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Technology View - January 2008

Everex launches Cloudbook - a $399 ultramobile PC

Due Credit: Techrepublic

Everex, the maker of the $199 gPC, will be launching the $399 ultramobile PC called Cloudbook.

The ultramobile PC called Everex CloudBook will use the open source Linux Operating system and will have gOS based on Ubuntu 7.1 Linux desktop. Though it is called a Google Operating System, it is not endorsed by Google.

The unit weighs 2 pounds and is 9.06 x 6.73 x 1.16 inches. It has a 7-inch TFT screen with 800 x 480 native resolution, and has a 30 GB drive and 512 MB of DDR2 533MHz SDRAM.



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January 30th 2008 @ 20:51

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One Laptop Per Child[OLPC]'s ex CTO to come out with a $75 laptop

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Mary Lou Jepsen left the OLPC project to start Pixel Qi, and she aims to bring to reality a sub-$100 laptop.

Pixel Qi, which has stated goal of leveraging a larger market for new technologies, beyond just OLPC can ensure that prices for next-generation hardware can be brought down by allowing multiple uses of the key technology advances.

Jepsen explains her low-power, low-cost, green approach to computer design here and states that one of Pixel Qi’s goals is the creation of a $75 laptop. Some of you will recall that the original goal of OLPC was to create a $100 laptop.






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January 30th 2008 @ 20:36

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Security certification for open source projects

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Under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, open-source projects are being certified for security.

San Francisco-based Coverity, working in collaboration with Stanford University and under a contract from the Department of Homeland Security, is analyzing source code to certify that open-source projects written in C, C , and Java are secure.

Coverity, which creates automated source-code analysis tools announced its first list of open-source projects that have been certified as free of security defects.




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January 30th 2008 @ 20:22

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Spam the printer

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Who could have imagined that there could be a way to spam the printer.Well,Aaron Weaver has just managed to do that.

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January 29th 2008 @ 19:41

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A hidden rootkit that reinstalls Trojan

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A rootkit that hides from Windows on the hard drive's boot sector is infecting PCs say researchers.

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January 29th 2008 @ 19:22

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McAfee 's open source threat

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McAfee has warned investors that the "ambiguous" nature of open source licensing could turn into a business threat.

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January 23rd 2008 @ 19:52

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Guess who the Trojan doesnt spare? -- iPhone

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Just when we thought that the iPhone was secure ,an annoying little program showed that it was possible to develop Trojans targeting the iPhone.

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January 23rd 2008 @ 19:32

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OpenVZ goes the ubuntu way

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OpenVZ, the open-source virtualization project, will be adding support for the Linux variant Ubuntu.

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January 23rd 2008 @ 19:09

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Xerox undergoes a complete makeover

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Xerox, the global document management firm and a pioneer in IT, is undergoing an overall makeover to take it beyond the image of a copier company.

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January 20th 2008 @ 10:58

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Paul Frields takes over Fedora..

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Paul Frields will be replacing Max Spevack as the leades of the Red Hat's Fedora Project.Paul Frields, who has been active in Fedora since 2003 with Fedora's documentation, packaging, marketing, news, and artwork teams. He'll be joining Red Hat as part of his assumption of the Fedora Project Lead duties.

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January 19th 2008 @ 15:56

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Hitachi Fujitsu Toshiba---Harddrives for sale.

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There are reports pouring in of a possible joint company involving Hitachi, Toshiba, and Fujitsu dedicated to hard drive and storage technologies.

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January 19th 2008 @ 15:41

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Machine Interaction -- A completely new Dimension!!

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Gone are the days of the keyboard as wireless controllers are calling the shots for motion-sensing. Interaction with machines enters a completely new dimension.

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January 19th 2008 @ 15:17

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Now enjoy Broadband internet via wireless dongle

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Folks in the United Kingdom can now access mobile broadband Internet using a USB modem available from Vodafone.

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January 17th 2008 @ 05:58

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Its time for Microsoft to release its old file formats

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Dutch charitative venture capitalist NLnet has requested IT company Microsoft to release its previous file formats into the public domain.

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January 17th 2008 @ 05:31

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Webroot to offer e-mail scanning as SaaS

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Webroot, which became known through its client-side spyware detection market, has announced it would sell an email security service for consumers and small to medium businesses.


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January 16th 2008 @ 20:25

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VMware announces acquisition of Thinstall--Is Microsoft watching?

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VMware has announced the acquisition of Thinstall, a firm specializing in application virtualization technology. The firm had also acquired the virtualization technology provider Foedus.

Thinstall decouples applications from underlying operating systems, improving isolation and portability for applications across desktop environments


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January 16th 2008 @ 20:10

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Packeteer to offer better and faster network traffic analysis

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Packeteer Networks, which supplies traffic management solutions will soon be out with faster traffic analysis products which can scale upto 20Gbits/sec.

