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It’s just an algorithm

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Author: JT Smith

At a large security software conference last week in Florida, the most popular T-shirt among the 1000 delegates was the one you could get for free from the exhibition stand of a company called RSA Security. From a report at Fairfax IT.

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  • Linux

Pink slips part of dot-com game

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Author: JT Smith

Behind the deepening meltdown of once-glamorous
media and shopping sites, the dot-com financial crisis is
broadening and changing shape. For the first time,
e-tailers are not responsible for the greatest number of
dismissals. Read more at ZDNET.

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  • Open Source

Are you comfy at your computer? Bringing the fun to another room

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Author: JT Smith

In most American homes the computer remains banished to an uncomfortable office-like room, while the television and stereo enjoy the leisurely living room atmosphere, says FoxNews.com.

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  • Linux

First Intel, now Apple: Has PC growth hit a wall?

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Author: JT Smith

Reuters says that financial warnings by stylish computer maker Apple and chip
powerhouse Intel have stoked fears that personal computer
demand is slowing, even as the industry enters its busiest season.

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  • Unix

Multi-attack virus uncovered

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Author: JT Smith

Norman Data Defence said that it has discovered a new and vicious virus in the
wild. Known as W32/MTX@mm, the virus is said to be highly malicious since it can
strike as a conventional virus, a backdoor program and/or as an e-mail worm. From a report at Computeruser.com.

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  • Linux

Sun dreams of slimmer Jini

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Author: JT Smith

Sun Microsystems is scaling back its Jini software intended to network everything from kitchen appliances to cell phones,
adding a stripped-down version more likely to work on today’s gadgets, reports CNET.

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  • Open Source

Getting shafted just for fun

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Author: JT Smith

A report at Fairfax IT claims that Shafted X is Australia’s largest games-based LAN event, says Richard Smyth, one of the dozen-or-so members of the ShaftedLAN organising committee.

Parisian company has record high sales; runs on Linux

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Author: JT Smith

Netgem offers Internet service similar to American WebTV, and runs on a Linux-based open source platform. From a press release at BusinessWire.

Where are the women?

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Author: JT Smith

The IT idustry might be the new economy, but the old problem of discrimination still dogs it, writes Jenny Sinclair of Fairfax IT.

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  • Linux

Five spots opening up for Internet’s governing geeks

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Author: JT Smith

ICANN makes decisions regarding the introduction of new
top-level domains, and deals with other issues relating to Internet governance. From a report at Wired.com.
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