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Submission + - Linux x86 growth outpaced by Microsoft Windows (techtarget.com)

Submitted by

AlexGr

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @02:44PM

AlexGr writes: "Jack Loftus writes on the latest IDC report in SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: A recent IDC report showed Linux servers continuing to increase market share for x86 architecture with a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, but the bigger news could be Microsoft's even bigger surge with Windows Server 2003. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/origin alContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1260325,00.html"

Submission + - The Marketing-Savvy CIO (dovetailsoftware.com)

Submitted by jamesrayge on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @02:34PM

jamesrayge writes: Now that IT has to run itself as a business, should CIOs despair at having to learn marketing? Fear not, because the pragmatic technologists of IT can grasp how to run a customer-centric operation better than most marketers will ever know. http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archi ve/2007/06/12/the-marketing-savvy-cio.aspx

Tech Lessons From the Bad Guys 138

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @02:08PM from the cio-to-the-mob-boss dept.

Chris Lindquist writes "Organized crime, porn peddlers, gambling sites — they all use technology to make a killing. CIO.com has posted several stories that spell out how the seedy side uses IT for profit. From the online techniques of penny stock scammers to innovation lessons from a pair of 'accidental pornographers,' to what you can do to fend off cybercriminals, find out what they do right when they're doing wrong."

Submission + - Google Video Sends Private Data over HTTP Protocol (seroundtable.com)

Submitted by tamar on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:51PM

tamar writes: If you choose to share a video from Google Video to another social network (like MySpace, for example), your username and password get sent in plaintext on the http protocol (rather than the more secure https protocol). Just look at the live headers.

Submission + - 5 ways the iPhone will change wireless (gigaom.com)

Submitted by

wjamesau

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:48PM

wjamesau writes: "It'll be a true web applications platform for mobiles, break through the wireless walled gardens, and more — web guru Om Malik names five disruptive changes the iPhone will bring."

Submission + - BBC Click Online show about Open Source and Ubuntu (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by tota on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:46PM

tota writes: Click!, the BBC's "flagship technology programme" reports on Free Software: 'It is not something Western culture does particularly well. It is certainly not something that features big in the plans of the millionaires at Microsoft, Apple and Intel — to name but a few.'
The full length video coverage can also be viewed online for those with realplayer capability, or on various BBC channels.

Submission + - Firefox 3.0 may block sites fingered by Google

Submitted by

os2man

on Tuesday June 12, 2007 @01:44PM

os2man writes: "Mozilla is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would block Web sites that are going to try to install malicious programs on your computer using the same Google's technology that warns its search engine users of potentially dangerous sites with an interstitial page. This tool will be quite similar in concept as the anti-phishing filter already present in Firefox 2.0. The current discussion centers on how Firefox 3.0 will warn or alert users to a potentially malicious site"

Submission + - Church Threatens Legal Action over Sony Game

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09, 2007 @03:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Church of England is threatening legal action against Sony over the game Resistance: Fall of Man. The game features a shootout in Manchester Cathedral, and the Church claims that Sony did not ask permission to use the interior of the Cathedral in the game. The Bishop of Manchester called the game 'highly irresponsible' due to the history of gun crime in the city. Sony denies the charge — a spokesman said 'We believe we have sought and received all permissions necessary for the creation of the game.'

Submission + - Music downloads not just big label problem

Submitted by chefmonkey on Saturday June 09, 2007 @02:33PM

chefmonkey writes: It's been pretty commonly said that unauthorized copying of music hurts the major record labels much more than it does independent bands and bands on smaller record labels. Apparently, this isn't always true. Earlier this year, Dependent Records closed its doors for good due to declining record sales. While Dependent was a small label, they've been in business for 25 years now — and the arguments they make linking unauthorized downloads to their demise are compelling. (For example, they point out that first-week sales of an album totaled half the number of unauthorized downloads of that album from a single Russian MP3 download site during that same week.) It's pretty obvious that big labels, like Sony, aren't going away any time soon — so, if unauthorized copying of music is demonstrably shutting down the small labels, what kind of music will we actually be left with when all the dust settles?

Submission + - Feasibility of State-Wide WiFi? (greenvilleonline.com)

Submitted by

crtrue

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @02:15PM

crtrue writes: "The House here in South Carolina approved a bill several months ago to explore the possibility of blanketing the state in a wireless signal. The idea revolves around using the ETV public television towers as the backbone, probably having both a free, low bandwidth signal and a higher, paid one to help pay for the project / make the state some cash. It seems like fantasy to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one with a "Put Up or Shut Up" attitude. Still, a good chunk of this state is rural, so this would be really nice in places where the only option realistically available is dial-up. I would also kill to be able to drive across the state and not have to worry about finding public hotspots. So, Slashdot, is there any way this system could work? Or, as I fear, is the idea either too unrealistic or prohibitively expensive to take off the ground?"

Submission + - Google Adwords outage (google.com)

Submitted by ZWithaPGGB on Saturday June 09, 2007 @01:46PM

ZWithaPGGB writes: Google had said they were going to be doing maintenance on the 19th , but today, the adwords site is down. Either someone mistyped the date, or there's an oops in the GooglePlex.

The Dangers of a Patent War Chest 125

Posted by Zonk on Saturday June 09, 2007 @01:29PM from the not-more-powerful-quicker-easier-the-dark-side-is dept.

Timothy B. Lee writes "I've got an article in the New York Times in which I make the case against software patents. Expanding on a point I first made on my blog, I point out that Microsoft has had a change of heart on the patent issue. In 1991, Bill Gates worried that 'some large company will patent some obvious thing' and use it to blackmail smaller companies. Now that Microsoft is a large company with a patent war-chest of their own, they don't seem so concerned about abuse of the patent system. I then describe how Verizon's efforts to shut down Vonage are a perfect illustration of Gates' fears."

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