BlackBerry suffers widespread outage ... Intel's Centrino to get WiMax next year

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News: BlackBerry suffers widespread outage
News: Intel's Centrino package to get WiMax next year
News: Oracle updates leave critical Windows flaw
News: Intel has big plans for little devices
Unix Tip: Rejecting email from outside
ITwhirled: British scientists determine formula for perfect bacon sandwich
Podcast: BlackBerry service has widespread outage ... Oracle patch delayed for Windows customers ... Intel to put WiMax in Centrino ... Via picks Intel for ultramobile PC


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BlackBerry suffers widespread outage
The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from Research In Motion Ltd. appears to have suffered a widespread outage starting Tuesday evening in the U.S.

IDF: Intel's Centrino package to get WiMax next year
Intel Corp. said Wednesday it plans to next year add WiMax to its Centrino platform, a long-expected move likely to boost demand for wireless broadband services.

Oracle updates leave critical Windows flaw
Some Oracle Corp. customers using the Windows operating system will have to wait another two weeks to receive a critical software update to their database software, thanks to a glitch that came up in testing the company's latest patches.

IDF: Intel has big plans for little devices
Intel Corp. Wednesday unveiled its Ultra Mobile platform, also known as McCaslin, designed for ultramobile PCs and other handheld devices, and outlined plans for increased Linux support and a new chip for ultramobile PCs due in 2008.

Virginia Tech students hit social sites after shooting
Many students at Virginia Tech on Monday turned to message boards and social networking sites to try to find out what exactly was happening on campus during a shooting spree that ended with 33 dead.

Oracle sets out content management road map
Building on its December acquisition of Stellent, Oracle Corp. Wednesday began to flesh out its content management software strategy.

SAAS is hitting its stride
Delivering software as a service (SAAS), accessed from the Internet rather than installed on a computer, is rapidly becoming the way for businesses to use software, said experts attending a conference Tuesday called SaaScon in Santa Clara, California.


UNIX TIP

Rejecting email from outside
By Sandra Henry-Stocker

If you would like to generate email on a server, but don't want to put up with email from the outside, you can configure sendmail to do this for you.

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ITWHIRLED

British scientists determine formula for perfect bacon sandwich
Totally not wanting for cash are a group of Brits who managed to quantify the deliciousness of a bacon sandwich (or "bacon buttie" in UK parlance). The formula is N = C + {fb(cm) · fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc · ta, if you're interested.

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