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Tomorrowland: Apple Chief Set for Disney Role

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By LAURA M. HOLSON and JOHN MARKOFF Published: January 20, 2006 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 - Steven P. Jobs could be considered the Walt Disney of his era, breathing new life into animated movies with hits like "The Incredibles" and "Toy Story," and reinventing Apple Computer as a media darling with its popular iPod.

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Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar, via Associated Press Pixar, the creator of "Finding Nemo," teamed up with the Walt Disney Company, which distributed the animated movie. Now Mr. Jobs is in negotiations to join forces with the Walt Disney Company itself.

A deal would involve the sale of Mr. Jobs's Pixar Animation Studios for more than $6.8 billion to Disney, according to three people apprised of the negotiations. The sale, whose terms are still being negotiated, would make Mr. Jobs a major shareholder and director at Disney, which has been trying to find its footing in the changing world of animation.

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Homeland Security helps secure open-source code By Joris Evers, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: January 10, 2006, 5:05 PM PT • Forward in • EMAIL • Format for • PRINT • ZDNet Tags: Open source Security Federal government Software engineering/development Symantec Corp

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open-source software. Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24 million in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open-source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for source code analysis, representatives for the three grant recipients told CNET News.com. The Homeland Security Department grant will be paid over a three-year period, with $841,276 going to Stanford, $297,000 to Coverity and $100,000 to Symantec, according to San Francisco-based technology provider Coverity, which plans to announce the award publicly on Wednesday.

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The list of open-source projects that Stanford and Coverity plan to check for security bugs includes Apache, BIND, Ethereal, KDE, Linux, Firefox, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSL and MySQL, Coverity said.

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