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The SCO Group last week sought to stop a summary judgment filed by IBM by submitting written arguments that claim IBM has mischaracterized the lawsuit and failed to provide relevant information to the company If IBM is successful in gaining a summary judgment, the case would essentially see a quick end. SCO is seeking to keep the court from such a ...
Building on an existing relationship and trying to capitalize on a growing business-conferencing market that is becoming more integrated with both telecommunications and the world of information technology, Microsoft and British telecom giant BT announced a global deal on Monday The companies had announced a suite of business tools last month, sayi...
It is hard enough to keep track of a child when there is a full-time parent at home to supervise. In the single-parent household or the dual-income family, maintaining balance between work and parenting is difficult, and providing much-needed supervision is almost an impossibility without substantial help. This week, I'll look at some technologies...
Microsoft said it will release a long-awaited service pack containing a host of security upgrades for its Windows XP operating system next month At its annual partner conference in Toronto, Microsoft announced that engineering work is wrapping up and that XP Service Pack 2, which has been in beta testing since late last year, will be released to ma...
The British scientific establishment responded with anger Monday to an attack by Prince Charles on nanotechnology -- applied science involving tiny particles Fertility expert Robert Winston described as "very unfortunate" Charles' renewed attack over the weekend in which he suggested using the technology in fertility treatment could lead to a disas...
Got Insurance? If your business has a presence on the Internet, you had better have it. Traditional liability insurance will not be adequate, however. Loss of income and data plus lawsuits filed against your business are the expected consequences of hacker and virus attacks. These are potentially more threatening to businesses today than negative cash flow and the threat of buyouts...
The Mozilla Foundation has issued a patch for a security vulnerability discovered Thursday in the organization's open source Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. The security flaw, known as the "shell exploit," could allow attackers to run programs on Windows XP. Users of other operating systems, including Mac ...
When old ideas meet new technology, the result is sometimes a comedy of errors. Such is the case for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, whose outdated thinking produced many a blunder. On one recent occasion, she played the protectionist card on the issue of outsourcing and got caught in her own hypocrisy. In a March 3, 2004, interview, Senator Cli...
Pointing to the growing number of movie downloaders worldwide, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is complaining that the practice is harming the movie industry significantly. Through a commissioned study of moviegoers and downloaders, the MPAA reported that about one in four Internet users has downloaded a movie. Of those, 17 percen...
The Mozilla Foundation has issued a patch for a security vulnerability discovered Thursday in the organization's open source Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. The security flaw, known as the "shell exploit," could allow attackers to run programs on Windows XP. Users of other operating systems, including Mac ...
China has agreed to phase out a tax that drove up the prices of U.S.-made semiconductors sold in that fast-growing country, settling a complaint from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and handing U.S. chip makers a key victory The WTO filed a complaint against China on March 18th after the United States and others had complained about a value-adde...
Look long enough at any company's Web site, C-level presentations, earnings conference calls or marketing efforts, and you'll find the phrases like, "customer-centered," "The customer comes first always," and "The customer is the center of the business." They are all noble thoughts to be sure, but too often the exact opposite is true: Companies hol...
In the wake of federal e-signature legislation that Congress approved nearly four years ago, the online financial world has seen dozens of Internet companies proffer solutions that promised tamper-proof electronic signatures. The recurring result was a steady stream of solutions that raised lots of business interest but never really materialized in an industry-wide standard...
Whether they have just graduated from college or business school, or already have spent years climbing the corporate ladder, ambitious individuals with their eye on the corner office can take several steps to improve their chances of success For years, corporations have sought leadership skills, functional and technical expertise and industry exper...
MCI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with America Online to allow deaf, hearing impaired and speech disabled individuals to access MCI's IP-Relay.com services via AOL, AOL Instant Messenger and Apple Computer iChat services According to MCI and AOL, services will now be available for users to set up text message conversations wit...
Budget issues, authority and a more international approach highlight the agenda for an upcoming meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Malaysia later this month. While the Internet domain name oversight body has been busy dealing with controversial new services and the growing number of nations and country co...
Application for a U.S. patent has been filed by a California man for his system that allows the dead to speak from their tombs, New Scientist reported Thursday Robert Barrows of Burlingame has devised a hollow headstone fitted with a flat LCD touch screen.
The United Nations has launched a push to curtail the vast majority of spam e-mail within two years. The push by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the telecom arm of the UN, began this week with a meeting of scores of regulatory agencies from around the world in Geneva, Switzerland....
Cisco Systems today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Parc Technologies of London, United Kingdom. Parc develops traffic-engineering technologies and software for routing optimization. Parc Technologies, a spin-off that began as a research center focusing on search algorithms, was originally based at Imperial College, Univ...
More than a third of the software on the world's PCs has been pirated from its makers, according to a study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft The annual study -- this year conducted for the first time by IDC of Framingham, Massachusetts -- showed that 36 ...
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