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Record industry target of free-speech suit
News An advocacy group files a lawsuit on behalf of several professors, asking they be allowed to publish research on anti-copying technology despite protests from the record industry.
HP layoffs could bring change of heart
News The positive employee response to Hewlett-Packard's voluntary cutback program could be a thing of the past if the company continues to lay off employees.
IBM chips bulk up on carbon nanotubes
News Researchers at Big Blue have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors--paving the way for future computers to run on a new element.
Red Hat chief: We're 'tough to do business with'
News Jim Whitehurst, still new on the job, says Red Hat is trying to change its image as a company with "great technology" that's "not the easiest" to work with.
Tags: Linux, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, software company, Houston, software, software development, MBA, Rice University, Linux
Google: We've fixed desktop search tool flaw
News The flaw could have let an attacker search the contents of a user's PC. But the firm now says "all current and future users are secure."
Tags: Search
IBM researchers: Single molecule stores data
News "Remarkable" results are reported from an organic switch that is 100 times smaller than silicon's finest.
Commentary: Is the recording industry too greedy?
News My sympathy with the recording industry is finally exhausted. The Secure Digital Music Initiative has become an embarrassment to its industry and a barnacle on intellectual property law.
Dell woos gamers and greens
News A new heat sink turns down the temperature on overclocked PCs, and the Plant a Tree program targets greenhouse guilt.
Tags: Desktops
Battle lines harden over Net copyright
News Bruce Lehman thinks the digital copyright laws he helped write are in trouble, and it's largely the Net's fault. Lehman helped author the laws that govern music, video and other digital media distribution when he ran the US Patent and Trademark Office in the mid-1990s.
Squeezing light from nanotubes
News Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fiber-optic technology.
A century later, Einstein's first ideas still hold power
News It's rare that a person gets a chance to overturn humanity's conception of the universe.
Tags: Processors, R&D
Leadership classes can strengthen skills before and after a promotion
Insight Whether you're trying to get promoted or you've just landed in a high-level management role, experts say it's never too late to bone up on leadership skills. One way is taking group courses--an approach that has worked well for other CIOs.
Record industry target of free-speech suit
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a group of scientists from Princeton and Rice universities, asking that the professors be allowed to publish research on anti-copying technology despite protests from the record industry.
Carbon nanotechnologies companies merge
News Nanotubes and nanoballs. Patents for both are now united in one company.
Tags: Nanotechnology
Record labels hit with free-speech suit
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a group of scientists, asking that they be allowed to publish research on anti-copying technology despite protests from the entertainment industry.
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