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Dell Comes Clean on Four Years of Fudged Financials

The storm cloud that's been hanging over Dell's headquarters may be finally lifting. After the PC and server manufacturer restated its earnings from 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Thursday -- and admitted to the widespread practice of inflating its financial results -- investors have responded positively, giving a modest boost to the price of Dell stock...

Webcam Chats With Strangers Could Trigger Yahoo Messenger Attack

McAfee has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability in Yahoo's popular instant messaging solution, Yahoo Messenger. McAfee's Avert Labs is a security research firm designed to tackle security issues as soon as they trickle into the world, and the crew first noticed the potential flaw on a post on a Chinese-language security forum The flaws, according to ...

DirecTV Moves to Put Net on Power Grid

Satellite TV provider DirecTV is making a move on the high-speed broadband over powerline (BPL) market. The company announced a wholesale distribution agreement with BPL provider Current Group Wednesday. In addition to letting DirecTV sell Current's broadband services, the agreement also lets DirecTV resell VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services...

Hesitant GOP Candidates Brace Themselves for YouTube's Heat

After an initial stumble -- perhaps related to the now-infamous YouTube snowman -- most of the Republican presidential candidates will be answering video questions posed by American YouTube users in a debate similar to one their Democratic Party counterparts participated in last month. CNN, YouTube and the Republican Party of Florida have announced they will hold their Republican debate on Nov. 28...

MS Circles Back to FCC With Tweaked White Space Device

After a suffering a setback last month when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found flaws in a new Microsoft-produced wireless broadband device that could enable the use of the so-called white spaces in radio spectrum airwaves for high-speed Internet traffic, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is getting set to try again this week Mi...

Netizens Blast AT&T for Jamming Pearl Jam's Bush Bashing

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Vedder began singing lyrics that apparently bashed President George W. Bush...

Netizens Blast AT&T for Jamming Pearl Jam's Bush Bashing

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Vedder began singing lyrics that apparently bashed President George W. Bush...

Netizens Blast AT&T for Jamming Pearl Jam's Bush Bashing

As rock band Pearl Jam performed a set as part of the Lollapalooza music festival this week, AT&T broadcast the performance over the Internet as part of its Blue Room webcast. However, the webcast's audio cut out at a significant point in the band's performance -- the moment that singer Eddie Vedder began singing lyrics that apparently bashed President George W. Bush...

Internet Set to Trump Newspapers in Ad Bucks

By 2011, Internet advertising is expected to become the largest advertising segment, surpassing newspapers for the first time, a new study reported Tuesday The same study predicts overall communications spending to top US$1 trillion in 2008, making it the third-fastest-growing sector in the U.S. economy, just shy of government and agriculture....

Does the iPhone Mean Business?

While Apple's iPhone clearly is aimed squarely at the consumer market, that hasn't stopped business users from coveting it as well -- and putting it to work. Independent software vendors (ISVs) are jumping in, making integration solutions and applications that work with the iPhone NetSuite, for example, has launched an iPhone version of its softwar...

Defcon Hackers Send Geraldo Wannabe Packing

A "Dateline NBC" undercover reporter tried a little social engineering of her own at a well-known conference of computer hackers and security experts -- and reportedly failed spectacularly Defcon, an annual convention for hackers and security experts, was held this year at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas....

Will Bloggers' Netroots Movement Replace Grassroots Politics?

Approximately 1,500 online activists -- bloggers, for the most part, that are collectively called the "netroots" -- are meeting in Chicago for the 2007 YearlyKos Convention, an event named after the super popular, left-leaning DailyKos political blog The convention is the second of its kind ever held, and already it's so important that the nation's...

Gphone: Google's Latest Play for Global Domination?

The persistent rumors surrounding a Google "Gphone" have been stoked again, this time by a Wall Street Journal article that reports that Google is courting wireless operators to provide an ad-supported mobile phone service to Google-customized handsets The Journal article does not directly identify sources of this information, only that it's coming...

FCC Cruises Down Middle of the Spectrum

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on the rules governing the upcoming auction of the controversial 700 MHz radio spectrum band, taking a middle ground that may or may not result in a significant changes for the wireless broadband and cellular service industry Signals broadcast in the 700 MHz band spectrum, which runs from 698 to 806...

Wireless, High-Speed Net Growth Buoy Verizon Profits

Verizon posted strong financial gains for the second quarter of 2007 Monday, calling out its growth in wireless and high-speed Internet subscribers The diversified phone company's net profit rose 4.5 percent to US$1.7 billion, up from $1.61 billion from the same period a year earlier. Verizon's operating revenue rose 6.3 percent to $23.37 billion....

GOP Front-Runners Keep YouTubers at Arm's Length

The CNN/YouTube Democratic Party candidate debate on Monday has sparked a wide variety of commentary. Much of it has been fairly positive, despite a few moments during the event that bordered on ridiculous The debate invited YouTube users across the country to record themselves asking the candidates questions and post the videos on the site. One qu...

Free Software Licensing, Part 2: Beyond GPL

While the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public Licenses (GPL) are used in nearly three-quarters of all free and open source software, GPL-based licenses not the only game in town Part 1 of this series delves into the particulars of GPL v3. Part 2 looks beyond GPL. There are dozens of other free and open source-focused software licenses out...

Sprint Dials Google for WiMax Services

In an effort to leverage its growing WiMax mobile Internet initiative, Sprint has called on Google to collaborate on a new mobile portal. The two companies will work together to bring Sprint WiMax mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools that will include the Google Apps communications suite Customers...

Amazon Net Soars 257 Percent on Potter's Broomstick

Amazon.com blew by Wall Street expectations Tuesday when it reported its second-quarter sales for 2007 were up 35 percent year-over-year Media sales grew 27 percent, no doubt boosted by 1.5-plus million Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows prerelease orders made by the quarter ending June 30. However, growth in electronics and other general merchan...

Linux Foundation Borrows Novell's Markus Rex for CTO Position

In the search for a new chief technology officer, The Linux Foundation (LF) has nabbed Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive from Suse Linux and, more recently, Novell While Rex will be working for the Linux Foundation, technically he's only on loan to the non-profit organization that's dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. He will retur...

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