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CD songs to get "fingerprinted"
News Song ID company Audible Magic will tap into Universal Music's database to help fight unauthorized copying of songs.
Paul Allen's Charter to buy AT&T cable systems
News Charter Communications, the cable TV company controlled by billionaire Paul Allen, agreed to buy cable systems from rival AT&T in four states for US$1.79 billion.
ISP snooping gaining support in U.S.
News States getting behind idea of requiring records to be kept of customers' online activities for police access.
Tags: Service level management
Will greentech attract lots of green in the new year?
News Folks with money expect the new regime under U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to encourage, perhaps even subsidize, greentech in the United States.
Tags: Green IT, Network infrastructure, Infrastructure/architecture management, Dollar, Money, Wyoming, fossil fuel industry, Greece, venture capital, SolFocus
Big telcos drag their heels on broadband stimulus
News Telecom giants are concerned that Washington's US$8 billion plan to promote broadband access will force them to open their networks to other providers.
Tags: Business broadband, Telecommunications, Qwest Communications Inc., Regulation, Broadband, policy statement, Ag Dept., AT&T Corp., network, FCC
Identity-theft risk greatest in major cities
News Study lists New York, Detroit and Los Angeles as the cities with the highest occurrence of identity fraud.
Tags: Security
U.S. Senators: Bloggers may not be true journalists
News Key politicians say that bloggers' "lack of accountability" means they might not deserve protection under a proposed shield law.
Tags: Legal
Senators propose taxing Internet shopping
News Online and mail order purchases aren't always hit with sales taxes today. But Congress may make those taxes mandatory.
Tags: E-commerce, Federal Government, Taxes, Sales
Windows key leak threatens mass piracy
News A key code for installing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet, a loss that could lead to rampant piracy of the software.
Microsoft counts on antipiracy technique
News Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by product activation, in what could be a first step toward expanding use of the antipiracy technology.
New Itanium a breakthrough for Intel?
News Madison, the third member of the Itanium chip family, is Intel's best shot to date at taking on Sun Microsystems and IBM in the market for high-end server chips.
Strategies for finding and landing IT jobs
Insight Just because there are unfilled IT positions doesn't mean that they're anywhere near you. We looked at three top job search engines to see where IT jobs are in the U.S., and what you need to do to find work in a new area.
Tech ekes out job gains in 2008
News Companies specializing in software and engineering added jobs last year, though more modestly than in preceding years.
Tags: Human resources, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Georgia, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Salary, Worker, bond, software, job
