NebuAd ISP Partner Gets Grilled by House Subcommittee
NebuAd hearings bring a lashing for Embarq, a Kansas-based ISP, from members of a House subcommittee investigating NebuAd's data gathering and Web privacy policies. - A Kansas-based broadband provider received a lashing from members of a House subcommittee for an opt-out data-gathering operation during NebuAd hearings.
Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, told the ISP, Embarq,...
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Gartner's Ray Valdes Chats about Facebook's F8 Conference
Gartner analyst Ray Valdes discusses Facebook's F8 developer conference with eWEEK. The one-day event included the formal unveiling of Facebook Connect, the company's external social service, as well as the international expansion of its developer site and some new developer programs. The event disappointed some attendees, who expected the company to launch a payment processing service. Valdes discusses how the lack of a payment processing system won't get Facebook lovers down, as well as what Connect means to the social networking community. - Video Content....
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Taliban Ring Tones and Web Spread Group's Mission
The Taliban embraces technology to promote its exploits and lambast Afghan and Western enemies, according to a think tank. - KABUL, July 24 (Reuters)--The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicise their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.
The Taliban hanged televisions and music tapes from tr...
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Google Execs to Face Charges in Italy
Prosecutors are expected to ask that Google executives stand trial on charges of defamation and violation of privacy over a video on the company's Italian-language site. -
(Reuters)--Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a 2006 case against four Google Inc executives over a video on the Internet provider's Italian-language site, the Wall Street Journal said.
Prosecutors are expected in September to request that the executives stand trial on charges...
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Meeting the Three C`s` of Space Planning
SAS Space Planning 5.11 focuses on collaboration, compliance and customer-centricity. - Business intelligence technology vendor SAS is launching version 5.11 of its Space Planning application.
Announced July 22, Space Planning 5.11 features 3-D graphics and provides customer-centric views of retail space.
Retailers can tailor space plans to a store-specific level, said Alexi Sarnev...
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Eqos Upgrades Sourcing Solution
Eqos 4.2 enhanced features include product testing, order management and user dashboards - Eqos, which sells retail supply chain management technology, is rolling out the Eqos 4.2 global sourcing application.
Enhancements in the latest version, announced July 22, are designed to allow retailers to make more informed decisions across sourcing operations and supplier networks.
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Debian Linux Lenny Due in September
The Debian projects maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze testing the Lenny tree next week as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September. - Open-source software developers have only a few more days to package any
applications that they want to be included in the next release of Debian and
Ubuntu.
The Debian projects maintainer, Luk Claes, said July 21 that he will freeze
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Microsoft Flashes Its Ruby Bling
At OSCON, Microsoft announces support for the Ruby specification effort and says it will participate in the RubySpec project. - PORTLAND, Ore. Microsoft officials are continuing to push their open-source IronRuby effort to deliver an implementation of Ruby that runs on the .Net Framework, making several announcements July 24 at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention here.
John Lam, head of the IronRuby effort, said Microsoft...
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Shuttleworth: Microsoft Does Not Want War
At OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. said he doubts Microsoft would file a claim against Linux developers. - PORTLAND, Ore. Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical Ltd., which maintains the Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution said he doubts Microsoft would file suit against a free software developer unless the software giant wants quot;war. quot;
At the end of a session at the O'Reilly Open Source Conv...
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business
Companies frequently don't like to think about Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR), the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, as Michael Croy explains, you have to ask yourself how much you're willing to lose. If you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you. - In 2008, we have witnessed several significant disasters: The earthquake and subsequent flooding in the Sichuan Province of China, the unexpected and tragic cyclone in Myanmar, devastating tornados in Georgia and Colorado, fires up the coast of Southern California and, most recently, widespread floo...
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