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January 16th 2008 @ 19:56

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Apache's Wicket 1.3 rolls out

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Wicket 1.3,the Open-source component-based Web Framework will be made available under the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Wicket is a component oriented Java web application framework.With proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML


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January 16th 2008 @ 16:34

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Fujitsu goes the ultramobile way

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The Fujitsu Lifebook U810 adds a whole new dimension to the word mobility.

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January 16th 2008 @ 16:14

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Flaws in airline network security raises concerns

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As Network connectivity catches on in airlines, its imperative that the critical navigational and communication functionality be separated from the general network.

An alert issued by the FAA last week revealed that the computer network in the Boeing’s 787 Dreamline’s passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight Internet access, is connected to the plane’s control, navigation, and communication systems


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January 16th 2008 @ 15:45

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Sony's 560 Mbps wireless adventure-Transferjet

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Sony has created a wireless data transfer technology based on ultra wideband called TransferJet.

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January 16th 2008 @ 15:27

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Social net means more information with less effort

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Social networks have today made the job of social engineering all that more easier. Social engineering is the process by which individuals gather information on other individuals so as to use the data to try to crack into personal and private accounts.
It is common knowledge that information pertaining to DOB, school etc gets into people's passwords ( how are you expected to remember it otherwise). This information is also available on people's public profiles and now there are all too many of them spread across various networks and also searchable via the web.
Hence, from the security perspective it makes sense to refrain from publishing information that may perhaps be food for thought in terms of social engineering
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January 15th 2008 @ 07:48

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YouTube and Picasa on your television

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Google and Matsushita are working in collaboration to bring the popular services on the web to television. Soon you will be having access to videos from YouTube and images from Picasa accessible on you TV.
Convergence of media from the web with popular devices has been long predicted. But the importance here is for quality. The videos on YouTube are generally of poor quality and beaming them on high definition TVs does not really improve matters a lot.
But the fact is that poor videos are due to bandwidth issues and that is scaling up so in course of time these issues will sort out and lets not forget that the TV audience is another big pool of viewers to sell ads to


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January 15th 2008 @ 07:30

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A hotline from the web page to you

Due Credit: DailyBits, Web2phone
A company called Ribbit specializes in weaving telephony services with Web technologies, enabling setting up of telephony service from just a web page.
The concept is great and has great utility for e-commerce and virtually any online business. The technology includes a software switch and corresponding APIs developed by the firm that make integrating telephony services a breeze.
Great technology if you consider the convergence that it gets in to web space


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January 15th 2008 @ 07:23

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Simple SEO Tips

Due Credit: SearchEngine-Weblog
Optimization of online content to make it more indexable is in the best of every netizen who posts content online.
With this in mind, I have started making short posts on SEO tips and lessons that I come across on the Web.
One important starting point is to know how the search engine works. In the article i have mentioned the link to a presentation on Google's working


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January 15th 2008 @ 04:11

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Mahalo gets more social

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Mahalo, the human powered search engine will be adding more features that will be boosting its social credentials.
Changes include a tips and suggestions toolbar with on-click access to make entries to several social bookmarking site.
Mahalo has been tailored from the ground up to provide human edited results on thousands of keywords. Debate surrounds around the concept of human intervention in the processing of search results since the scale of the web is massive


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January 15th 2008 @ 04:05

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Microsoft acquires FAST Search and Trasfer

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For an amount of $1.2 billion, the Redmond giant will be acquiring the enterprise search major FAST Search and Transfer. The move is a big shake-up in the enterprise search industry that has been the forte of niche players so far.
Expectations are on the line that IBM, Google or one of the big players will also be looking to make some acquisitions in this front.

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January 15th 2008 @ 03:55

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Targeting user activity online

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In a recent post for the SearchEngine-Weblog, I got the chance to research on the various strategies that firms use to target use activity online.
The Web has been a haven for advertisers. And why not? For there is no other place where virtually every move of the buyer can be tracked.
Every page you view, every click you make, every item you spend time doting on... virtually everything on the web makes it to some server log and can contribute to invaluable statistics


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:49

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Google and the iPhone

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Google is seeking to make the waves on the mobility front with its attention to the iPhone and in what appears to be its ficus on getting it right on the hottest area of innovation on making the mobile web accessible.
iPhone is one device that makes browsing on the web a breeze and Google is giving it all its attention perhaps to get it all right by the time Android comes out in second half of this year.
Google's innovations tailored to the iPhone include the redesigned home page for browsing the web, the introduction of the iGoogle page and many more


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:41

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Porting data across the web

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With a number of social networking and web applications sprucing up online, the issue of data portability is definitely a very relevant issue. The contention centers around how much ownership right does the user have to his/her data on a network.
Recently there was the spat between Facebook and Plaxo over the porting of contact information from one site to the other.
The establishment of the Data Portabilty Workgroup to sort out the issues around data portability on the Web is a welcome move for all online users


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January 15th 2008 @ 03:34

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Wi-Fi networks face big security risks

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Research at Indiana University brought into focus the fast pace and ease with which virus attacks could spread across Wi-Fi routers.

