnings Meet Expectations (AP). AP - Wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. reported fourth quarter net income in line with expectations Wednesday and said earnings-per-share growth for 2004 would be flat compared to 2003.
7.	Napster, Penn State to Announce Deal-Sources (Reuters). Reuters - Song-swap pioneer-turned online music store Napster is expected to announce a deal with Penn State University to offer its newly relaunched music service for free to tens of thousands of students, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
8.	FTC Cites Concern Over Pop-Up Ads in Windows (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. regulators on Wednesday voiced concerns about a feature in Microsoft Windows that could subject Windows users to unwanted "pop-up" ads.
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9.	Norton Antivirus 2004 Ad Blocking - Tough Call?
10.	Microsoft Not Out Of Anti-Trust Hot Water
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11.	BugTraq: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: [psz at maths dot usyd dot edu dot au (Paul Szabo)]
12.	BugTraq: Re: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Florian Weimer [fw at deneb dot enyo dot de]
13.	BugTraq: Re: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Seth Arnold [sarnold at wirex dot com]
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14.	Detroit Warns on traffic light changer
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15.	Customer Highlights and Technology Innovation Fact Sheet: Fiscal Year 2004 First Quarter

7:36:55 PM

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1.	Ex-IBM Worker Testifies About Chemicals (AP). AP - IBM Corp. betrayed employees by promoting itself as an environmental steward while concealing the hazards of the carcinogenic chemicals that workers inhaled and touched, a former employee testified Wednesday in a case against Big Blue.
2.	Microsoft Offers Reward to Stop Viruses (AP). AP - Applying Wild West bounties to modern Internet crimes, Microsoft Corp. set aside $5 million Wednesday to pay large cash rewards to people who help authorities capture and prosecute the creators of damaging computer viruses.
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3.	Use risk management to balance functionality and security
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4.	Brazilian police arrested 18 Internet hackers on Wednesday in massive raids
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5.	BugTraq: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Thor Larholm [thor at pivx dot com]
6.	BugTraq: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Steve Hillier [steve at mastermindtoys dot com]
7.	BugTraq: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: white colin john [cjwhite1 at ehlnx13 dot ews dot uiuc dot edu]
8.	BugTraq: RE: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Thor Larholm [thor at pivx dot com]
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9.	Senate Caves to Banking Interests
10.	Microsoft MSBlast ve SoBig virüsü yazarlarý için 250,000 dolar ödül koyuyor

6:36:37 PM

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1.	Cisco Reports Higher 1Q Sales, Earnings (AP). AP - Cisco Systems Inc. posted higher sales and profits for its fiscal first quarter Wednesday, the strongest indication yet that corporate spending on networking equipment is rebounding after two years of declines.
2.	Call Forward Service Has Many Advantages (AP). AP - For anyone who answers their cell phone at home, here's an idea so simple it's hard to imagine why it took so long to arrive: why not have your wireless calls automatically ring on your home phone whenever you're there?
3.	Online U.S. Holiday Sales Seen Up 20 Pct in 2003 (Reuters). Reuters - U.S. sales of goods over the Internet during the 2003 holidays are expected to grow by 20 percent to $16.8 billion as more people shop online for the first time, Jupiter Research said on Wednesday.
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4.	Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space
5.	Fedora Core 1 Released
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6.	Cisco sees profits rise. Profits at Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of equipment that directs internet traffic, are lifted by a pick-up in sales.
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7.	Startup Says Quantum Crypto Is Real
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8.	Columnists: Security's Brewing Mess. What do low-level programming languages have in common with a scalding hot cup of coffee? Nothing that a little Java won't cure.
9.	News: Microsoft offers huge cash rewards for catching virus writers. The Associated Press By Ted Bridis
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10.	BugTraq: RE: double slash moves cache from INTERNET zone to MYCOMPUTER zone. Sender: Thor Larholm [thor at pivx dot com]
11.	BugTraq: [CLA-2003:775] Conectiva Security Announcement - apache. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br]
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12.	Italian charged in porn dialler virus scam. All we need is a Linux guru and RIAA angle for the perfect headline
13.	Lara Croft to hit the catwalk. "Miss Digital World" seeks electronic ideal of beauty
14.	Veritas drills into disk with new NetBackup. Supporting cast full of protection
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15.	Microsoft to offer bounty on hackers

