Geekgal writes "Red Hat has slammed the door shut on any possibility of entering into a
patent protection deal similar to the one Microsoft recently announced with Novell, eWeek
is … 
Embarrassed UTA Alumnus writes "My former college, the University of Texas at Arlington,
just made the now-all-to-common announcement that student data — including Social
Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grades, and … 
… From the article: "Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the
kind you bake, but the digital kind — those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC … 
An anonymous reader writes, "According to silicon.com, Marks & Spencer — a
department store as quintessentially British as tea & cake — is so pleased with its
trial of RFID … 
An anonymous reader writes "There's a federal case in the Northern District of California
where copyright for open source is being challenged. The free software project JMRI
discovered that a … 