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HIGHLIGHTS
News: IBM may open source Jazz collaboration software
News: YouTube vows to protect video makers in InVideo ads
News: E.C. accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'
News: Cogent: Cable was attacked with saw and gun
News: Spam fighters hit criminals' weak spot
Opinion: PDF and HTML: Splitting the difference
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: 10 fun things you can do with Google Earth


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IBM may open source Jazz collaboration software
IBM Corp.'s Rational Software unit is considering putting parts of its Jazz collaboration framework into open source, according to an executive of the company.

YouTube vows to protect video makers in InVideo ads
Google Inc. has promised to give content makers control over advertisements overlaid on video clips they post to its YouTube video sharing Web site.

E.C. accuses Rambus of 'patent ambush'
Six months after U.S. regulators capped royalties that vendors must pay to Rambus Inc., the European Union is taking a close look at the company's monopoly on the DRAM chip market.

Cogent: Cable was attacked with saw and gun
Guns, saws, and some very dim-witted thieves were all apparently involved in a network blackout that affected Internet users, primarily in the Northeastern U.S., earlier this week.

Spam fighters hit criminals' weak spot
For years, spam haters have relied on junk-mail filters and Internet blacklists, but lately, some are saying it's time for a change in tactics. And that means going after the Web sites where spammers sell their pharmaceuticals and watches and male enhancement products.

New phones deliver speedier HSDPA downloads
Samsung, LG, and Pantech have all unveiled this month their first phones that are compatible with 7.2M bps (bits per second) variants of HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) networks.


OPINION

PDF and HTML: Splitting the difference
By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

I never thought I would hear myself saying this, but I think the world
needs another file format for storing images.

Like many people in this industry, I have often had to fight the file
format fight converting images endlessly from format A to format B and
back again to achieve some result or work around some application
limitation. More than once I have said to myself "It's only pixels darn
it! How many sensible ways can there possibly be to store these
things?". And now I find myself advocating the creation of another one?
What gives?

Read the full article here.


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