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SANTA CLARA, Calif–It’s early morning in California, and so far there are no reports of problems due to the much-anticipated
Conficker worm. [...]

After interviews with managers at Qtrax and the record labels, it appears that a bit of both occurred.

What was once an eagerly awaited debut is turning into a fiasco for the New York-based start-up, which has tried for more than a year to get off the ground.

Qtrax is close to getting signatures from [...]

“This is very unusual,” Fermilab Director Piermaria Oddone said of the gift in an address to employees on Friday, according to a report in Science magazine. “It’s not a building that carries a name. It’s really a commitment to…particle physics as a long-range, important undertaking for our nation.”

The gift marks is the second time [...]

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I just downloaded Mozilla’s Firefox 3.0 Beta 4, and loved what I saw:
See that?
Firefox is localized into a wide range of languages, which is great. But what I appreciate even more is that it treats Windows,
Mac OS X, and Linux as peers. In Microsoft’s world, software runs solely or best on Microsoft’s operating system, [...]

Spam now accounts for 78.5 percent of all e-mail traffic, according to a new report from Symantec. That’s up from previous months. And Europe, not the United States, can now claim to be the source of most spam.

Other notable points culled from the “State of Spam” report for February 2008 (PDF) include:

There was an appreciable [...]

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Jim Zemlin is no fun. In an insightful blog posting, the president of the Linux Foundation does a reality check on SCO’S $100 MILLION CASH INFUSION!!!!) and finds…not much reality.
Actually let me be more clear: not only is there no $100 million dollars in cash in SCO’s bank account, but if the proposal is accepted, [...]

This was originally posted at ZDNet’s Between the Lines.

VMware announced on Tuesday its cloud operating system–dubbed vSphere 4–with plans for general availability in the second quarter.

With the effort, VMware is attempting to bridge virtualized data centers–now known as “private clouds”–and growing cloud computing services from the likes of Amazon.com and others. However, this [...]

That pic of you with a laptop on your head at the office party could soon replace this scenic shot above Times Square.
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You know that picture of you and your cat that features so prominently on your Facebook page? Well, play your cards right and you and Buttons could show up on the 7,400-square-foot Reuters [...]

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Andrii Nikitin and son
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MySQL has been very good to the open-source world. In turn, I’d like to see if we can give something back.
Andrii Nikitin is one of MySQL’s support engineers based in Ukraine. As Zack Urlocker recently posted on his blog, however, Andrii has a major concern right now which has nothing to [...]

Philip Rosedale, CEO of Second Life creator Linden Lab and founder of the virtual world, announced Friday that he will step down from his post.
He assured Second Life enthusiasts that he would remain on full-time at the company as chairman of the board.
Rosedale, known in Second Life by his avatar’s name Philip Linden, did not [...]