5:36:14 PM

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1.	Tiny Toshiba drive gets a boost. The company's Storage Device Division says it has revised its 1.8-inch hard drive in two models, one capable of storing 20GB of data and the other, 40GB.
2.	Nokia gives cell phones new address. The handset maker plans to incorporate a new Internet Protocol addressing system into some of its cell phones next year.
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3.	First of Suits vs IBM Hears Testimony (Reuters). Reuters - A 73-year-old former IBM factory worker at the center of a landmark cancer lawsuit against the company told a court on Wednesday that she was regularly exposed to a thick, pungent-smelling chemical coating while working at a plant making computer disks.
4.	Microsoft Puts a Price on Hackers' Heads (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - In response to attacks that exploited flaws in its software and wreaked havoc among computer users in recent months, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has taken the unprecedented step of putting a price on the heads of malicious code writers.
5.	Music-File Erasing Is Increasing, Research Company Says (Reuters). Reuters - More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August -- a sign that the record industry's anti-piracy tactics are hitting home, said research company NPD Group on Wednesday.
6.	Microsoft Offers Reward to Stop Viruses (AP). AP - Applying Wild West bounties to modern Internet crimes, Microsoft Corp. set aside $5 million Wednesday to pay large cash rewards to people who help authorities capture and prosecute the creators of damaging computer viruses.
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7.	E-Book Museum at Library of Congress?
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8.	BugTraq: POS#1 Self-Executing HTML: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 Part III. Sender: http-equiv at excite dot com [1 at malware dot com]
9.	BugTraq: Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Oracle Application Server 9i and RDBMS (#NISR05112003). Sender: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research [nisr at nextgenss dot com]
10.	BugTraq: [CLA-2003:774] Conectiva Security Announcement - bugzilla. Sender: Conectiva Updates [secure at conectiva dot com dot br]
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11.	Bugzilla Multiple Vulnerabilities
12.	Bugzilla Multiple Vulnerabilities

4:35:55 PM

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1.	Teleglobe snaps up VoIP leader. The phone and data traffic carrier says it is buying ITXC, a wholesaler of Internet phone services, a deal that should create a top-3 supplier of internationally dialed phone calls.
2.	Nice try on security, Microsoft
3.	Standard boosts fiber-optic bandwidth. A United Nations-affiliated telecom group approves a new standard that will increase bandwidth in fiber-optic lines and reduce costs for network providers.
4.	HP to introduce desktop blades. Hewlett-Packard is set to take the desktop off the desk later this month when it unveils its latest blade computing system for businesses. The setup stores workers' PCs on a central rack.
5.	Amazon jams print feature on book search. You can "Search Inside the Book," but the e-tailer, prompted by complaints made by an authors' group, will no longer let you print pages found by using the service.
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6.	Brazil Police Bust Gang of Internet Hackers (Reuters). Reuters - Brazilian police arrested 18 Internet hackers on Wednesday in a massive operation to dismantle a gang operating across four northern states, authorities said.
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7.	Touch-Screen Voting Snags Continue
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8.	Elsewhere: Microsoft to Place Bounty on Virus Writers
9.	Elsewhere: China to invest in Linux-based software
10.	Infocus: Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
11.	News: MS puts $250k bounty on virus authors' heads
12.	News: Microsoft announces reward program to convict virus writers
13.	Cybercrime: more funds are unlikely
14.	W32.Mimail.F@mm
15.	W32.Mimail.G@mm
16.	Backdoor.Bionet.404
17.	W32.Darker.Worm

