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DNS Flaw Leaves Major Internet Security Hole
Vendors have teamed up to patch deficiencies in the protocol used by the Domain Name System that can be exploited to poision DNS caches and redirect user traffic on the Internet....
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Plaintiffs in YouTube suit seek to reassure users
Plaintiffs suing Google Inc. for alleged copyright infringement on its YouTube video service have said they don't intend to use user data they're receiving as part of the case to sue individual Internet users or violate their privacy.
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Thrift Recycling Management Continues Growth
Largest on-line seller of used books acquires Canadian book recycler. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/TRM/DiscoverBooks/prweb1086474.htm
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iPhone UK websites swamped before Friday launch
Apple's new iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general consumer gloom as the country's economy threatened to tip over into its first recession in more than a decade.
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VMWare CEO Axed; Shares Plummet
VMware Inc. abruptly replaced co-founder Diane Greene as chief executive Tuesday and lowered its sales outlook, triggering alarms that pounded the business software maker's shares to their lowest depths since the company's lucrative public offering 11 months ago.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Brings Four Bulletins For Nine Flaws
Though a month without "critical" vulnerabilities and a low number of bulletins might suggest there's not much to worry about, researchers say Microsoft is downplaying the potential risks.
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Law proposed to block Web tracking
BOSTON — House and Senate members are discussing a bill that would allow consumers to prevent Internet search providers and search engines from tracking their online habits.
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Online "Public" Spaces Don't Guarantee Rights
mikesd81 recommends an AP piece covering a lot of examples of the ways free speech and other rights don't exist on the private Web. One case featured was that of Dutch photographer Maarten Dors, who had this picture deleted by flickr. Without prior notice, Yahoo deleted the photo on grounds it violated an unwritten ban on depicting children smoking. While Dors eventually got the photo restored, ...
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Laptops lift PC sales trophy
New Delhi, July 8: Laptop sales have pushed the growth rate of the personal computer (PC) market in 2007-08.
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PayPal, Google team in anti-phishing initiative
With phishing attacks and fraudulent e-mails still slipping through Google Gmail's security walls, the Mountain View-based company plans to work with eBay and its PayPal unit in an effort to protect e-mail users.
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Intense talks on net plan
GOVERNMENT officials and potential bidders have been locked in behind-the-scenes negotiations over the national broadband contract.
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Real Software, Veryant bolster dev tools
Real Software and Veryant are upgrading development tools this week, with Real Software focused on its RealBasic platform and Veryant on Cobol.
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Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery
Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr, a division of Yahoo! Inc. and one of the world's largest photo sharing communities, today announce a collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty Images' imagery collections, photographic expertise and unrivalled experience in licensing ...
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Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery
SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISCO----Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr™, a division of Yahoo! Inc. and one of the world's largest photo sharing communities, today announce a collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty Images' imagery collections, photographic expertise and ...
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posted by John Munsch on Mon 30th Dec 2002 19:05 UTC
Why do it? I am asked this question more often than I expected, even by existing Linux users who I expected to know as well as I the reasons for building a next-generation desktop Linux for the home user.
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posted by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 19:13
Since it's year end, I thought I'd post one more "fun piece" for everybody. After Thom posted an article on his customized KDE desktop , I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screengrabs and see what other OSNews'ers desktops look like. Are you cluttered or clean? Are you minialist?
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posted by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users.
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by hhcv (2.6) on Mon 30th Apr 2007 23:12 UTC
With Ubuntu making substantial improvements every three months, will Dell always sell their laptops with the latest version? Or will they stick with the same distro for a while (for support reasons) and everyone will end up reformatting the thing again!?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 00:43 UTC
"Once upon a time, when DOS walked the earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers. Then, Windows came along, and Microsoft seemed set on leaving the command prompt to dry up and wither into obscurity.
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Recent Original Stories
Decrying stasis in the laptop industry, InfoWorld's Tom Yager and crew have designed their ideal laptop for 2009 given the components are available currently.
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Linked by Adam S on Tue 8th Jul 2008 12:47 UTC
In 2006, Microsoft released Windows Powershell , a new command line shell that, via cmdlets, scripts, and executables, allow core system administration tasks to be scripted.
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Microsoft says willing to restart Yahoo talks
NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, but only if a new Yahoo board is elected, a big boost for financier Carl Icahn’s board slate.
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Library names Dean Krafft chief technology strategist
Recognizing technology's vital role in academic libraries, Cornell University Library has named computer scientist Dean Krafft to a new senior-level chief technology strategist position.
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Google ventures into virtual reality with ‘Lively’
Tue, Jul 8, 2008 (2:42 p.m.) In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more virtual socializing on the Web.
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NebuAd to come under spotlight at Senate hearing
Tue, Jul 8, 2008 (2:42 p.m.) Executives from major Internet players _ Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. _ are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc.
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