Dryad: Programming the Datacenter
The Dryad project from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley makes it easier for programmers to make distributed applications analyze data concurrently over large-scale systems.
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Microsoft Makes Key Hire in Researcher Danah Boyd
Microsoft Research has hired social-network researcher danah boyd. Boyd, who spells her own name with lower-case letters, is probably the most high-profile academic in the world focused on the emerging Web and its social consequences.
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Cisco Buys WiMax Startup
(PC World)
PC World - Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Navini Networks Inc., a developer of WiMax broadband wireless access systems.
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Fake CNN news items malware campaign spreading rapidly
A currently active malware campaign taking advantage of a known social engineering tactic, namely, to entice the spammed user into clicking on a site with a fake news item in order to trick them into installing a fake Flash player (flashupdate.exe; get_flash_update.exe and watchmovie.mpg.exe), was massively spammed last night, with...
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