Wikipedia founder speaks on 'Essjay' controversy ... Jury: Vonage infringed on Verizon patents

HIGHLIGHTS
News: Wikipedia founder speaks on the Essjay controversy
News: Jury finds Vonage infringed on Verizon patents
News: No Microsoft security updates coming next week
News: Clearwire IPO jumps up on opening
Windows Tip: Daylight Savings Time fix
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Geek Comic of the Week: Teaching Baby Paranoia


NEWS UPDATES

Wikipedia founder speaks on the Essjay controversy
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the user-generated and edited encyclopedia, said he expects contributors to the site who claim certain credentials will soon have to prove they really have them.

Jury finds Vonage infringed on Verizon patents
A federal jury has found that Vonage Holdings Corp. infringed three Verizon Communications Inc. patents and must pay $58 million in damages plus royalties to Verizon, Vonage confirmed Thursday.

No Microsoft security updates coming next week
Microsoft Corp. is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won't have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday.

Clearwire IPO jumps up on opening
Clearwire Corp. shares soared after the WiMax service provider's IPO (initial public offering) on Thursday, though later in the day they settled around their initial price.

SEC shuts down trading for 35 companies due to spam
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading for 35 companies that allegedly benefited from spam e-mail campaigns to hype their stocks.

Jury: ex-Gateway execs manipulated earnings
Two former executives with Gateway Inc., the nation's third-largest PC vendor, are guilty of manipulating earnings and revenues to meet Wall Street expectations, according to a verdict delivered Wednesday by a federal jury in California.

Fon lands $13.1 million more to fund community Wi-fi service
Wi-fi startup Fon Technology SL has secured an additional €10 million ($13.1 million) in funding for its plan to establish a global network of shared hotspots, the company said Friday.

Chip giant TSMC reports worst revenue in 20 months
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the world's largest contract chip maker, reported its worst monthly revenue in 20 months on Friday, but analysts applauded the figure as further proof that an industry glut is dissipating.

Wall Street Beat: Vendors upgraded
Now that the dust has settled after last week's stock-market plunge, industry insiders are looking forward to continued stable growth in the IT sector.


DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME TIPS

Daylight Savings Time fix
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

Windows 2000 Professional has been out of lifecycle now for over a year, but I know for a fact there are a number of enterprises out there that still run it on their desktops. This can pose a big problem when it comes to something like the changes to Daylight Savings Time. If a product is no longer supported by a vendor, yet some feature must be updated for it to continue working properly. Here's what you can do.


Examining TimeZone data in Solaris
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld

In last week's column, I encouraged anyone who hasn't already patched their OSes for the imminent daylight savings time changes. This week, we look at a command for displaying timezone data and verifying the date on which the switch to DST will be made.


Wake up and patch the OSes
By Sandra Henry Stocker, ITworld.com

Time is running out for anyone planning to ready their systems for the biggest time-related change since Y2K -- the 2007 Daylight Savings Time change. As Americans turn their clocks ahead one hour this year -- three weeks earlier than previously, systems administrators will be well advised to ensure their systems will do the same. Timezone configurations on systems from Solaris and Linux to Windows will require updates if not already updated through a patch, OS upgrade or service pack, to accommodate the new dates for switching to and then back off daylight savings.


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ITWHIRLED

Geek Comic of the Week: Teaching Baby Paranoia
Here's a series of stylishly drawn, reasonably footnoted fun facts -- or hoaxes? That's part of the paranoid fun, I guess. Did a pre-Gutenberg inventor of the printing press meet his fate at the hands of the inquisition? Was there a rash of sightings of "forest spirits" in 19th-century Massachusetts? Have scientists buried bogus holy objects around the world as part of a study?

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