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Computer Associates International today said it will lay off 800 workers worldwide in a restructuring plan it said is designed to more closely align its investments with its strategic growth opportunities In issuing a statement this morning announcing the action, the company said the effort is expected to yield about US$70 million in savings annual...
You knew it was coming, and now it's here -- the latest evil spurred by the latest Microsoft security hole It's called the JpegOfDeath, but JPEG isn't all it threatens....
Now all you need is a good idea to make some good money. You can start right away by getting a dot-com domain name registration for a year for much less than US$1 a month, and get a sparkling Web site for under $5 per month. For an additional $3 a month, get an encryption capability on the same site so you can offer secure online credit card transactions. Cha-ching. Plus e-mail and many other things thrown in for free...
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...
PalmSource is paving a path for its operating system (OS) to suit phonecapabilities in the small but growing smartphone market Previously limited to handheld personal digital assistants (PDA), whichhave not grown at nearly the same rate as mobile phones, PalmSource says itslatest Cobalt OS, version 6.1, would have integrated telephony componentsinc...
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 ...
Labor market conditions can change dramatically in a few months. As American firms become increasingly dependent on labor market conditions in other parts of the world, changes in those labor markets can have profound economic consequences in the U.S Here we examine the rapidly changing IT labor markets in India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. In f...
Telecommunications carriers see the future, and it is voice over IP (VoIP) services. This technology enables them to roll out high-speed multimedia services to consumers and businesses faster and at a lower cost than traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) services. While those features are alluring, the carriers are struggling to put the infrastructure in place that is needed to support VoIP...
The Internet has delivered dramatic productivity improvements. Executives now have a simple way to exchange electronic mail messages, large and small companies are able to market their products worldwide and corporations have replaced manual procedures with automated ones. Along with these advances have come some downsides: a deluge of electronic mail marketing messages, a proliferation of spam and a number of online scams...
We can learn some lessons from reality TV. For instance, many disputes can be settled without lawyers. If your brother-in-law owes you money or your neighbor's tree drops fruit in your pool, you can simply vote them off the island. Or fire them. Either way, working it out on your own is a cheaper alternative than litigation Unless there is a desire...
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 ...
IBM is set to announce this week a major radio frequency identification(RFID) strategy that involves integrating the next-generation supply-chainand tracking technology with existing data systems Seen as a refinement and eventually replacement of barcode supply-chaintracking and inventory, the wireless tags and readers are slowly gainingtraction in...
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...
Almost one-third of the world's financial institutions have outsourced work overseas, and the practice has spawned consumer and political backlash. But according to many analysts, the benefits outweigh the negative publicity incurred by financial services giants such as American Express and Discover. Offshoring not only will continue, but it will grow...
A little over a decade ago the market for aftermarket radios and gear for cars was relatively robust. At that time most car companies used standard-sized radios, and if you wanted to upgrade it was a relatively simple task That isn't the case anymore. Radios are increasingly designed-in to cars and some, like those licensed from Bose, are so diffic...
One year ago, the prospects for developing biometrics as a reliable security device for computers were viewed by many industry watchers as a nice idea with little applicable potential. After all, biometric security devices have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication lacked much enthusiasm because of ill-placed perceptions that the procedures were costly, inconvenient and intrusive...
The blast-off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will deploy a replacement crew for Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, who have manned the orbital platform since April ...
The Internet has topped television as the first choice of media by 18- to 54-year-olds, according to a study released today by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) The Generational Media Study -- the fourth in a series of research reports aimed at providing a detailed view of 18- to 34-year-old media consumers -- shows that 45.6 percent of respo...
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...
Microsoft announced today that it has filed nine new lawsuits against alleged spammers, including a Web-hosting company that offered services specifically for people who send unsolicited e-mail The suits are part of a larger effort by Microsoft to target the perpetrators of spam. With this batch, filed last week in Washington state, the company is ...
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