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CXO

Investors and market vote no on Diebold

Diebold can’t unload its troubled e-voting unit, reports the Associated Press. So, on the heels of California decertifying the use of e-voting for its February primaries, the embattled e-voting developer is turning lemons into lemonade. It is spinning that division off into a new brand, Premier Election Systems, which effectively distances the main brand from ...

Developer

Make batteries by printing, says Rensselaer research team

U.S. researchers printed, yes, printed a battery and they’re looking to scale up the process to run devices from pacemakers to pickup trucks with batteries printed on a printing press. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute‘s team published a description in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of how they’ve printed a foldable, rollable, cuttable paper ...

Innovation

The ethical issues of ‘people search’

My esteemed colleague Arun yesterday covered the blessings of a new Web-based ‘people search’ market, but I come to bury, not to praise it. With Manhattan planning to copy the omnipresent surveillance pioneered in the land of ‘Big Brother‘ with its ‘Ring of Steel,’ {Update: See Slashdot revelation} I think IT pros should let friends ...

Open source

SCO loses major court ruling in UNIX lawsuit

SCO’s lawsuit to stake a claim to UNIX and therefore Linux has foundered, as a federal court ruled Friday that open-source-advocate Novell owns the rights to the core programming underlying both UNIX and Linux. U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball ruled SCO must allow Novell to let IBM and Sequent use the UNIX codebase (defending ...

Networking

Palm subnotebook Linux version revealed

Palm revealed to LinuxWorld conferees yesterday that remote access software with SSL security will bundle with its upcoming Foleo sub-mini-notebook, and the ‘smartphone accessory’ that Palm expects to become its top-selling product will run Wind River Linux. Monday’s pre-LinuxWorld meeting with Palm developers saw stacks of the new device distributed with Wind River SDKs. When ...

Apple

Apple announces iMac improvements

After much suspense, Apple today announced faster, slimmer, shinier iMacs, with 2.0-2.4GHz Core 2 Extreme Intel processors, up to 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD graphics cards, up to 1TB of storage, 802.11n, and Bluetooth 2.0 built-in. A faster 20-inch iMac @ $1,199 moves into the market space of the 17″, another 20″ with a faster ...

Storage

Share USB 2.0 devices over your LAN

Weary of running a desktop just to keep USB devices online or of connecting them to your wireless laptop by entangling cables? Keyspan has upgraded its three-year-old USB Server design with its new USB 2.0 Server, which connects a pair of USB 2.0 ports (with half an amp of power on each port for peripherals) ...

Microsoft

Vista price slashed in China: May a billion copies of Windows bloom through low, low prices!

Microsoft’s Beijing office announced today the price of the Windows OS dropped Wednesday by two-thirds for Vista Home Basic and by over half on Vista Premium. Home Basic was slashed to 499 yuan (US$66) from 1,521 yuan, while Premium fell to 899 yuan from 1,802 yuan, ostensibly “made to meet market demand for the operating ...

Social enterprise

(Wi-Fi) cookies are bad for you: Security of public Wi-Fi fails

Almost all Web-based e-mail and other collaborative services just aren’t safe to use over public Wi-Fi any more, due to a breach described today by a security firm CEO at the Black Hat security conference. Web 2.0 services, even though the login’s made through SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), are crackable through a simple workaround, announced ...

Developer

A deal’s a deal: Ninth Circuit rules Web contracts can’t change without notice

Contracts on Web sites now can’t change without at least a notice to users who agreed to earlier versions, says the progressive (and therefore oft-overruled) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The decision only mandates obedience for firms in the two Pacific territories and the nine westernmost states, between Mexico and Canada. Strictly, ...

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