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Dell is the number one PC maker, according to research firm Gartner. The company is also a leading maker of computer servers. In fact, Dell was the second-leading server vendor in terms of units shipped last year, notching a 28 percent year-over-year sales gain to 276,000 units. The company's server...
The Liberty Alliance has locked up an open standard for federated identity management with new specifications that let companies share login and other information as they deploy and use Web services. Touting accompanying policy recommendations in a "best practices" guide, the alliance -- a consortiu...
Mobile phone giant Nokia said it is investigating and responding to a security breach that allows users to play games for its recently released N-Gage handheld on other mobile devices, including at least one device from another manufacturer. The Finnish company made the announcement following the In...
While some PC makers talk a good consumer electronics strategy, Gateway is turning talk into products. That's what Gateway executive vice president Scott Edwards told TechNewsWorld in an exclusive interview following a New York City press conference where the computer maker with the bovine brand int...
Electronics and music giant Sony is rolling out a new CD copy-protection technology that will let the company sell music on multiformat CDs with additional content that can be accessed through PCs. The company said that in response to the digital piracy caused by copying or "ripping" CDs into digita...
Microsoft has launched Systems Management Server 2003 at the Microsoft IT Forum 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark. For those unfamiliar with the software, Systems Management Server 2003 -- which technically is change-management software designed specifically for Windows -- automates patch deployment, appl...
Eastern Ontario voters today were allowed to vote by Internet or telephone -- but not by paper ballot -- in what is being called the first all-electronic election of North America. Despite e-voting security issues in the United States that have pitted some researchers, publishers and ISPs against Di...
Not to be ignored in the wake of several big online music announcements made over the course of the past few weeks, RealNetworks has announced a partnership with Intel that could help move RealNetworks' on-demand music service -- called Rhapsody -- from the office into the living room. While Apple's...
Continuing a stream of activity surrounding newer, simpler security for remote access to corporate networks, Cisco has announced it will support Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology in its widely used VPN 3000 Series concentrators. Cisco's announcement to include the cl...
While I was at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference last month, I finished Merrill R. Chapman's book In Search of Stupidity. In the book, from the perspective of an insider, he lays out the mistakes other companies have made to contribute inadvertently to the dominance of Microsoft. While ...
Software constantly evolves, and change often sparks controversy. Such is the case with Zip, a popular file-compression technology that almost every computer user has run into at one time or another. One reason why the technology, developed back in 1986, has gained such widespread acceptance is that...
Virus writers reportedly are talking tough about Microsoft's bounty offered in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of major malware authors, downplaying its effectiveness and calling it just a publicity stunt. Security experts differed on the likely effectiveness of Microso...
In a technology-industry version of the battle of the bands, Apple has come out swinging against a reborn, legitimate Napster, boasting that the iTunes Music Store has sold five times the number of songs Napster did in the challenger's first week of business. The original, free Napster song-swapping...
A research paper posted online warns of holes in the latest WiFi (or 802.11) wireless cryptography protocol and outlines how WiFi Protected Access (WPA) can be compromised using a traditional network assault known as a dictionary attack. The paper, written by TruSecure's ICSA Labs senior technical d...
An outfit that has exploited a networking feature in Microsoft Windows to send pop-up ads to consumers' computers as frequently as one every 10 minutes has been slapped with a temporary restraining order to halt the practice, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced at a press conference in Wash...
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