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Computer virus attacks are up dramatically from 2,400 in 1995 to more than 80,000 in 2002. It seems that almost every week, there's a new, threatening virus. Now the Sasser worm -- which could in fact be a clone, at least in its effects, of last year's MSBlaster and Slammer worms -- is said to have affected more than one million systems worldwide so far.
Is the legal strategy embraced by SCO Group a "good faith" effort to protect its intellectual property? Or a project to boost the share price on the Lindon, Utah, software firm? A new article, in the current issue of Fortune Magazine, one of the leading business publications in the United States, raises those issues and more, calling SCO a "much-lo...
Intel will change its future chip product strategy, moving away from its workhorse and power-hungry Pentium 4 line in favor of the more versatile, mobile-friendly Pentium M design. Several reports said that Intel would announce as early as today that it would not pursue development of some planned additions to the Pentium 4 chip lines, including t...
A real security threat is looming with wireless PDAs, WiFi devices and smartphones. These are the electronic marvels that are pushing the goal of wireless telecommunications to new limits. Industry watchers report that people are dropping their older PDAs like hot potatoes and snapping up the latest generation of wireless devices like crazy The new...
For all that Google has done to revive interest in technology and IPOs in recent weeks, it also has provided new fodder for a long-running debate: Is going public the ultimate goal for all companies, or are some businesses better served by staying private? Although the company is letting its IPO filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss...
SCO Group is laying off employees at its Santa Cruz office, prompting speculation as to the real motive for the move throughout the Linux industry, LinuxInsider has learned Competitors queried by LinuxInsider said they had not heard of the layoffs previously and found them "interesting."
Microsoft has announced plans to tie its next-generation Longhorn client-side operating system to its Longhorn server operating system that is aimed squarely at corporate computing. The Redmond, Washington-based company said it will still be at least another year and a half before any Longhorn release, but the company signaled at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week in Seattle that the client and server operating systems will be aligned more closely...
In a recent report, Gartner estimated that 57 million U.S. adults received a "phishing" attack e-mail within the past year, and half of those who responded became victims of identity theft Phishing is a tactic used to get credit card information from consumers who believe they are visiting legitimate bank and credit card sites. Usually accomplished...
Rapid growth of information technology among small and medium businesses (SMBs)with between 100 and 1,000 employees has not been lost on some major integration players, including Microsoft and IBM. With this week's launch of IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express, Big Blue is attempting to bring middleware to the masses and provide SMBs with tools to integrate their often-varied mix of IT solutions...
Memory-chip designer Rambus has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit, claiming the four largest manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips conspired to squelch demand for its products The suit names Micron Technology, Hynix Semiconductor, Siemens AG and Infineon Technologies as defendants, saying the four companies worked together to redu...
Is Linux suitable for mission-critical applications at large firms? A recent report by Forrester says so. So do other experts. But there are still skeptics This spring, Forrester surveyed 150 IT decision-makers at North American companies about their open-source software strategies....
There's yet another pay-per-tune music store on the Net, this time launched by media behemoth Sony through its Sony Connect subsidiary in Santa Monica, California The store has a library of more than half a million tracks from all major labels and some independents, as well as exclusive content from such artists as Avril Lavigne, Yeah Yeah, Snow Pa...
In going through a stack of resumes last week, I came across one from a person, certified as expert by both Microsoft and Cisco, who claimed to have "architected secure network solutions" at a previous employer. When I recovered from the consequent daydream about flying lead balloons, I decided to sort the candidates according to claimed Linux experience -- and promptly found a problem worth warning you about...
WebSphere Commerce, IBM's e-business software, got more than a fresh coat of paint and minor tweaks in a recent upgrade to version 5.6 In fact, Steve Gatto, marketing manager for IBM WebSphere Commerce, told the E-Commerce Times that enough improvements have been made to the application that it should have been bumped up to version 6.0 by now. Howe...
A report from a group of Internet experts indicates a U.S. anticensorship Internet access program is employing keyword filtering for the foreign Web surfers it serves, resulting in overblocking, which many argue is a form of censorship in itself What may be worse is that the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau service's lack of security may leav...
Onyx, a mid-market provider of CRM software, has unveiled upgrades to its Contact Center product that are designed to help it branch deeper into the contact-center and vertical markets. The improvements include call-center scripting and enhanced Web self-service capabilities, and they will benefit current customers that choose to upgrade, according to Onyx...
At its conference for customers, channel partners and user group members today, Hewlett-Packard announced two new products in its ongoing "adaptive enterprise" strategy Specifically, the company unveiled an archive and retrieval product as well as a dual-processor module that will benefit its server customers. In addition, HP will provide services ...
Promising seamless connection of people, information and business processes in real-time, Microsoft has announced that its newest enterprise instant-messaging (IM) solution -- the Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 -- is available through a beta program and will be released later this year Microsoft said LCS 2005, code-named Vienna, will ...
Major vendors, like HP and IBM, are embracing Linux. Does that mean that Linux is no longer, practically speaking, free? Some technology experts -- even those keen on Linux -- have widely differing opinions. In an interview with the Australian IT press, Steve Vamos, the managing director for Microsoft Australia, this week stressed that Linux is no...
The entertainment industry -- Hollywood, for short -- has done an amazing job of using mainstream print and electronic media to snow the public at large into believing anyone who shares digital music files online is a hard-core villain, out to steal bread from the mouths of starving artists. Using the Recording Industry Association of America -- o...
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