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AP - A federal court on Friday dismissed a request by Qualcomm Inc. to delay an import ban on new cell phones containing the company's chips, which were were found to infringe patents held by Broadcom Corp. Link To Original Article

AP - Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years. Link To Original Article

AP - Taiwan's Acer Inc. said Friday it has filed a counterclaim in a U.S. court against a patent infringement lawsuit by Hewlett-Packard Co. Link To Original Article

Reuters - Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan on Friday outlined a new proposal to keep Dow Jones & Co Inc. out of Rupert Murdoch's hands, saying his plan can help boost its stock price to above $100. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - On Friday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster raised his target price for Apple stock to $205 on the basis of research that indicates that Apple is getting a healthy share of revenue from AT&T for every iPhone contract. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google. Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Holding focused meetings, also known as "sprints," over several days to develop, test, and document software is proving very helpful to the open-source Plone community in quickly adding more functionality to its content management software. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Earlier this week, Microsoft Windows watcher Winbeta.org posted an e-mail from the software giant's Windows Driver Kit team that ended up launching a media feeding frenzy on news sites around the world. According to Microsoft's e-mail to the site, the release of a beta version of the first service pack for Vista was available for download. Link To Original Article

You'll be able to zip around about 10 feet off the ground at a speed of 50 miles per hour. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. Link To Original Article

NewsFactor - Facebook, a social-networking site that has become an open development platform, announced Thursday that it purchased startup Parakey for an undisclosed amount. The company, started by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, has been creating products to unify and integrate desktop applications and the Web. Link To Original Article

Deadline for federal agencies' policies for dealing with data breaches approaches and it's not yet clear whether everyone will be done in time. Link To Original Article

PC World - Shipments of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.'s Eneloop ready-to-use rechargeable battery will soon hit 30 million thanks in part to the popularity of Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii games console. Link To Original Article

Hey guys, Just up front - This is not a show stopper problem for me. But, it does cause a little eye rolling from other admins who I am trying to get to start using this tool... I created a little script that pops up when an administrator shutsdown a server or logs out (gpedit.msc kicks it off) of a server that dumps what the admin did on the server into a centeralized database. Then we all can see what each other did on a box and everyone is familiar with the history of what is going on. The only wierd thing though is that one can't cut and paste from *the client desktop* to the servers "activity log form" (aka the script that kicks off) while the scri…

Hey guys, Just up front - This is not a show stopper problem for me. But, it does cause a little eye rolling from other admins who I am trying to get to start using this tool... I created a little script that pops up when an administrator shutsdown a server or logs out (gpedit.msc kicks it off) of a server that dumps what the admin did on the server into a centeralized database. Then we all can see what each other did on a box and everyone is familiar with the history of what is going on. The only wierd thing though is that one can't cut and paste from *the client desktop* to the servers "activity log form" (aka the script that kicks off) while …

I have some local asp.net web sites on a windows 2003 server that save cookies as pages are navigated. On the Windows 2003 server, cookies will not save. External web sites, Amazon, google, etc, save cookies to that server. Cookies are enabled for intranet and internet. Security for intranet sites are set to LOW. The ASP.NET configuration (2.0) is set to use cookies and Inproc session state. Any ideas why this does not work on a Windows 2003 server but does on Windows 2000 workstation and server, as well as Windows XP? thanks

I have some local asp.net web sites on a windows 2003 server that save cookies as pages are navigated. On the Windows 2003 server, cookies will not save. External web sites, Amazon, google, etc, save cookies to that server. Cookies are enabled for intranet and internet. Security for intranet sites are set to LOW. The ASP.NET configuration (2.0) is set to use cookies and Inproc session state. Any ideas why this does not work on a Windows 2003 server but does on Windows 2000 workstation and server, as well as Windows XP? thanks

I had done a couple of reboots yesterday to install a couple of USB devices and then needed to uninstall a printer and then reinstall it. I did another reboot and my XP Pro system with an Intel Dual core 2.4 Ghz machine only displays the first DOS screen, the one with the F button functions at the bottom of the screen. No matter which F buttons I try, it will not show me a boot screen or anything else. I just sits there and is frozen. I even tried rebooting with my XP CD in the drive and it wouldn't recognize or react to that either. What could have gone wrong? More importantly what other emergency boto methods are available?

My McFee Security, Will not stay on enabled? Does any-one know how to make it stay on. If so, please give me detailed instructions?? -- BJ Bobbitt-Warren

Microsoft has come up with a solution for those of you haveing problems with SLI in Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936710

Our high end SQL server cluster is maxed out, how else to expand? Will it help to move tables off of the cluster onto other clusters or will that just create processing bottleneck on the cluster running SQL server?

Windows Installer tries to start every time I open any program that is from Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc.. I have installed Firefox and do not get this problem. How can I find what program failed to completely load so I can stop Installer from running all the time and slowing the computer?

Windows Installer tries to start every time I open any program that is from Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc.. I have installed Firefox and do not get this problem. How can I find what program failed to completely load so I can stop Installer from running all the time and slowing the computer?

I'm having problems running some software including adobe pro 8 and Rosetta Stone. The patch tells me after I start to run it that that patch is not compatible with my system. However it should be. I have an Ultimate x64 bit OS system with all the other patches up to date. Interesting I tried for fun the 86x update for the same patch and it got the same error. Maybe Vista thinks I have a MAC.... Any fixes for this?? EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com

Too often I'll click the "Safely Remove Hardware" button to unmount a USB drive and then realize I forgot something. I'll then have to unplug it and plug it back in (or for my backup drive, turn it off, wait a few seconds and turn it back on) again to get Windows to re-mount it. Is there a simple way to get Windows to re-mount the drive without unplugging it? The same question applies to my digital camera. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com

I am receiving the following error when Defender attempts to run a scan. "Windows Defender encountered an error: 0x8050800c. An unexpected problem occurred. Install any available updates, and then try to start the program again. For information on installing updates, see Help and Support." Current Info: Windows Defender Version: 1.1.1505.0 Engine Version: 1.1.2704.0 Definition Version: 1.20.2743.1 This is a legit, activated, Vista Ultimate, system is a DELL GX620, running Office 2007 and the latest VMWare Workstation. No other software installed. I called MS support and went round and round for many hours over several days trying to fix this issue…