Skype says crash followed Windows security update ... FCC schedules 700MHz auction ... Sony to upgrade digital camera line

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News: Skype says crash followed Windows security update

News: FCC schedules 700MHz auction on Jan. 16

News: Sony unveils upgrade to T-series thin camera range

News: Google Gadgets can be misused by phishers

News: Another Brocade exec faces backdating charge

Interview: Jimmy Wales talks on the future of Wikimedia

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ITwhirled: Crowds may provide alternative energy source


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Skype says crash followed Windows security update
The widespread failure of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service last week happened when millions of Windows users tried to log in to the system at the same time, after downloading a software update from Microsoft Corp. and rebooting their machines, Skype said Monday.

FCC schedules 700MHz auction on Jan. 16
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will begin its long-awaited auction of 700MHz radio spectrum on Jan. 16, 2008, the agency said Friday. The sale is expected to take in $10 billion or more in bids for what has been called "beachfront property."

Sony unveils upgrade to T-series thin camera range
Sony Corp. is upgrading its thin T-series digital still camera line with a new model that packs a larger display with a touch screen.

Researcher: Google Gadgets can be misused by phishers
The domain used to host small Google Gadget applications written by Web developers could be misused by phishers, a Web security researcher said Friday. Attackers could create a phishing site on the gmodules.com domain and then send that URL to victims. Because Google's gmodules.com domain is trusted by antiphishing filters, victims might then go to the phishing site without being warned by their browser's filtering software.

Another Brocade exec faces backdating charge
A third former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. executive faces federal charges related to stock options backdating, just 10 days after the firm's former CEO became first person in the U.S. convicted on backdating charges.


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Jimmy Wales talks on the future of Wikimedia
The role Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, plays at the organization that supports the user generated and edited encyclopedia is changing as he shifts more of his time to activities in the wiki and open source communities, and shares time with his for-profit venture, Wikia Inc. In this interview, Wales discusses his changing role at Wikimedia, plans for the future, and other topics.


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Train passengers, concertgoers may provide alternative energy source
Our evil robot overlords in the Matrix movies used humans as batteries by keeping them in vats of goo. But if two MIT grad students have their way, we'll all be generating electricity by our mere presence in large numbers at the same place at the same time.

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