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EMI to offer music without DRM through iTunes
EMI Group has announced a plan to sell its music through online retailers without copy protection technologies, a significant move that should give consumers greater freedom in the way they can listen to music purchased online.
MySpace bug hunt off to a slow start
A group of hackers has kicked off its month of MySpace vulnerabilities, which it hopes will make more of a splash than January's month of bugs for Apple Inc.'s software.
AT&T wants $3.5 billion Telecom Italia stake
AT&T Inc. announced Sunday its intention to take an indirect stake in Telecom Italia S.p.A. The company plans to buy one-third of holding company Olimpia S.p.A, which holds 18 percent of Telecom Italia's shares, pending regulatory approval, AT&T said.
With attacks increasing Windows patch coming early
Microsoft has decided to rush out a fix for a flaw in its Windows operating system, saying that the problem has become too serious to ignore.
AMD releases M690 chipset for embedded designs
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. introduced its M690 chipset for embedded devices on Monday, rounding out the company's first chipset line that integrates technology from ATI Technologies Inc.
Intel got its new China fab for a bargain, analyst says
Intel Corp. may have received up to $1 billion in incentives from the Chinese government to build its new chip factory in the country, a Gartner Inc. analyst said on Monday.
Microsoft offers new Vista enterprise licenses
Microsoft Corp. is offering two new licensing options for Windows Vista enterprise customers that want to take advantage of emerging scenarios for large data centers. The first gives enterprise users the ability to run the Windows Vista Enterprise client on a diskless computer. The second option, called the Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop, lets users run a client version of Windows on servers in a data center so the OS can run locally via virtual machines.
Acquisitions quadruple size of Brocade's market
Executives of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. say their acquisition strategy has given the company access to an estimated $7.2 billion market in 2008 for its storage hardware, software and services technology, four times the market it serves today.
TIP
"Risk" is the next new security label
By Brent Huston, MicroSolved, Inc.
As I look into the blogosphere and other areas of forthcoming knowledge and expression -- I see that "risk" is the next label to be applied to every new and old security product. Suddenly products will be re-branded as "risk reducing", "risk mitigating" or "risk strategy compliant".
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