Computer 'worm' virus slated to strike Friday (AFP)
AFP - Computer users were being urged to kill a malicious "old school" software worm poised to destroy their files.
Google buy of radio ad firm gets antitrust nod (Reuters)
Reuters - Web search company Google Inc. has received U.S. antitrust clearance to acquire the privately held radio advertising firm dMarc Broadcasting Inc., U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
DataDirect ODBC Chosen to Enhance Business Analytics
Select Comfort will embed DataDirect Connect for ODBC within the company?s new data warehouse to serve as a foundation for migrating data housed on heterogeneous platforms into a single database suite. DataDirect?s ODBC components will also enable Select Comfort to extend the value of its customer and financial data, as Select Comfort begins build-out of sophisticated applications allowing advanced metrics reporting and analytics on ROI and effectiveness of its programs.
Service Taxonomy and Service Ontologies Deliver Success to Enterprise SOA
A lot has been written on the approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) migration. Although they are referred to by many names, there is the strategic approach, which is of high quality and so is also costly and initially less responsive because of the analysis involved up front. Then there is the organic growth approach, in which services are developed on an as-needed basis within the context of projects, which is responsive, but leads to redundancy and the lack of vision leads to unmanageability later. Finally, there is the hybrid approach, which attempts to take the best of both of these worlds. It is so very important that the business analysis is not cast aside when developing the SOA through this hybrid approach to migration.
Torvalds Says No to GPL 3 for Linux (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel, has publicly stated his opposition to the digital-rights management (DRM) provisions that have been proposed for the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is used by many open-source software developers.
The Week in Microsoft: Redmond Reports Record-High Quarter – $11.84BN
Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft, and the company's CFO Chris Liddell were able on Thursday to announce revenue of $11.84 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, a 9% increase over the same period of the prior year, marking the highest quarterly revenue in the company's history.
AFP Suit Against Google Tests Concept of "Fair Use"
What constitutes fair use of copyrighted content on the Internet? These boundaries may be shaped by a lawsuit filed recently against Google by the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). In the most highly publicized suit of its kind, AFP is arguing that Google wrongfully aggregated photos and story excerpts from its news sites in order to populate Google News. Now, the general mode of thinking about content on the Web has always gone something like this: "If the content is out there, and it ain't locked down (i.e., password protected), then you can link to it, aggregate it, and organize it however you want." In other words, to quote a popular open-source mantra, information wants to be free.
IT Employees Recapturing Power of 1990s
IT employees are starting to gain back some of the clout they had during the 1990s, as hiring in the technology field has accelerated during the last six quarters. "A key component of the technology economy is IT employment, and it's going through a major transition," said Joel Dibble, a spokesman for Robert Half Technology.
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