Stories by: Paul McNamara

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    Torvalds talks about his brand new blog 09/10/2008 09:25:00

    We tend to think that everybody who's anybody in the tech world has a blog, right? Well, Linus Torvalds didn't have a blog, at least not until dipping his toe into the waters with this one -- "Linus' Blog" -- which launched last Thursday.
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    Almost half of Google products -- including 4-year-old Gmail -- remain in beta: Why? 26/09/2008 09:40:00

    The question has been kicked around by the technology press for some time now: Why does Google keep products in beta for so long?
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    Fooling Google News is this easy 13/08/2008 10:31:06

    I did it yesterday. Not that I was trying, mind you -- honestly, I wasn't. I did, however, predict it would happen, so I'm going to take this opportunity to gloat about that.
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    Firewall pioneer wanted a 'super-secure' blogging service ... so he's built his own 07/08/2008 10:29:22

    Bill Cheswick -- best known for writing "Firewalls and Internet Security" in 1994 and his earlier work at Bell Labs -- doesn't want to let commercial blogging software within hacking distance of his hardened Web server. A self-described Apple fanboy, Cheswick does want to host his own blogs, however, one about his job as lead member of the technical staff at AT&T Research and another about personal stuff, "if I can tell the difference."
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    Is Google News scapegoating technology to cover up its inherent flaw? 26/06/2008 09:57:09

    Well, the company is citing a technical problem as the reason that the Google News front page was an hour later than other online media outlets in reporting the death of NBC's Tim Russert.
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    The real sticking point with Microsoft/Yahoo! 27/05/2008 08:29:49

    Microsoft's desperate struggle to acquire all or part of Yahoo! has gotten hung up not on disagreement over a fair price for the latter's online advertising operations, sources say, but rather the value of Yahoo!'s iconic exclamation point.
 
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