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The latest mass-mail worm to attack unprotected computers is Mytob, which first appeared at the beginning of the month, but last week, threatened with eight new variants, two of which were reported by security firm Symantec yesterday As with other mass-mail worms, Mytob uses its own SMTP engine to send e-mail to addresses that it finds on computers...
Google raised eyebrows again with its latest acquisition, the purchase of a privately held software firm that specializes in Web analytics The search engine giant said it bought San Diego, California-based Urchin Software for an undisclosed sum and said it would make the firm's analytical and on-demand tools available to Web site owners and online ...
Oracle has made its third purchase in less than a year, announcing today that it has acquired Oblix, a small identity management software company. Terms of the sale were not announced Oblix's security software allows for Web access control of single sign-on, identity administration and user provisioning. Analysts said the move gives Oracle a broade...
Facing increasingly faster, more complex and more targeted computer attacks, a number of network companies and groups are banding together to share information in hopes of stemming the damage done by computer attackers The Fingerprint Sharing Alliance -- announced by Arbor Networks and including worldwide support from a range of organizations inclu...
Possibly putting an end to a closely watched drama in the telecommunications space, MCI has accepted a sweetened takeover offer from Verizon Communications, a bid worth nearly US$1 billion more than an earlier offer but still well below the present value of what Qwest International is offering to acquire the long-distance company MCI announced earl...
After much ado last fall followed by a false start, the SCO Group has finally launched its legal information site to counter the popular Groklaw.net site SCO had originally said last October the site would use the domain name Prosco.net, but is instead located at SCO.com/scoip....
The recently formed Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) announced this week that it has created a new committee to define security requirements for Internet telephony networks. Analysts said the outcome could be a significant boon for the industry "This is a significant step toward improving VoIP security standards," Aaron Nutt, Atlantic-ACM a...
More than 1,000 individuals and groups have signed a letter urging the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to open its meetings next month on global patent and copyright policy to more government outsiders The forums to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, are expected to set the tone for future action impacting the economic growth of...
There are four lessons for U.S. firms setting up operations offshore, beginning with the need for good market positioning, having enough American trainers on the ground, emphasizing quality over quantity, and the need to export American corporate culture overseas rather than have offshore facilities adapt to local workplace culture These lessons ar...
Sometimes you can't win for trying. Like when you politely ask the kid sitting next to you on the subway who is playing his music a little loud to please turn it down. Just to be contrary, he responds by cranking it up even more In my March 15 column, Lowering the Volume in the Software Patent Debate, I suggested with the best of intentions that it...
Google is being sued by French news agency Agence France-Presse for using AFP photos and news stories in the Google News listings That's a bad break for Google and now, to make things worse, p2pnet.net is joining AFP in suing not only Google, but also Yahoo and any other news aggregation services it can find for reusing p2pnet story leads, headline...
"Beta release." These two words are attached to more and more software releases these days -- and not open-source products, either It seems almost everything Google releases, for example, is first introduced in beta version, and analysts said even Microsoft has now officially jumped on the beta bandwagon, aiming to create some early buzz for new ap...
Fans of "Halo 2" -- and there are many -- will soon have the chance to wander new realms. Bungie.Net, the Internet home for Bungie Studios, which developed Halo, announced it will release nine new multiplayer map packs for the game Bungie will release four of the maps at the end of April for online gamers. Two, named Continent and Warlock, will be ...
Just days after the hugely successful North America release of its PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony was dealt a blow by a U.S. federal court, which ordered the company to stop selling PlayStations and to pay US$90.7 million to Immersion Corp. in a patent infringement suit Immersion filed suit in 2002 claiming that the technology Sony Computer Enter...
Regional phone carriers saw their stocks rise today as investors cheered the prospects for their long-range strategy of selling more bundled services following a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling that freed them from having to offer high-speed Internet access to non-phone customers The FCC on Friday ruled, in a contentious and split vo...
With powerful forces pulling for both sides in the battle over cable regulation, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a matter that brings to a head the debate on how to govern today's converging telecommunications and information services The high court tomorrow hear arguments in the case -- a dispute between the Federal Communicati...
Fabless semiconductor company Luxtera announced today that it has solved the longstanding problem of building advanced photonic interfaces into mass-produced silicon chips The company claimed that, for the first time, it is possible to integrate high-speed optical fiber interfaces in silicon devices produced in an industry-standard complementary me...
Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following injury The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is moving toward that goal. DARPA an...
Users of Yahoo's free instant messaging service have been targeted by a phishing attack, one of the first widespread attempts to use the messaging medium to pilfer personal information Targets of the scam are sent a link that, when clicked, takes users to what appears to be a Yahoo site that asks for users' login and password. That information can ...
The fallout from the dot-com collapse a few years ago might be fueling a new rush for businesses to build a presence on the World Wide Web. Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell sees small businesses setting up shop on the Internet in record numbers As storefront welcome signs announce a growing gathering, Mitchell wants his company to be poised to ...
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