The researchers state most of the simulated attacks show tens of thousands of routers infected in as little time as two weeks, with the majority of the infections occurring in the first 24 to 48 hours


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January 13th 2008 @ 02:15

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Critical flaw in Realplayer warns US-CERT

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A warning concerning an unpatched vulnerability in RealPlayer and a flaw affecting Flash files has been issued by US-CERT.

This was issued after a Russian security company claimed to have found a way to exploit a critical flaw in the multimedia software.The flaw affects the latest version 11 of RealPlayer running on Windows XP, service pack 2


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January 13th 2008 @ 01:41

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Office 08 for MAC

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Microsoft is all set to release the first update to the Office suite for Mac with the Office:mac scheduled for release on January 15, 2008.

The product will come in three flavors. The standard version, known simply as Office 2008 for Mac, includes PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Entourage and will sell for $399. A $499 Special Media Edition also includes Expression Media, a digital media cataloguing program that Microsoft acquired from its 2006 purchase of iView Multimedia


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January 11th 2008 @ 01:54

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Apple's mobile venture with intel's silverthorne

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The article talks about Apple's plans for several products for the mobile devices market based on Intel’s Silverthorne processor.

According to folks at Intel, Apple has apparently committed to using the company's 45nm Silverthorne chip in multiple products slated for 2008. The chip offers the processing power of 2nd gen Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.Apple is also expected to emerge as a major supporter of Intel's whole "Menlow" Mobile
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January 9th 2008 @ 17:07

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Fuzzy logic for elderly care

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The article talks on how fuzzy logic can be used to improve the lives of the elderly citizens. Fuzzy logic in simple terms deals with the computational representation of values which we tend to estimate approximately.

According to the article,Research at Leicester's De Montfort University (DMU) and the University of Missouri is progressing to incorporate the advances in Fuzzy logic technology to make the lives of elder folks simpler.
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January 7th 2008 @ 17:09

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Wikia search : Challenge to Google

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Wikia search, the pet project of Jimmy Wales will take off this month but the question is whether the engine is late to the party?

Wikia search seeks to provide an open source alternative to the proprietary ranking system that drives google. Wikia is not expected to pose a serious challenge to Google in the short run but there are several reasons why it may not do the same in the long run as well


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January 6th 2008 @ 16:15

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SOA comes to Eclipse

Due Credit: TechRepublic
Service oriented architecture has been the buzzword at the enterprise front. Business processes componentized into services that can be consumed by business applications has been the emerging new technology in enterprise applications front.

The latest news is that a SOA framework for Eclipse is in the works and will hit the development scene in third quarter this year


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January 6th 2008 @ 15:54

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Apertio acquired by Nokia Siemens

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Nokia Siemens Networks has acquired the database services and applications maker Apertio for a sum of $205 million.

With mobile services seeing an increased adoption and the necessity to roll out services at an increased, the acquisition should bolster the services offered by Nokia Siemens


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January 6th 2008 @ 15:48

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Search Engine : Otavo

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Intention is a very fuzzy word. To say that a machine can guess the intention of the searcher is perhaps a prized product of Artificial Intelligence. Before you go about wondering if AI has indeed reached these ends, refrain.

In this case, the Otavo search engine makes a quest out of the search queries that a user searches on. Adding another socializing angle to search, the engine makes sharing and tracking of search results possible so that in course of time the results refined by a set of users makes for lot more relevance


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January 2nd 2008 @ 18:38

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Internet Censorship in Australia

Due Credit: TechRepublic
The Australian Government is taking a strict stance on curbing inappropriate content on the web but there are several doubts on whether the move is going to serve its end purpose.

On one hand we have the real need to prevent kids from being exposed to lot of explicit content online. On the other hand we are also opposed to government curb on information flow. The real big question is whether it will set a precedent for more blocking


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January 2nd 2008 @ 18:36

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Security in 2008

Due Credit: TechRepublic
Security in 2008 is the area to really watch out. With more and more integration occurring from the clouds, developers and users alike have to really rethink their approach to online applications. With several gigabytes of data reflecting on user's personal lives stored on globally dispersed firms, its more essential for users to take a look at exactly what data goes online and could possibly lead to privacy issues in future.


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January 2nd 2008 @ 18:34

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SCO delisted

Due Credit: TechRepublic
The SCO group has been formally taken off the Nasdaq. The company had been involved with several lawsuits pertaining to the ownership of rights to Unix OS. However, things have not panned out well for the firm and having filed for bankruptcy earlier, now it is being taken off the Nasdaq.


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January 2nd 2008 @ 18:30

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Social Networking in 2007

Due Credit: DailyBits
2007 was the year of social networking. With predictions that perhaps the heat will wane in 2008, there are some phenomenal web giants in the online domain. Social networking has taken off like the days when e-mail came of age.

Perhaps now we'll have social networks around every business site. There are definite moves in this direction if you consider the way several online domains are progressing


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