TechCrunch by Michael Arrington - May 22, '07 8:10pm
Business 2.0’s Paul Sloan has been digging into the .CM domain name scam. A domain name broker managed to convince the government of Cameroon, which controls .cm, to do a deal where any mis-typed domain name, like Google.cm (instead of google.com), takes the visitor to an advertising-filled landing page (the ads are served by Yahoo).
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OSBC Open source is increasingly driving enterprise development projects and installations, but big customers still rely on start-up software providers for support.…
Microsoft announces at Interop a lineup of companies that have adopted Office Communications Server 2007 interoperability specifications for VOIP, IM and conferencing.


Blog: Opera Software issues security update
On September 12-13th, 2007 will be held the Secure Development World in Alexandria, VA, a conference dedicated to secure software development which tracks : Programming and Scripting Security, Attacking Secure Applications, Enterprise Application Defense, SDLC/Management/Developmental Process, and Secure Software Tips, Tricks and Trends. The conference already gathered a premier list of speakers, sponsors, and attendees; and there are many interesting sessions on security of Web 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, PHP and much more.

The conference's objective is to gather the world's greatest developers with IT professionals in both Commercial and Federal government markets for conference which will enable developers and security experts a platform to show their talents and build new relationships with both Federal and Commercial agencies and corporations. Speakers include Michael Howard, Micosoft; Mary Ann Davidson, CSO, Oracle; Alan Paller, Founder and Director of the Sans Institute; John Viega, VP and Chief Security Architect of McAfee; and Gary McGraw, CTO of Cigital. For more information www.securedevelopmentworld.com
The global site goes after neighborhood news, and newspapers go the new-media route for a bigger reach.
The San Francisco Chronicle has just announced a 25% cut in its editorial team. Will that mean 25% less news in the already hard news deprived Chronicle? Or will the remaining 75% of Chronicle journalists be working 50% harder to produce the same amount of news? Alternatively, the Chronicle could always outsource its news reporting, paying developing world wages (by the hour) for first world news. What? Journalists in India reporting Bay Area news? Technology reporters in Bangalore reporting on Silicon Valley? Don't laugh (or cry). This is exactly what James Macpherson, the publisher of the Pasadena Now website, is doing. Macpherson has hired Indian journalists based in India to write about Pasadena's (CA) City Council. Welcome to the brave...

Blog: At Interop conference, it seems that Microsoft is embracing networking collaboration, while Cisco Systems has never seemed more proprietary.
Learn how to write the Java code necessary to make effective use of the DOM
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AP - XM Satellite Radio restored service Tuesday after a software glitch knocked out the signal from one of its four satellites and disrupted service to many of the company's 8 million subscribers for about a day.