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Friday, August 13, 2004

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Munich presses on with Microsoft-to-Linux move

MSBlast hacker pleads guilty

Australian PC sales still growing strongly: Gartner

HP's Blackmore, Milton out

Spam: Made in the USA

Microsoft garners support for authentication scheme

China using mass markets to create standards: report

Munich presses on with Microsoft-to-Linux move
The mayor of Munich, Germany, has called for the bidding process for the migration of 14,000 desktop computers from Microsoft to Linux open source software to go forward while the European Commission settles a nagging software patent controversy that could still threaten the project. More...

MSBlast hacker pleads guilty
The Minnesota man who spread a modified version of the MSBlast worm over the internet last year pleaded guilty this week and faces 18 to 37 months in prison. More...

Australian PC sales still growing strongly: Gartner
Australia's PC market is still going gangbusters, recording second-quarter growth of 14.4 percent and sequential growth of 8.6 percent in latest Gartner statistics. More...

HP's Blackmore, Milton out
Hewlett-Packard has given its top enterprise server and storage executives, Peter Blackmore and Jim Milton, their walking papers in the wake of a US$208 million third-quarter operating loss for the division. More...

Spam: Made in the USA
Proof that the United States is capitalism's capital, a survey released this week said that nearly all the world's spam is spewed by a limited number of hard-core spammers within the US. More...

Microsoft garners support for authentication scheme
Microsoft this week hosted a meeting with more than 80 email providers to spread the news about its Sender ID authentication scheme. More...

China using mass markets to create standards: report
China is utilising its rapid growth and massive captive markets as a means to influence next generation standards across a broad range of technologies, according to a consulting company's report. More...

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