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Blame Who For OS Insecurity?

osViews contributor Gary Rogers takes on News.com.com’s Charles Cooper and asks if the responsibility associated with worms, viri and compromised security should lie in the hands of the hackers and hooligans that committed the crime or if the blame should be cast upon the OS or software developers that left the back door open. http://www.osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=140&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Forget the FUD about Linux scalability

Unscrupulous competitors have convinced many businesses that Linux comes up short on scalability, according to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com’s resident Linux experts. In this interview, they set the record straight and offer straight talk about the 2.6 Linux kernel’s scalability prowess. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci929755,00.html

Intel will Eat Crow and Support AMD’s x86-64

With the release of AMD’s x86-64, Intel has been put in a serious bind. They know that Microsoft can’t support two competing chip sets (Intel or AMD’s 64) lest developers throw their hands in the air in mass-frustration. Unfortunately (for intel), Itanium wasn’t the wild success they hoped it would be, this despite investing massive [...]

Advanced Technology: Less = More

In recent years, there has been a growing number of technology companies that have misappropriated the definition of ‘advanced’ technology. To these companies, ‘advanced’ equals ‘more’. This is wrong. These companies have failed to understand that when it comes to technology, less can often times equal more. osView’s editorial contributor Tom Nadeau offers his opinion [...]

Longhorn To Get NUI Foundation Platform

While Microsoft isn’t expected to talk about Longhorn at this week’s SpeechTEK show in New York, the Redmond software maker is working to add speech and other “natural-user-interface” (NUI) technologies to its next-generation Windows operating system. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1304169,00.asp

Vodafone y Orange usarán la red WiFi de BT

Vodafone, el mayor grupo de telefonía móvil por ingresos del mundo, y su rival Orange anunciaron el lunes acuerdos diferentes con BT para acceder a su red construida sobre una tecnología inalámbrica rival. http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=88062

NTT DoCoMo probará pagos de tarjetas de crédito con móviles ‘i-mode’

Unas mil tiendas en Tokio y otras seis ciudades de Japón participarán en las pruebas en las que participarán 10.000 usuarios de tarjetas de las empresas de crédito Nippon Shinpan y Visa International y de móviles con “i-mode”. http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=88082

UE reclama a las administraciones nacionales más servicios a través de Internet

La Comisión Europea urgió a los gobiernos de los Estados miembros a que asuman “un compromiso político” a favor de la prestación de servicios públicos a través de Internet. Para ello, Bruselas les pide que aceleren la “adopción y el fomento” de la denominada administración electrónica. http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=88064

La UE aboga por promocionar ‘sistemas inteligentes de seguridad’ en los coches

La Comisión Europea presentó una comunicación en la que apuesta por impulsar el uso ‘sistemas inteligentes’ como mecanismo de seguridad en los automóviles y en la que avanza cuáles serán sus líneas de actuación en la materia. http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=88066