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Submission + - Time Warner to Spin off AOL

Submitted by ausekilis on Thursday May 28, 2009 @04:41PM

ausekilis writes: Ars Technica is running a story that Time Warner will spin off AOL. The interesting part of the story is that both AOL's CEO and Time Warners CEO said effectively the same thing, that AOL will be better off as an independent unit, as opposed to "a cog in the Time Warner wheel". Interesting to note that when they originally merged, the idea was for AOL to be a one-stop shop for all your internet goods. Makes you wonder that if Time Warner had invested in AOL as an exclusive media outlet for movies, TV, music, etc... if AOL would have regained some speed and become the prominent household name it once was, instead of that company that sent us all the free coasters.

Submission + - Dell says Windows 7 pricing may be a 'problem'

Submitted by ausekilis on Monday May 18, 2009 @04:25PM

ausekilis writes: On Tom's Hardware is a brief article concerning the price for the upcoming Windows 7

The director of product management for Dell's business client product group, Darrel Ward, thinks that the price for the upcoming Windows 7 operating system may potentially be an obstacle for early adopters.

Considering Dell sells Ubuntu-equipped Inspiron 15n for ~$350, and Vista Equipped Inspiron 15 for ~$399, and "If there's one thing that may influence adoption, make things slower or cause customers to pause, it's that generally the ASPs (average selling price) of the operating systems are higher than they were for Vista and XP", it makes you wonder exactly what they hidden "Windows 7 fee" will be on machines later.

Let the flames begin.

Submission + - 1000s of Vulnerabilities Detected In FAAs Apps

Submitted by ausekilis on Monday May 11, 2009 @04:45PM

ausekilis writes: A government audit has pinpointed more than 3,800 vulnerabilities — 763 of which are high-risk — in the Federal Aviation Administration's Web-based air traffic control system applications, including some that could potentially put air travel at risk.
The report continues...
And the FAA's Air Traffic Organization, which heads up ATC operations, received more than 800 security incident alerts in fiscal 2008, but still had not fixed 17 percent of the flaws that caused them, "including critical incidents in which hackers may have taken over control of ATO computers," the report says.

Source: DarkReading

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