TomorrowNow execs resign ... Red Hat 4 gets a facelift ... Tesla finally victorious over Edison

In this issue:
- Swatters tricked AT&T while making fake 911 calls
- TomorrowNow CEO resigns; SAP might sell subsidiary
- HP records quarterly profit
- Red Hat 4 gets a facelift
- AT&T buys pay-per-call advertising company
- Vendors, analyst ponder Microsoft's enterprise search play
- Study: Internet could run out of capacity in two years
- Amazon finds a new use for 3G with Kindle
- Tesla finally victorious over Edison
- Win a Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt!


TODAY'S NEWS

Swatters tricked AT&T while making fake 911 calls
Criminals have been using social engineering skills to gain access to AT&T networks and place fake 911 calls, a practice called 'swatting.'

TomorrowNow CEO resigns; SAP might sell subsidiary
SAP said Monday that the CEO and other top executives of its TomorrowNow subsidiary have resigned and that the enterprise software maker may sell the business.

HP records quarterly profit
Buoyed by a sharp improvement in its software business, Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a quarterly profit on Monday.

Lust, virus: film fans in China hit with virus attack
Lust seems to be prevailing over caution for computer users in China who download certain unauthorized copies of Ang Lee's latest film: some of them are receiving dozens of viruses instead.

Red Hat 4 gets a facelift
Red Hat has followed up its release of release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 two weeks ago with an update to its older RHEL 4 line of operating systems, including kernel updates and hardware tweaks.

AT&T buys pay-per-call advertising company
AT&T plans to buy online advertising company Ingenio for an undisclosed sum, in a move that puts the telephone company in competition with Google and other online advertisement leaders.

Vendors, analyst ponder Microsoft's enterprise search play
Microsoft's recent announcement of a pair of enterprise search products came as the market is at a 'tipping point' in the words of one spokesman.

Study: Internet could run out of capacity in two years
Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.

Amazon finds a new use for 3G with Kindle
Amazon.com isn't the first company to sell an electronic book reader with an easy-on-the-eyes E-Ink display, but its method for delivering those books may have opened up a whole new use for mobile data networks.


OPINION

Where does all the time go?
Sean McGrath, ITworld

In my formative years, I was lucky enough to be exposed to JSP. No, not JSP as in Java. The other one. The previous one. The one that stands for Jackson Structured Programming. This lead me to JSD (Jackson Structured Design) and, to cut a long story short, the wiring of my brain was changed forever. ...Continue


ITWHIRLED

Tesla finally victorious over Edison
In the 1880s, America was rocked by the "War of Currents", as two great inventors waged a publicity battle to determine the nature of the electric distribution grid that would soon blanket the country: Thomas Edison was a proponent of direct current (DC), while Edison's erstwhile employee Nikola Tesla advocated alternating current (AC). While AC eventually became predominant, the New York-area utility Consolidated Edison -- the utility founded in part by and named after Edison -- still provided DC current to a few dozen customers. But that service has at last come to an end.

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