AP - Two more Internet access providers have agreed to eliminate certain newsgroups that contain child pornography and purge their servers of child pornography Web sites in an agreement with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. -- read full article
Reuters - AT&T Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL
unit have agreed to purge their Internet servers of Web sites
that traffic child pornography, New York state's attorney
general said on Thursday. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The deal will make Sybase the world's largest multimedia messaging service interoperability provider. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - No high-end smartphone? No problem. Standard consumer-grade mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and other vendors are capable of syncing with Exchange servers, empowering mobile e-mail for nearly anyone who needs it. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The vulnerability is widespread and affects products made by numerous networking and software vendors beyond Microsoft. -- read full article
Reuters - The summer U.S. box office is
sizzling due to hits like "Hancock" but Hollywood leaders
focused on the chilling effects of industry change brought on
by labor strife, fragmentation and new technology at the annual
retreat of moguls this week.
NewsFactor - At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston this month, attendees received new details about the software giant's push into the realm of SaaS (software as a service). -- read full article
AP - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch plans to forgo making deals at this year's Allen & Co. media retreat, dampening the five-day event renowned as an incubator for big-time media and Web combinations.
PC World - A new service from IBM's AlphaWorks takes a collaborative approach to improving Web accessibility for the visually impaired. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Microsoft issued four bulletins that address nine vulnerabilities for July's Patch Tuesday, none of them critical. This is the first time since last year that none of the patches were rated critical. -- read full article
Reuters - Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co on
Tuesday reported a huge drop in quarterly net profit, hurt by
costs from the roll-out of its enterprise resource planning
system and lower sales in the Americas region. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Real Software and Veryant are upgrading development tools this week, with Real Software focused on its RealBasic platform and Veryant on Cobol. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The extensions used to connect Second life to the OpenSim server will be made available to the open source community and the OpenSim community. -- read full article
