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Online Billing, Part 1: Leaving the Paper Trail Behind

Weeks before hearing that Apple had cut the price of its iPhone, the gadget's first buyers were met with a different surprise: an AT&T phone bill that in some cases was almost the size of a Stephen King novel. The wireless carrier meticulously detailed every connection and every data exchange. Some customers received bills several hundred pages thick, delivered in cardboard boxes...

Open Source Programmers, Developers to Hold First Power Powwow

Power.Org will sponsor the first Power Architecture Developer Conference in the Austin Convention Center September 24-25 ...

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iPerceptions VP Duff Anderson: Marketing the Voice of the Customer

Duff Anderson, vice president of research, development and knowledge delivery at iPerceptions, is apioneer in the attitudinal Web analytics field, endeavoring since 1996 to forge standards for onlineresearch methodologies and analysis. iPerceptions, with offices in New York, Montreal and Toronto,provides business intelligence strategies for Internet marketing...

Hack-a-Thon II to Put Distributed Coding Skills to Test

Terra Soft Solutions, the developer of Yellow Dog Linux and the HPC Consortium, will hold Hack-a-Thon II in Austin, Texas, Sept. 22-25, two days prior to the start of its four-day Power Architecture Developer Conference ...

What's New in Open Source Search?

Yahoo, Google, and MSN hold a huge lead in search engine technology over open-source alternatives. These search giants are competing in a battle among themselves to be a computer user's default search site for search ...

The State of the Desktop

The laptop computer has been gaining on traditional desktop PCs for some time. Replacing one's desktop completely with a portable computer that has enough power to handle any common task is now a feasible option for consumers, and more are heading that direction. Laptops are siphoning off sales of desktops ...

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Open Source Security, Part 2: 10 Great Apps

Open source security products do not generally carry the same following as their business suite andoperating system brethren. However, the same reasons for supporting open source products in general also apply to open source security applications ...

The Woes of WiFi, Part 2: Digital Defense

WiFi has became pervasive. Not just laptops, but an arsenal of palmed-sized devices including smartphones, PDAs (personal digital assistant) and mobile media players, now connect to the Internet using Wireless Fidelity technology ...

Open Source Security, Part 1: Securing Credibility

Open source applications have come into their own. For some time, open source programmers held much the same reputation as shareware authors. They were little more than experimenters and programming geeks who chose the alternate code-writing route because they could not or did not want to compete in the real software industry of commercial programming...

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Galdos CEO Ron Lake: Mapping the Future of the Browser

The face of the Internet is rapidly changing. For instance, Web maps are no longer about finding yourhouse online. A few years ago, map-making power remained in the hands of specialists. Today, map-making power is within everyone's grasp ...

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Postini CEO Quentin Gallivan, Part 2: Strategies and Services

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive andessential to business growth and operational productivity. This new dependency onmessaging has created a whole new spectrum of major risks, vulnerabilities andrequirements for companies of all sizes ...

Nokia Siemens Networks Rings Up Carrier-Grade Linux Initiatives

Nokia Siemens Networks has joined the Linux Foundation and will become active in efforts to developCarrier Grade Linux (CGL) 5.0 standards ...

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Postini CEO Quentin Gallivan, Part 1: The Challenges of Compliance

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive andessential to business growth and operational productivity. Today, with more than 170billion e-mails and 580 billion IMs exchanged daily, companies have seen a 334percent annual increase in bandwidth, processing and storage requirements in thelast year ...

The Woes of WiFi, Part 1: Insecure by Default

WiFi is not just for laptops anymore. All sorts of devices now connect to the Internet via WirelessFidelity technology. Smartphones -- think Apple's iPhone, among others -- mobile media players and even gaming machines often come with WiFi features to enhance usability ...

So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 2

The continuing rise in popularity of Linux applications has become a boon to job opportunities for software programmers. However, the working culture of the open source industry is different from that of proprietary software developers ...

Committee Grills LimeWire CEO Over P2P Security

A Congressional hearing on Tuesday investigating inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks unexpectedly put a spotlight on LimeWire Chairman Mark Gorton over the government and personal information that can be acquired over P2P networks without users' knowledge. Gorton's company makes the peer-to-peer software LimeWire. He is also CEO of the parent company, Lime Group...

So You Want to Be a Linux Developer, Part 1

Five years ago, the only engineering or computer science majors setting their sights on a career in writing software code for an open source company were the most hardcore of computer nerds. That was something done only by the true computer geeks, and it usually required an independent source of income. Experienced programmers knew the gravy train existed at proprietary companies, most of which avoided experimental operating systems that nobody in the business world would ever use...

Intel's Threading Building Blocks Goes Open Source

Intel announced Tuesday the release of Threading Building Blocks 2.0 as both an open source and commercial product. The company also launched a Web site that establishes an open source project around this product ...

Meet the New Bad Guys: Hired Guns, Zero-Minutes and Malware 2.0

Other than perhaps the medical and legal industries, no field relies on jargon more than computer technology. Take, for instance, the use of words borrowed from other lexicons -- terms such as "virus, "Trojan," "intrusion prevention system," "spyware" and "attack vector." ...

Spying in the Workplace: Big Money?

An offer made earlier this month to pay whistle blowers US$1 million for reporting companies using unlicensed software has met little or no public outcry, unlike lawsuits initiated by the music industry against illegal music downloaders ...

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