‘What Is the Real Value of Copyright?’ Q&A With BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker “Users pay for things that are both valuable and scarce. Content is valuable, but not scarce on the Internet.

Android Sales Dominate U.S. Market in Third Quarter U.S.

A Database Administrator Disconnect Over Security Duties A new set of survey results out this week showed that even as many DBAs are ready to assume the mantle of security practices in their daily duties, there still remains a communication disconnect between these data managers and the security and executive leadership ultimately responsible for data security across an organization. The survey conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Application Security Inc. queried over 750 members of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS)

Oracle-SAP Trial: Oracle Damage Expert Lands On $1.66 billion Oracle’s damage claims are dwindling just as fast as Oracle executives can talk them up. Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled late Monday night to exclude evidence from Oracle that would, in theory, outline potential lost profits from selling PeopleSoft and Siebel customers other Oracle products. On Tuesday Oracle’s damage expert, Paul Meyer, carefully outlined his estimation of what SAP should pay Oracle: $1.66 billion

Maximizing server uptime: Best practices In an IT world full of elusive goals, there’s probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime. Keeping servers alive and awake, or at least ready to instantly spring into action whenever needed, is an ambition close to the heart of virtually all data center leaders

‘Really?’ Only 40,000 Phone 7 Devices Sold the First Day? First-day sales of 40,000 Windows Phone 7 devices. That’s the estimate from a leading financial site, which, if true, could represent a relatively weak U.S

The one tool all modern Windows admins still require I still have my old DOS boot floppy disk, which I used for so many installations of Windows 95 and Windows NT.

Why I’m returning my Windows Phone 7 smartphone When I first saw the demos of Windows Phone 7, I was psyched. My iPhone is getting long in the tooth, and I was ready for a change. The Windows Phone 7 UI looked good

Beware of tests that use simulated data to validate product performance, researchers warn Testing information-assurance products against simulated data may not be worth much depending on how closely the simulation approximates real data, researchers told attendees at an IEEE conference on homeland security. Info-assurance products such as anomaly detectors check only a certain set of characteristics within the data, and if those characteristics arent accurately simulated, the results will lack validity, says John DeVale, a researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab who presented the research at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security.

Taking Cybersecurity Lessons To The Bank Banks are under attack — not so much from gun-toting bank robbers, but from sophisticated cybercriminals. Using programs such as ZeuS to compromise customers’ PCs and siphon money from their bank accounts, cybercriminals stole or attempted to steal nearly $100 million in the first three quarters of 2009, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.