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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 telefonÃa móvil por ingresos del mundo, y su rival Orange anunciaron el lunes acuerdos diferentes con BT para acceder a su red construida sobre una tecnologÃa 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 polÃtico” 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 lÃneas de actuación en la materia. http://www.iblnews.com/txt/noticia.php?id=88066