The first public draft of GNU General Public License 3.0 will be released at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, and open-source software advocates are hoping that effective provisions for software patents as well as GPL compatibility with other licenses will be prominent in the draft. Read More...   Category: Open Source

America Online Inc. on Friday said it had partnered with the Game Show Network LLC to create a blackjack site for AOL.com, the latest addition in AOL's growing number of casino games.
 
The new "blackjack hub" is expected to launch in April and offer free playing of blackjack, tips from

Symantec on Thursday disputed the claim by researchers who said it was using a rootkit to hide files from users.

The fracas stems from a long-standing practice in Symantec's Norton SystemWorks suite to cloak a special directory. The SystemWorks feature -- which harks back to SystemWorks' predecessor, Norton Utilities, a popular utility

The Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu Ltd. said it will produce 1.8-inch hard-disk drives for portable music players, video cameras and notebooks PCs.

To accelerate development, Fujitsu said it will collaborate with Cornice Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).

Fujitsu said Friday (Jan. 13) its hard-disk drive strategy calls for it to become the

Much of Apple Computer’s sales of its Mac Mini desktop system came about because of its cute appearance and small size. PC manufacturers knew that Apple was on to something and AOpen was the first vendor to market something similar—so similar in fact to the Mac Mini that casual users will be hard pressed

Verizon Wireless Friday launched a service that enables subscribers who use a special phone to get their e-mail in more than 50 countries.

The cellular operator's GlobalEMail service works with the Samsung i830 phone it launched last week. That phone works both on Verizon's CDMA network in the U.S. and on GSM

Two Hollywood video game store owners and a third man who were charged in December for allegedly pirating video games and installing them on modified Microsoft Corp. Xbox consoles were indicted on Thursday, according to the United States Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

Jason Jones, 34, of Los Angeles, a co-owner of

The Windows operating system expert who exposed Sony BMG Music Entertainment's use of "rootkit" cloaking techniques last year is now criticizing security vendors Symantec and Kaspersky Lab for shipping software that works in a similar manner.
 
Mark Russinovich, chief software architect with systems software company Winternals Software, says that the techniques

Asia is the world's fastest growing regional broadband market, with carriers in five countries aggressively deploying fiber to the home and neighborhood (FTTX) infrastructures, according to new research from In-Stat.

In China, Japan and South Korea, in particular, carriers are finding that fiber to the home and neighborhood is an efficient and

Two major players in the biometric identity, Viisage Technology and Identix, announced Thursday that they will merge.
The complex transaction will result in the creation of a dominant biometric ID platform and a company with a new name--to be released later--and a new headquarters in Stamford, Conn.

Viisage will contribute