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IBM has launched an aggressive bid to grab an even bigger share of the midlevel market for Unix-based servers, where Big Blue has recently made huge gains on competitors IBM launched a family of products built around its Power5 microprocessor and made no bones about its desires to use them and their relatively low price tags -- the line starts at l...
It's still at least a year from being available to consumers, but already questions are being raised about whether some parts of Microsoft's Longhorn might actually make the operating system more vulnerable to some relatively primitive kinds of viruses A Symantec security researcher first sounded the alarm at the Virus Bulletin International Confer...
Sun Microsystems faces the prospect of being forced to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now that a federal court jury has found the computer giant's popular Java languages infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak After a three-week trial, a jury found that Sun violated a patent that Kodak acquired when it bought Wang Laboratories in 1997....
Microsoft is positioning itself to extend its reach from the personal computer to the living room by becoming the go-to company for digital movies and music within the next three years, the company's chief executive said CEO Steve Ballmer said one of his goals for the company is to expand Microsoft's importance in markets such as music players, mob...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled against Microsoft in its attempts to patent and license a technology that forms the basis of several of its software programs Though Microsoft was granted a patent for file allocation tables, or FAT, in 1996, that patent was challenged earlier this year by the Public Patent Foundation after Microsoft m...
Leading open source vendor Red Hat said it will buy certain security-related assets of Netscape Security Solutions from America Online in a deal worth US$25 million Red Hat said it will integrate the products it is buying, including the Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management System, into its own enterprise offerings within th...
Microsoft formally asked a European court to toss out a requirement that it share expanded portions of the Windows source code, the opening salvo in what analysts say is shaping up to be another epic battle with antitrust regulators In the first of what is slated to be a two-day hearing before the Court of First Instance (CFI) in Luxembourg, Micros...
In an effort to make its flagship software affordable enough to ward off open-source competitors and squelch piracy in a key overseas market, Microsoft announced plans to release a scaled-down and low-price version of Windows XP in India Microsoft said it would make Windows XP Starter Edition available in India starting early next year. The softwar...
Online attackers today are using popular sources of pornographic images to target a recently revealed weakness in Microsoft software and to spread a Trojan that can provide remote access and control of infected computers Just two weeks after Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in virtually all versions of Windows that could allow attackers to insta...
Amazon.com and Microsoft have joined forces for what they described as a "wake-up call" to spammers, filing lawsuits seeking damages from defendants they say sent millions of pieces of spam and attempted phishing and spoofing against the two companies' customers The companies together sued a Canada-based alleged spamming ring they say sent e-mails ...
A surge in demand for personal computers from business users has prompted research firm IDC to raise its forecast for overall sales for 2004, with the firm now predicting that sales will grow more than 14 percent over last year. However, sales in the U.S. are actually falling short of targets IDC said a 17.2 percent jump in commercial shipments of ...
In a move that deals a blow to a line of chips for which Intel once had high hopes, Hewlett-Packard today said it had stopped selling workstations loaded with the 64-bit Itanium 2 processors HP said only that it was responding to "customer requirements" in the workstation space in making the move. HP began selling the zx2000, which came loaded with...
Microsoft is taking flack for saying it won't offer some key patches and upgrades for older versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, some of which are still widely used, that are available as part of its much-ballyhooed Service Pack 2 update In a move that some observers say is designed to convince more customers to upgrade their older versi...
The tech industry is buzzing with rumors that search engine giant Google might be developing an Internet browser, with the speculation fueled by the company's recent hiring of former Microsoft employees as well as other factors As part of a surge of hiring in the wake of its recent blockbuster IPO, Google hired three new employees with impressive b...
Online malice again was targeted at one of the backbones of the Internet, with the launch of a denial-of-service attack against credit card processor Authorize.net reportedly coupled with an attempt to extort money to halt the barrage Authorize.net, which offers credit card processing services to online merchants and through third-party software pr...
Sun Microsystems has unveiled its latest computing-on-demand initiative, offering access to processor power for US$1 an hour, as it becomes the latest major tech firm bidding to make real the vision of computing power as a commodity that can be bought and sold as needed Sun said it envisions computer processing power becoming another utility that c...
Samsung Electronics says semiconductor sales growth will fall sharply next year, making it the latest company to suggest that the highly cyclical industry has seen the current upturn hit its peak already Samsung said it expects sales growth for the overall chip industry of less than 10 percent next year, compared to nearly 20 percent growth for 200...
Internet-based hacker attacks are being developed more quickly, becoming more sophisticated and are increasingly focusing on two high-profile targets -- e-commerce and Microsoft's Windows operating system -- according to a report from leading antivirus firm Symantec In its "Internet Security Threat Report" for the first six months of 2004, Symantec...
America Online, the largest Internet service provider, said it would stop using Microsoft's Sender ID technology to filter unwanted e-mail being sent to its millions of members, and instead embrace an open-source friendly alternative AOL's decision came just days after a subgroup of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) said it was unable reac...
Adding the latest competitive twist to the online music space, XM Satellite Radio said it would launch an Internet version of its commercial-free radio service next month XM said it would offer a Web-only subscription to its satellite service for US$7.99 per month. Subscribers to its radio service, who pay $9.95 per month to get the programming bea...
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