3:35:36 PM

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1.	RealNetworks offers streaming discount
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2.	Mobile Phone Sales Surge (PC World). PC World - Nokia still dominates the worldwide market.
3.	Microsoft launches five million-dollar reward fund to fight viruses (AFP). AFP - Microsoft unveiled a five million-dollar reward fund to help track down creators of viruses and other types of malicious activity on the Internet.
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4.	'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today
5.	iTunes Disables MusicMatch
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6.	Hand-held 'TVs' combat crime. Mobile phone technology is set to be used by police in the fight against street crime.
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7.	'DDoS' Attacks Still Pose Threat to Internet
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8.	[ESA-20031105-030] 'apache' buffer overflow in mod_alias and mod_rewrite
9.	Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack
10.	[slackware-security]apache security update (SSA:2003-308-01)
11.	MSIE clientCaps "isComponentInstalled" and "getComponentVersion" registry information leakage
12.	La confiance dans l'e-commerce augmente
13.	Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers
14.	Microsoft to offer bounty on hackers
15.	MS Calls Out Bounty Hunters
16.	Setback for Financial Privacy
17.	Making the U.S. safe for spam

2:35:15 PM

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1.	The next Sony?. Samsung has big ambitions in consumer electronics, but first it must overhaul a brand better known for low-end microwaves. It's up to Eric Kim to make it happen.
2.	SAP updates its portal software. Among the upgrades to SAP Enterprise Portal are new collaboration tools, expanded language capabilities, and support for the Unix operating system.
3.	Nokia, Motorola regain market share. Strong demand for new handsets helped the top mobile phone makers reclaim market share in the third quarter, which they had lost to Asian vendors in the first quarter, a report says.
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4.	News: Microsoft announces reward program to convict virus writers. The Associated Press By Ted Bridis
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5.	MS puts $250k bounty on virus authors' heads. Updated Bring me the head of Alfredo VXer
6.	Dell is looking for a few good men. Making PCs PaYS
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7.	The Dawn of the E-Bomb
8.	FCC Approves 'Broadcast Flag' Antipiracy Rules
9.	Security Spec Gets An Upgrade, Broader Backing
10.	5 Nov W32/Yaha-X
11.	WorldPay fights 'massive, orchestrated' attack
12.	SCRYPTO Systems reçoit 300.000 € de l’ANVAR
13.	Top 10 des virus les plus frequemment detectes en octobre 2003 par Panda ActiveScan
14.	BitDefender reçoit la certification Virus Bulletin pour Windows Server 2003
15.	Le Top 10 des virus d’octobre par BitDefender

1:34:57 PM

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1.	Microsoft to Place Bounty on Virus Writers. Microsoft and security organizations are set to offer cash bounties for information on the authors of the crippling MSBlast and Sobig computer bugs. By Reuters.
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2.	Will Novell's SuSE buy be death knell for OSS? (TechTarget). TechTarget - Novell's announcement Tuesday of its intention to purchase SuSE Linux AG, the second largest open source server software provider, set the Linux and open source community abuzz.
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3.	The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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4.	ITV appoints interim chairman. Sir Brian Pitman, the former head of Lloyds TSB, is appointed interim chairman of the new ITV following the ousting of Michael Green.
5.	Hi-tech phone masts approved. Two controversial videophone base stations are approved by Barrow councillors, but permission is refused for two others.
6.	US acts on digital TV piracy fear. Rules to limit sending digital TV shows over the internet are approved by US regulators.
7.	Anti-virus fight gets cash boost. Cash rewards are on offer for anyone helping to track down the creators of damaging computer viruses.
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8.	Update: Settlement foes propose stiffer remedies for Microsoft. WASHINGTON -- The antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to be amended because it doesn't ensure competition between Microsoft and its rivals, the state of Massachusetts and an IT industry group argued Tuesday.
9.	Microsoft sets 100M target for Windows phones and PDAs. Microsoft Corp. has set a target to sell 100 million personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones running Windows in the year 2007, a Microsoft official said Monday.
10.	IBM, plaintiffs tussle in hazards damages case. SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Lawyers representing IBM Corp. and two former employees suing the company over alleged work-related cancers delivered opening statements Tuesday in a court here, revisiting working conditions and corporate behavior in the pioneering days of computer hardware.
11.	Emerging markets boost mobile phone market, IDC says. First-time buyers in emerging markets helped drive the still-growing mobile phone market in the third quarter of this year, IDC said Wednesday.
12.	Interview: Siebel exec backs Web services model - Infoworld Staff. Siebel believes enterprises want the choice of on premise or hosted CRM -- or both. And the glue in the middle is Siebel's Web services-based Universal Application Network (UAN). In an interview with InfoWorld Executive News Editor Mark Jones and Editor at Large Ephraim Schwartz, Siebel Executive Vice President David Schmaier argued the company hasn't forgotten its object-oriented roots. ADVERTISEMENT: VeriSign Security Intelligence and Control(SM) Services - VeriSign's Security Intelligence and Control(SM) Services let you focus on business initiatives, like record up-time and global VPNs, while VeriSign's experience helps you monitor and manage your security infrastructure.
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13.	Cyberattack Could Cause Serious Damage
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14.	Infocus: Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems. This paper will describe the need for wireless intrusion detection, provide an explanation of wireless intrusion detection systems, and identify the benefits and drawbacks of a wireless intrusion detection solution.
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15.	BugTraq: MSIE clientCaps "isComponentInstalled" and "getComponentVersion" registry information leakage. Sender: Sam Schinke [sschinke at myrealbox dot com]
16.	BugTraq: IE: double slash moves cache from INTERNET zone to MYCOMPUTER zone. Sender: Liu Die Yu [liudieyuinchina at yahoo dot com dot cn]
17.	BugTraq: Six Step IE Remote Compromise Cache Attack. Sender: Liu Die Yu [liudieyuinchina at yahoo dot com dot cn]
18.	BugTraq: [ESA-20031105-030] 'apache' buffer overflow in mod_alias and mod_rewrite. Sender: EnGarde Secure Linux [security at guardiandigital dot com]
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19.	WorldPay fights 'massive, orchestrated' attack. DDoS assault day two
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20.	Nexus, le futur agent de sécurité de Windows
21.	(Mise à jour) La messagerie Noos remise sur pieds dans une semaine
22.	New Secure Computing Sidewinder G2 Firewall Available Now
23.	SHOUTcast Server "icy-name" and "icy-url" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
24.	Microsoft Offers Reward to Stop Viruses
25.	SHOUTcast Server "icy-name" and "icy-url" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

