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HP on Thursday began offering new Multi-Level Security (MLS) Services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 The five support services are the first of their kind offered on the Linux operating system, according to Erik Lillestolen, government program manager for Open Source and Linux Organization at HP. The company made the announcement at the Red Hat Gov...
A report that an "electronic jihad" will be launched next week against 15 anti-Muslim Web sites by al Qaeda has stirred up the network security community While some have viewed the warning with skepticism, others are reluctant to put such an idea past the capabilities or desires of the terrorist organization....
Presidential candidate and Texas congressman Ron Paul has an ardent following of tech-savvy supporters -- at least one of which may have employed the use of hijacked PCs from around the world to spread pro-Paul spam. Several security researchers have noted a blast of spam e-mail messages sent earlier this week purporting to support Paul's bid for the Republican Presidential nomination...
Times are tough at Sprint Nextel. The company reported losing 337,000 post-paid customers and suffered a 77 percent decline in third-quarter profits during a period that also saw the struggling company remove its CEO The Reston, Va.-based communication company, which trails Verizon Wireless and AT&T in terms of wireless market share, said Q3 income...
Cisco on Thursday unveiled a long-term plan meant to significantlyexpand its presence in China, saying it would spend as much as US$16 billion -- nearly double the $8.5 billion it has spent in the past five years -- to build out the footprint it started there nearly 14 years ago Cisco laid out a three-to-five year plan that calls for it to work wit...
IBM on Thursday unveiled a slew of new security products and services, and said it would continue to invest heavily in security innovations to address customer needs for a more comprehensive approach to information technology risk On the heels of a security-related buying spree, Big Blue said it will spend at least US$1.5 billion during 2008 to rou...
More and more data center managers have begun implementing virtualization and server consolidation strategies in an effort to cope with the growing complexities they face today, according to a Symantec report released Tuesday. The survey also found that data managers must confront a plethora of challenges due to "rapidly rising service level agreements (SLAs), staffing difficulties, increasing expenditures anddata center growth...
With all indicators of new home construction being so bearish these days (and unlikely to improve significantly anytime soon), there's been a great deal of speculation that remodeling market opportunities are emerging as a better market play for custom installing dealers/installers -- at least in the short- and medium-term -- than new construction. We'd agree with that "common-sensical" assessment of relative market opportunities, but don't yet have any objective and definitive evidence that documents the fact...
Research into encryption technology is on the rise at universities and colleges, spurred on by technological advances, pressing security needs, and new legislation and regulations, asPart 1 of this series notes Investigators in both industrial and academic settings are now looking into a wide range of areas where encryption can be applied....
"Star Wars" fans got a lot to think about following the announcement Tuesday from LucasArts and BioWare that the two companies have teamed up on what they call an "interactive entertainment" product "LucasArts has a deep commitment to developing compelling stories and characters for the unique medium of interactive entertainment, and we have been s...
Google is getting set to make a splash in the burgeoning social networking space with the introduction on Thursday of OpenSocial It is rare for Google to be behind the curve of any Internet trend -- much less one that has become nearly mainstream in the last few years. However, it's making up for lost time by bursting out of the gate. It has alread...
To mark its second birthday Monday, Meebo unveiled a surprise for its users -- applications for the Meebo platform. With the announcement, the instant messaging site joins social networks such as Facebook and MySpace that have opened up their platform to third-party developers. The first round of applications are designed to pep up Meebo's communications capabilities...
In an effort to further streamline its operations and somehow become more competitive, French-American telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent is planning to ax about 4,000 workers during the coming year Cutting jobs is nothing new at Alcatel-Lucent. The company in February announced it would lay off 12,500 workers due to its financial struggles and...
In a move that could finally help clear up a cloud that has hung over the company for more than a year, Dell on Tuesday restated earnings for four full fiscal years and part of a fifth, cutting its net income over that time by US$92 million in the process The Round Rock, Texas-based company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pas...
Online retail sales in the United States jumped 23 percent, to US$28.4 billion, during the third quarter of this year compared with the same July-September period in 2006 The retail surge was led by sales of video games, consoles and accessories, which showed a year-to-year increase of 199 percent, according to the Internet analysis firm comScore o...
The OpenDocument Foundation, after five years of promoting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for office applications, is switching direction and embracing a different format ODF, which is overseen by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), has been accepted as an ISO (International Organization for Standardizat...
The introduction of the online customer review system on Amazon.com more than seven years ago marked the ascension of the consumer as purchase influencer. This trend has continued, with social media and Web 2.0 tools enabling more buyers to speak out and be heard Today it can be argued that a consumer-initiated recommendation for a product or servi...
Skype and the mobile network carrier 3 announced on Monday they have launched a handset model to be sold in Europe. The new service will allow Skype users to make free Skype-to-Skype calls as well as send free instant messages from a mobile phone to other Skype users "no matter where they are," the company said "Skype is now truly mobile. This hand...
Uruguay recently became the first country to order the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation's so-called US$100 Laptops, devices designed for children in developing nations. The only problem? The laptops, 100,000 of which were reportedly ordered by the nation, cost just about twice as much as the foundation originally thought they would The new $1...
Fifty years ago, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand wrote of a society that hindered innovation and stifled the creative spirit. Atlas Shrugged told of a society where individual effort went unrewarded, where technological advancement was thwarted by short-term greed, and where the governments failed to serve the greater public good. Although fiction, some of these societal concerns are mirrored in various proposed changes to the patent laws under consideration today...
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