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Imagine you're the CEO of a major bank. Now, imagine paying more and more for security guards, only to find that the risk is increasing, not decreasing, due to threats that can't be countered by security guards. That's the situation facing today's CIOs and software managers, who continue to increase spending on IT security -- only to face a growing list of digital threats...
Sparked by growth in its European operations, Yahoo announced today it will open a European operations headquarters in Ireland to provide support to its main European headquarters in London Yahoo plans create almost 400 new jobs in the Dublin office over the next five years....
Major League Baseball's Internet unit said it has reached a deal to acquire e-tailer Tickets.com for US$66 million, a move that offers the league more opportunities to sell directly to its fan base MLB Advanced Media said it would pay $1.10 each for all of the outstanding shares of Tickets.com, which trades as an over-the-counter stock. Tickets.com...
Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled three new systems based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, taking advantage of the processor's price-performance advantage and in the process drawing ever closer to Intel's main rival In announcing new BladeSystem servers, a workstation supporting dual-PCI Express graphics, and a new family of ProLiant ...
Red Hat unveiled its updated enterprise Linux distribution today and used the occasion to take a shot at rival Sun "It's the beginning of the end of Solaris in the enterprise," Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering at Red Hat, said of Enterprise Linux v4, which the company said is capable of handling any enterprise-level application...
Vonage Holdings, one of the fastest-growing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling firms in the United States, has complained to federal regulators that data traffic carrying its low-cost telephone calls is being blocked by some broadband networks, apparently those managed by local telephone companies Vonage has filed a complaint with the Fede...
EBay, Microsoft, PayPal and Visa are hooking up to catch some phishing fraudsters The high-tech heavyweights yesterday became the first participants in a new anti-phishing aggregation service dubbed the Phish Report Network and organized by WholeSecurity, an Austin, Texas-based company that screens Web sites for suspicious behavior....
Megacities with populations larger than entire countries are changing the physical and economic landscape of the globe. Megacities have economic engines that are powering the future of the world. Megacities have larger markets than many developed countries The megacities are coming. They are the future. They are here now....
Prior to Oracle's announcement of its PeopleSoft integration road map, there were rumors that it would shed J.D. Edwards & Co., a business purchased by PeopleSoft in 2003 The unit, considered a poor fit for Oracle because its software products focus on IBM technology, became a hot topic of conversation for industry watchers no longer able to dish a...
Ellen Simonetti is a former Delta Airlines flight attendant who writes a Web log called the "Queen of the Sky." She is a "former" flight attendant because Delta fired her after she posted pictures of herself in uniform showing off her legs while lying across a row of seats in a Delta plane. Even though the shots were not all that racy, they were definitely not poses a passenger would expect to see when boarding a flight...
The movie industry's latest effort to subjugate file sharers and the P2P networks by taking over LokiTorrent, a well-known BitTorrent site, is still a hot topic The entertainment industry's principal weapon is fear. Like all bullies, it picks on people who can't defend themselves. The RIAA and MPAA are currently using attacks on BitTorrent sites as...
Monster Worldwide, parent company of the leading online career site in the U.S., said it would buy France-based Emailjob.com for US$26 million Emailjob.com, which was founded in 1998, was owned by the French division of worldwide trade show giant and business publisher Reed Elsevier Group, which is based in the UK. Monster said the firm had 2004 re...
Hewlett-Packard has announced antivirus software aimed at controlling the spread of viruses across corporate networks in an apparent bid to boost its server sales The company also announced that HP Labs is collaborating with two prominent partners to test new damage-containment security software aimed at preventing certain viruses from corrupting e...
Microsoft and Flextronics announced today that the Windows Mobile operating system will power a new GSM/GPRS smartphone the companies have dubbed "Peabody." Microsoft is looking to capitalize on its connection to the corporate back office, where users are already familiar with Microsoft applications, which can be taken on the road with smartphones....
Using its deeper pockets and higher national profile to outlast a rival bidder, Verizon Communications has reached a deal worth around US$6.7 billion to buy No. 2 long distance company MCI The purchase price includes $4.8 billion worth of stock, $488 million in cash and another $1.5 billion in one-time dividends....
The Liberty Alliance has released the second version of its identification standards for Web services technology, marking what analysts said is another step toward the convergence of identity specifications that will simplify processing The global consortium's latest release of ID-WSF 2.0 is a publicly available framework that has been extended to ...
Crude oil prices rose today amid thin trading volumes as the market looked for new direction Light, sweet crude rose 19 cents to US$47.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in European trade. Heating oil prices also rose, by less than a cent, to $1.3122 a gallon....
Online ad spending is poised to grow by as much as 30 percent in 2005, according to recent surveys conducted by Deutsche Bank in conjunction with MediaPost. Online advertising is beginning once again to garner large venture capital dollars. The growing Internet ad market promises to be a US$10 billion industry Now that the ad market is more mature ...
This week is the RSA Conference 2005, and today I'm doing one of the opening talks at a Trusted Computing Group lunch. I'm trying to find a nice way to say that I think the most common approach to security problems these days is completely whacked, but I have struggled with the "nice" part. Here are some of the things that are bothering me User Id...
Mark Menarik, CEO of Chicago-based TanCher, believes that a new PDA designed for students can foster a revolution in teaching with technology. His innovation could herald a breakthrough in mobile computing platforms if his plan succeeds According to Menarik, the shapes of the BlackBerry and Treo are not user friendly. So TanCher is introducing a ne...
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