Wednesday, March 06, 2002|
Covad extends T1 offering First introduced in November 2001, the TeleXtend service provides small businesses with as much as 1.5 Mbps of Internet access via T-I lines. Adding 10 more markets, the TeleXtend service is now available in 24 U.S. markets. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., Covad's TeleXtend service complements the company's bread-and-butter DSL offering -- TeleSpeed. Unlike the TeleSpeed service, however, TeleXtend does not have distance limitations. DSL service speeds often depend on the distance in which a customer is from a central office. Those businesses near a wired central office can receive DSL service at speeds of 192kbps through 1.5Mbps, yet those companies at a great distance from a wired central office can only receive DSL at 144kbps. [IDG InfoWorld] 8:51:46 PM 
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Nat Hentoff: "The press ought to awaken the citizenry not only to the FBI's harvesting lists of what 'suspect' Americans read, but also to the judicial silencing of bookstores and libraries that are being compelled to betray the privacy and First Amendment rights of readers."  [Scripting News]8:45:42 PM
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Yahoo builds more fees into GeoCities. The Web portal is slowly weeding the freeloaders from its home page community, emphasizing that its basic free service is designed for hobbyists and beginners. [CNET News.com] Yahoo is slowly weeding the freeloaders from its home page community, GeoCities. Last week, the Web portal quietly introduced a paid option for home-page builders, another attempt to convert free subscribers by limiting some features and promoting others. At the same time, the company told its free customers that by early April they would no longer be able to use "remote loading" or file transfer protocol (FTP), the oldest and most prevalent way to deliver content onto a Web page. 5:29:23 PM
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UCITA software transferability rights raise concerns Under Virginia's UCITA-type law, companies aren't allowed to assign the rights to software licenses they inherit from a merger or acquisition with another company, according to H. Jameson Holcombe, CIO at Cambrian Communications in Fairfax, Va. Even though Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act laws differ from state to state and some states don't have such transferability clauses, the merger and acquisition restrictions have become a big enough concern for Holcombe at least. That's why he took the stage at the start of Tuesday's Computerworld Premier 100 conference to try to galvanize a groundswell of support from the more than 400 IT leaders in attendance in a bid to mount a campaign aimed at abolishing such restrictions. (UCITA provides a framework for licensing contracts that lack certain specific provisions, and opponents say its default provisions grant questionable rights to software publishers.) [IDG InfoWorld] 5:25:49 PM
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Gnutella: File-Sharing Haven. A rift between file-swapping companies FastTrack and Morpheus is a boon for Gnutella. It's also good news for users who can't be booted off the open-source system. By Brad King. [Wired News] 5:22:52 PM
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He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night. Adrian Lamo is gaining recognition in the hacking world for surreptitiously slipping into computer networks. The fact that he's homeless only adds to his reputation. Noah Shachtman reports from New York. [Wired News] 5:22:08 PM
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PGP deep-freezed - NAI shrugs. Too bored to keep it alive, too tired to let it die [The Register] 5:21:40 PM
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PGP deep-freezed - NAI shrugs. Too bored to keep it alive, too tired to let it die [The Register] Broadband accounted for more than half of all Net connections in the US in January, according to the latest figures from Nielsen/NetRatings. 5:20:25 PM
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U.S. computer security focus of new bill. The bill would extend a law that requires government agencies to regularly test their technological security--an act that is set to expire in November. [CNET News.com] The Federal Information Security Management Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., would extend the Government Information Security Reform Act of 2000, which is set to expire in November. That law required government agencies to make annual security assessments and tests of nonclassified information systems. The law requires agencies to grade themselves; most have done poorly so far. According to Davis, 16 of the 24 agencies evaluated in 2001 received a failing grade, and only one agency got better than a C+. 5:18:19 PM
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ZDNet: Alan Cox: If I had a Hammer... [Linux Today] Alan Cox interviewed, talking about the coming of 64-bit processors at desktop prices as a boon for Linux and businesses everywhere. 5:10:43 PM
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U.S. and Microsoft Make Their Case for Settlement. By the end of a court hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's questioning of the parties involved may shed some light on what she thinks of the plan. [The New York Times: Technology] The Justice Department set out to prove Wednesday that its antitrust settlement with Microsoft (news/quote) is a bird in the hand and better than what it reasonably could have expected if it had gone back to court to seek tougher penalties. Philip Beck, speaking for the government, told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that a federal appeals court radically narrowed the scope of Microsoft's wrongdoing, making it difficult for the government to seek stronger penalties against the software giant. Getting more ``would have been an uphill battle that likely would have been resolved against us,'' said Beck. He argued that the settlement still goes further than what the appeals court decided was Microsoft's legal liability. 5:05:42 PM
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Fox taps Yahoo to promote films. Fox Filmed Entertainment signs a deal with the portal to promote movies and videos, its largest advertising commitment to an online media company. [CNET News.com] 5:03:43 PM
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Safeway fattens its Web service. The land grab continues in the online supermarket sector as the grocery giant announces plans to launch Internet operations in San Francisco. [CNET News.com]
Starting Monday, Safeway will launch service in 14 San Francisco neighborhoods and three surrounding areas, said Safeway spokesman David Bowlby. 5:02:47 PM
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Klez.e worm threat fizzles. The variant of the Klez worm was set to start gobbling PC files Wednesday, but antivirus companies say computer users took the proper measures to prevent a feast. [CNET News.com] The worm, which began spreading through e-mail messages in early February, is set to activate on infected PCs on the sixth day of odd-numbered months, potentially triggering a barrage of activity that would destroy many common types of PC files. By late Wednesday morning, however, antivirus-software company Symantec had no reports of PCs being damaged by the worm, said Sharon Ruckman, senior director of the company's Security Response center.
Reports of the worm spreading via e-mail had increased in the past few days, though, prompting Symantec to boost the threat rating for Klez.e on Wednesday from Level 2 to 3, on a scale of 5. The assessment was similar from antivirus-software maker Trend Micro, which ranked Klez.e as the 12th most active worm on the Internet, well behind more robust pests such as the Sircam and Nimda worms. 5:01:47 PM
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Amazon resignation rings quiet on Street. The departure of CFO Warren Jenson, who presided over the company's financial highs and lows, won't likely help or hurt the stock too much, some on Wall street say. [CNET News.com] 5:01:03 PM
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