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UNIX caretakers marking 40th anniversary with photo contest

With this year being the operating system's 40th anniversary, UNIX steward organization The Open Group is conducting a photo contest featuring replicas of the iconic UNIX "Live Free or Die" license plate. "The photo contest invites all UNIX system fans ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  23 Nov 2009

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Check every day? … Geesh, the identity thieves have won

With Cyber Monday approaching, we here in the news business are being inundated as usual with offers of "expert advice" for us to pass along to readers/online shoppers so that they may better protect themselves against identity theft. Most of it we -- ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  20 Nov 2009

Burlington Coat Factory leaves customers out in the cold

At least they aren't making any excuses. Leaving online shoppers out in the cold with no warnings or explanations (or coats, if that's what they wanted to buy), Burlington Coat Factory took its Web site offline all day Wednesday (Nov. 18)-plus at least ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Burlington Coat Factory

For iPhone owners who can't find Macy's without an app

I drove to the local mall yesterday -- oh, I'm sorry, it's not a mall, it's called the Natick Collection -- and, despite not owning an iPhone or a copy of the just released "Mall Maps for the iPhone" application, managed to park, enter, shop and leave ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Macy's

We might have an explanation for 'The Great Twitter Spike'

Pingdom wrote: "Whatever happened on the evening of Oct. 27, U.S. time, made a big mark on Twitter. The increase, in terms of scale, was close to the amount of tweets produced by the rest of the world. (Can some Americans chime in on this? We here at ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Major League Baseball,  National Basketball Association

What caused "The Great Twitter Spike of Oct. 27 2009"?

The Web site performance monitoring company Pingdom tracked Twitter traffic for three weeks and in addition to accumulating a bunch of interesting data left us with the question in the headline. Right now I wish they hadn't. The highest number of ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Major League Baseball,  New York Times Company

Judge rejects lawsuit challenging Magic Quadrant

Network World - In a ruling that should surprise no one, California Ninth Circuit Court Judge Jeremy Fogel recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by ZL Technologies that accused Gartner of committing a host of illegalities via its placement of ZL's e-mail ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, ComputerWorld,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.,  Federal Communications Commission

Digg's MrBabyMan racks up 4,000th front-page submission

This is an inside-baseball post written primarily for users of the social news-sharing Web site Digg, so those of you uninterested in such matters are free to move about the cabin. About a half-hour ago, Digg's most famous Digger -- the indefatigable ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Digg,  Pete Rose

Lamp hijacks electricity from unused telephone jack

We've all seen lamps with phone jacks in hotel rooms. Well, here's a lamp that plugs into a phone jack in your home and operates by filching the trickle of electricity found there. The lamp is sold by an outfit called UxSight, which lists addresses in ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  6 Nov 2009

Judge jettisons lawsuit challenging Gartner's Magic Quadrant

In a ruling that should surprise no one, California Ninth Circuit Court Judge Jeremy Fogel has dismissed a lawsuit filed by ZL Technologies that accused Gartner of committing a host of illegalities simply through its placement of ZL's e-mail archiving ...

From PAUL MCNAMARA, NetworkWorld,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.

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