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Former California governor Jerry Brown -- once a darling of the mainstream media, or "MSM," -- now has his own blog, where he can get his message directly to voters, without any interpretation by print or electronic journalists. Politicians in North Dakota, similarly, have taken to blogging to market their message Is this a good thing? Should the p...
European retailers, like Germany's Metro and the UK's Marks & Spencer, are aggressively moving forward with RFID projects -- with a creative flair that appears to exceed that of their American rivals, experts say. A host of cultural, political and legal factors in Europe are helping push the trend. "RFID is more justifiable in Europe than in the United States," said John Greaves, who heads the global RFID technology integration practice at Deloitte Consulting, based in Chicago...
Municipal wireless networks are generating a great deal of controversy lately, compelling some state legislatures to seek to outlaw them. The reason for the public policy power play at state houses? Powerful wireless service providers and cable companies are lobbying behind the scenes, in states like Florida, to stop the local governments from creating free wireless and WiFi networks when they have millions of customers who are still perfectly willing to pay for services...
The wireless industry is mounting a very public defense for a controversial application of "contactless smart cards" while a number of consumer groups and privacy advocates have decried the technology as potentially invasive of personal privacy Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said at a conference in Chicago this mo...
In the United Kingdom today, HP unveiled a new round of desktop PCs, offering customers a choice between Mandrake Linux 9.2 and Microsoft Windows XP as default operating systems The company described the new HP Compaq Business Desktop dx2000 as a simple, inexpensive business computer designed to meet the "basic computing requirements of price-sensi...
New research once again confirms that Linux and open-source acquisition costs are a "fraction" of the cost of comparable proprietary options -- but the research adds a new caveat, noting that costs will be driven lower in the coming years. Today, savings from Linux are often "offset by high integration, maintenance and support costs," a new survey...
Tokyo-based VA Linux Systems last week launched a collaborative development project with NTT Data to develop a crash-analysis tool for Linux. According to the companies, this tool will provide crash-related data and crash analysis for IT departments. The project aims to have the tool in circulation by the first quarter of next year.
Developers this week have released the new Linux Kernel 2.6.6 -- a development that observers and participants in the open-source process are calling good news The story about the new kernel first emerged this morning on an Internet bulletin board, where bare details about the software were posted, including the fact that it is a patch for version ...
Novell this week released the first public beta version of its Mono 1.0 software -- the company's planned alternative to Microsoft's .NET platform Novell took over the Mono project when it acquired open-source software vendor Ximian in August 2003, and the issues inherent in the merger were said to contribute to the delay in the release of the soft...
Is the legal strategy embraced by SCO Group a "good faith" effort to protect its intellectual property? Or a project to boost the share price on the Lindon, Utah, software firm? A new article, in the current issue of Fortune Magazine, one of the leading business publications in the United States, raises those issues and more, calling SCO a "much-lo...
SCO Group is laying off employees at its Santa Cruz office, prompting speculation as to the real motive for the move throughout the Linux industry, LinuxInsider has learned Competitors queried by LinuxInsider said they had not heard of the layoffs previously and found them "interesting."
Is Linux suitable for mission-critical applications at large firms? A recent report by Forrester says so. So do other experts. But there are still skeptics This spring, Forrester surveyed 150 IT decision-makers at North American companies about their open-source software strategies....
Major vendors, like HP and IBM, are embracing Linux. Does that mean that Linux is no longer, practically speaking, free? Some technology experts -- even those keen on Linux -- have widely differing opinions. In an interview with the Australian IT press, Steve Vamos, the managing director for Microsoft Australia, this week stressed that Linux is no...
Red Hat chose London as the location to launch its new Linux software that is bundled with security and management features The new product, Red Hat Desktop, is targeted at organizations that are looking to upgrade their PCs but don't want all the features that ship with the latest version of Microsoft Windows, Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's chief execu...
The SCO Group is amending its federal lawsuit against IBM, changing its legal tactics in the ongoing public drama over Linux software But contrary to some reports in the press, the company didn't claim earlier in a letter that the Linux General Public License (GPL) was "unconstitutional." ...
Making good on a marketing promise uttered late last year, Red Hat today is ending support for the final version of its Linux 9 product The Raleigh, North Carolina, Linux vendor in January stopped supporting its other legacy versions of Linux, hoping that customers would switch to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux line of products.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week brought out another round of copyright infringement cases, including lawsuits against individuals at 14 U.S. universities. The civil actions targeted 477 alleged file-sharers, including 69 individuals allegedly using university networks to distribute copyrighted sound recordings illegally on unauthorized peer-to-peer services.
An appeals brief filed by lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argues that a legal decision earlier this year by an administrative law judge favoring Rambus was incorrect, and that the chip products maker may gain as much as US$3 billion in illicit royalties as a result of its allegedly fraudulent business practices "The force of the deceptivel...
Tokyo-based Turbolinux this week disclosed that it has developed a new Linux operating system for home PC users -- the Turbolinux 10F Turbolinux is said to be the best-selling Linux distributor in the Asia-Pacific region....
Sales growth was slower than expected -- and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas -- at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit "IBM today is a company ready to focus more on opportunities than on threats," said IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano in a speech earlier today at the company's 2004 annual stockholders meeting in P...
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