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Ubuntu Linux at Amazon, Best Buy for $20

By: Eric BrownA $20 boxed version of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) is available at both Best Buy and Amazon online stores.ValuSoft, which is packaging...

Telco Immunity Approved by Senate, Obama

After a morning of fiery debate, the U.S. Senate voted July 9 to grant retroactive immunity to telephone companies that participated in the White...

Malware Goes (Really) Mainstream

Well, as if having a security threat research site modeled in direct imitation of Grand Theft Auto (over 6 million copies sold in a...

NebuAd Program May Violate Wiretapping Laws

On the eve of a Senate hearing on behavioral advertising, the Center for Democracy and Technology has published a report everyone should read. Your...

Diane Greene Sails Out Of EMC

OK, so that is a strained headline. But she is a champion sailor and windsurfer. I interviewed Diane Greene at EMC's Cambridge, Mass office...

Google Feels the Privacy Heat as Summer Rolls On

Back from a week off blogging, and it's interesting that in the short time away (well, it felt short, and I believe those in...

Credit Suisse Spins Off VM Control

It's not uncommon that an IT department of an enterprise sees a problem brewing, devises some home-grown software to bridge it, then goes right...

Microsoft Pushes Workarounds to Dodge Zero-Day Attack

While users await a patch for a flaw in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft has suggested a...

Microsoft Launching Online Services

Microsoft has come to grips with the idea that customers want to consume software over the Web, and it is now poised to unleash...

Diane Greene Leaves VMware

Diane Greene, who co-founded VMware and helped turn the company into the most influential of all the x86 virtualization vendors, is leaving her post...