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Linux Business

Submission + - Open Source helps CIOs weather recession (cnet.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "IDC expects global IT spending to increase by 5.7 percent in 2008, down from 7.2 percent in 2007. (Gartner's numbers come in below this, with 3.3 percent growth this year on top of 3 percent growth in 2007.)

Open source is a great way to retain top talent and leverage that talent efficiently. If you're a CIO that isn't aggressively adopting open source, are you really doing your job well?

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943651-16.html?tag=blogFeed

So, our strategy is to let the dinosaurs die. As new projects come online, we're going with open source or more agile proprietary products. We aren't overtly dumping the proprietary products: We're just letting them go extinct.

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943810-16.html?tag=blogFeed"
Google

Submission + - Google search now available over IPv6 (news.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "Google announced Wednesday on its official blog that Google search is now available over an IPv6 connection.

Google and others estimate that the IPv4 capacity will be "exhausted" sometime in 2011, which means that IPv6 — which will enable each individual person on Earth to have nearly 3 billion networks — will potentially take over.

"We hope it's only a matter of time before IPv6 is widely deployed," the Google blog post read. "We will be doing our part."

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9943822-7.html?tag=nefd.top"
Linux Business

Submission + - Verizon Wireless to introduce Linux phones (yahoo.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the "preferred" software on its network.

The carrier's endorsement Wednesday is an important boost to the stature of LiMo, or Linux Mobile, and its prospects in the U.S. It already has the backing of large Asian and European carriers, as well as handset makers like Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_hi_te/verizon_wireless_linux"
Google

Submission + - Google is Not Recession-Proof (readwriteweb.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "While it's true that Google's revenue is derived from its advertisers (not its searchers) and sophisticated advertisers will be loathe to reduce PPC budgets during a recession, to believe that this means that Google is recession-proof is to ignore the cross-side network effects that occur on the Google advertising platform between advertisers and searchers.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_is_not_recession-proof.php"
Google

Submission + - Google Search To Surpass Windows in 2009 (alleyinsider.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "By this time next year, Google's search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history — Microsoft Windows. (Just Google's search business — that doesn't even include AdSense).

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/google_to_surpass_size_of_microsoft_windows_in_2009"
Microsoft

Submission + - Businesses shut out Microsoft Vista (businessweek.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "General Motors (GM) may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft (MSFT). The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may just wait for the next version of Windows, due in 2010 or 2011. "We're considering bypassing Vista and going straight to Windows 7," says GM's Chief Systems & Technology Officer Fred Killeen.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc20080512_157155.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories"
Microsoft

Submission + - MSFT pushing Server 2008 over Vista (news.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "Microsoft is set to announce Tuesday that it is launching a "public preview" program for two server products based on its Windows Server 2008 operating system.

The products, one aimed at small business and the other at midsize firms, combine the server operating system with Exchange Server and other software into a bundle designed to cost less and be easier to install than acquiring the products separately.

http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9941923-56.html"
The Courts

Submission + - EU won't seek new antitrust complaint against MSFT (yahoo.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "The European Commission confirmed it has received a complaint about Microsoft's business practices from a British government agency Tuesday, but isn't following it up as it normally would with an antitrust complaint, according to a press officer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080513/tc_pcworld/145806"
Privacy

Submission + - Behavioral science software spots terrorrists (haaretz.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "Quietly, even stealthily, this unknown company has been working for five years now on one of the more interesting technological innovations to be created in these parts.

WeCU ("We see you," in case you are unaccustomed to SMS-speak) promises an automated system to detect people with mayhem on their minds. The system integrates methods and doctrines from the behavioral sciences with biometric sensors.

According to the company's founders, in under a minute it can screen an individual, without his or her knowledge or cooperation and without interfering with routine activities, and disclose intentions to carry out criminal or terror activity. It can identify subjects who are not carrying any suspicious objects, do not demonstrate any suspicious behavior, do not fit into a predefined social or other profile and do not arouse any suspicion.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/981986.html"
Security

Submission + - Stolen IDs sell with money-back guarantees (news.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "McAfee Avert Labs has discovered a price list that criminals use to buy and sell credit card numbers, bank account log-ins, and other consumer data that have been filched from unsuspecting Web surfers.

There's even a guarantee that if the buyer is unable to log into the account within 24 hours, maybe because the owner of the data canceled the account, the buyer can get a replacement stolen account to use.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9939862-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5"
Microsoft

Submission + - US warns China of 'technological isolation' (yahoo.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "The United States warned China Thursday that it risked "technological isolation" for developing unique technical standards of its own that also are shutting out foreign competition.

Despite widely accepted international standards, China developed standards mandated by government regulations amid a lack of transparency and due process, said Under Secretary of Commerce Christopher Padilla.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/tc_afp/uschinatechnology_080509012335

(Sounds like MSFT or Apple.)"
Privacy

Submission + - Pirates can be beaten at own game (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "pirates can be beaten — it happens all the time — but not primarily by means of legal threats and lawsuits. No, you subjugate these rebels with the tools of free enterprise. Piracy is just another business model, and the pirates will lose and go away when you come up with a better model (or they will become legitimate players themselves).

Stripped down to the bare essentials, consumers will choose the service with the most attractive balance of price, convenience, and quality. Piracy will always win on price, because you can't really beat free. The other two components are up for grabs, but the media companies are only now starting to seize the opportunity.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080508-how-viacom-can-sink-the-pirates.html"
Security

Submission + - FBI says military had counterfeit Cisco routers (nytimes.com)

Submitted by
Christopher Blanc
Christopher Blanc writes: "The new law enforcement and national security concerns were prompted by Operation Cisco Raider, which has led to 15 criminal cases involving counterfeit products bought in part by military agencies, military contractors and electric power companies in the United States. Over the two-year operation, 36 search warrants have been executed, resulting in the discovery of 3,500 counterfeit Cisco network components with an estimated retail value of more than $3.5 million, the F.B.I. said in a statement.

The F.B.I. is still not certain whether the ring's actions were for profit or part of a state-sponsored intelligence effort. The potential threat, according to the F.B.I. agents who gave a briefing at the Office of Management and Budget on Jan. 11, includes the remote jamming of supposedly secure computer networks and gaining access to supposedly highly secure systems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/technology/09cisco.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin"

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