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The search wars took another interesting twist today as IAC/InteractiveCorp. announced it would buy search engine Ask Jeeves for around US$1.85 billion in stock The move pairs IAC, a fast-growing e-commerce and social networking conglomerate with a powerful brand in several key online markets, with the search technology and name recognition of Jeev...
Intrusion detection and prevention systems provider Internet Security Systems (ISS) issued a "protection advisory" targeting older versions of McAfee's anti-virus software engine last Thursday Attackers are able to trigger a stack overflow within the process importing the McAfee AntiVirus Library, according to ISS....
Phishing as a way of pilfering private consumer information has become a major security concern. What started as fraudulent e-mail requesting personal information has morphed into sophisticated phony eBay transactions and fake online bill-pay opportunities Consumer fears, combined with the sometimes-involved process of automating electronic bill ...
In San Jose, California, the city IT organization started an aggressive program to build the most advanced city hall in the state. The department's leaders thought they grasped the technology, and there wasn't a hot buzzword that was missed in the proposal. The local paper, The Mercury News, took an in-depth look at the bid, and the end result was an embarrassing investigation into city technology acquisition practices and a call for the resignations of a number of high-ranking officials. Meanwhile, the construction on the city hall was embarrassingly delayed. Further review indicated the city was overpaying by millions and had violated its own polices by single-sourcing to one vendor, Cisco...
Las Vegas based FBM Software has announced on March 14 the release of ZeroSpyware 2005, designed to target consumers and small businesses with what company officials say is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use anti-spyware software available Among the highlights of the software is a first-in-the-industry service to provide round the clock access ...
Opera Software this week released a beta version of the next Opera browser for the desktop. The new version includes scalable vector graphics (SVG), which automatically scales any Web page to fit a user's screen "We believe SVG will enter mainstream Web design in the future and we are very pleased to add native support in the Opera browser," said O...
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment thatthe recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computersof file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee onintellectual property While Hatch backed down slightly from that comment the next day, saying, "I do notfavor extreme remedies ...
Google launched a new site this week designed with open-source developers in mind. Dubbed Google Code, the site includes four open-source projects, APIs, and other tools to assist developers working on Google-related projects In their welcome letter, Chris DiBona, Google's open-source program manager, and engineering manager Greg Stein said they ho...
Microsoft has announced a delay in the introduction of its Windows XP Starter Edition -- a stripped-down, lower-cost version aimed at developing nations -- in India, but the company has already pushed the product into other Asian countries in what analysts described as a growing battle for emerging markets A Microsoft official said Windows XP Start...
Officials at the European Commission (EC) say Microsoft is falling short of its pledge to cooperate fully with sanctions against it meant to boost competition among software makers in Europe, raising the prospect of additional penalties being levied In addition to paying the equivalent of US$600 million in fines, Microsoft faced two technology sanc...
Oracle bumped up its bid to acquire Retek late yesterday, in the second round of its battle with SAP for the retail applications developer The move was expected, but the new offer, US$11.25 per share to SAP's $11, was lower than the $12 Gartner analyst Andrew White predicted yesterday. At the new high bid, Retek's value is up to $631 million. Oracl...
Insider trading laws have been around for a long time, even before the SEC Act of 1934. Martha Stewart's recent trial and incarceration have brought a higher degree of awareness and caution to investors who are potential beneficiaries of insider trading This article will define insider trading, explain the intent of the insider trading laws, and g...
Home-grown ERP systems are the Oscar Madisons of the IT world. Grizzled by years of service yet reluctant to change, these massive home-grown systems resist the efforts of CIOs to transform them. More often than not, the home-grown ERP system ends up changing the CIO. The complexity and lack of clarity makes some CIOs yearn for hosted applications to increase responsiveness...
Earlier this month, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his intentions to support a bill outlawing the sale of junk food in schools. Science shows the governor is right to worry about an obesity crisis, but banning candy is schools is like putting a Band-Aid on a third-degree burn According to the American Obesity Association, "app...
Throwing a twist into the raging search wars, Amazon's A9.com search site is pushing an open format that allows vertical search results to be widely syndicated in a manner similar to a popular approach for cross-pollinating blogs and news feeds A9.com launched OpenSearch, which it bills as "a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular ...
The mobile adult services market is set to reach US$5 billion by 2010, according to a new wireless Internet applications service report from Strategy Analytics. But analysts said fear of consumer backlash and government regulation is stalling wireless adult content growth stateside Jupiter Research analyst Joe Laszlo told the E-Commerce Times he do...
SAP took another shot in its battle with Oracle, raising to US$11 a share its bid for Retek. SAP had been set to buy the retail applications provider for $8.50 a share, then Oracle countered at $9 The war, however, is far from over, analysts say....
Having rolled out its own search engine in a bid to match rivals Yahoo and Google in terms of technology, Microsoft is now hoping to duplicate their success in the revenue and profit arenas by launching a paid search product MSN Search is hoping that the use of collected demographics information will help its advertising product, known as adCenter ...
Sun said yesterday it would modify its licenses to make Java source code access more open, but analysts said it's still miles away from the open-source status that the developer community is calling for Sun is introducing two licenses for using the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), the software for building and running Java programs on a PC, as part ...
When Dell Computer announced last month that it would begin shippingnotebook computers incorporating a chip to make the units more secure, itsent analysts scurrying to their calculators. That's because Dell'sinclusion of "trusted computing" hardware into its machines would be givingthe technology a big boost in the coming year According to the late...
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