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“We’re not Intel,” say bullish Asian chipmakers

Author: JT Smith

Acer and others predict growth and diversification, says Techweb.com.

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  • Unix

Is Microsoft “colluding” with NSA to allow backdoor access into apps?

Author: JT Smith

The National Security Administration gathers information on Internet traffic, especially in foreign countries. Now, some European nations are looking at open source solutions, says ZDCOUK.

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  • Linux

Your Palm is ringing

Author: JT Smith

From PCWorld.com:Palm and RealVision Technology have announced a telephony attachment device for the Palm V handheld device, enabling the PDA (personal digital assistant) to function like a mobile phone.

Global Center outages not DoS attack

Author: JT Smith

Major hosting service GlobalCenter suffered a 14-hour traffic jam last week on several of its sites, including the heavily used Telstra White and Yellow Pages sites, reports Australian site I.T.

Festival brings out more criticism of record labels

Author: JT Smith

The technology is here. The content is here. The consumers are here. But the major music labels aren’t ready to work with anyone other than themselves. Wired.com reports from Portland, Oregon.

Worry about the worm

Author: JT Smith

Fear the worm, says PCWorld.com. The computer worm, that is. That was the theme of a talk Symantec’s director of research, Stephen Trilling, gave to attendees at Dell Computer’s DirectConnect conference late last week.

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  • Linux

The ‘official’ celeb site racket

Author: JT Smith

CelebSites.com wants to be the premier source for official celebrity websites, and counts among its A-list stars like Gwyneth Paltrow and Mel Gibson. Conveniently enough, CelebSites also happens to own hundreds of stars’ domain names, according to a story at Wired.com.

Microsoft covets seat at high-end Unix table

Author: JT Smith

PCWorld.com reports that, in the continuing quest to move higher into the enterprise data center, Microsoft next week will launch its .NET family of enterprise servers, including Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the company’s most powerful server operating system yet.

Mac OS X has Unix-derived directory structure

Author: JT Smith

New MacWeek story says that each user will have his own desktop under the new release, and they’re about as far from root as you can get.

New open source privacy software stores personal data

Author: JT Smith

Extensible Name Service technology allows web users to dictate what information online companies receive, reports SiliconValley.com.

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  • Linux