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Monday, January 31, 2005 |
Lots of new news today There was lots of interesting new news today! Keep those excellent comments and summaries coming in!
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Passenger Screening, Take 10. The Transportation Security Administration continues to push for a centralized passenger-screening system, this time using a combination of airline passenger information, terrorist watch lists and junk-mail databases. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
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Open Source Means Business. Slowly but surely, companies are bringing open-source software out of the data center, onto the desktop, and into their employees' daily routines. [Linux Pipeline]
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Time Warner Cable Plans To Carry AOL. Time Warner Cable plans to offer America Online's services and a customized version of its portal in a deal that's expected to boost the cable company's Internet business and expand AOL's advertising footprint. [InternetWeek]
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Euro PC makers shun 'reduced media' Windows. The European Commission is battling to ensure that a new, "reduced" version of Microsoft's Windows operating system will appear palatable to customers, but its efforts may be in vain: Most of Europe's biggest PC makers said they don't plan to offer the software anyway. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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The Revolution Will Be Podcasted. Philippe Boucher:
Thank you for providing a podcast of the weekly Democratic address. Where do you pick up the MP3? I asked the governor's staff where I could find it and they were unable to tell me.
I started this project after fruitlessly looking for an official source. As far as I can tell, my podcast is the first attempt to distribute and archive the opposition party's weekly response on the Web.
I pick up the audio from one of several streaming radio stations that run the speech each Saturday. One place you can hear it is C-Span Radio, which broadcasts the president's speech and the Democratic response beginning at around 2:50 p.m. Eastern.
A week after I began doing this in January, I received an e-mail from a staffer at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who is working to set up a multimedia server for stuff like this.
I also have communicated with Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid's war room, a new "rapid-response" communications center for Senate Democrats that includes its own television and radio studio.
I've offered to help one of these groups produce regular podcasts, because it's frustrating watching Democrats struggle to get their message out without the bully pulpit of the White House, control of Congress, or its own house organ. [Workbench]
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Friday, January 28, 2005 |
New Look Well, how do you like this look?
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Opera, the Forgotten Browser. Firefox gets all the attention these days, but it wasn't the first to fight the Internet Explorer hegemony. Nor is it alone: Opera is still plugging away. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
Improvised Bombs Baffle Army. IEDs -- improvised explosive devices -- are taking a big toll in Iraq, and the Pentagon is struggling to find methods to counteract them. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
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Saturday, January 22, 2005 |
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
Plenty of news this week! There is plenty of interesting news this week. At the top of my list is the story about the FBI dropping its controversial software. Also, Cisco continues to grow through acquisitions.
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FBI Tosses Carnivore to the Dogs. The bureau abandons its controversial, customized snooping software in favor of ISP-initiated internet wiretaps and commercial applications designed to sift through e-mail and other online communications. [Wired News]
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
In Brief: Spanish police nab suspected creator of webcam Trojan. Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of creating a Trojan horse software program capable of making secret recordings of Internet users through their webcams. The 37-year-old suspect, a computer programmer from Madrid, is alleged to have created a Trojan horse program distributed through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, like Kazaa. The Trojan horse can be hidden in a file for a picture or song, and once downloaded gives the hacker remote access to the victim's computer. The hacker can install a keystroke logger that records confidential information such as banking passwords and other sensitive information. It also gives the hacker the ability to operate a webcam connected to the computer, and to view and record anything in the camera's field of vision. Police characterized the Trojan horse as "highly sophisticated" and said they believe it has already infected thousands of computers in several countries. As far as they know, no commercial antivirus products are able to detect it, they said. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
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Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
Intel to double cache size of Xeon MP chips. When it comes to Intel's server processors, cache is king. A server roadmap posted on the company's Web site indicates that Intel plans to double the amount of on-chip memory available on the Xeon processor MP, which is designed for use in 4-way servers. The enhancement will be included in a forthcoming release of Xeon MP, code named Potomac, which is expected in the second quarter of this year. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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