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Boeing Dreamliner exposed to passenger hacking

The US Federal Aviation Administration has revealed it fears that Boeing's 787 Dreamliner computer systems could be hacked by passengers. Read more »

Did Wi-Fi interference cause Boeing 777 crash?

The recent BA038 crash-landing at Heathrow airport may have been caused by interference from wireless networks, which affected the aircraft's electronically controlled power and automated flight systems. Read more »

Google's releases sticky solution for Web sites

Google's hosted search service for business users has been extended worldwide for the first time, promising to make Web sites stickier by improving the ability for viewers to navigate the site. Read more »

IBM not re-entering PC world with Linux machine

The company says it is not getting back into the PC market, despite selling 'Microsoft-free' PCs, running Linux and OpenOffice, in eastern Europe Read more »

BEA lights US$87.5m fire under its SOA ambitions

Fuego has been acquired to give BEA's offerings a BPM boost. Read more »

BEA Systems acquires Fuego

BEA Systems announced on Wednesday that it bought business process management software maker Fuego for US$87.5 million in cash. Read more »

Sun CTO: 'The world needs only five computers'

Industry lore likely is wrong to attribute to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson the famous misjudgment that there's a world market for five computers. But Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually. Read more »

Flash to jump beyond the browser

Adobe Systems is working on software meant to blur the line between the Web and desktop PCs. Read more »

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Developer spotlight: Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill is an engineer at Sun Microsystems responsible for the invention of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 that can identify bottlenecks and increase system performance. Read more »

Web services group focuses on security

A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: security. Read more »

Keeping the door open...and shut

A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »

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  • Staff A first look at Windows 7 beta

    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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