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RIAA Turns Up Heat on IP Piracy in Russia
The Recording Industry of America Association is celebrating a moral victory in its worldwide crusade to stop music piracy, based on the U.S. governments...
Microsoft Presses Cider Test Build on Developers
Earlier this month Microsoft released a preview of its design tool for its upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation subsystem, also known as Avalon.Known as "Cider",...
Nortel to Complete Convergence Story with Tasman Buy
After a four-year hiatus from the enterprise routing market, Nortel Networks Corp. today jumped back in with its proposed $99.5 million acquisition of Tasman...
The Sad Irony of SCO
Well, SCO has now shown its cards to the courts.
We, the Linux-using public, wont know for months exactly what it had to show.
But, after...
Hospitals Put IT in Second Place
Nearly one-third of American hospitals arent profitable or are just breaking even. Thats consistent with the previous finding of a survey of hospital CEOs...
GM Shakes Up Outsourcing Industry
To listen to General Motors Vice President and CIO Ralph Szygenda tell it, he has changed the outsourcing industry forever. Is he exaggerating?
Maybe not.
In...
A Man and His Vision for the Browser
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and introduced the first Web client in 1990, touching off a technological revolution that continues...
Interactive Nature of Browser Colors Past and Future
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sort of.
When Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first Web client, or browser editor, in 1990,...
Sir Tim and the Gift That Keeps On Giving
Fifteen years ago this week, the world received what has turned out to be a most wonderful Christmas present: WorldWideWeb, the very first Web...
RFID Fears Create Their Own Market
Like a counterintelligence officer or an anti-spyware company, some entities in life have the sole raison dêtre of countering something else.
RFID (radio-frequency identification) today...