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Is Linux more secure than Windows? That's the question Forrester Research senior analyst Laura Koetzle attempted to answer in a recent report on the subject, but her analysis may be pouring gasoline on an already flaming debate. Koetzle's study compares security for Windows and four major Linux prov...
By making final chip designs more flexible and opening its Power processor architecture to more partners and developers, IBM is pushing its microprocessor technology to the widening category of electronic devices that require chip customization. Calling it an "unprecedented step," IBM outlined its p...
Want to download pop songs in MP3 format with impunity and without fear of prosecution? Move to Canada. The refuge for Vietnam War draft dodgers of the 1970s is now an asylum for intellectual-property pirates. A federal court judge in Canada this week ruled that swapping songs on the Internet for "p...
In a bizarre twist of fate for the burgeoning Linux community, the U.S. Department of Justice has banned Linux software from the United States. The ruling comes after Darl McBride, CEO of SCO Group, and Linus Torvalds, original developer of the Linux kernel, agreed to arm wrestle over the disputed c...
A new study released this week by a Nobel Prize-winning economist dispels doubts raised by demagogic politicians on the campaign trail -- and in Congress -- about the impact of outsourcing on the U.S. economy, stating that outsourcing actually increases jobs and pay for IT workers. The report was re...
Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft released previews of the software toward the end of last year. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company'...
Instant messaging has become the latest employee productivity tool. A customer-service representative can use it to answer a customer inquiry, whereas a salesperson can inform a busy vice president about a new account. In fact, research firm Gartner estimates 70 percent of corporate employees rely o...
Marking an industry first, Internet search giant Google has rolled out several new features: a search engine that uses individuals' personal preferences to tailor results; a service that allows users to receive results by daily or weekly e-mail; and an enhanced interface for its sites. After creatin...
Contrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales, unlicensed downloading and Internet file-sharing of copyrighted music has no effect on CD sales, acc...
A bill to criminalize file-sharing on the Internet is moving rapidly through the U.S. Congress. The measure -- which last week was just a draft proposal circulating among members of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property -- has been scheduled ...
Promising a more integrated and economical development environment, Microsoft has released a beta of its newest embedded operating system (OS), Windows CE 5.0, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. "Within CE, Microsoft has not been number one," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio...
At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) last week, Microsoft raised the bar on what has become one of the more interesting battles in the industry. Actually, it would be more accurate to say Microsoft has taken the gloves off and now -- really -- is going after the entertainment segment. A few month...
It's bad enough when virus writers can download their worm code of choice and relatively simply unleash a new variant on the Internet, but Friday showed something even worse: Virtually zero effort is needed to entice people to open attachments. So far, the non-sophisticated, no-subject, no-text Bagl...
After failing to reach an agreement to renew technology licensing deals, computing giant Hewlett-Packard has filed suit against Gateway in U.S. District Court in San Diego, near Gateway's Poway headquarters. HP is claiming that Gateway, which recently acquired budget PC maker eMachines, is infringin...
Let's do some arithmetic. Multiply the number of different hardware platforms in current use by the number of operating systems that have a reasonably large user base. Subtract the systems that simply won't work together. Multiply the result by the number of applications, servers and databases used ...
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