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• The EE Gender Gap Is Widening 11 months, 1 week ago
  
  Walk into a classroom of environmental engineering students and, odds are, nearly half of them will be women. Now head next door to an electrical engineering class: you’ll likely find eight men for every woman.
• MySQL getting too big for its corporate britches? 11 months, 1 week ago
  
  For anyone interested in seeing just how different and game-changing open source can be, there's really no need to look beyond MySQL, the open-source database leader. Jeremy Zawodny, formerly of Yahoo!, and now of Craigslist, takes a hard look at the changing face of MySQL, reaching some surprising conclusions about MySQL in the process:
• Leaner Technical Support for Web Hosts - How you can save costs in a bad economy 11 months, 1 week ago
  
  There seems to be no end to the bad news trickling in. From Wall street bailouts, Home foreclosures, poor spending by consumers during the holiday season and now – the downturn in the auto industry. The poor economy seems to have touched everyone, Web Hosts included.
• Panel PCs claimed "waterproof" 11 months, 1 week ago
  
  Aaeon has announced three "waterproof" panel PCs that are equipped with touchscreen displays and Intel Celeron processors. The Fox-80, Fox-120, and Fox-150 panel PCs feature ports and surfaces that all meet the IP65 standard for water resistance, according to the company.
• White House opposes FCC's free Internet plan 11 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  The Bush administration opposes a Federal Communications Commission plan for free, nationwide wireless Internet access, according to a report Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal.
• RIM Aims to Boost Security Technology 11 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Research in Motion is making a $66 million dollar hostile bid to acquire security cryptography company Certicom Corp.
• Wind River reports strong year 11 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Wind River released another solid earnings report in the third quarter, reporting a 12 percent increase in revenues to $91.6 million, and a nine percent increase in deferred revenues to $125.8 million year-over-year. Linux revenues totaled $13.3 million, an increase of 71 percent over last year, says the company.
• Google Gets More Friendly, Fights Facebook 11 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Will Google's new Friend Connect help Webmasters add a "dash of social" to their sites? That's what the search giant is promising with today's announcement.
• Times are tough, but tech companies don't need to suffer 11 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Back when I was a public company auditor (yes, you read that correctly), I quickly realized after discussing business with top-level executives that few were prepared to meet the challenges that (at that time) seemed unlikely to affect us again. They believed that the economy would continue its rapid expansion, consumer spending would rise by staggering amounts each year, and we would all profit greatly.
• Does Google Have a Secret OS? 11 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  An analytics site finds traffic from Google.com obfuscates the operating system being used.
• EFF, Bush administration spar over telecom immunity 11 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  A federal judge on Tuesday heard arguments in a case that centers on an important constitutional principle: can the Feds immunize any telecommunications company that violated the law by opening its network to government snoops?
• Microsoft’s Ballmer Must Answer Questions in Lawsuit 12 months ago
  
  Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer must answer questions under oath in a lawsuit claiming consumers were misled about which computers could fully run Vista, the company’s current operating system.
• Microsoft ranked fifth worst spam service ISP 12 months ago
  
  Microsoft is listed fifth in the Top 10 list of the worst spam service ISPs compiled by Spamhaus.org.
• Pain and delight: Who's firing, who's hiring (updated) 12 months ago
  
  We've been running a spreadsheet of layoffs at tech companies since October. It's depressing, but it's newsworthy. To offset the pain a bit, we also have a second spreadsheet tracking who is hiring. I'm happy to report that there are more companies on the record as having open jobs than there are that are executing layoffs. The raw number of jobs lost is higher than gained, unfortunately, but if you are laid off, check out that other spreadsheet for a potential new gig in your industry.
• Lessons From the $1 Billion Intel Trade-Secret Theft 12 months ago
  
  What if the FBI came knocking on your door saying that your employer had accused you of stealing US $1 billion from the company? That’s exactly what happened to Biswamohan Pani, a former Intel engineer who was indicted earlier this month for stealing trade secrets from the chip maker. Instead of raiding the supply closet for some notepads, pens, and paper clips, Pani allegedly downloaded more than 100 pages of data containing details about future Intel chip designs and 19 drawings detailing the chips’ layouts.
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