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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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Fake Commercial Spots Spread Quickly on the Internet. Viral marketing, in which ads spread online as people share them, has become an intriguing strategy for marketers trying to look beyond traditional commercials. By By NAT IVES. [NYT > Technology]
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Boston Company Sues Ticketmaster over Resale Concept. Ticketmaster is sued for $100 million by a small company in Boston. Season Ticket Solutions alleges that the giant ticket broker took and repackaged online resale technology that it developed. [NPR News: Business]
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Sirius Reports Loss, Despite Increase In Subscribers. Sirius Satellite Radio posts higher losses in the fourth quarter, despite an increase in the number of subscribers for the digital radio network. [InternetWeek]
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turpitude: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. turpitude: baseness; depravity. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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Microsoft takes aim at Zambia piracy. Microsoft is urging Zambia to pass its ICT government policy as a way of fighting software pirates. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Here is a great story about a "bad trip"...

MapPoint users find service to be quite a trip. A bug in the Microsoft software sends those looking to travel between two Norwegian cities on a trip across much of Western Europe. [CNET News.com]

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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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Sun Pledges Bulk Of Open Solaris Release In Q2. Sun unveils its first Solaris 10 module and Open Solaris developer portal, and confirms it will have most of its planned Solaris 10 open source release ready by mid-year. [Linux Pipeline]
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Google Jumps Into Video-Search Arena. Google Video searches the closed captioning content of television programs to return still photos and a text excerpt at the point where the search phrase was spoken. [InternetWeek]
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MyDoom one year later: more zombies, more spam. Computer security experts remembered the MyDoom e-mail worm Wednesday, one year after it tore through the Internet, deluged e-mail systems with infected messages and set records for infecting vulnerable computer systems.

Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership
Learn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.

[InfoWorld: Top News]
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Defense Dept. using new tech tools to investigate child porn. The Department of Defense is pushing new investigative strategies for cases involving huge quantities of seized data. The initiative may yield techniques to help prosecute other kinds of cases, including cyberterrorism and espionage. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Foundry unveils three Gigabit Ethernet switches. Foundry Networks today is unveiling three new 10-Gigabit Ethernet compact modular switches in its SuperX family of hardware. [Computerworld Networking News]
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VMware ships software for securing PCs. Firm starts selling tool to help customers lock down computers so people can't print, copy or transfer data unless authorized. [CNET News.com]
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MPAA files new film-swapping suits. Hollywood files a second round of lawsuits against online video traders and gives parents P2P-sniffing software. [CNET News.com]
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