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Seagate to pay for inaccurate kilobyte-> 2

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Christopher Blanc

on Friday October 26 2007, @07:30PM

Christopher Blanc writes "Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard-drive maker, is offering customers a five percent refund on drives bought during the last six years following a lawsuit over the definition of a "gigabyte". As an alternative, customers can choose to receive free backup software.

Four people sued the company, saying they expected its drives to offer greater capacity than that actually provided. Seagate manufactures its drives based on powers of ten, with 1KB equalling 1,000 bytes. The claimants argued that 1KB of storage should compromise 1,024 bytes.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39290393,00.htm"
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Expert: For a secure Internet, go back to DOS-> 0

Submitted by thefickler on Friday October 26 2007, @06:10PM

thefickler writes "Bad programs, and smarter hackers. How do you win? Security expert Bruce Scheiner says, "If you want security, go back to DOS.""
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James Watson resigns-> 0

Submitted by damn_registrars on Friday October 26 2007, @03:22PM

damn_registrars writes "James Watson, winner of the Nobel prize in 1962 for his work on the structure of DNA, resigned his academic post amid controversy over racially insensitive remarks he made recently."
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Internet tax held off for seven more years-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Friday October 26 2007, @11:34AM

Christopher Blanc writes "With the ban on taxing Internet connections set to expire at the end of October, both houses of Congress are taking action. Last night, the Senate passed a bill that would extend the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act yet again, this time for seven years. A version of the legislation passed by the House earlier this week would only extend it for another four years.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071026-senate-passes-internet-tax-moratorium-extension.html"
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Microsoft endorses "functional" computer l-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @03:04PM

Christopher Blanc writes "Are the C programming language and its object-oriented offspring — C++, C#, Objective-C — still well-suited to the requirements of multithreaded, network-oriented computing environments today? That's the question on the minds of engineers at Microsoft Research, whose latest programming language is today being officially moved off the back burner. The F# language has received the company's official blessing.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18815/Experimental-Functional-Language-Emerges-from-Microsoft-Research"
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Blogs: the next takeover target-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @11:42AM

Christopher Blanc writes "Blogs — especially the big-name brands such as TechCrunch, Gawker, GigaOm, Boing Boing, and the Huffington Post — appear to have attractive business models. This is good news for traditional media companies that are being marginalized online and off, and are hoping to catch up to — and cash in on — a rapidly evolving Web 2.0 world.

http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/oct2007/pi20071023_821568.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_investing"
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Apple stops bootcamp downloads-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @11:29AM

Christopher Blanc writes "Apple Inc. has pulled the beta of Boot Camp, the application that lets Mac users run Windows XP or Vista on their Intel-powered machines, from its servers in preparation for Friday's launch of Leopard.

Although a Boot Camp 1.4 beta page remains live, clicking on the download link brings up an error message that reads: "The page you tried was not found." A graphic of the Mac OS X 10.5 packaging appears in the background. Earlier this month, Apple reminded users that the license to Boot Camp would expire when Leopard shipped. The application's beta has been available free of charge for Mac owners running Mac OS X 10.4, commonly known as Tiger.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/10/24/apple-stops-boot-camp-downloads"
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Bad security products thrive on confusion-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @11:13AM

Christopher Blanc writes "The information security market is riddled with mediocre products because buyers are often sold on a story rather than having enough information to make a rational choice, a security expert has said.

Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technical officer of BT Counterpane, said many security products offered the feeling of being secure rather than actual security. Vendors can't be trusted to give a reliable precis of a product's capabilities, he warned.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/schneier_security_theatre/"
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Yahoo partners with carriers in Asia-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @11:05AM

Christopher Blanc writes "In an effort to boost its growth abroad, Yahoo will be announcing a number of partnerships with wireless carriers in Asia, according to company President Sue Decker. The company has previously announced deals with carriers in South Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Yahoo claims to have more than 25 million users in the Asia-Pacific region.

http://mashable.com/2007/10/24/yahoo-mobile-asia/"
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HP opens first netcafe in Beijing-> 0

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Christopher Blanc

on Wednesday October 24 2007, @10:59AM

Christopher Blanc writes "As the first flagship netcafe of HP, Hang Tian Wang Yuan is positioning itself as a high-end professional game competition netcafe. It features 350 HP professional netcafe DC5750 computers, which, according to Hu Kai, general manager of Hang Tian Wang Yuan, provides optimized gaming solutions.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/10/23/5996-hps-first-netcafe-opens-in-beijing/"
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