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Archive - 24 Mar 2005

Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk

News Some developers are concerned that the introduction of the third version of the GNU General Public License could split the free software world - but the FSF is confident these fears are unfounded

Attack of the clones

Feature Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones abound, but Red Hat doesn't really seem to mind. Does this show the best or worst sides of the open source movement?

Firms facing file-sharing probes

News The FBI is investigating illegal file-sharing activity in companies, according to Energis

Land Rover gears up for grid computing

News IBM says that a critical stage in the Land Rover design process that used to take three months can now be done overnight, driven by its grid computing efforts

Cabinet Office relinquishes XML responsibility

News Responsibility for the management of the standards pertaining to the government's preferred document format has been given to the Local e-Government Standards Body

Politicans form transatlantic spam alliance

News Derek Wyatt's All Party Parliamentary Internet Group is teaming up with members of the US Congress in its fight against spam

ICANN signs in .eu

News Addresses withing the new top-level domain for the European Union will be available from the end of this year

Improved Linux InfiniBand support near

News Linux developers have nearly finished their work supporting storage protocols and clustering interfaces for InfiniBand

VoIP gaining ground in European businesses

News Lower costs may be drawing businesses into VoIP, but improved services are keeping them there

Accountability: It's more than knowing who to blame

Help/HowTo Instilling fear of retribution over failure isn't going to help you build a productive, learning organization. We look at what can

Online security doesn't come cheap - it's free

Leader Sometimes, fixing a problem means giving Linux the boot

Linux touted as the solution to online-banking problems

News Banks could soon be making their customers boot Linux from customised CDs to ensure the security of online transactions, if one Australian firm's idea takes off

LaCie Silverscreen (80GB)

Review The Silverscreen is a sluggish mobile hard drive with a useful entertainment feature -- it plays video and music directly to a TV.

Phishers target Yahoo IM users

News The search giant has confirmed that its instant messaging service is being used to perpetuate a phishing scam

Skype increases desktop integration

News Brief: The latest version of the free VoIP software includes features that allow it to integrate with MSN Messenger, Opera and other PC applications

Blue Gene/L cruises past 100 teraflop barrier

News Easily beating its own record of 70.7 teraflops, IBM's flagship supercomputer has extended its lead at the top of the supercomputing league by logging a sustained performance of 135.5 teraflops

Dell in double-headed four-way server launch

News The market-leading PC maker has released two new four-way Xeon-based servers, and says they are ideal for server consolidation and virtualisation

Microsoft developer tool pricing pilloried

News Builder: The software giant's proposed new pricing scheme for MSDN and Visual Studio have angered many devlopers who claim it is unfair on smaller businesses

Mozilla patches Firefox flaw

News A patch has been issued for a serious flaw in the open source browser's legacy Netscape code relating to animating GIF files, and all users are advised to upgrade

EDS backtracks on 'strategically important' Linux

News The outsourcing specialist now says it will embrace Linux, after unleashing a storm of protest by branding the open source OS unsuitable for enterprise use

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