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New FCC Rules May Impact Linux-Based Devices

New U.S. regulations went into effect July 6 that could change how vendors of devices with software-defined radios use open-source software. The new rules...

Microsoft Tries to Spit Out the GPLv3 Hook

Microsoft wants everyone to understand that GPLv3 has nothing to do with the company, its Linux partnerships or anything else Redmond-based. In other words, Microsoft...

Online Shoppers Taking Longer To Buy

The average time it takes a consumer to make an e-commerce purchase decision has jumped from about 19 hours in 2005 to 34 hours...

What the iPhone, Xbox and Las Vegas Can Teach You About Corporate Computing

Sometimes it seems like a stretch to connect the business-to-business world of corporate computing to the high-buzz-factor world of consumer electronics. At other times,...

The Data Security Weak Link

When Fidelity National Information Services this week announced that about 2.3 million customer records had been illegally sold to a group of direct marketers,...

Enterprise Testing the iPhone

Click the image to see the slide showBy now you've read all the breathless first day "reviews" of the new Apple iPhone. You've seen...

Linux Developers Considering Move to Eclipse

When youre talking Linux development tools, chances are youre talking about decades-old programming editors like vi and EMACS. These are fine for an older...

The Tough World of Enterprise Applications

At an analyst day event in January 2005, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison sent a stern warning to rival SAP.It was just a month after...

Is it OK for Google to Own Us?

Google is all about information.Its become the No. 1 tool people use to find information on the Internet. More troubling to privacy experts, though,...

A Homegrown Defense Team

Lately Dave Aitels been thinking: whats the difference between organized online crime groups and commercial companies that do penetration testing? "A company has a rather...