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Submission + - AT&T Buys More Alltel Operations For $780 Million

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: AT&T has bought the U.S. retail wireless operations of Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATNI) for $780 Million. Alltel operates under the Alltel brand in several markets. The acquisition includes wireless properties, licenses, network assets, retail stores, and about 585,000 subscribers. It also includes spectrum in the 700 MHz, 850 MHz, and 1900 MHz bands, and that's likely the big draw as the carrier continues to build out its 4G LTE network. If the deal is approved by the FCC and Justice Department, AT&T expects it to close in the second half of 2013.
The Internet

Submission + - UK ISPs Respond to the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 (ispreview.co.uk)

Submitted by
Mark.JUK
Mark.JUK writes: "Several major Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom, including BSkyB, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, AAISP and Fluidata, have warned that the adoption of Carrier Grade NAT (IPv4 address sharing) is likely to become increasingly common in the future. But the technology, which many view as a delaying tactic until IPv6 becomes more common place, is not without its problems and could cause a number of popular services to fail (e.g. XBox Live, PlayStation Network, FTP hosting etc.). The prospect of a new style of two tier internet could be just around the corner."

Submission + - Jonathan Coulton's cover of "Baby Got Back" stolen by Glee?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Geek singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton recently heard Glee's cover version of Sir Mix-A-Lot's classic Baby Got Back and noticed a striking similarity to his own cover. It's so similar that several new elements of his cover, such as a shout out to "Johnny C." and duck quacks that aren't in the original, are in the Glee cover. Coulton has contacted FOX, but so far has not received a response. You can perform a side-by-side listen to look for similarities and differences yourself.
Music

Submission + - A HTML5 Milestone for Musicians

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The 0xFE blog just posted about the latest milestone in their open source music notation project called VexFlow. With VexFlow, programmers can build applications with stunning music notation entirely in JavaScript, and (since yesterday) playback high quality audio generated from the music. VexFlow has a comprehensive set of features, supporting both standard notation and guitar tablature. It even has a fretboard mode for fretted instruments like guitar and bass. More gorgeous examples of the possibilities can be found in their latest updates page. Something tells me 2013 is going to be a good year for music makers on the web.
Java

Submission + - Java Exploit Linked to Red October Espionage Malware Campaign (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Red October, the espionage campaign uncovered by Kaspersky Lab after five years of actively spying on diplomats, scientists, and governments worldwide, is using a Java exploit to infect its victims, bringing the exploit count to four in this campaign.

Seculert, an Israeli security company, said today it has investigated one of the command and control servers in the Red October infrastructure and found a website serving an exploit targeting CVE-2011-3544. The vulnerability is in Java 7 and 6 u27 and earlier. According to the CVE alert, the flaw allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted applets to execute malicious scripts. Oracle patched the vulnerability in October 2011.
Chrome

Submission + - Is there an easy way to sync Google Play Music with my Chromebook?

Submitted by onosy
onosy writes: I purchased a 11.6" Chromebook last night and got everything set up beautifully. I'd fully done my research before purchasing it and was well aware of everything that my Chromebook can, and more importantly, can't do. I was under the impression that all of the music I had on my current phone (Atrix 2) would sync with the Chromebook, and to my surprise, didn't. What is the easiest way I can get all of my music from my phone to my Chromebook? Do I have to use Drive?
Businesses

Submission + - The Pebble Watch Is Finally Ready To Ship (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by
redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "After many delays, the Pebble E-Paper Watch, which made a huge splash on Kickstarter last April, is finally ready to ship out this month. At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Eric Migicovsky, the primary engineer on the Pebble Watch, said the highly-anticipated, smartphone-friendly, weather-resistant and completely customizable e-paper watch will finally begin shipping on Jan. 23."

Comment Re:OpenAFS REally? (Score 1) 150

by Unknown Lamer (#42546431) Attached to: College CIO Predicts Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards

On most distros, openafs 1.6.x will install with $packagemanager $installcmd openafs-client. Before 1.6, installation could be a bit hairy (a few bits of manual config, kerberos needed manual local configuration), but nowadays basically everything autoconfigures through dns and you really only need to set a default realm/cell (even then, just for convenience). I hear the 1.7.x branch has made huge strides for Windows users too.

I think openafs gets a bad rap because pre-1.4 was kind of a pain to set up, and the early 1.4.x releases were pretty buggy (my cell directly inspired several of the early releases since we were just getting going and took the plunge early on). Nowadays (as in the last five years) it Just Works (tm) for the most part (certainly true of the client, and as true as it can be for a complicated UNIX server for the fileserver).
Open Source

Submission + - Abolishing patents: Too soon or too late? (opensource.com)

Submitted by
jrepin
jrepin writes: ""Patents are here to stay." This is the sort of statement that makes Carlo Piana uneasy. He guesses in the 17th century the common wisdom was "slavery is here to stay." In the 18th century giving voting rights to women seemed absurd and foreseeing open borders between France and German was crazy talk in 1945. At a certain point, fortunately, those things changed for the better. Is it time to change the common wisdom on patents as well? Is the time ripe—will it ever be?—to utter the frightening word abolition? Carlo Piana does not have the privilege to know the answer, but he regards the question as a legitimate one. According to some patent experts, however, questioning the very existence of patents seems blasphemous."
Games

Submission + - US Town Cancels Event to Destroy Violent Games (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Southington, a town in Connecticut, has cancelled its plans to collect and destroy violent games, stating that it has already succeeded in raising attention.

Submission + - Sol Yurick, Novelist, author of "The Warriors", dies at 87 (nytimes.com)

Submitted by kilroy77
kilroy77 writes: CAAAAAAN YOOOUUU DIG IT?

Sol Yurick, the author of The Warriors, a novel immortalized by a 1979 film directed by Walter Hill has died in Manhattan at the age of 87.

Have you read the novel? When was the first time you saw the Warriors?

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