April 2004

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¿Lycos en venta por 200 millones de dólares?

Terra Networks podría haber pedido a un banco de inversión que prepare la venta del portal Lycos por un total de 200 millones de dólares, un 98 por ciento menos de los 12.500 millones que valió la fusión entre la compañía española y la estadounidense en 2000.
http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2004/0404/2904/noticias290404/noticias290404-3.htm

Windows XP update delayed

Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, originally planned to be shipped in the first half of the year, won’t be released until at least July, a Microsoft Corp. spokesman said yesterday, because the major, security-focused operating system update doesn’t yet meet the company’s standards.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/windows/story/0,10801,92740,00.html?nas=AM-92740

DaimlerChrysler responds to SCO lawsuit

DaimlerChrysler argued in court documents that it has provided The SCO
Group with the compliance certification SCO had sought — even though
the automaker argued that it didn’t have to do so.
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,92742,00.html?nas=AM-92742

IBM to virtualize servers, storage

IBM today is announcing plans to begin offering new virtualization software and partitioning technology with its servers that will allow them to run as many as 10 versions of an operating system on a single processor.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/server/story/0,10801,92726,00.html?nas=AM-92726

Microsoft’s Delay Is Your Gain

At the beginning of this month, the press reported that Microsoft had set an internal deadline to ship the next version of its Windows client, code-named Longhorn, by mid-2006. That’s later than the company had once indicated. But assuming that Microsoft is able to meet that deadline, IT departments have an unprecedented opportunity to get [...]

Legal View: What SCO’s Linux suits mean for users

If SCO prevails and successfully enjoins IBM from using Linux, then there is little to stop SCO from proceeding in a similar fashion, and getting the same result against other Linux user.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,92722,00.html?nas=OS-92722

Google es para los ricos.

Linux es una versión shareware de Unix, según la SGAE

Aunque Linux cuenta ya con más de 13 años de historia y desde sus inicios se definió como un proyecto colaborativo basado en la filosofía GNU del software libre, para la SGAE no es más que una “versión” shareware del sistema operativo UNIX.
http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2004/0404/2804/noticias280404/noticias280404-7.htm

Un diario inglés, asegura que la tecnología Bluetooth es un peligro inminente.

Sony y Nokia declararon que se pondrán en marcha para desarrollar upgrades que eviten ataques maliciosos.
http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2004/0404/2804/noticias280404/noticias280404-19.htm

Sexo tántrico.