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Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to move, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner.
Although The SCO Group and its former investor, BayStar Capital, seemed to have resolved their differences in June, a new flare-up has occurred, resulting in threats of legal action toward SCO The latest dispute revolves around licensing opportunities available in the SCO source program....
Investors who want to own a piece of Google likely will have to dig deep into their pockets considering the share-price range of US$108 to $135 the company set today for its upcoming initial public offering At the expected prices and with some 24.6 million shares up for grabs, the offering would be worth between $2.6 and $3.3 billion, more than mos...
An online security firm warned Saturday that the latest Internet virus was using spectacular claims about the death of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden to trick people into infecting their own computers British-based computer security group Sophos.com revealed that statements have also been posted on thousands of Internet message boards offering a ...
As we move into market recovery, marketing budgets once again are being funded, and I thought it would be good to look at the mistakes made by technology companies in the past. While this is a painful trip down memory lane for many, my hope is that this will keep the firms from making the same mistakes again One of the problems the technology indus...
Today's corporations -- both large and midsize -- increasingly are turning over the operation and support of network- and Web-based applications to managed-hosting companies. These businesses specialize in providing high levels of uptime, protecting their clients' data from malware and intrusion and freeing up internal IT departments to pursue other initiatives...
In today's world of warnings, dangers and the need for safety precautions, even surfing the Internet for business or pleasure is fraught with hazards. Despite the growing epidemic of spyware infections, many computer users remain unfazed by the call to arms in the fight for safer computing practices A recent report from Earthlink and Webroot found ...
An Indianapolis bail bondsman is looking to cash in on the JohnKerry-John Edwards Democratic presidential ticket by selling hiswww.kerryedwards.com site to the highest bidder, with a starting priceof US$150,000. But the man, who has owned rights to the Internet address for nearly twoyears, is not what is known as a "squatter," a person who purveys...
Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from CNN found the terrorist leader's hanged body earlie...
A man in Florida has been indicted on 144 charges of conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer, device fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice, after hacking into the database of a high profile marketing company Scott Levine, 45, is accused of breaking into systems at Acxiom and downloading more than 8MB of user data over a...
Novell has announced that it has acquired Salmon, a British IT servicescompany, in a deal that will link Salmon with Cambridge TechnologyPartners, another Novell acquisition The company also revealed some efforts that it will be making throughits earlier acquisition of SuSE Linux. It noted that Novell isdeveloping a slimmed-down version of the prod...
Microsoft became the latest company to be hurt by high expectations as the software goliath posted an 81 percent increase in net profit and a15 percent sales growth, but fell short of forecast targets and took it on the chin on Wall Street as a result. In a report rife with recurring themes from this earnings season, Microsoft said revenue in its ...
If you use the latest antivirus packages and run a firewall, you don't have to worry about spyware intrusion, right? Wrong, say leading security experts It is just this type of thinking that is allowing spyware intrusions to overtake computers in both the home and the workplace. Spyware is quickly becoming the second most troublesome computer malad...
In just a few short months, Americans will decide who they want to be president. Speculation abounds, but a better read on who is more likely to win -- a futures market in politics -- may be found at sites like Tradesports.com Futures markets, where people bet on results of various outcomes, can often predict events better than other forms of analy...
The Webmin enterprise has been helping to promote the corporate use of Linux, and cottage industries are emerging to assist in the use of open source through risk management tools and indemnification insurance, research shows Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio confirmed research shows Linux is gaining traction in the Webmin enterprise primaril...
After a $60 billion rip-off, the disgraced energy giant Enron sheds its old image of EnWRONG to Prisma. After paying $665 million in legal fees, the company is restructured under the name identity of Prisma while some of its executives walk to prison. Prisma is on a short leash, with a staff of 5,000 in 25 different business units, a big drop from...
With the news of its first big government deal, Indian Linux vendor ELX has come a bit closer to meeting its sales goal of 100,000seats of its desktop Linux product BizDesk 4.0 this financial year "An Indian state court project has asked vendors to supply 600 PCs withELX Biz Desk 4.0 preloaded in it. The total requirement in thisfinancial year (end...
Internet retailer Amazon.com today announced financial results for its second quarter, showing net sales up 26 percent and operating income more than doubling over the same quarter last year -- but the figures were below Wall Street's expectations At the same time, the Seattle-based company projected net sales in the current quarter to be 26 percen...
Nextel Communications posted large gains yesterday as the Reston-based company and other leading cellular phone providers reported growth in new subscribers Nextel reported its ninth consecutive profitable quarter on a large increase in revenue. It is the smallest of the six national carriers but generates the largest profit margins in the business...
Security experts are praising the international bust of a Russian Internet extortion ring, but they also warn that cyber strong-arm schemes -- which use viruses, worms, trojans and the threat of denial of service (DoS) attacks -- are increasing and spreading to different targets, including e-commerce and financial transaction sites The UK's Nationa...
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