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update IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product. IBM's assertion came in a message to its sales force last Thursday evening, four days after SCO said Linux users must pay the company for a Unix license or face possible legal action. SCO Group, owner of the Unix intellectual property, contends that Unix code was illegally copied line by line into Linux and that companies such as IBM illegally transferred improvements made to Unix into Linux. SCO's...

The Browning Hi-Power is a notable handgun of the last century for a number of reasons. It was John M. Browning's final pistol design. It introduced the concept of the high-capacity double-column magazine. It is considered by many to be an improvement of the famous Colt Government Model of 1911. Finally, it is one of the most-used military service pistols of all time. In fact, during World War II the Hi-Power, also known as the P-35, saw service not only with a number of the allied forces but was also used by the German military. The fact that the Hi-Power...

July 23 — Microsoft issued another passel of warnings about security holes Wednesday, including a “critical” flaw affecting most Windows PCs. The most serious of the flaws involves DirectX, a library of graphics and multimedia programming instructions used by most PC games, and could allow malicious users to run code of their choice on a vulnerable PC.

LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a trio of European government contract wins on Tuesday, the latest salvo in the growing turf battle between the software giant and vendors of the upstart Linux software. The U.S. software giant would not disclose financial terms of the deals, which it said it won after competing head-to-head for the business with various Linux vendors. Microsoft said it would deploy its signature Windows server and desktop software on thousands of computers for the city governments in Frankfurt, the Latvian capital of Riga and Turku in Finland. For the past year, an...

The First Bush Space Policy Frank Sietzen, Jr. Tuesday, May 13, 2003 Today's action puts the first Bush administration 'stamp' on U.S. Space Policy, and while it is only the first policy action in an anticipated series, it has a clearly identifiable cast to its contents. The new space remote sensing policy released today by the National Security Council has a decidedly free market, conservative slant as it seeks to craft a new cooperative framework between U.S. federal users of space photography and the fledgling industry that is struggling to offer such services. Commercial sources of high resolution images...

Scientists Discover Critical Cold-tolerance Gene In Arabidopsis Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a critical cold-tolerance gene in Arabidopsis. As published in the April 15th issue of Genes & Development, the identification of ICE1 by Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu and colleagues holds promising implications for the improvement of cold tolerance in agriculturally important crops. Cold temperature is one of the major factors affecting crop yield in temperate climates, with the farming industry loosing billions of dollars each year to freezing temperatures. Much research has focused on ways to improve crops? tolerance to cold and/or freezing temperatures, with the aim...

Experts aim to make technology and science relate more to everyday life. What Do You Say When Someone Says The Earth's Flat?How long does it take the Earth to orbit the sun? Half of U.S. adults don't know, according to a recent National Science Foundation survey. In fact, a 2001 NSF survey found that 42% of adults said they couldn't be bothered with science and technology issues--this at a time when literacy in both have enormous impact on the nation's health and economy.Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society in Montreal, says indifference and outright rejection...

Of late, FR seems plagued with slowdowns. Is this a temporary problem or is some limit being approached?

<p>The new laser technology offers a five-fold increase in DVD capacity.</p> <p>IRVINE – Intersil Corp. introduced a chip Monday that could change the DVD world as we know it.</p> <p>The Intersil chip makes possible a new breed of digital video recording, called Blu-Ray Disc, that burns five times more video onto a DVD than today's typical DVD recorder.</p>

<p>PALO ALTO – Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs have developed a new manufacturing process capable of producing molecular-scale circuits vastly denser than today's most advanced semiconductor chips.</p> <p>The discovery offers the hope of assembling billions or even trillions of molecular-size switches in an area comfortably smaller than a fingernail, and at a cost far lower than today's computer chips. The advance could lead to immensely powerful and inexpensive computers capable of holding entire libraries of music and movies for the consumer, or calculating now-unsolvable problems for scientists.</p>