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Programmers behind the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone demand that its founder share project control–or maybe they’ll leave.

However, Qi Lu acknowledges that profits will come only if the company can gain share, even beyond what it will get in the Yahoo deal.

A trio of programmers and engineers say they can bypass the security mechanisms of the city’s electronic parking meters and create “prepaid” cards with a value of $999.99.

Phones that support MMS on GSM networks are vulnerable to new SMS spoofing attacks, researchers say at Black Hat.

Enterprise customers are thinking shorter-term and aren’t signing up for new licenses at a rapid clip. On the bright side,deferred revenue is increasing.

We’re ready for contextual marketing – the next phase of marketing techniques that requires more detailed information to track customers over a lifetime rather than a single session, says John Squire of Coremetrics. Commentary – Customers and prospects have taken control of the…

Novell demonstrated an advanced prototype of its Cloud Security Service, which is due for release to enterprise organisations as a product early in 2010. Novell has unveiled a cloud-computing identity and access management service, designed to extend corporate security policies to hosted facilities. On Wednesday, Novell…

Australian Post claims the batteries are dangerous and will only deliver them by road – but only if they are lithium-ion and rated for 2 grams, 100-Watt-hours or under. Australia Post will no longer be accepting packages that contain lithium batteries by air. The batteries…

AP – Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company’s co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.

AP – Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to improve Yahoo Inc. investors’ opinions of the companies’ search-advertising partnership.