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• Dell claims to be carbon-neutral 34 minutes ago
  
  Dell has claimed it is now officially a carbon-neutral company--five months ahead of its own projected schedule.
• Vonage struggles to attract new customers 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
  
  Internet telephony provider Vonage is struggling to attract new customers, as the company is forced to spend less on advertising.
• How many strikes before a tech CEO is out? 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
  
  In baseball, you get three strikes and you're out. As for technology CEOs, that depends. It depends on the magnitude and visibility of their screw-ups, the aggressiveness of the board, all kinds of things.
• Google sours on $1 billion AOL investment 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Google acknowledged late Thursday that it may have made a bad bet on AOL. The search giant said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its $1 billion investment for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's Web unit "may be impaired" and that it may have to take a charge in the future:
• Microsoft to seek credit for finding vulnerabilities 3 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Microsoft is jumping into the responsible disclosure game. The company announced at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday that it is formalizing its program of informing third-party software vendors of security problems with products that run on top of Windows.
• Data Loss in Linux due to Logical Volume Manager 3 hours, 34 minutes ago
  
  When the storage devices fall into the wrong hands, attackers can access the data by bypassing the control mechanisms in position in the organization’s network. For the Linux users the data protection becomes more important as the data can be confidential and private, not to reveal in front of others.
• TrueCrypt - Free opensource on the fly Disk Encryption tool 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  TrueCrypt is a free opensource software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).
• ReactOS 0.3.6 released! 4 hours, 34 minutes ago
  
  ReactOS is a descendant of the late FreeWIN95 project. Even though it isn’t a beauty contest winner, it’s the inside that counts. There’s even a DirectX compatibility subproject called ReactX. Will they succeed in making a complete open source OS, compatible with Windows binaries? I don’t know, but they already have something very cool for us to play with!
• At last -- native apps for Motorola Linux phones 5 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Motorola yesterday made the first-ever release of native development tools for its Linux-based mobile phones. MotoDev Studio for Linux 0.3 is a freely downloadable, Eclipse-based toolsuite aimed at helping third-party and community Linux developers create, test, and certify apps for the newest Motorola phone models.
• Low-power netbooks run Linux 5 hours, 34 minutes ago
  
  A Germany-based retailer called One is shipping four branded, Linux-based netbooks that consume only 3.5 Watts apiece. The One A440, A110, A115, and A140 are all based on the Via C7-M Ultra Low Voltage processor (ULV), and come with integrated Via graphics chips.
• Linux-based ATCA and AMC boards adopt Octeons 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Emerson Network Power (ENP) announced an ATCA (advanced telecommunications computing architecture) blade and AMC (advanced mezzanine card) module based on Cavium Octeon network processors and carrier-grade Linux. The ATCA-9305 blade uses dual 16-core Octeon CN5860s, while the AMC-9210 module sports a Octeon Plus CN5840 or CN5850.
• ASUS CEO Shows First Eee PC S101 7 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Just after ASUS' CEO confirmed the rumors of new Eee PC models being in the making, the first photos of the upcoming products have already surfaced on the Internet. Now that the Eee PC 701SD has had what can only be deemed its fair share of media attention, time has come for another one of the company's yet-to-be-released models to step into the spotlight. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the first pictures of one of the company's high-end models, scheduled to come out in mid-September.
• Low-cost ARM9 SBC supports Linux 8 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Glomation announced an ARM9-powered single-board computer (SBC) that runs Linux and costs just $69 in volume. The GESBC-9260 (pictured) measures 3.75 x 3.5 inches, sports Atmel's 200MHz AT91SAM9260, and targets "highly connected image processing applications" such as Ethernet-based IP cameras, and bar code readers, says Glomation.
• Networks: The Crux of Tomorrow's Datacenter 10 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  Perhaps Scott McNealy was right when he said "the network is the computer" all those years ago, and the next generation of datacenters will bear that out.
• AMD Moves to Woo Overclockers 12 hours, 4 minutes ago
  
  System-tweaking enthusiasts are always looking to push their PCs farther, and AMD's new 790GX chipset is here to cash in.
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