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Submission + - CA founder still free; former CEO still in prison (computerworld.com)

Submitted by jcatcw on Monday December 24, 2007 @10:30AM

jcatcw writes: Charles Wang, the founder of CA Inc., is not in prison, but Sanjay Kumar, the former CEO, is serving a 12-year term for fraud, and Don Tennant, editorial director of Computerworld and InfoWorld, is mad as heck about it. The fraud is described by CA itself as "a massive accounting fraud perpetrated by the company's senior-most executives from as far back as the late 1980s through 2001, and their cover-up of that fraud, which lasted through mid-2004." As Tennant said in his Dear Charles letter at the time of Kumar's sentencing: "This isn't right. Sanjay is guilty of some devastatingly poor judgment, but you're the one who shot the illegal performance- enhancing drugs into CA. The Special Litigation Committee of CA's board of directors said it has found that 'fraud pervaded the entire CA organization at every level and was embedded in CA's culture, as instilled by Mr. Wang, almost from the company's inception.' Your fingerprints are on the needle, Charles."

Submission + - Static Retirement of the Sun and Its Solar System

Submitted by

nlhouser

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:49PM

nlhouser writes: "Looking three trillion years into the future, many of us will look away with an attitude of nonchalance, as if it doesn't concern us. But it does. Our decendants and their decendants, and what we do today will effect their lives and their decisions regarding their children's future — regardless what it is."

Submission + - Acer Abandons Notebook Customers

Submitted by

kadar.zsolt

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:47PM

kadar.zsolt writes: "Several months after the Microsoft Windows Vista release computer manufacturer Acer still lacks driver support for many, otherwise Vista capable notebook families. The missing ATI and Synaptics touchpad drivers on the manufacturer's website are just the tip of the iceberg: several Travelmate (2300, 3200, 4000, and 4500) and Aspire (1680) models do not appear to be battery enabled due to the absence of drivers for key ACPI subsystems. Users have reported that Windows Mobility Center will not start (presents "Windows Mobility Center is available only on mobile PCs error message.") and remaining battery life information is not available on these systems. The problem persists since Vista RC1 was made available and was reported to Acer Customer Support (Germany, Hungary, and Australia) and Microsoft TechNet as well. Acer Customer Service has made a promise to provide Vista drivers by the end of April but did not deliver in this timeframe. Microsoft has not identified the source of the compatibility issue yet. On the TechNet forums other Toshiba and Benq models appear as having identical issues."

Submission + - Once in a blue moon: An Opera browser flaw!

Submitted by on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Opera Software has updated the Windows version of the browser (Opera 9.21) to patch a flaw that lets attackers hijack Windows PCs by feeding them malicious torrent files. Earlier this year, researchers identified another Opera vulnerability based on a jpeg-related technology, but no one made a big deal about it — perhaps because most people don't use Opera.

Submission + - May Independent Games

Submitted by

Russell Carroll

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @12:28PM

Russell Carroll writes: " Game Tunnel has just published the May Independent Video Game round-up , its 35th monthly panel reviewing what is new in Indie games. The 10 games in this month's article include an incredibly edible castle, an insane lighthouse, a monkey named Darwin, and a "hyperkinetic rabbity thing" named Max.

Scores from all reviewed games:
Darwin the Monkey — 6, 5, 6, 6 — 23/40
Lighthouse Lunacy — 6, 6, 7, 5 — 24/40
Retro Records — 6, 4, 5, 5 — 20/40
Scavenger — 8, 7, 7, 9 — 31/40
Venture the Void — 8, 6, 7 — 21/30
Civil Disturbance - 4, 4, 9, 2 — 19/40
Chocolate Castle — 9, 8, 7, 8 — 32/40
MAGI — 5, 6, 8, 2 — 21/40
Sam & Max Episode 6 — 8, 8, 8, 7 — 31/40
Auto Cross Racing — 5, 6, 9, 7 — 27/40"

Submission + - Final Fantasy Creator Slams Sony

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @11:34AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has criticised Sony's Playstation 3 console insisting that it is too difficult to develop for, and accused Microsoft of failing to promote the Xbox 360 efficiently in Japan."

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