Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

Wired News - Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization The Rocky History of Rockers in Videogames Microsoft Retools Zune to Target Apple's Flaws Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick read more

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Links to other sources of news and commentary
Online Journal - The argument by Microsoft ( MSFT ), Google ( GOOG ), Intel ( INTC ), and others is that there are not enough tech workers in the U.S. Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar In the genteel world of bridge, disputes are usually handled quietly and

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Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard?

Wired News - Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization The Rocky History of Rockers in Videogames Microsoft Retools Zune to Target Apple's Flaws Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick read more

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Micronet's blog

Network World Fusion - In a recent Q&A interview in Information Week, Bill Hilf was reported to be revealing Microsoft's open source "strategy." But a scathing review of the Q&A was posted on the ZDNet blog "Shared software, shared processes" (an online publication that read more

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On a Laptop Mission for Kids

On a Laptop Mission for Kids
Washington Post - Negroponte counterattacked early this year, publicly accusing the tech leaders of trying to undercut his program because it didn't use Intel microprocessors or Microsoft's operating system. In July, Barrett softened his stance and joined the board of

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EU Win Over Microsoft Gives Ball To Linux -- Can It Run With It?

Information Week - The European Union said Monday that Microsoft is now in compliance with its antitrust rulings -- paving the way for greater use of open source operating systems like Linux in the workgroup server market. The question is whether such systems will make read more

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This month's news

This month's news
Out-Law - A coalition of the biggest names in internet publishing is campaigning for the reversal of a US court ruling that leaves some publishers liable for comments made by internet users. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo! have all petitioned the court.

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Microsoft signs patent pact with Samsung

Microsoft signs patent pact with Samsung
Silicon.com - As part of an ongoing effort to secure more patent cross-licensing deals, Microsoft said it has signed a pact with Korea's Samsung Electronics. As with Microsoft's recent deal with Fuji Xerox, the software maker specifically notes that the deal will

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Business Calendar

Business Calendar
Baltimore Sun - American Marketing Association // Microsoft Office new tricks breakfast seminar, 7:45 a.m., Morton's Steakhouse, Sheraton Inner Harbor, 300 S. Charles St., Baltimore. Nonmember cost is $40. Reservations must be made by Nov. 26. Call Courtney Butler

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Breaking Down Digital Barriers: International Study Examines the Issue

Breaking Down Digital Barriers: International Study Examines the Issue
Forbes - The research was sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is proud to celebrate its tenth year as a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its

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Microsoft would settle for silver

Globe and Mail - Please let us know if this reader’s comment breaks the editor's rules and is obscene, abusive, threatening, unlawful, harassing, defamatory, profane or racially offensive by selecting the appropriate option to describe the problem. Do not use this read more

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Archive for: November, 2007

ZDNet Blogs - One thing that I’ve noticed about Windows Vista is that Microsoft seems to have hired robots to write the error messages that the OS displays, and that these robots are writing error messages so that other robots can understand them.  I want a read more

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