12:34:37 PM

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1.	Microsoft sets up virus-hunting fund. The software giant says it will work with law enforcement to hunt down writers of worms, viruses and other malicious code, and is ponying up $5 million to fund the search.
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2.	IBM Backing Novell's Push Toward Linux (Investor's Business Daily). Investor's Business Daily - With Novell Inc.'s stock up 21% and rival Red Hat Inc. down 12% on news of Novell's acquisition of German Linux developer SuSEon Tuesday, it's almost too easy to pick out the deal's winners and losers. Almost.
3.	Microsoft in multi-million dollar tie-up with Sri Lanka (AFP). AFP - Microsoft Corp announced a multi-million dollar tie-up with Sri Lanka, which will provide education and training and see the software giant set up a local subsidiary in the country.
4.	Microsoft Offers Reward to Stop Viruses (AP). AP - Microsoft Corp. is creating a $5 million reward program to help law enforcement identify and convict those who illegally release worms, viruses and other types of malicious programs on the Internet.
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5.	Climate Data Re-examined (updated)
6.	Intel: Metal in Future Chips = Less Leakage (updated)
7.	UCB, USC To Build (And Hack) A Model Internet
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8.	The Dawn of the E-Bomb
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9.	Elsewhere: Microsoft to Place Bounty on Virus Writers. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and security organizations are set to offer cash bounties for information on the authors of the crippling MSBlast and S...
10.	Elsewhere: China to invest in Linux-based software. The Chinese government plans to throw its financial weight behind Linux-based computer systems that could rival Microsoft Corp's Windows in one of the world's fastest-gro...
11.	News: MS puts $250k bounty on virus authors' heads. The Register By John Leyden [john dot leyden at theregister dot co dot uk]
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12.	An Introduction to the Fake Players Bug and DoS 0.1.1
13.	Cisco Systems Sweeps Networking Categories at Computerworld Singapore Awards
14.	Cisco Internet-based Business Model proves Invaluable in the Fight against SARS in Asia Pacific
15.	Longhorn may pose security concerns
16.	The Linux factor
17.	Microsoft to offer $250,000 bounty on MSBlast worm and SoBig virus authors
18.	Wireless Web reaches Kashmir
19.	Electronic Voting Firm Sued Over Threats
20.	FCC Acts to Limit Digital TV Piracy
21.	High-TECH Firms Tout Outsourcing As Crucial
22.	Wurm-Autoren: Microsoft setzt 500.000 US-Dollar Kopfgeld aus
23.	OpenLinux update for ucd-snmp
24.	OpenLinux update for ucd-snmp

