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Nasdaq CIO confirms move to open-source Instinet apps – Computerworld
“Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.’s CIO said last week that the exchange will scrap its proprietary SuperMontage order entry and execution system in favor of an open-source system from electronic broker Instinet Group Inc., which Nasdaq agreed to acquire last month.“

Creative Commons Expands Internationally & Restructures Its Key Management Team
“Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works free to share and build upon, today announced the launch of Creative Commons International. Incorporated in the UK as a nonprofit organization, Creative Commons International will provide support to the global network of collaboration partners of Creative Commons who have taken on the responsibility of translating the Creative Commons licenses.“

Latest Sober worm sends German spam – Computerworld
“E-mail users perplexed by the barrage of German-language spam waiting in their in-boxes this morning can blame the latest version of the Sober mass-mailing worm, which began rapidly spreading over the weekend.

Sober.q uses both German- and English-language messages to direct recipients to Web sites with right-wing German nationalistic content, according to an advisory from e-mail security company MX Logic Inc. in Englewood, Colo. One of the URLs points to the Web site of the right-wing German National Democratic Party, the security firm said.“

I’ve seen several of these from different zombies hit CALI’s server and picked up a couple from Emory.

IBM to employees: blog on | News.blog | CNET News.com
“IBM on Monday issued a company policy on blogging and encouraged its employees to take part.

The guidelines and policy were posted by long-time IBM blogger James Snell, a member of the company’s software standards strategy group, as well as by Ed Brill, an executive at IBM’s Lotus division.“

Picked this up via Scripting News. Something to keep an eye on.

IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 User Agent String
“IE7 running on Longhorn will send the following User-Agent header: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)“

Well, now I’ll know how to identify it when I see it. The IE6 UA string is something like: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) when the request is made from XP.

IBM backs Firefox in-house | Tech News on ZDNet
“IBM is encouraging its employees to use Firefox, aiding the open-source Web browser’s quest to chip away at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Firefox is already used by about 10 percent of IBM’s staff, or about 30,000 people. Starting Friday, IBM workers can download the browser from internal servers and get support from the company’s help desk staff.“

Internet Week > Google Maps finds whorehouses > Quickie Google Search Lays Out “Brothels” > May 12, 2005
“What do the University of Oregon’s history department in Eugene, Ore.; the Happy Ending bar in Manhattan; and the Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D. have in common?

According to Google Maps, the for-free location and driving instructions service that the San Francisco-based search giant operates, all are identified as houses of ill repute.“

Better try this one out while it lasts as I smell a googleprank here.

Slashdot | Google Acquires Dodgeball
“Dodgeball.com, a service that uses mobile phones to help people meet up with friends who are in the same location, said on its website on Wednesday that it has been bought by Web search leader Google Inc. Also available on the official site is a Q&A about the deal.” From the article: “As a two-person team, Alex and I have taken dodgeball about a far as we can alone. Since we finished grad school, we’ve been trying to figure out how to grow dodgeball and make it a better service along the way. We talked to a lot of different angel investors and venture capitalists, but no one really ‘got’ what we were doing – that is until we met Google.“