Roi Carthy writes, "Enter WorkLight, an Israeli startup with $17M in its war chest whose mission is to assist enterprises to get their services working in places where their users and customers are actually frequenting online."
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Michael Krigsman reports on a FAA computer failure in Atlanta which has caused a slowing in air traffic patterns throughout the United States. The processes have been relocated to a facility that is similar but generally only cares for West coast flights.
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"AT&T recently stopped offering its CallVantage VoIP service to new subscribers. With no official announcement, online shoppers for the service were greeted with a message thanking would-be customers..."
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Paul Murphy discusses the death of e-voting - an extremely short-lived technology which has been largely shelf in the United States and around the world.
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Thomas Claburn writes, ""Ubiquity treats extending the browser like writing Web sites," explains Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla Labs, in a blog post. "... With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.""
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"The number of personal information leaks reported in the US this year have already exceeded the total amount in all of 2007, San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center..."
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Dan Goodin writes, "The attacks appear to use stolen SSH keys to take hold of a targeted machine and then gain root access by exploiting weaknesses in the kernel. The attacks then install a rootkit known as Phalanx2, which scours the newly infected system for additional SSH keys. There's a viral aspect to this attack. As new SSH keys are stolen, new machines are potentially vulnerable to attack."
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