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A battle for the soul of the Internet
Insight Tucows CEO Elliot Noss warns of a threat to cyberspace if international politics are allowed to trump sober judgment.
Tags: Domain names
Intel locks up security code for P2P
News As part of an effort to promote peer-to-peer technology, the chip giant unveils security software code that other companies can use when developing applications.
AMD's Duron chip leaps to laptops
News Advanced Micro Devices is offering its first mobile processor based on its Athlon technology, but with a twist.
Duck ancestors roamed Earth with dinosaurs
News Call it "Jurassic Barnyard," but it appears that ancient chickens lived at the same time as dinosaurs.
Red Hat buys software firm, shuffles CEO
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Intel software fine-tunes Linux code
News The chipmaker announces new software to help programmers speed up Linux programs running on Intel Xeon and Pentium 4 processors.
Sun completes 'Niagara' chip design
News Sun Microsystems has completed the design of its Niagara processor, a crucial product in the server maker's effort to keep its own UltraSparc chip family competitive, a source familiar with the project says.
Cooperative computing finds top prime number
News An effort in which hundreds of people donate their computers' unused processing power has uncovered the largest prime number so far known.
New DSL standard offers faster speeds
News An emerging high-speed Internet standard in Europe holds potential for faster download speeds and broader availability for many US businesses--if they're willing to wait a while.
How India is doing IT
Blogs The other week, I had the opportunity to travel to India upon the invitation of tech company HP. It was my first time to...
AOL unveils VoIP plans
News Net phone service is due in a month, heightening pressure on rivals such as Yahoo to follow suit.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony
MasterCard cash replacement makes Aussie debut
News MasterCard Worldwide launches its PayPass cashless payment system down under.
Tags: E-commerce, Customer resource management (CRM), B2B
HP strives to ease open-source woes
News Company's new product portfolio melds open-source with commercial software to address integration pain points.
Tags: Open source
Azul: Speed increase for second-gen Java servers
News Azul Systems said new Java servers, using Vega 2 processors, run three times faster than predecessors.
Wireless instant messaging
Insight Considering the huge popularity of SMS, wireless instant messaging (with added essential characteristics that give users an opportunity to manage the "message overload)," certainly looks promising.
