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According to a new alert by Sophos today, a newly discovered worm, called the Rbot-GR worm or W32/Rbot-GR worm, spreads via network shares, exploiting several Microsoft security vulnerabilities, installing a backdoor Trojan horse as it travels Once installed on an infected computer, remote hackers can gain access to the information on the PC's hard...
A few technologies to fight the unsolicited and sometimes unsafe e-mail known as spam have emerged since the volume of the junk mail has increased beyond annoyance, but a Microsoft-backed effort to identify the senders of spam appears to be moving fastest of all the contenders Joined by other spam fighters including Sendmail, Symantec, IronPort, Cl...
Macromedia announced that this week it will begin shipping Flex Builder, a new integrated development environment designed to streamline Flex application development The company noted that creation of Flex Builder was prompted by the adoption of Flex. Flex is a server-side framework that generates user interfaces that run in the Flash client and co...
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to provide battle command training support to Army commanders to improve their capabilities. The contract value is approximately $408 million over ten years As part of the contract, Northrop Grumman's IT departments will provide planning and support for war exercises that simulate command-and-co...
Gateway Computer today announced that its new line of retail notebooks, desktops andmonitors are now available at Micro Center's 20 stores nationwide The Gateway products are available at Micro Center stores and on the company's Web site, microcenter.com....
Cisco Systems today announced an agreement to acquire privately held P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California P-Cube is a developer of Internet service control platforms designed to help service providers identify subscribers, classify applications, improve service performance and charge for multiple IP services without costly infrastructure upgrades....
With the recent release of Summer 04 and positive earnings news, Salesforce.com seems poised to capture more of the enterprise market, including larger companies that it has not targeted in the past Founded in 1999 by a former Oracle executive, Salesforce.com provides customizable CRM applications and services and has approximately 168,000 subscrib...
File-sharing applications Morpheus and Grokster were claiming legal victory after a U.S. court said it was not responsible for protecting the copyrights of material swapped on its person-to-person network The ruling deals a blow to some 28 entertainment companies, including giants such as Disney, MGM and Time Warner, that had filed copyright infrin...
Macromedia has made available Macromedia Flex Builder, a new integrated development environment (IDE) designed to streamline Flex application development Designed to accelerate Internet application development, including interface layout, coding, debugging and deployment, Flex Builder offers a design view for visual interface layout, an MXML and Ac...
Gateway today announced that its new line of retail notebooks, desktops andmonitors are now available at Micro Center's 20 stores nationwide The Gateway products are available at Micro Center stores and on the company's Web site, microcenter.com....
Disaster recovery is a familiar topic for most information-intensive businesses. Disaster recovery is so familiar, in fact, that many businesses have been doing it the same way for years The typical recovery scenario: retrieve backed-up data on tapes from remote sites, rush them to data centers where some disaster or occurrence has destroyed or cor...
I come from a time when getting ready for school meant buying a couple of binders, some pencils and some new clothes you wouldn't be caught dead in. Transportation was a one-speed bicycle (no I didn't walk 10 miles in the snow, that was my grandfather), and high tech was a circular slide rule My first calculator, from Radio Shack, cost more than so...
The browser war is once again being waged by a half dozen or more software companies who are fighting for a bigger share of the Web browser real estate. But as alternative Web browsers become more popular, so are intrusions by hackers aimed at them Skirmishes among Web browser companies ended in the mid-1990's when Microsoft gained prominence by em...
News that a tense situation in a key Iraq city was coming to an end caused a rare drop in oil prices Friday, which in turn gave stocks a chance to make a run and end the week on a positive note News that the standoff between U.S. forces and those loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr might have ended drove down prices that have soared on fears tha...
Microsoft and everyone else in the PC world knew that hackers would be working hard to find the cracks in the latest Windows XP software upgrade, intended mostly to bolster security. But it is security researchers and their work that has caused the greatest headache for Microsoft so far as it rolls out Service Pack 2 (SP2) to consumers and corporate users...
Battered Nortel said it would lay off 3,500 workers and fire seven executives as part of its latest attempt to move beyond an epic accounting scandal and regain its market prominence The layoffs, part of a US$400 million restructuring aimed at cutting costs to be more competitive, represent about 10 percent of the worldwide workforce of the Canadia...
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a consortium of technology companies and workplace of Linus Torvalds, has announced a major upgrade to its Scalable Test Plaform (STP) enterprise-grade testing services for the Linux kernel Introduced in 2001, STP provides a set of test suites on a wide range of hardware platforms so developers can validate ...
Using the Internet to ease access to government services seems obvious today. When Ed Trimble founded EzGov five years ago, however, he had to play the role of evangelist, touting the security and capabilities of the Web A few months after EzGov was incorporated, it sold its first application -- a property tax payment system -- to Dekalb County, Ge...
Think of this scenario: You're shopping for a new home and instead of guiding you into a single-digit fixed-rate mortgage, lenders try to persuade you that an adjustable mortgage indexed to your income makes more sense. Structuring mortgages like that makes no sense, and it's making less and less sense to purchase software that way Value-based pric...
Many believe that "as California goes, so goes the nation." If such is the case, dark days await the nation's telecom sector. The problem stems from the iron grip of regulators on telecom providers The 1996 Telecom Act set out rules that were supposed to create more competition by mandating that the dominant carriers share their telephone networks ...
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