Lawmakers eye bill to make P2P file-sharing safer
The House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold a markup hearing Wednesday on a bill designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software.
How to share web databases
There are a number of Web services that allow you to collaborate on tabular or database data using nothing other than your browser. You can even upload your desktop spreadsheet to get started. I look at four such services.
File sharing: Send large files without emailing them
There are various alternatives to attaching large files in an email message, and I review some of the services that are out there and their limitations.
Using Box.net for online storage
Box.net used to be just an online file storage service, but lately it has become this Swiss Army Knife of integrated Web services that they call OpenBox. Here are just a few of the more interesting things that you can do with the service.
Universities Cope with New Anti-Piracy Requirement
David Reis, director of IT security and policy at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has been on what he calls a "nine-month journey" to figure out exactly how he's going to make sure his school doesn't break the law -- even though they were never in trouble in the first place.
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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David Strom
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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