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Survey: More government workers can telecommute

A recent study has found that nearly all U.S. government workers could telecommute, but only 20 percent of them do

Microsoft unveils giveaway program for students

Microsoft scrambles to quash ‘friendly’ worm story

Some Microsoft researchers floated the idea that security patch updates could be spread like a worm instead of from a central server and received tremendous backlash

Report: Microsoft to launch Yahoo proxy fight

Microsoft's attempts to acquire Yahoo turn uglier as the company prepares for a proxy fight to oust Yahoo's board

Sybase gets into the cluster-database game

Bungee offers hosted software development

Developers can build, host apps using the Bungee Connect on-demand 'platform-as-a-service' system

‘DVD Jon’ offers beta version of content sharing tool

DoubleTwist releases beta versions of a Facebook application and a PC desktop application for unlocking and managing music and video files

Timeline: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Disc

Microsoft stays mum on Blu-ray Disc support

Microsoft is still selling an external HD DVD drive for the Xbox despite the news that Toshiba will scuttle the format

Sony achieves greenhouse gas emissions goal early

Sony will now look to promote and help people adopt sustainable lifestyles through its products

Harvard Web site hacked

Hacker claims to demonstrate the insecurity of Harvard's servers by posting one of its sites' databases on the BitTorrent file-sharing network

Update: HP reports strong results on PC, enterprise sales

A solid first quarter has prompted hewlett-Packard to raise its forecast for the year

Court orders whistle-blower site offline in U.S.

Whistle blowers in the U.S. will no longer be able to post corporate and government documents online anonymously at Wikileaks.org

Mobile broadband heads upstream

Carriers are launching Turbo-3G services with faster upload speeds

Samsung starts shipping SATA II flash drives

Samsung's new SSD, which offers better performance than many flash drives, will be offered on some Dell and Alienware laptops in the coming weeks

Opera, Firefox bug could export users’ Web history

A flaw in the way the Firefox and Opera browsers handle bitmap image files could allow an attacker to see what Web sites a person has visited

Unisys lays out services-led plan for datacenters

Unisys will compete more directly with HP and Sun in the datacenter with its new servers and infrastructure management suite

Toshiba plans massive flash memory investment, JV with SanDisk

Toshiba will build a new state-of-the-art flash memory chip factory with SanDisk, as well as two more chip factories of its own

update: Microsoft DreamSpark offers software to students

Microsoft aims to fostering technology innovation by giving away development and design software to university and high school students around the world

Sun ships management piece of xVM strategy

Sun's xVM datacenter automation console includes automatic installation of firmware and bare-metal OSes and patch-management tools for SUSE, Red Hat, and Solaris

Mozilla opens e-mail subsidiary

New messaging subsidiary will focus on developing Mozilla's free, open-source Thunderbird e-mail software

Toshiba abandons HD DVD

Blu-ray wins out as Toshiba will no longer develop, manufacture, and market the rival-format HD DVD players and recorders

Everex ships Cloudbook after slight delay

The Cloudbook ultramobile PC runs Linux and features a 30GB hard drive, wireless networking, and a DVI port, while a future model will include a touch-screen interface

Wal-Mart adopts Blu-ray, dumps HD DVD format

Due to customer demand, Wal-Mart will exclusively be offering Blu-ray hardware and DVDs by the middle of this year

Microsoft moves on MVC

Google finds evil all over the Web

Google turned its Web-crawling technology loose to hunt down malware-serving pages and found 3 million, meaning about one out of every 1,000 pages is malicious

Former OLPC CTO predicts a $75 laptop by 2010

In an interview, Mary Lou Jepsen, the former head of One Laptop Per Child and current head of Pixel Qi, talks about her departure from OLPC and her $75 laptop plans

Amazon’s S3 down for several hours

Amazon's data storage service had been down on Friday, leaving businesses offline, but service had been restored as of 9 a.m. Pacific time

Microsoft offers patent protection for Office binaries

In response to criticism from some involved with OOXML, Microsoft is adding Office binary formats to a list of technologies that are protected from patent violation claims

Reader’s weigh in on Carr’s prediction

Microsoft readies Unity for software development

Yahoo board reported split over Microsoft bid

CEO Yang is strongly opposed to selling Yahoo; some board members fear rejecting the takeover bid could expose the board to lawsuits by shareholders

Daily news beat, Feb. 15, 2008

Cringely: Geek week in review

GPS about finding friends, not route

Location-based services are evolving into a social tool as providers maneuver to take advantage of the increasing number of mobile phones shipping with integrated GPS

Kyoto University orders AMD-based supercomputer

Cluster of Fujitsu high-performance computers has a theoretical peak performance of 61.2T Flops, placing it in the top 20 most powerful computers in the world

How SOA and Web 2.0 are married

EMC plans push into new markets

Asia went from being storage vendor EMC's slowest-growing region in 2006 to its fastest in 2007

News Quiz: The week in tech

FIPS key to working with gov’t

OLPC, IDB to launch pilot project in Haiti

OLPC project aims to determine how the XO laptops can be used to help solve problems such as a shortage of qualified teachers

Four U.S. newspaper companies form online ad partnership

If newspapers develop better ways to sell their own online ads, they may not have to share revenue with Web counterparts such as Yahoo and Google

The changing face of storage insights

Bug-finder gets no credit from Microsoft

Microsoft has refused to credit the hacker with a racy name for finding a Microsoft Office vulnerability

Investment firm extends offer to buy Transmeta

Riley Investment extends its offer of $15.50 per share to buy out Transmeta, which the investment group has accused of mismanagement and asset waste

HP settles pretexting cases

Hewlett-Packard settled cases with The New York Times and three BusinessWeek journalists after being caught spying on reporters

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A new focus on storage advice

Microsoft executive shakeup prepares for Yahoo acquisition

Microsoft has confirmed that there will be some changes in high-level management, a move analysts think is being made with the Yahoo acquisition in mind

Comcast, NetSuite rise as Nasdaq slumps

Economic worries negatively affected IT companies like Intel, but NetSuite, Comcast, and Qwest still reported strong earnings this week