Google talks to the PSTN?

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:29 PM EST (lightreading.com)

Google has entered into an agreement with a third party to extend its VOIP capability to the rest of the PSTN-connected world,

google, technology, voip, gtalk

Hands On With Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 Beta

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:26 PM EST (PC World)

Microsoft releasd Internet Explorer 7 Beta. PC World looks at the new features.

technology, microsoft, internet-explorer, firefox, ie, ie7

AMD's forums hacked

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:24 AM EST (tgdaily.com)

Visitors to AMD's website forums received a shock when their adware and virus scanners started blaring warnings about a possible Trojan horse being downloaded. Over the past few days visitors have been complaining about strange popup alerts and slow forum speeds.

technology, amd, windows, hacked, wmf-vulnerability

IBM Gives Away DB2

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:45 AM EST (eweek.com)

The last of the database giants is adapting to the demands of all-you-can-eat, no-money-down, open-source code, with IBM set to roll out a freebie DB2 version on Jan. 30.

technology, ibm, oracle, sql, db2

Google Toolbar 4 (beta)

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:33 PM EST (ABC News)

Google releases new beta of its Toolbar. Only of Internet Explorer users, so Firefox - nothing to see just move along!

google, technology, toolbar

Microsoft Adds More New Features to Windows Live

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:37 AM EST (PC World)

Microsoft is adding new features to its Live services. New features include a "gadget" that recommends television shows and the integration of images into Live.com RSS feeds.

technology, microsoft, live, webservices

No GPL 3 for Linux Kernel

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:37 PM EST (eweek.com)

Even before the public release of GPL version 3, Linus Torvalds in a kernel mailing list says that GPLv3 will not be used for the Linux Kernel.

technology, open-source, gpl, linux, fsf, linus

IBM buys CIMS Lab

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:33 PM EST (techworld.com)

As its 12th aquisition last yeah IBM bought CIMS lab. CIMS makes resource-tracking software for virtual networks. The CIMS lab technology will be integrated with IBM's Tivoli technologies.

technology, ibm, tivoli, cims

Microsoft Launches MSN Research Labs

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:31 PM EST (PC World)

Microsoft launched technology research lab as part of its "Live" initiative. The two efforts - Live Labs and Search Labs will be researching on Microsoft Live technologies and MSN Search technologies respectively.

google, technology, microsoft, windows-live, office-live, msn-search

Techie pleads guilty to hijacking computers

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:28 PM EST (USA Today)

A 20-year old California man pleaded guilty to hijacking hundreds of thousands of computes and selling access to others to spread spam and launch Web attacks. The cracker admitted breaking into military computers and for selling access to groups of hijacked PCs called bot nets.

technology, crime, hacker