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Legal and medical professionals are often criticized for being way behind the times in terms of thetechnologies they use in their offices. It seems as though any doctor's or lawyer's office you enter hasreams of papers and mountains of file cabinets taking up space just waiting to be lost, stolen ordestroyed in a disaster Based on trends with softw...
Today's online shoppers may be more cautious than they were two years ago. Some are waiting up to 35 hours before completing a shopping cart transaction A study of consumers' Internet buying habits suggests that online merchants face stiffer competition and new hurdles in closing sales over the Web....
Information security firm OpenLogic on Wednesday began letting users download its Discovery application, a free software tool that scans Windows, Linux and Solaris machines for all installed open source software OpenLogic Discovery identifies more than 5,000 versions of the top 900 open source packages used by enterprises by marking open source fin...
Letting employees have unbridled access to free, consumer-level instant messaging applications running on their workplace computers is a security disaster waiting to happen Instant messaging applications are easy targets for hackers taking advantage of vulnerabilities. It is critical for businesses to pay attention to their employees' use of instan...
PHP (hypertext preprocessor) developer Zend Technologies announced Monday the release of version 1.0 of Zend Framework, an open source application framework for PHP Zend Framework 1.0, pre-released in beta versions since last year, is the result of collaboration from230 contributors comprised of individual developers and company-sponsored committer...
Looking for a franchise opportunity? The World Wide Web is overflowing with Internet-based businesses for sale An online search of the term "Internet franchising" will reveal dozens of Web sites promising both online business and franchise opportunities in a variety of Internet-based companies. The listings go on and on. They include the promise of...
Security firm Trend Micro has released TrendProtect, a free browser plug-in that alerts computer users to unsafe Web sites that contain unwanted content and hidden threats The free download is designed to help consumers and business Web surfers avoid an alarming number of Web sites infected with malware, said Trend Micro officials. The malware inst...
Consumer-grade instant messaging applications such as Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Windows Live Messenger can become significant security holes when used by workers on corporate networks Instant messaging applications are easy targets for hackers taking advantage of vulnerabilities. It is critical for businesses to pay attention...
Untangle launched Tuesday an open source network gateway platform to stop spam, spyware and virus attacks for small and medium-sized businesses The Untangle Gateway Platform is based on technology that virtualizes the network stream. It is built around more than 30 best-of-breed, open source projects -- including SpamAssasin, ClamAV and Snort -- to...
Systems management appliances provider Kace announced on Monday the integration of the recently acquired AppDeploy Live service with its Kbox Systems Management Appliances The launch provides system administrators with access to two global communities of information to speed day-to-day maintenance tasks and the deployment of software throughout a n...
A sophisticated group of spammers has been targeting since late May high-salaried workers at selective corporations in a spam attack using e-mail disguised as messages from the Better Business Bureau (BBB), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) A fourth variation of the spam attack surfaced the second week of Jun...
Key kernel developers and more than 230 Linux leaders participated last week in the first Collaboration Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation to discuss solutions for the most pressing issues facing greater Linux adoption The nonprofit Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux -- formed in February as a merger of The Free Stan...
Small businesses, beware. Can your business survive a natural disaster? Chances are against your survival if you do not have a recovery and continuity plan in place A national survey conducted by custom market information companyTNSInfo reveals that many small businesses would not survive a natural disaster because they lack adequate, if any, disas...
Rochester, N.Y.-based Performance Technologies announced Tuesday additions to its NexusWare Linux-based operating system and development environment to include support for a wide range of single board computer hardware offerings The release of NexusWare version 12 expands Linux support to include both x86 and PowerPC processor architectures. The ad...
People who use popular file-sharing software at home, in school and in the workplace to download music and videos are likely to expose their own personal and corporate data stored on their computers' hard drives The ability of P2P (peer-to-peer) software to hunt for and grab personal and corporate information is now raising concerns by government a...
An innovative three-dimensional search program puts a unique spin on Internet searching. All results are displayed in a 3-D space that users can navigate and manipulate SpaceTime presents all search results, shopping windows and browsing activity in a continuous 3-D stack that merges results to save time and improve browsing efficiency....
Red Hat's Fedora Project has released the Fedora 7 version of the Linuxoperating system, which features a new build capacity allowing for the creation ofcustom appliances to meet individual needs Fedora 7 offers users an appliance development platform that it says is 100 percent opensource, with an entirely free distribution build tool chain. The F...
A Congressional committee last month gave universities with high volumes of student piracy violations 30 days to return a survey on Internet piracy and network practices. The committee is scheduled to resume its meetings Tuesday in Washington The letter hints that Congress is stepping up its crackdown on Internet piracy by college students in an ef...
The flap erupted earlier this month The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) started sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requests to Digg.com and a slew of other popular blogging sites on which users had posted a 32-hexadecimal digit code, a processing key that could be used to circumvent digital rights management (DRM) protecti...
Antispyware legislation awaiting Senate action offers little promise of meaningful prosecution against violators, said Ron O'Brien, a senior security analyst with antispyware firm Sophos The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an antispyware bill that would impose specific penalties for scammers accessing computers without authorization while ...
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