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Aussies Turn Web Search Upside Down
Andrew Stead, of New South Innovations, is confident that Orion will fill a gap in the market highlighted by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. “Gates was recently quoted in Forbes magazine as saying ...
P2P Traffic Still Dominates the Net
A new study that looks at the impact of peer-to-peer traffic on service-provider networks shows file swapping forges on unabated. CacheLogic of Cambridge, England says the practice shows no sign of slowing ...
Massachusetts Plans To Ditch Microsoft Software
Open source consultant Sam Hiser said OpenOffice is widely used in some emerging countries but as yet has very limited use in the US. He added the decision to switch to open ...
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 ...
Rackspace Survey: Linux vs. Windows
August 27, 2005 12:50PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us “Linux use doesn’t go beyond file servers or print servers because the applications aren’t there,” said Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox. Although the ...
Apple Plans New Flash-Based iPod Mini
With plans to introduce a new version of the iPod Mini, Apple Computer will buy 40 percent of Samsung’s flash-memory output.The partnership was made in anticipation of holiday sales of a 4-GB ...
Spyware Worm Targets Gamers, Yahoo Users
“We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. TIBCO Staffware ...
Broadband Rulings Draw User Concerns
Rulings by the FCC and the Supreme Court that DSL and cable modem services are exempt from telecommunications regulation could boot some ISPs off these facilities or raise their access fees significantly. ...
New York Courts Find Security in IP Video
For the court’s I.T. group, high-bandwidth video is just another stream on an IP network built several years ago with enormous capacity, now tapped to deploy a variety of advanced services. Also ...