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Netflix: Box-Office Star
Some people say the fate of cinema is invisible downloadable bytes. Netflix says the near future is plastics— shiny, silver and round.DVD rentals have...
Oracles Souder: Grids Unstoppable
Grid computings an "unstoppable technology wave," writes Oracles Benny Souder, vice president of distributed database development. Grid will help large organizations with massive amounts...
PeopleSoft Continues Money-Back Guarantee
PeopleSoft intends to continue its money-back guarantee program through March 31 or until Oracle stops trying to take it over, the company disclosed in...
SPOTty Coverage
Information at your fingertips. Seamless computing. Call it what you will, its convergence by any other name. Of course, you cant converge anything without...
Black Duck Hunts Open Sources Legal Pitfalls
Black Duck Software Inc. has a different idea to help software developers avoid legal woes: an auditing and management tool for detecting and managing...
Adobe Anti-Counterfeiting: Feature or Bug?
Adobe Systems got a bit of a black eye when the company recently acknowledged it complied with a request from government treasury officials to...
IBM Preps Next-Generation EXA Chipset
IBM engineers are looking to add high-end virtualization, greater scalability and enhanced I/O capabilities into the next generation of the companys chipsets that run...
Red Hat Updates Enterprise Linux Lines
Red Hat Inc. on Friday released Update 1 for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 line of its open-source distribution. The new software improves...
Virtually Yours
Two Gillmors will participate in a panel discussion on the Future of RSS at RSS WinterFest--an online conference scheduled for January 21 and 22....
HP Patches Tru64 Unix Vulnerability
Hewlett-Packard Co. recently discovered and patched a potential vulnerability in its Tru64 Unix operating system that could have resulted in unauthorized access or a...