BlackBerrys pose 'security risk' say UAE authorities

"The United States has condemned as "irresponsible" the leak of 90,000 military records, saying publication could threaten national security."

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Horizons Regional Council "would be remiss not to investigate alternatives" to Microsoft on the desktop, as it has a responsibility to the ratepayers that fund it to spend their money wisely, says William Gordon, IT team leader at the council.

Hello! I have ubuntu os, I want to know are there any Good "Internet security suit" for Ubuntu os? I'm doing online transactions using my pc so i don't like get any kind of risk.

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Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip [TPM] with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.

I am installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my computer and I get the following error: "the ext4 file system creation partition #2 of Serial ATA RAID nvidia_bjfefgci () failed"

how do I know - how confident can I be - that a new Linux distro does not contain malicious software?

I suppose some do!

Can I test?

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"With Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so far our first impressions aren't good. 10.04 booted to the "Install" prompt from a LiveCD in 4 minutes and 23 seconds, compared to a solid 40 seconds on Debian Squeeze ("testing" repository)"

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Inside Contactless, a manufacturer of near field communications (NFC) chips, is releasing "Open NFC," an open source version of its NFC protocol stack for mobile platforms including Linux and Android. Meanwhile, Juniper projects that NFC will play a growing role in a mobile-ticketing market that will reach 15 billion tickets by 2014.

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Linux will dominate mobile by 2015. That's according to a new report from technology analyst ABI Research.