128717780
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robbyyy writes:
Facebook has been accused of violating its users rights by tracking users internet activity even
after they have logged out of the platform. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said that users could now pursue them under various privacy and wiretapping laws.
This move opens the door for a potential class action lawsuit against the social
media giant, which is still dealing with the legal ramifications of the Cambridge Analytica scandal both in Australia and around the world.
12108312
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Rob writes:
InfoGrok is reporting that IBM is in the process of opening a new cloud computing laboratory, based out of Singapore. The new labs primary aim is to help business, government and research institutions to design, adopt and reap benefits of cloud technologies. The lab will help IBM's clients deploy first-of-a-kind solutions that increase business responsiveness and performance.
296603
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Rob writes:
Computer Business Review is reporting that less than 2% of UK-based firms have already
upgraded all their desktops to Windows Vista. Just shy of 5% said that they have begun a
Windows Vista desktop upgrade program. 6.5% said they will upgrade in the next 6 months;
12.6% in the next 12 months; 13% in the next 18 months; and 18% in the next two years.
That means that within two years from now, only 56%
of survey respondents say they will have upgraded their firm's desktops to Windows
Vista.
274791
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Rob writes:
Computer Business Review is reporting that the US Department of Justice and five States
have declared themselves satisfied with the antitrust enforcement efforts taken against
Microsoft despite a further seven States maintaining they have had 'little or no
discernible impact in the marketplace.' While the US DoJ and five States — New York,
Louisiana, Maryland, Ohio, and Wisconsin (The New York Group) — reported that the final
judgments have succeeded in increasing competition to the benefit of consumers, seven
States making up the California
Group are not convinced.
220785
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Robert writes:
AT&T has asked Capitol Hill now to enable an open nationwide wireless spectrum,
claiming that Google's lobbying of such a network is a bid by the search giant to obtain
broadband airwaves at bargain-basement prices. Some companies, notably Google, have asked
the FCC impose open-access requirements on the spectrum, which means any device could be
used over the airwaves. Skype and satellite companies DirecTV
and EchoStar are among the various proponents of an open-access network.
218417
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Robert writes:
Microsoft's chief executive has said that the company's long-held vision of
'software-plus-services,' in which more of its software would reside on the Internet and
be delivered via broadband, would begin to take shape later this year. In broad strokes,
that vision is to build a set of services for servers, clients and mobile devices in the
Internet cloud, with a new model of computation and user interface. Ballmer seemed to suggest
the first of these services would launch, in some form, later this year.
214465
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Rob writes:
Computer Business Review magazine is reporting that Google has filed papers with the US
district judge overseeing Microsoft's compliance with its 2002 antitrust settlement,
outlining why it believes it has a special interest in helping
to ensure Microsoft remains in compliance.
199337
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Rob writes:
Apple chief Steve Jobs expects to do more than lure Internet Explorer users to Apple's
forthcoming version of Safari for Windows — he envisions a duopoly within the browser
market at the expense of FireFox and others, according to Mozilla COO John Lilly. Lilly
pointed to a pie graph representing the browser market that Jobs showed at last week's
Apple developers' conference. The graph was made up with just two browsers: Safari and
Internet Explorer. The graph "betrays the way that Apple, so often looks at the
world," Lilly said. "But make no mistake: this wasn't a careless presentation,
or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing
trick," he said. "Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but
'careless' and 'accidental' do not. This
is, essentially, the way they're thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want
to pick up."
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Rob writes:
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Apple chief Steve Jobs will make a rare joint
appearance to wax lyrical about their visions of future technologies at the D: All Things
Digital conference, which is to be held in Carlsbad, California. Expect no miraculous
joint announcement from the event, which will be a 75-minute joint interview. "We
expect to use the occasion to get them to reflect on both the past — how we got here — and
the future," said Mossberg, who is personal tech columnist at the Wall Street
Journal, in an email. He declined to give any color about the questions he and Swisher are
preparing, or any additional information. Most likely, Gates and Jobs will use the
occasion to do some friendly sparring on their polar-opposite philosophies on personal
computing. Jobs
may bang on about the benefits of a software-hardware approach, while Gates may rattle off
the joys of partnering with hardware partners.
120959
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Robert writes:
Security researchers have found what they say is an entirely new kind of web-based
attack, and it only targets the Ajax applications so beloved of the 'Web 2.0' movement.
Fortify Software, which said it discovered the new class of vulnerability and has named it
"JavaScript hijacking", said
that almost all the major Ajax toolkits have been found vulnerable. "JavaScript
Hijacking allows an unauthorized attacker to read sensitive data from a vulnerable
application using a technique similar to the one commonly used to create mashups,"
Chess writes.
108295
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Rob writes:
The OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite project has written to Dell Inc
hoping to persuade the company to adopt OpenOffice in response to customer demand.
"Let's have a conversation about how we could build an 'OpenOffice.org supplied by
Dell'product to give your customers what they are asking for," wrote McCreesh, in
reference to the demand for open source products on Dell's IdeaStorm web site. A
somewhat obvious question is raised... Why isnt OpenOffice already available by default on
new PC's and Workstations?
103966
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Rob writes:
The wait is almost over. It may have taken two weeks longer than Red Hat would have
liked, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the updated version of the company's commercial
Linux platform, will be launched along with a bevy of new products and services on March
14. The delivery of RHEL 5, the fourth major commercial server release for Red Hat, will
better position its Linux against Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as well as
Windows, Unix, and proprietary platforms. RHEL 5 has been cooking for more than two years
and includes changes to the Linux kernel. In addition to the support for the Xen
hypervisor, RHEL 5 also has an integrated version of Red Hat Cluster Suite, the company's
high availability clustering software, as well as support for iSCSI disk arrays, InfiniBand
with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), and the SystemTap kernel probing tool.
97660
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Rob writes:
Cisco Systems has called its legal attack dogs off Apple, saying that the two companies
have agreed that they can both use the iPhone brand to market their telephones. The deal
includes a vague agreement to "explore opportunities for interoperability in the
areas of security, and consumer and enterprise communications". The settlement is an
obvious boon to Apple, which was hoping to leverage its successful iPod brand to sell its
take on "iPhones", which will play music and video and provide internet access
as well as making calls. A potentially ugly lawsuit has been avoided. It's also quite
useful to Cisco, which
gets to associate its distinctly less sexy devices with what may turn out to be a
successful Apple branding campaign.
