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Explainer: The glitch
Explainer: How the internet's address mechanism is used by hackers
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IBM Open Sources Web Accessibility
A new service from IBM's AlphaWorks takes a collaborative approach to improving Web accessibility for the visually impaired.
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Amid hype, Apple iPhone expansion also runs risks
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc.'s iPhone has had a remarkable run over the past year, shaking up the stodgy design of cell phones and securing Apple a lucrative slice of the wireless business. Video
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Evolving Storage Market Behind MacBook Air Price Cut
The market for solid-state drives--those storage devices with no moving parts that stash data in solid-state memory--continues...
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Yahoo's Yang throws jabs at Microsoft and Icahn
After taking a one-two punch from investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang threw a few punches of his own in an interview in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday in the US.
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Security Community Cooperates To Fix 'DNS Poisoning'
Armed with knowledge of DNS transaction IDs, an attacker could reroute requests for certain Web sites to Web sites of his or her choosing or hijack e-mail.
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Features and Case Studies
The future of information technology gets a face-lift from Microsoft's Center for Information Work. If you aren't impressed by the OS update's flash new features, consider getting Vista for its tougher defences, Windows chief Jim Allchin says.
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BT buys into social networking directories with £20m for Ufindus
BT yesterday snapped up the online business directory firm Ufindus for £20m as it prepares to take on Yell.com , Google and other dotcom start-ups in the local information market. The deal will help BT as it creates an online directory with social networking technology, so that users will not only be able to find businesses and services in their area but will also be able to rate and review ...
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Ask Jack
Moving music We want to put our existing iPod libraries on to the new PC. Jane McNicol JS: Apple's website provides instructions for moving your music library either via a CD or DVD or using an iPod ( support.apple.com/kb/HT1329 ). However, this requires the use of iTunes 7 on both machines. One alternative is to use iGadget software ($15), which has replaced iPod Agent by the same ...
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Eureka! I've discovered the Third Law of computing
Laws are like London buses, which come along in threes. I've therefore suffered a bit of teasing for only having two Laws of Computing. However, I am now thinking about a third law, which will roughly state that "the easier it is for you to access your data, the easier it is for someone else to access your data". If you can come up with a snappy or even witty formulation, I'd be grateful. ...
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Teenager provides own transfer scoop on Internet
LONDON: Reporters did not have to dig very deep to find out that Premier League club Fulham were keen on luring a talented teenager away from London rivals Crystal Palace.
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My Way: David Braben, of Frontier Developments, on how to become a success at work
David Braben, the video-games programmer, is best known for co-writing the classic space trading game 'Elite' while still an undergraduate. He is the founder and chairman of the games development company Frontier Developments.
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YouChoose: Technology videos we love
Visualise a plate of lasagna ... The thing with data visualisations is that you should be trying to make lasagna - layered - not spaghetti, explains Noah Ilinsky. Clever, and definitely worth five minutes of anyone's time. A little help from your Fonz ? Joe Cocker's incoherent Woodstock performance of A Little Help From My Friends, with a helpful computer-generated lyric sheet. If ...
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Letters and blogs
Eye on the future It seems that LED computer displays contained within a contact lens are becoming reality. Just one more step in mankind's gradual transformation into cyborgs (Your life will be flashed before your eyes, July 3). michaelsidney.thehoskincentre.com Woe on an Operatic scale You did a big disservice to your readers in describing Opera 9.5 (Read me first, July 3). Look at ...
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Don't just blame the internet for polarised viewpoints
Seth Finkelstein: Networked communications are too easily indicted as potential causes of factionalisation
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Computer hackers: Internet flaw sparks biggest security fix in web history
A flaw in the way the internet works has prompted the "largest security update" in the history of the web, and fears of millions of people remaining exposed to criminals and malicious hackers. Microsoft was among net companies yesterday which announced action to close the loophole that has potentially affected every site on the web. The bug was spotted this year by Dan Kaminsky, a director ...
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What it is in the new intelligence bill
The Senate Wednesday passed legislation meant to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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Explainer: The glitch
The flaw exploits the way the internet's address mechanism, known as the domain name system (DNS), works. This service maps the names we associate with particular websites to numerical addresses - just as a mobile phone's address book links names with telephone numbers. DNS allows people to visit websites by typing in words - such as google.com - rather than by entering a string of unmemorable ...
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EDITORIAL: Law on balancing computers will be balancing act
Sex crimes are horrific. Sex offenders must be monitored. But once an offender serves time and is listed on the state’s registry, should the offender’s family members be subject to ongoing searches?
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Nominum's Software Update Protects Networks From New DNS Security Vulnerability
Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing technologies, announced that latest versions of it's Caching Name Server and Vantio Base Server software meet and exceed the tightened DNS security measures required to address a new DNS security threat announced by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team Vulnerability notice number 800113 on July 8th, 2008.
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posted by Barry Smith on Mon 10th Nov 2003 04:09 UTC
Commercial software companies across the industry have an often well-deserved reputation for poor customer service. Unfortunately, companies that sell Open Source Software are well on the way to establishing a reputation for being even worse than commercial firms. I believe I know why.
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by JeffS (3.96) on Thu 9th Nov 2006 19:47 UTC
Dual licensing has worked spectacularly for Trolltech and their QT GUI library. There are great closed source projects created with the QT commercial version, where the software creator paid a QT license to Trolletch - these include Adobe Photoshop, Google Earth, and JD Edwards ERP software.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jul 2007 08:14 UTC
"The current beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, released to developers at WWDC ‚'07, is not as polished as what people have come to expect of Apple's design team - users are still left with at best several disagreeable changes, and at worst a hideous hodgepodge of HIG contradictions.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle.
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Linked by David Adams on Wed 9th Jul 2008 22:40 UTC, submitted by Jeremy
It's no surprise that Vista's vanilla operating system hasn't fared too well with some users. That said, why not customize it to make it better? ExtremeTech describes five useful and free Vista utilities designed to enhance Microsoft's latest operating system.
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