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AMD’s Quad-Core Opteron available in Dell servers

AMD's much delayed quad-core processor appears back on track

Red Hat skips consumer Linux desktop

Red Hat will continue to focus on infrastructure software for the enterprise market

Apple patches $10,000 prize-winning bug

The flaw that Charlie Miller exploited to hack a MacBook and win the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN hacking contest has been fixed

Curl debuts its RIA features for Ubuntu Linux

The Ubuntu installer for Curl 6.0 will also include tools for Web developers to make Ubuntu-compatible RIAs

Google’s Urchin 6 arrives after years-long delay

The update to the Urchin Web analytics server software was originally due out three and a half years ago

MySQL users mostly unfazed by Sun acquisition

Though some MySQL developers worry that the acquisition will stifle growth in their community, others see Sun as providing reassurance to skittish IT workers

Advocacy groups skeptical of P-to-P bill of rights idea

Announcement of Comcast-Pando collaboration draws criticism from consumer-focused advocacy groups Public Knowledge and Free Press

Are you ready for ‘green SOA’?

The IT industry has been increasingly moving toward greener practices in order to cut costs and consumption, and adopting SOA is seen as the next step

Microsoft to offer SQL Server 2005 SP3

Service Pack 3 is expected to come out after the RTM of SQL Server 2008, which is scheduled to happen in the third quarter this year

EarthLink returns Wi-Fi networks to two cities

City councils of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Milpitas, Calif., each voted on Tuesday to take back possession of their municipal Wi-Fi networks, without EarthLink's involvement

Conference reflects maturation of the storage market

Last week's Storage Networking World conference showed a market that has come into its own and now looks to evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, change

Novell announces Suse appliance program for ISVs

The program will enable ISVs to combine their apps with Suse Linux Enterprise in an integrated package as Novell positions itself as an infrastructure software company

Ahead of the Curve: Back to the Mac

Novell CEO: Linux for the consumer desktop will take years

Ronald Hovsepian acknowledges that Novell's Suse Linux will be slow to catch on in the consumer realm as the market needs several years to grow and mature

On help desk metrics

Lawmakers look to increase nanotech safety research

More money needed to investigate health and safety effects of nanotech, committee chairman says

Daily news beat for April 16, 2008

Controversial ad system keeps its eye on the money

Phorm prepares to launch its controversial ad-targeting system, which monitors a person's browsing in order to serve ads matched to their searches or Web pages visited

Open Source Census launches

Effort gets underway to collect data on the implementation of open-source software around the world

Sound the alarm, IPv6 execs say

Telecom industry execs warn of coming crisis, saying all available IP addresses using IPv4 will be depleted in another three years

Service orientation makes IT critical

The two faces of SharePoint

Can Google Apps crack large enterprises?

Adoption of Google Apps by the corporate world could be a cultural challenge as much as a technological one

Yager: A Macophile, and for good reason

Comcast, Pando call for pact on peer-to-peer rights

Companies initiate drive for a 'P2P Bill of Rights' to help settle the conflicts between broadband providers and some peer-to-peer users

E-paper displays move a step closer to real paper

New electronic paper display, with a touch panel and a newly developed control chip, makes it easy for users to annotate pages in e-books and make amendments to documents

Intel’s first-quarter net income drops

Lower prices for NAND flash bring down Intel's expected first-quarter gross margin

ISPs meddled with their customers’ Web traffic

Study finds some Web browsing and ad-blocking software are making Web surfing more dangerous by introducing security vulnerabilities into pages

Corrections to “Back to the Mac”

Malicious microprocessor opens new doors for attack

Researchers have found a difficult but viable method for hacking a PC's microprocessor — an attack that would be devastating and virtually undetectable

Microsoft makes Mundie responsible for Unlimited Potential

Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie will now oversee the UPG, which heads Microsoft's outreach efforts in developing countries

Oracle patches 41 security flaws in database, other products

The database security fixes included patches for 15 vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely without a username or password

Coghead launches exchange for developers to sell their apps

The Coghead Gallery hosted service allows developers to sell apps they've created using Coghead's Web app development technology

Lawmakers question what to do with public safety spectrum

Reports that a public safety agency advisor was attempting to profit off the 700Mhz spectrum auction has lawmakers wondering how to proceed

OS X Server break-in: Probably isolated, but a heads-up

Lawmakers complain that Google ‘gamed’ auction

Three Congressmen feel that Google found a backdoor into an open wireless network without having to submit any winning bids during the recent 700MHz spectrum auction

Check Point intros UTM gear for midsize businesses, branches

Check Point is updating its UTM-1 line of unified threat management appliances, focusing on the needs of branch offices and medium-sized businesses

Microsoft completes Danger acquisition

Microsoft may keep the software and hosted architecture built by Danger to enhance its own mobile offerings

MySQL upgrade now slated for June, Sun says

A release candidate of MySQL 5.1 is out, but Sun is holding on to the final version until June in order to fix some remaining bugs

Google, Salesforce and … Shakespeare?

How to spot — and stop — a corporate spy

U.S. corporations lose as much as $300 billion a year to hacking, cracking, physical security breaches, and other criminal activity, security experts say

Daily news beat for April 15, 2008

MEPs question Microsoft’s eligibility for gov’t projects

Members of the European Parliament say Microsoft's exclusion from government contracts, due to antitrust violations, would be 'unprecedented'

Hackers open new front in payment card data thefts

Hannaford and Okemo breaches indicate that hackers are starting to focus on stealing card data that's on the move, instead of taking information stored on systems

Microsoft looking for embedded innovations

Microsoft introduces a low-cost hardware and software bundle that makes it easier for commercial developers to create products based on its embedded software

Researchers: Microsoft’s CAPTCHAs easy to solve

Security system used to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts has been become increasingly ineffective, leading to an increase in spam

The dangers of security that is secretly secure

Cisco’s Linksys phaseout moving along

Linksys brand may disappear sooner than expected, replaced by a product category similar to the Catalyst series of switches or WebEx conferencing services

Infosys revenues to reach $5 billion this year

Indian outsourcing company expects its revenue to grow by 19 to 21 percent despite concerns about an economic slowdown in the U.S.

Seagate lawsuit against STEC could raise SSD prices

A Seagate victory in the patent infringement suit could result in the company collecting royalties not only from STEC but also from other SSD makers such as Samsung and Intel