Summertime is the season for traveling circuses and local fairs, so I shouldn’t be surprised that this carnival atmosphere has spread to security. A company named Permanent Privacy just announced a $1 million prize to the person who can crack its algorithm and uncover the underlying encryption keys.
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Intel and DreamWorks Animation on Tuesday announced a strategic alliance designed to power up the movie studio’s 3D authoring tools.
Faced with increasing demand for 3D animated feature films, DreamWorks will receive access to Intel’s latest and future high-performance chips, including those with multiple processing cores. Intel’s …
XML, it seems, has run out of steam for Google.
Google said Monday that it has created an open-source project for a data interchange format called Protocol Buffers.
The software is meant to solve the problem of sharing information in a wide range of formats between servers at high speed. …
Microsoft detailed on Tuesday its road map and pricing for Web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses.
Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and workers increasingly favor, is likely to be a selling point for the productivity and “deskless worker” tools within the Microsoft Online Services lineup.
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(Credit: Apple)Apple’s MobileMe service is primed to go into this week, ahead of the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G. That means subscribers to .Mac will find the service taken offline for a six-hour stretch as Apple makes the transition, according to a post in MacRumors.com.
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Google’s Orkut social network isn’t just big in Brazil. It’s also popular in India, especially among software developers, according to a new survey.
Despite Facebook’s efforts to promote that social network as the platform of choice for third-party application developers, Orkut is used by twice as …
Investor activist Carl Icahn needed a sign, a tangible sign, that Microsoft was still interested in buying Yahoo, or at a minimum, its search business, if he were to increase his chances of winning his proxy fight to unseat the company’s entire board of directors.
On Monday, in a
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Despite winning an important legal victory against Google last week, Viacom’s public image is taking a beating.
Ever since Viacom, parent company of MTV and Paramount Pictures, filed a $1 billion copyright suit against Google’s YouTube last year, Google has won kudos for championing the rights of Internet
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Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of murdering his estranged wife, has led police to what is believed to be her body, authorities told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday.
The remains were found Monday afternoon buried next to a deer trail in the hills of Oakland, Calif.,
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Ever since Microsoft first stated its intention to purchase Yahoo in February, and Yahoo said no, it’s been a roller coaster as the deal goes through its on-again, off-again phases. On Monday’s edition of …