Kenya BPO Society Lobbies for License Fee Reduction

The Kenya Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Society has urged the Communication Commission of Kenya to reduce the annual license fee for BPO businesses. The group wants the fee lower from 100,000 Kenyan shillings (US$1,516) to 10,000 shillings in order to attract more investors.

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Kaminsky flaw prompts DNS server overhaul

Cache poisoning sends Nominum back to drawing board.

One of the companies most at risk from the notorious DNS cache poisoning vulnerability has overhauled security in the latest release of its DNS server software in what looks like a major code rethink.

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Sony Cyber-shot T500 Announced at IFA 2008

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A 10MP sensor, 3inch LCD screen are just some of its features Read more

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Atom take-up held back by testing bottleneck

And no quick fix on horizon.

Intel has admitted it is struggling to meet demand for its Atom processor from PC manufacturers keen for more chips to plug into small, portable laptops (netbooks).

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Qualcomm slapped with contempt ruling over injunction

Shows 'lack of respect' for court.

A US federal judge has found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction issued preventing the chip maker from selling certain products that rely on patented Broadcom technology.

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Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google Woes

This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country anxiously watching with sharp memories of Hurricane Katrina, which hit that coast and devastated New Orleans on Aug. 29 three years ago. Also in the news were woes with an Oracle forum upgrade and Google offering credit to paying customers of its online Apps suite, to compensate for three Gmail outages earlier this month.

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Critics Question Comcast Broadband Caps

Comcast's decision to put a 250-gigabyte cap on monthly bandwidth use for its residential customers may look like a generous number, but some critics suggested the cap may cause problems for users in the future.

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Continuent stack to support databases

Tungsten shows its mettle.

The company has published code for Tungsten Replicator, a master-slave replication tool for MySQL, wrote Continuent CTO Robert Hodges in a blog post. Master-slave replication sees a "master" database sync up with a number of "slaves," allowing a workload to be scaled out.

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First Modular Multi-touch LCD

Microsoft had us mesmerized with Surface -- but look out for the new modular multi-touch LCDs

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