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Top 10 Hard Drives (PC World). PC World - More bytes for your buck. |
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Creating A Super-Router (For Free) |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Oracle increases Peoplesoft bid. Oracle raises its offer for rival Peoplesoft to $9.4bn as it tries to win over shareholders of the software firm. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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Rising chip demand spurs UMC's Q4 revenue higher. Boosted by an increase in demand for chips used in communications equipment, contract chip maker United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) saw its fourth-quarter revenue rise 35.3 percent compared to the year-earlier period to NT$23.7 billion (US$694.8 million as of Dec. 31, 2003, the last day of the period reported), the company said Wednesday. |
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NTT DoCoMo again raises 3G target. TOKYO -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. has hiked by 20 percent the target for the number of subscriptions to its Foma third-generation (3G) telephone service at the end of March this year, the company said Wednesday. The revision comes as a forecast for the period that was made three months ago was met last week. |
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Update: Hollywood, P-to-P companies back in court. Questions about two copyright cases and two technologies, separated by almost 20 years of technological innovation, dominated an appeals court hearing Tuesday that is pitting peer to peer (P-to-P) file sharing software companies against leading entertainment industry groups. |
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Trolltech updates Linux app dev framework - Infoworld Staff. Trolltech on Wednesday issued Qt 3.3, its C++ application development framework. 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. |
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BT launches network monitoring service. British Telecommunications PLC's (BT) Global Services unit has launched a service to monitor and manage customer's networks, hoping to boost sales in its networking business at the same time. |
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Oracle increases PeopleSoft bid. Oracle Corp. raised its bid for PeopleSoft Inc. to $26 per share on Wednesday, boosting the all-cash offer's total to $9.4 billion. |
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HP to acquire Novadigm, Consera. Hewlett Packard Co. (HP) continued its strategy of using acquisitions to augment the HP OpenView management software Wednesday, announcing an agreement to buy two management software companies: Novadigm Inc. of Mahwah, New Jersey, and Consera Software of Bellevue, Washington. |
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AT&T Wireless: Vodafone hesitant to make call. Whether to spend billions of dollars acquiring a U.S. mobile operator lock, stock and barrel could prove to be one of the hardest calls Arun Sarin, chief executive officer (CEO) of Vodafone Group PLC, may ever have to make. |
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SecurityFocus News
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Elsewhere: Mydoom virus starts to fizzle out. Figures from mail filtering firm MessageLabs show that the number of copies of the virus being caught everyday are swiftly diminishing.
The peak day of infection was 28... |
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News: Wi-Fi Alliance preps WPA 2 security spec. The Register By Tony Smith [tony dot smith at theregister dot co dot uk] |
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SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities
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BugTraq: Re: RFC: virus handling. Sender: Volker Kuhlmann [list0570 at paradise dot net dot nz] |
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BugTraq: Re: Fw: phpBB privmsg.php XSS vulnerability patch.. Sender: Truthless [nospam at spamcop dot org] |
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BugTraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 433-1] New Linux 2.4.17 packages fix local root exploit (mips+mipsel). Sender: [joey at infodrom dot org (Martin Schulze)] |
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BugTraq: Re: [Full-Disclosure] smbmount disrupts Windows file sharing.. Sender: Daniel Kabs [ML] [dkabs at mobotix dot com] |
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The Register
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Oracle hikes Peoplesoft bid to $9.4bn. Upping the ante |
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Foundry beefs up high-end Gig switches. Gigabit over copper driving recovery |
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El Reg gets experimental at Orange launch. Rare case of press refusing free lunch |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Debian: kernel Privilage escalation MIPS patch |
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Fedora update for mod_python |
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Fedora update for mod_python |