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1.	Tiny Toshiba drive gets a boost. The company's Storage Device Division says it has revised its 1.8-inch hard drive in two models, one capable of storing 20GB of data and the other, 40GB.
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2.	Will A Price War Run VoIP Out of Business?
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3.	An Introduction to the Fake Players Bug and DoS 0.1.1
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4.	Microsoft to offer bounty on 'hackers'
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5.	Microsoft vs Massachusetts. Appellates mull states' last stand
6.	ADSL snag catches Virgin.net. Compensation offered
7.	Campaign calls for safe e-voting. Audit trail
8.	Virgin Mobile claims record Q3. loadsapunters
9.	Intel claims high-k material will slash chip power hunger. But not in time for Prescott...
10.	Sony to offer $60 iPod? Not likely. Apples and oranges
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11.	Die 20 gefährlichsten Internet-Schwachstellen
12.	Weiterer Fehler in OpenSSL gefunden

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1.	Microsoft Sets Its Sights High (PC World). PC World - Software giant aims to sell 100 million mobile devices by 2007.
2.	Ask Jeeves Launches New Product Search Feature (Reuters). Reuters - Ask Jeeves Inc. (ASKJ.O) unveiled its new Smart Product Search feature, joining its rivals and others in beefing up tools that help consumers find, price and compare products on the Web.
3.	Sources: Microsoft to Place Bounty on Virus Writers (Reuters). Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) and security organizations are set to offer cash bounties for information on the authors of the crippling MSBlast and Sobig computer bugs, industry sources said on Wednesday.
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4.	Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London
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5.	EnGarde: 'apache' mod_alias and mod_rewrite buffer overflow
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6.	MS puts $250k bounty on virus authors' heads
7.	OpenBSD Malformed Binary Execution Denial of Service Vulnerability
8.	OpenBSD Malformed Binary Execution Denial of Service Vulnerability

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1.	FCC Approves First Digital Anti-Piracy Measure (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved the first-ever requirement that some personal computers and other consumer electronic devices be equipped with technology to help block Internet piracy of digital entertainment.
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2.	Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers
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3.	A glimpse inside the virus writer. Most computer viruses writers are well-adjusted teenagers rather than anti-social geeks says security expert.
4.	Gamers get power boost from Intel. Intel's new chip for Pentium 4 is released, specifically aimed at PC gamers who want high-performance machines.
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5.	Intel to bring out the metal at 45 nanometers. Intel Corp. will change two materials used in the manufacturing of its chips in order to improve performance and reduce power leakage as its transistors shrink over the next four or five years, the company announced Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT: Do you know a company that uses pirated software? - Software piracy is bad business. Make them clean up their act. Click here to report Software Piracy to the Business Software Alliance.
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6.	UN warns of e-gov 'white elephants'. Surely not
7.	Sony Cell CPU to deliver two teraflops in 64-core config. Scales like crazy, will allow true AI, company claims
8.	MS puts $250k bounty on virus authors' heads. Bring me the head of Alfredo VXer
9.	Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. Review Powerful but pricey, very pricey
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10.	What's new in certification?
11.	Recent vulnerabilities sharpen focus on security
12.	Startup says quantum crypto is real
13.	Apple needs more than skin-deep security
14.	SSL VPN gateways: a new approach to secure remote access
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15.	How secure is your e-mail?
16.	DDoS attacks still pose threat to Internet
17.	Microsoft reeducation campaign
18.	Network security sector analysis
19.	Microsoft to offer bounty on hackers
20.	What's new in certification?
21.	Recent vulnerabilities sharpen focus on security
22.	Startup says quantum crypto is real
23.	Apple needs more than skin-deep security
24.	SSL VPN gateways: a new approach to secure remote access
25.	Sun Java Insecure Installation Process Vulnerability
26.	Sun Java Insecure Installation Process Vulnerability
27.	NIPrint Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
28.	NIPrint Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
29.	MAILsweeper Malformed Zip Archieve Virus Detection Bypass
30.	MAILsweeper Malformed Zip Archieve Virus Detection Bypass

