In a surprising turn of events, Mcirosoft finds itself at the end of a patent infringement lawsuit for use of the XML technology in their Word word-processing application. From the article: "It sounds like a joke. But, it's real and it's anything but a joke for Microsoft. Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, has issued an injunction http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/li

Andreas Lloyd, a Danish student, recently did his M.Sc thesis on "the social dynamics of the Ubuntu Linux developers' on-line community. I turned in the thesis on the 23rd of June 2007, and defended it successfully on Monday the 27th of August 2007. After some tweaking and polishing, the thesis [is] now available [to] a wider audience."

SANS Internet Storm Center has a story http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4637&rss/ up about the hijacking of ICANN's domain by a group of Turkish pranksters called the NetDevilz. It was also reported by Bruce Sterling at his WIRED blog over here http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/06/icann-gets-pwne.html/

An article over at NewsFactor Network reveals what many have feared, and yet anticipated, for a long time: malware on the Mac. Yep, one of the first sighting in the wild has been confirmed and guess where it first appeared on the radar screens: that's right, a porn site that changes the MAC's DNS settings and redirect the user to a different site.

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A short write-up over at the New York Times informs us of a new $200 pc available from Wal Mart (!), that runs a customized version of linux and is tweaked to optimally run most Google applications online, cutting out the need for desktop software or OS, for that matter.

A post on the Canadian Teleclick website has the details of a group of anonymous programmers who are planning to sell iPhone unlocking software on the internet. They demonstrated the software hack for CNN and had a T-Mobile sim card working moments after removing the AT&T sim card. This is bound to stir up a lot of controversy and we will see lots and lots of coverage about the fallout fro

A fascintating article over at PhysOrg.com describing the new technology that will make these discs possible within the next 3 to 5 years. From the article: " Have you ever dreamt of 100 terabytes of data per 3.5-inch disk? New patented innovation nanotechnology from Michael E. Thomas, president of Colossal Storage Corporation, makes it real. Michael invented and patented the world's first and only concept for non-contact UV photon induced electric field poling of ferroelectric non-linear phot