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Fail-Safe System Fails in Alaska’s Data Debacle

One of the most astounding IT stories of the week comes courtesy of a computer technician from the Alaska Department of Revenue who wiped out a disc drive containing an account worth US$38 billion, the Associated Press reported ...

Google Mum About Swirling ‘Gphone’ Rumors

If there's anything more exciting than the barely-seen Apple iPhone, it's got to be a possible Google-made mobile phone. While rumors have been all over the Web lately, the search engine giant is closed for discussion ...

New Linux Platform Supports Dual-Mode Cell Phones

Open Linux system platform and open source technology provider a la Mobile announced this week the availability of a complete Voice over IP (VoIP) Linux system stack for WiFi/GSM dual-mode phones ...

SWsoft Packages Virtuozzo With Novell’s Suse Linux

SWsoft announced Thursday it will deliver its popular Virtuozzo server virtualization software in a new bundle with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 ...

Dell Invites Customers to Pick Favorite Linux Flavors

Ever since Dell launched its IdeaStorm Web site earlier this year, the company has been inundated with customers -- and potential customers -- clamoring for Dell to offer Linux preinstalled on desktop and laptop PCs ...

Sony Hopes Social Networkers Will Go ‘Home’

Right on the heels of Microsoft's announcement last week that its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment service had 6 million users, Sony let loose with its own groundbreaking online gaming announcement: PS3 Home ...

Seagate Toughens Security With Encrypted Notebook Drive

Seagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday ...

EU Spearheads War on Global Warming

The European Union (EU) announced Friday it has reached an ambitious agreement to increase the use of renewable energy to 20 percent of all energy usage by 2020. The EU also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in relation to 1990 levels over the next 13 years ...

Wikipedia Ain’t Broke, but Needs Fixing

What's the big deal with having a false persona? We live in a world of fake names, and "World of Warcraft" and Second Life are only part of it. Want to participate in an Internet discussion forum? You'll have to create a user ID, and most likely it won't have your first and last name in it ...

Yahoo Connects With Windows Mobile Millions

Yahoo and Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC) have inked a deal to preload Yahoo Web services on millions of HTC's smartphones that run Windows Mobile, giving Yahoo an edge in the race to capture mobile Web users ...

South Park on Xbox: Low Comedy Goes High-Def

Comedy Central's Emmy award-winning cartoon series "South Park" is getting its first-ever high-definition (HD) episode, "Good Times With Weapons," and Microsoft's Xbox Live service will distribute it free for two weeks ...

Cops Nab Crooks Using YouTube

For years, police departments have given video surveillance tapes to local television news channels in an effort to attract attention and fight crime. These days, a handful of police departments are turning to YouTube, according to a report from The Associated Press ...

Material Thin as an Atom Makes Tiniest Transistor

Researchers have fashioned the world's smallest transistor out of a one-atom-thick layer of graphene that's also less than 50 atoms wide. The minuscule graphene-based transistor may be the breakthrough that leads to faster microprocessors, ultimately replacing silicon, which becomes unstable at sizes ten times larger than graphene ...

Web Visionary Andreessen Pits Ning Against MySpace

A new upstart in online social networking, Ning, launched Tuesday, saying it plans to leapfrog social networking powerhouses MySpace and Facebook ...

Dell Puts Preinstalled Linux on the Table

Dell's new IdeaStorm Web site, which invites the public to post ideas and product suggestions to the company, has exploded with interest in desktop Linux. Thousands of site community members have asked Dell to preinstall several different versions of Linux on desktop and laptop computers, prompting Dell to take steps toward definitive action ...

BitTorrent Goes Straight With Legit Vid Store

San Francisco-based BitTorrent, a firm infamous for creating file-sharing software that lets millions of people swap pirated movies and video content online, on Monday launched the BitTorrent Entertainment Network at BitTorrent.com ...

South African Government Adopts Open Source Policy

The South African government announced Thursday it is ditching proprietary software for a new policy and strategy based on free and open source software ...

AT&T Snags $1 Billion GM Contract

AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors (GM) ...

AT&T Snags $1 Billion GM Contract

AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors (GM) ...

AT&T Snags $1 Billion GM Contract

AT&T has won one of the largest commercial contracts in its history, the company announced Wednesday -- a massive five-year global networking contract from automotive giant General Motors (GM) ...

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