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1.	Novell shakes up Linux land. Novell's $210 million offer for SuSE Linux has many in the open-source community worried.
2.	Reshaping Dell. Dell President Kevin Rollins may be the most powerful and least-known executive in all of techdom.
3.	The Linux factor. Novell CEO Jack Messman has come up with an unconventional strategy that can be summed up in one word: Linux.
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4.	Worker suit alleges IBM work site toxins (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The first of 250 IBM worker lawsuits came to trial Tuesday with the plaintiffs' lawyer alleging that IBM (IBM) knew workers at its former Silicon Valley factory were getting sick from workplace toxins but hid that from them.
5.	Doubts raised in Microsoft case (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Federal appeals court judges on Tuesday raised doubts about the state of Massachusetts claim that antitrust remedies in the Microsoft (MSFT) case must require the software giant to offer a stripped-down version of Windows.
6.	Novell to buy SuSE for $210 million (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Novell (NOVL) shook up the software industry with its surprise announcement Tuesday that it will acquire No. 2 Linux distributor SuSE for $210 million.
7.	Get a box of 'Alien' films on DVD (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - The Alien invasion will go beyond theaters when a monstrous nine-disc Alien Quadrilogy box set arrives Dec. 2.
8.	Qwest branches into Internet-based calls (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - In a move that could lead to more low-priced competition in local phone service, Qwest Communications (Q) will offer Internet-based service in Minnesota and possibly elsewhere later.
9.	China to Invest in Linux-Based Software Industry (Reuters). Reuters - The Chinese government plans to throw its financial weight behind Linux-based computer systems that could rival Microsoft Corp.'s Windows in one of the world's fastest-growing technology markets, an official said on Wednesday.
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10.	8 Steps To Protect Your Cisco Router
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11.	Sony Playstation Portable pics pop up on web. Slim, smooth - and very sexy

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1.	Novell snares SUSE Linux (The Daily Deal). The Daily Deal - The Provo, Utah-based networking software company will buy the German concern in a $210 million cash deal.
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2.	MTV prepares iTunes rival. Music channel MTV in the US prepares a downloadable music service to rival Apple's iTunes digital dukebox.
3.	Worldpay battling online attack. The internet payment system is under a denial-of-service attack by hackers, hitting online retailers worldwide.
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4.	Can't Tune In to MTV? Download It. The music television network plans to enter the downloading arena in early 2004. The beefed-up service will compete with Apple's iTunes and other online song shops.
5.	FCC Moves to Stifle TV Piracy. The Federal Communications Commission passes a controversial mandate to 'flag' digital TV shows with special code to prevent consumers from sharing the programs over the Internet. Critics say the move will suppress innovation.
6.	DNA That's Yours for the Taking. British researchers have documented 200 billion letters of DNA. That's a lot of DNA. To make sure lots of researchers can access and make sense of the data, it's freely accessible to anyone who's interested. By Kristen Philipkoski.
7.	Autopilot Telescopes Ease Gazing. Astronomy is sometimes a matter of luck. A night of bad weather can ruin chances of doing research for as much as a year. But new software can help astronomers snag precious time when something important happens in the sky. By Michelle Delio.
8.	Setback for Financial Privacy. The Senate bounces an amendment that would have made California's stringent financial privacy provisions U.S. law. The bill now places limits only on sharing info for marketing purposes. Ryan Singel reports from Washington, D.C.
9.	Fuel-Cell Stocks Not Powered Up. It won't be long before fuel cells provide the juice for everything from PDAs to cars. But investors in companies that work on the technology should strap in for a bumpy ride, analysts say. By David Snow.
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10.	IA WebMail Server Buffer Overflow in Processing HTTP Headers Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code

6:32:55 AM

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1.	Climate Data Re-examined
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2.	The global security gap
3.	Recent Vulnerabilities Sharpen Focus On Security
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4.	Baby alarm snares bungling burglar. Crimefighting, German-style

