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Red Hat Readies for Government Scrutiny
Red Hat has submitted its upcoming release of Enterprise Linux for the Defense Department’s Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme, seeking a government imprimatur that could strengthen the company’s hold on the ...
Microsoft Writes a New Chapter with Online Book Search
October 28, 2005 10:35AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Microsoft and its partners are at pains to reassure publishers, printers, and authors that they will respect copyright laws. The MSN announcement comes ...
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Delayed
October 13, 2005 10:02AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us According to a blog posting on OpenSource.org, “a serious showstopper” apparently related to graphics was detected at the last moment, and developers agreed ...
Report Warned of FEMA I.T. Problems in Wake of 2004 Hurricanes
Faulty federal computer networks may have been partly to blame for the government’s lackadaisical response to major storms last summer — and Hurricane Katrina this year, experts say.A new federal audit of ...
Open Source Attracts Public Sector
“With open source, there’s no company that’s going to take the source code away if they fold or get bought out,” said Peter Gallagher, president of Development InfoStructure, a consulting firm. TARGUSinfo ...
File-Sharing Traffic Shifts in Wake of Piracy Crackdown
August 30, 2005 9:30AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “Unlike something like BitTorrent, which has server operators that can be found and sued, eDonkey runs on open-source software,” Bernoff noted. “So even ...
FCC Delays Enforcement of VoIP 911 Mandate
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is giving VoIP service providers more time to comply with an order requiring that all subscribers acknowledge potential limitations of the E911 services.Enforcement of the mandate, which ...
Get Ready for Firefox 1.5
The next version of the popular Firefox Web browser has undergone a name change to 1.5 and will be released for beta testing in September. The Mozilla Foundation plans to release the ...
Senate Committee Meets To Consider File-Sharing Legislation
July 29, 2005 11:50AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff believes that a move toward more legislation governing file-sharing applications will have limited effect. “Since a bunch of them ...
Optimus Reconceives the Keyboard
July 27, 2005 5:50PM Because the Optimus keyboard provides visual feedback, it has the potential to tie into any software program on the market, said Artemy Lebedev, the studio’s founder and the ...