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You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz We started the week with Microsoft calling off the Yahoo deal (or maybe not). Then Grand Theft Auto stole the spotlight with its record-breaking sales. Along the way, we have the Webby Awards, big settlements for movie piracy, and candidates seeking to save us from the evils of Second Life. We cover it all in this week's quiz. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Ready to test your news know-how? Then begin.
May 10, 2008 6:00 am PT
Spinning off fabs would be risky for AMD, analysts say Recent comments from AMD about controlling manufacturing costs have led to speculation that the company may divest its chip fabrication plants, but some analysts say that wouldn't make sense for AMD. May 9, 2008 3:20 pm PT
Hackers find a new place to hide rootkits Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. May 9, 2008 3:08 pm PT
Top 10: Microsoft-Yahoo, XP SP3 woes, Sprint-Clearwire WiMax deal News from and about Microsoft dominated this week from start to finish. But the dire situation caused by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, where the ruling junta cares more about oppression and domination than early warning systems or getting aid to people, tended to put everything else into perspective. May 9, 2008 2:45 pm PT
Easing network congestion caused by virtual servers Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support VMs (virtual machines) have to be more powerful. Less obviously, they also need better I/O capability than standalone machines, which means more cabling to connect the virtual machines to the network switch and more switch ports to accommodate the increased number of virtual machines contending for the network's resources. May 9, 2008 11:27 am PT
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux Ian Murdock is vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Debian Linux distribution and CTO at the Linux Foundation. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Murdock at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week to talk about open source and how Sun, with its OpenSolaris version of the Solaris Unix platform, will fare in the open-source arena versus Linux.
May 9, 2008 10:53 am PT
Microsoft to appeal $1.3 billion EU fine Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday. May 9, 2008 9:46 am PT
Tech company CEO compensation raises ire Executive compensation has been a hot-button issue for several years, and the final crop of fiscal year 2007 proxy statements filed in March and April did little to quell the cry for reform from industry watchdogs, activist shareholders, and the general public. May 9, 2008 8:37 am PT
Microsoft talks up using printers to make drugs In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model of health care, a top Microsoft executive said Friday. May 9, 2008 8:15 am PT
Google's Street View snaps of Paris may result in lawsuits Google has begun scanning the streets of Paris, gathering data for its Street View service, which adds street-level photography to the satellite views offered by Google Maps. The search company will gather a wealth of data from the project but, thanks to France's strict privacy laws, it may also pick up a few lawsuits on the way if it chooses to publish the photos unedited. May 9, 2008 7:58 am PT
Apple slammed on climate change Apple is once again being pilloried on the strength of its green credentials, taking last place among computer firms rated within a recent ClimateCounts survey on climate friendliness. May 9, 2008 7:16 am PT
Vista as insecure as Windows 2000 Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far less common. May 9, 2008 7:02 am PT
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