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1.	InterSystems Integrates Under Ensemble (TechWeb). TechWeb - Tapping its database roots, InterSystems new Ensemble software integrates the functions of an application server, object database and application development environment.
2.	Novell And Red Hat Poised For Linux Battle (TechWeb). TechWeb - Novell to pay $210 million for SuSE Linux, creating an instant rivalry with Red Hat. And IBM blesses the move with a $50 million investment in Novell.
3.	How to make friends, with just a few key strokes (AFP). AFP - When Ernest Wong turned 36 in September, his friend Michael threw him a surprise birthday party at a San Francisco restaurant, attended by six or seven of his closest pals.
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4.	Police issue internet gun warning. Criminals are using the internet and postal system to bring guns into the UK, senior police officers have warned.
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5.	Study: Paucity of patches on OpenSSL
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6.	FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Scheme
7.	EFF: Federal Communications Commission Adopts Hollywood Tech Mandate
8.	Consumer Groups Call FCC's "Broadcast Flag" an Expensive Hollywood Flop, Say Scheme is "Burdensome" to Consumers and Industries
9.	Didier Brierre (Vygon) : « Nous avons supprimé notre service informatique interne »

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1.	Intel Claims Breakthrough in Chip Making. Researchers for Intel say they have discovered a new material that they believe will permit them to overcome one of the most serious obstacles facing chip makers. By John Markoff.
2.	Novell to Buy SuSE Linux for $210 Million. The deal shows that mainstream software companies are increasingly betting on the free Linux operating system. By Steve Lohr.
3.	NASA Supporters Seek National Debate on Space Goals. Nine months after the shuttle Columbia disintegrated, supporters of space exploration say that the subject is in danger of slipping below the national radar. By Matthew L. Wald.
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4.	FCC Acts to Limit Digital TV Piracy (AP). AP - Federal regulators say broadcasters may embed an electronic marker in high-quality digital television shows to make it harder to copy and distribute the programs over the Internet.

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1.	Cougaar 10.4.6 Released With Source

2:31:36 AM

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1.	New Intel Design to Cut Power Leakage on Chips (Reuters). Reuters - Intel Corp. said on Wednesday it has found a breakthrough way to insulate transistors that could solve one of the semiconductor industry's most fundamental problems: how to make computer chips ever-smaller while preventing them from losing power and throwing off heat.
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2.	NetApp hoists $300m for Spinnaker. Wind beneath its wings

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1.	Intel mulls metal over silicon for future chips. The chipmaker is looking at revamping two fundamental elements of its transistors--the transistor gate and the gate dielectric--so its chips will continue to increase in speed and performance.
2.	HP cracks million mark in server test. Using Intel's processors, Oracle's database and a whopping 1 terabyte of memory, HP builds a server that exceeds 1 million transactions per minute on a widely watched server speed test.
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3.	Intel Loses Xbox Contract to IBM (NewsFactor). NewsFactor - For its next Xbox release, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has chosen to jettison the game console's Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) chip in favor of a processor built by IBM (NYSE: IBM). Industry observers see the change -- which no one had predicted -- as a major win for IBM and a set-back for Intel, whose high-performance chips power many gaming applications.
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4.	Free Software As Nigerian Scam
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5.	Oracle argues for dismissal of PeopleSoft suit. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - Lawyers for Oracle Corp. on Tuesday tried to persuade a California judge to change his mind about rejecting Oracle's motion to dismiss a PeopleSoft Inc. lawsuit against it.
6.	Sun's Schwartz cites 'shared services' - Infoworld Staff. SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Sun Microsystems' Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of the company's software group, preached Sun's "shared services" vision of computing and touted recently announced products during a presentation Tuesday at the BorCon conference here. ADVERTISEMENT: Never Lose Email! Storactive LiveServ for Exchange - Storactive LiveServýs continuous, zero-loss backup eliminates Exchange data vulnerabilities and ensures rapid recovery of individual emails on up to entire data stores. Enables full recovery of data up to the moment a loss occurred. Get free info!
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7.	Les mises à jour de Spybot Search & Destroy du 2 novembre
8.	Federal Communications Commission Adopts Hollywood Tech Mandate
9.	Slackware: apache multiple vulnerabilities

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