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Bargain hunters boosted the stock market slightly in morning trading Monday, but uncertainties about jobs data, interest rates, and oil prices kept prices in check A few economists predict that dismal jobs data released Friday will prompt the Federal Reserve to leave interest rates unchanged at 1.25 percent at its meeting Tuesday. Most, however, st...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona has chosen Resolution EBS's Centrifuge business rules management platform as part of a plan to automate and streamline its current business practices Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona "is always looking for ways to increase customer satisfaction and reduce administrative costs," Christopher L. Matthieu, director of...
A couple of things happened last month that got me thinking about Apple and Sun and their failed merger attempt years ago. Sun held its lab tour event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and Apple became outraged at Real Networks for making its Real Music services compatible with the iPod Before I get into this topic, let m...
Britain's environment watchdog has found the country's drinking water contains measurable amounts of the antidepressant Prozac, the Observer Sunday newspaper reported The Liberal Democrats' environment spokesman, Norman Baker calls the phenomenon a "hidden mass medication upon the unsuspecting public," the newspaper said. "It is alarming that there...
Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security settings and new proactive protection features designed to h...
The quest for more bandwidth is never ending. Soon after vendors make one technical advance, they move on to the next. With 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless LANs now poised to gain a lion's share of product shipments, vendors are examining ways to push the bandwidth plateau past the 100-Mbps mark. Proprietary approaches are already available to reach that...
Kaspersky Labs has detected Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a, the first backdoor Trojan for PDAs running under PocketPC, a Microsoft handheld operating system originally known as Windows CE. Brador is a classic Trojan backdoor program: It opens the infected machine for remote administration After the backdoor is launched, it creates an svchost.exe file in t...
Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security settings and new proactive protection features designed to h...
Viruses finally reached out and touched handheld computers Thursday with Symantec and Kaspersky Labs reporting a backdoor Trojan horse program that can take control of a mobile device The program, known as Backdoor.Brador.A, attacks PDAs running the Windows CE operating system. Once installed, the program activates when the PDA is restarted and beg...
Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major software update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security settings and new proactive protection features designed to help safeguard computers from hackers, viruses and other security risks...
Weaker-than-expected job numbers for July led to a stunning sell-off on Wall Street as all major stock averages sank to their lowest levels of the year The Labor Department said 32,000 new jobs were added in July, 90 percent fewer than the forecast of 243,000 jobs. The new figures raised concerns that the poor jobs figures for June might have been ...
As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual approach to driving is part of a creative plan to accommodate Spirit's aging front wheel...
Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) in New York were down at the close of the market today from record highs set overnight -- but observers expressed doubt that oil prices have peaked Light, sweet crude oil futures set for September delivery eased down to $43.95 a barrel on the Nymex.
Viruses finally reached out and touched handheld computers Thursday with Symantec and Kaspersky Labs reporting a backdoor Trojan horse program that can take control of a mobile device The program, known as Backdoor.Brador.A, attacks PDAs running the Windows CE operating system. Once installed, the program activates when the PDA is restarted and beg...
Storage-management software developer Acronis has announced release of its True Image Server for Linux 8.0, the industry's first native Linux disk imaging, backup and bare-metal restore application, the company said The South San Francisco, California-based company also announced release of a new version of its Windows-based server software.
An attorney has sued Yahoo, charging the portal didn't do enough to help him stop personal attacks against him on its message boards. He hopes to make the suit a class action Stephen Galton, a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles, California, filedsuit on Wednesday. Galton claims the Internet company hasprotected people who have posted potentially defam...
Thin client vendors have shown a greater presence at this week's LinuxWorld conference than in the past, with Wyse Technology, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems all offering new products. The moves set the stage for broader deployment of the technology in the coming year IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell told LinuxInsider that the announcements are a cl...
Bankrupt Adelphia Communications today announced its preliminary timetable for to auction off the company, with completion of the sale expected by the end of the year The fifth-largest cable television operator said the auction process will start shortly after Labor Day. It is currently anticipated that preliminary indications of interest will be d...
Entellium Asia, the Asian arm of the second generation hosted CRM provider, yesterday announced the set-up of its regional operations in Singapore The company originally started operations in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, in May 2000, but closed its sales operation in Asia in 2002 and shifted its corporate headquarters to Seattle, Washington, in 2003....
Internet security firms are gearing up for an onslaught of new attacks that hackers will hurl at inboxes and Web sites. As the computer industry awaits the release of Service Pack 2 of Microsoft's Windows XP -- which will feature improved security capabilities -- hackers are waiting too. They have spent the last 12 months mastering mobile attack t...
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