Computer 'worm' virus slated to strike Friday

1. Computer 'worm' virus slated to strike Friday

Computer users were being urged to kill a malicious "old school" software worm poised to destroy their files. Referred to by a host of names including "Kama Sutra", "Grew", and "Blackworm", the "malware" virus has bored into countless computers worldwide and is reportedly programmed to come to life after the clocks signal the start of Friday.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 2 2006


2. AOL lands high speed net deal with Charter

AOL, the online division of Time Warner Inc., on Thursday said it has landed a deal with cable operator Charter Communications Inc. to offer low-cost, high-speed Internet service.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 2 2006


3. Wanadoo's VoIP service falls over

Wanadoo, which claims to be the UK's largest VoIP outfit with more than 80,000 users, has apologised to punters after its broadband telephony service went on the blink. Its Wireless & Talk VoIP product went titsup on Tuesday morning resulting in calls from landlines or mobiles being unable to connect to Wanadoo's internet telephony service.

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- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Feb 2 2006


4. US Internet giants condemned for collaborating with Beijing

US politicians and rights groups have condemned technology giants Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo for collaborating with China to censor the Internet. In a briefing by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, the four US companies were accused Wednesday of putting profits before principles in their push into the Chinese market.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 2 2006

5. Salesforce.com's hiccups

When CIOs think about utility computing in general or software-as-a-service (SaaS) in particular, two things make them very nervous. The first is data security. The second is service reliability. The fears about security and reliability may be rational or not - usually, they're a little of both - but they're real, and the onus is on suppliers to allay them. No trust, no business.

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- read full story from roughtype.com, Feb 1 2006


6. Is Verizon a Network Hog?

Last November, Vinton G. Cerf wrote a letter of warning to Congress. The legendary computer scientist, now a vice-president at Google (GOOG ), argued that major telecom companies could take actions to jeopardize the future of the Internet.

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- read full story from businessweek.com, Feb 2 2006


7. NimSoft Offers Monitoring of CallManager

To give IT managers using Cisco Systems' CallManager IP telephony system a way to ensure compliance with SLAs (service-level agreements), Nimsoft is rolling its stand-alone software probe that provides reporting and diagnostics out of the shop Feb. 3.

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- read full story from eweek.com, Feb 2 2006


8. Microsoft Seeks to Bridge Web 2.0 and SOA

While Microsoft has not yet jumped full-fledged onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, the company is clearly taking a good look and kicking the tires. John deVadoss, director, architecture strategy at Microsoft, said that although Microsoft has not effectively adopted Web 2.0 as a primary focus, "there is something fundamentally happening…and if Web 2.0 is one end, then SOA [service-oriented architecture] is the other."

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Feb 2 2006