Google makes social networking power move ... Security geeks say Leopard needs fixing ... Woman reacts violently to bad cable service

In this issue:
- Iron Mountain to buy e-discovery company
- Poor results at Alcatel-Lucent prompt layoffs
- Google makes social networking power move -- finally
- Dell to unveil simpler, cheaper products at Oracle OpenWorld
- Security geeks say Leopard needs fixing
- Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth
- Woman reacts to bad cable service with hammer attack
- Gadget giveaway ends this week. Enter now!


IN THE NEWS

Iron Mountain to buy e-discovery company
Major storage provider Iron Mountain said Wednesday it intends to purchase Stratify, a maker of document discovery software, for about $158 million in cash.

Poor results at Alcatel-Lucent prompt layoffs
Alcatel-Lucent said it plans further layoffs after its post-merger financial performance continued to disappoint.

Google makes social networking power move -- finally
Google will unveil an initiative this week to make it easier for developers to create applications for multiple social networking sites via a set of open APIs.

Dell to unveil simpler, cheaper products at Oracle OpenWorld
Michael Dell plans to announce a lineup of new products at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Nov. 14.

Companies tap RSS to tame info overload
As employees struggle to read an increasing amount of work-related material, some companies have turned to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology to improve productivity.

Security geeks say Leopard needs fixing
The security features introduced in Apple's Leopard operating system need work say security experts who have been putting the OS through its paces.

Dell restates earnings after internal probe
Dell completed an internal accounting investigation Tuesday and restated its financial results from fiscal 2003 to the first quarter of 2007, bringing it into compliance with listing requirements specified by the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Storm Worm sent 15 million pump-and-dump e-mails last month
The Storm Worm botnet network may be shrinking in size, but it has managed to send out 15 million of those annoying audio spam messages in October, according to antispam vendor, MessageLabs.

Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader.


WINDOWS TIP

OneNote OCR
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

Occasionally I need to extract some text from an image, and typically you need some form of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to do this. Since I spend a lot of my time in the 2007 Office System family of products however, it would be nice if there was some built-in functionality that could serve this purpose. Well, it turns out that there is -- I just discovered that Microsoft OneNote 2007 includes an OCR feature called Copy Text From Picture, and you can use this method to copy text from all kinds of images including scanned documents like the kind you typically find on a site like The Smoking Gun. ...continue


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Woman reacts to bad cable service with hammer attack
When for some reason 75-year-old Mona Shaw's Comcast "triple play" package - TV cable, phone, and Internet - wouldn't turn on, she did what any reasonable person would: she went to the local Comcast office and started attacking office equipment with a hammer. She says she has no regrets, though she doesn't agree with those who call her a hero. ...read more

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