China Mobile in talks to sell iPhone ... Microsoft spin-off opens mobile beta ... Windows Server 2008 pricing revealed

In this issue:
* China Mobile to sell iPhone
* Microsoft spin-off opens mobile beta
* OPENWORLD: Cisco helps speed up Oracle 11g
* Apple fixes security bug with iPhone update
* Windows Server 2008 pricing revealed
* Creating a chrooted FTP account
* Does your Website suck?
* Win a Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt!


TODAY'S NEWS

China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone
China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.

Microsoft spin-off opens mobile beta
A Microsoft spin-off plans to release an open beta of a new mobile browsing user interface in mid-December.

OPENWORLD: Cisco helps speed up Oracle 11g
Cisco did its part for Oracle users as the OpenWorld conference opened Monday, announcing a protocol it developed with the software company for running Oracle databases over larger server clusters.

Apple fixes security bug with iPhone update
Apple has begun pushing out the iPhone 1.1.2 firmware update, fixing a flaw in the way the phone renders TIFF images.

Windows Server 2008 pricing revealed
Microsoft Monday outlined pricing on eight versions of Windows Server 2008 that are slated to ship early next year.

IBM agrees to buy Cognos for $5B
IBM has agreed to buy business intelligence software vendor Cognos for around $5 billion in cash, in a bid to expand delivery of BI beyond the traditional user base.

IT FORUM: Microsoft readies Stirling security console
Microsoft is on track to begin testing a console by the end of the year that will give customers a single tool for managing all of its Forefront enterprise security products.

OPENWORLD: Siebel On Demand to become 'social CRM'
At its OpenWorld show this week, Oracle Corp. is expected to announce an upcoming version of its Siebel CRM On Demand service that will include social networking features reminiscent of consumer portals such as Facebook or MySpace.


UNIX TIP

Creating a chrooted FTP account
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

Often referred to as a "chroot jail" or a "padded cell" because users cannot escape from the directories into which they are put when they log in, the basic concept of a "chroot" (change root) configuration is that a user's working view of the system's file system is dramatically modified so that only some particular directory and its contents is visible. However, in order to be useful, each chrooted environment should contain many of the same directories you would expect to find in the root file system on a typical Unix system. Here's what you need to know.


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