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FreeBSD Unix Gets a Holiday Boost
FreeBSD.org on Tuesday offered Release Candidate 5.2 of its open-source Unix project. The group is prepping a final candidate due in January. A new test version of the FreeBSD open-source Unix operating system was announced on Tuesday by Scott Long of the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team. As a “release candidate,” Version 5.2 RC2 is not…
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Lucent Shareholders Propose Exec Pay Limits
The Associated Press reports that shareholders of Lucent Technologies’ stock have proposed limiting executive compensation and ending stock options and severance pay to key executives. The proposals were filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The annual shareholders’ meeting will be held Feb. 18 in Wilmington, Del. Click here to read the Associated Press…
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Signs of Recovery: Domain Names Once Again Fetch Top Dollar
News from Associated Press tells us the Internet is ringing in the new year with domain names that, once again, are netting seven figures. According to an AP report, a man in Florida sold the domain name, men.com, to a company called men.com LLC for $1.3 million. He paid $15,000 for it in 1997. The…
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Contract Watch: RFID and Voice over IP: Finally for Real?
Everybody’s writing and reading about the promise and pitfalls of RFID (radio frequency identification). But is anybody actually making money designing RFID solutions? The answer is yes. Just ask ESYNC Inc., a Toledo, Ohio-based solutions provider that offers RFID consulting and integration services. One of ESYNC’s major RFID customers is International Paper Co., which recently…
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Resellers Stew Over “Private Label” Trademark
SeekAmerica Networks, an affiliate of MCHost, which bills itself as “the leader of managed Private Label Reseller plan solutions”, is challenging other hosting providers who market themselves as private label resellers. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office approved SeekAmerica Network’s trademark application on Dec. 9 in a move that protects its use of the phrase,…
