26th March 2011 Archive
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Microsoft: Mystery bug blocks Syrian secure Hotmail
Sun worshipers and fat cats hit too
Microsoft is blaming a mystery bug for preventing access to the encrypted version of Hotmail, denying that it deliberately blocked access to the service in Syria. On Friday afternoon, the company told The Reg that Hotmail users who had already enabled the HTTPS version of the popular email service were still able to use it. …
Music and Media 26 Mar 00:15
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Open sourcers urged to adopt dancing poultry license
Free software in Swiss polka revolution
In an effort to revolutionize the world of open source, a free software advocate has submitted a new license to the Open Source Initiative. The document is two years in the making, and it's known as the CDL, short for Chicken Dance License. "The purpose of this license is to make intellectual property far more entertaining to …
Odds and Sods 26 Mar 00:33
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IBM opens Power Systems lab in Taiwan
Power chips stay home in Austin
Big Blue is opening up its first Power Systems development laboratory in Asia in an effort to do development less expensively and to better crack the high-growth Asian IT markets with its Power-based AIX, IBM i, and Linux systems. But don't get the wrong idea. IBM is not shifting development of its Power processors, to Taiwan …
Servers 26 Mar 07:00
