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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Never Say Die: Live Forever. A famed computer scientist and inventor adheres to a strict health regimen so he'll live long enough for humanity achieve immortality. Ray Kurzweil predicts humans will make that goal in no more than 20 years. [Wired News]
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Open Source Is Important--But It's Not The Point. IBM vice president Jeff Smith explains the company's 'evolutionary approach' to opening its middleware stack and why using a proprietary approach sometimes makes more sense. [Linux Pipeline]
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LinuxWorld: Red Hat, Novell Launch Enterprise Linux Updates. Two enterprise Linux heavyeights will offer competing products but shared themes: security, scalability, reliability, and Linux 2.6 support. [Linux Pipeline]
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IBM program aimed at cultivating Linux ISVs. SAN FRANCISCO - IBM is readying a number of new marketing programs that the computer giant hopes will encourage another 6,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) to port their software to the Linux operating system over the next three years. At the Linuxworld Conference & Expo in Boston Tuesday, the company will unveil its IBM eServer Application Server Advantage for Linux initiative, code-named Chiphopper, which is designed to ease the job of making Linux software run across all of IBM's servers. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Fiorina to get millions, home security. Former HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina's severance package includes $21.38 million in cash; $50,000 for financial counseling, legal and outplacement services; and maintenance of her home-security system for a year. [Computerworld News]
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CTOs call for cybercrime commission. A group of 15 software CTOs from major software vendors is calling for a U.S. commission on cybercrime to raise the profile of cybercrime issues among lawmakers, consumers and other countries. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Platt in Pumps. Editorial: Carly Fiorina failed in her attempt to remake HP in IBM's image. That remains the task of her successor, says Computerworld editor in chief Don Tennant. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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Why WiMax. Emerging Technologies: WiMax technology is moving more slowly than its hype would indicate, but it holds the promise of high-speed mobile connectivity, a new disaster recovery option and lower cost. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Sidebar: WiMax Basics. A list of key facts about the emerging WiMax standards. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Scandinavian Airline to add in-flight Internet on long-haul routes. SAS said today that it will offer broadband Internet service from Connexion by Boeing on all its long-haul flights beginning in March. [Computerworld Networking News]
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Ask Jeeves mulls Firefox-based browser. Ask Jeeves, Mozilla Foundation begin talks on Jeeves browser and on donating Jeeves' search technology to the open-source group. [CNET News.com]
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Monday, February 14, 2005

Lots of anti-spam new this week.
The news this week is loaded with anti-spam stories. The new Microsoft anti-spam software is already under attack. Microsoft also suffered attacks on its Instant Messenger this week.
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Stars Take a Shine to Apple. Celebrities are a fixture in Apple's Los Angeles retail stores. Apple forbids sales associates from talking to the press, but a couple of associates have broken ranks to dish some Tinseltown dirt. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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Tech industry puts phish on diet. Anti-ID theft initiative [The Register]
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Tossing Out a Chief Executive. Carleton S. Fiorina stood in stark contrast to a corporate culture founded years earlier. By By GARY RIVLIN and JOHN MARKOFF. [NYT > Technology]
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Outsourcing High-Tech Jobs to Rural America. In the past decade, an increasing number of U.S. companies have been radically cutting costs by sending manufacturing and customer service jobs overseas. NPR's Howard Berkes profiles a firm in Arkansas hoping to reverse that trend, connecting local high-tech workers with global clients. [NPR News: Business]
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Symantec Incorporates Spyware Improvements, Repair. Symantec Incorporates Spyware Improvements, Repair [Networking Pipeline]
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Enterprise SATA-II Controller To Debut At LinuxWorld. LSI To Introduce Enterprise SATA-II Controller At LinuxWorld [Linux Pipeline]
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Microsoft Tries To Head Off MSN Messenger Attack. Microsoft locks out all users of its vulnerable instant messaging client, MSN Messenger, trying to stop an exploit from invisibly sweeping through PCs running the software. [InternetWeek]
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IBM rolls out five 64-bit Xeon servers. IBM on Monday rolled out a handful of beefed-up 64-bit Intel servers that feature a 2MB cache, adding 18 percent to the systems' overall performance. The additions also contain support for two new technologies, namely Demand Based Switching (DBS) and Execute Disable Bit (XD). [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Antivirus, e-mail vendors up ante in malware fight. Technology to fight spyware, remotely controlled bots, and other threats will dominate news from the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, as antivirus and e-mail security companies offer new products and features to protect companies and Internet users from sophisticated, malicious code.

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MySQL 5.0 beta slips. MySQL, which had planned to ship the beta version of its MySQL 5.0 database by the end of January, is now planning to ship the database within the next few weeks. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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inamorata: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. inamorata: a woman whom one is in love with. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
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IT execs seek weapons to fight spyware. Spyware tools will be a hot commodity at this week's RSA Conference, as companies look for products to help fight the growing menace. Users and analysts say spyware has become more of a corporate threat than spam or identity theft. [Computerworld News]
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New program attacks Microsoft's AntiSpyware. A new malware program, BankAsh-A, is already on the loose, according to security firm Sophos PLC. It tries to disable Microsoft AntiSpyware software and delete all files within that program's folder. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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CTOs call for cybercrime commission. A group of 15 software CTOs from major software vendors is calling for a U.S. commission on cybercrime to raise the profile of cybercrime issues among lawmakers, consumers and other countries. [Computerworld Cybercrime News]
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LinuxWorld gets under way. Fans of the open-source operating system are gathering in Boston for the latest news and products. [CNET News.com]
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