Monthly Archives: March 2004

A French com­puter secu­rity hacker liv­ing in Bostoh has been indicted in France for expos­ing the flaws in a French company’s anti-virus offering.

IBM is look­ing to end the SCO law­suit by request­ing the US Dis­trict Court to enter a declara­tory judge­ment in its favor. Legal experts believe this to be a sign that IBM is con­fi­dent it will prevail.

What a sur­prise, Bill Gates claims hard­ware will be nearly free in 10 years, but soft­ware will still be expen­sive. I won­der why, could it be because Microsoft is a, gasp, soft­ware company?

Two col­lege pro­fes­sors have just pub­lished a study show­ing that file-sharing offers no threat to music sales. In fact, they con­cluded that file shar­ing actu­ally increases CD sales for hot albums that sell more than 600,000 copies.

But on a pos­i­tive local note, the 911 cen­ter is adding E911 capa­bil­ity, which will allow them to locate cell phone callers (see my older post about E911, below). They’ll also have live video of major traf­fic areas, just like … Read More →

Just in case you thought Rochester pol­i­tics was all about school nurses, there’s always the down­town bus ter­mi­nal plan which has got­ten bad reviews in an audit by the state comp­trol­ler. You see, the plan is sup­ported by the Republican-controlled … Read More →