Saturday, March 26, 2011

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IBM opens Power Systems lab in Taiwan

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Power chips stay home in Austin

Big Blue is opening up its first Power Systems development laboratory in Asia in an effort to do development less expensively and to better crack the high-growth Asian IT markets with its Power-based AIX, IBM i, and Linux systems.…

Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry license

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:33 PM PDT

Free software in Swiss polka revolution

In an effort to revolutionize the world of open source, a free software advocate has submitted a new license to the Open Source Initiative. The document is two years in the making, and it's known as the CDL, short for Chicken Dance License.…

Free Register Webcast: Can telephony and IT work together?

Microsoft: Mystery bug blocks Syrian secure Hotmail

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:15 PM PDT

Sun worshipers and fat cats hit too

Microsoft is blaming a mystery bug for preventing access to the encrypted version of Hotmail, denying that it deliberately blocked access to the service in Syria.…

FCC official: AT&T deal faces 'steep climb' for approval

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:57 PM PDT

'There's no way the chairman rubber-stamps this'

An unnamed FCC official has said that AT&T faces a serious battle to win approval for its proposed $39bn acquisition of fellow GSM wireless carrier T-Mobile USA.…

Why US antitrust regulators should probe Google search

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 01:34 PM PDT

To boldly know where no one has known before

Comment The word is that the US Department of Justice may sue Google over its proposed $700m acquisition of flight data outfit ITA Software. And we can only hope that the feds have far more than flight data on the brain. As it investigates whether Google could use its web search monopoly to erect a second monopoly in the flight search market, the DoJ must also ask whether the company could do much the same thing in who knows how many other markets.…

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