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Microsoft has thrown its considerable clout -- and its 170 million registered e-mail users -- behind a plan that uses preapproved lists of mass marketers in an attempt to curtail the flood of spam. The company said it has signed on with IronPort Systems' so-called Bonded Sender program, which enables marketers to become "white listed" and thereby ...
TV programs like The Swan and Extreme Makeover demonstrate that when medicine meets the marketplace, the results can be stunning. But while new technologies and investments drive the latest health services, entrenched political interests threaten progress. Take, for instance, the recent controversy over ultrasounds in California California's overlo...
Tom Siebel announced this week that he is giving up the daily grind of running the company he started and instead plans to concentrate on his role as chairman of the board. Taking over as CEO is Mike Lawrie, a 26-year IBM veteran There's no doubt that Siebel will continue to have a great influence on the company he founded, but with so many layers ...
Microsoft and IronPort Systems today announced what the companies are calling "initial success" with the new Bonded Sender Program, IronPort's legitimate e-mail sender program designed to reduce the deluge of unwanted e-mail sent to Microsoft customers. For the past five months, Microsoft has worked with IronPort Systems' Bonded Sender Program leg...
Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing amounts of bandwidth. According to a report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, an estimated 50 percent of all e-mail in 2003 was spam, which may have chewed up US$20.5 billion in technical resources...
In the world of data storage, reaching the top of the market involves a precipitous climb, all the while facing fierce competitors, promising up-and-comers and changing business needs Longtime giants, such as EMC and Network Appliance, play major roles in the field, but heavy-duty storage offerings are also available from companies like Cisco, HP, ...
Red Hat chose London as the location to launch its new Linux software that is bundled with security and management features The new product, Red Hat Desktop, is targeted at organizations that are looking to upgrade their PCs but don't want all the features that ship with the latest version of Microsoft Windows, Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's chief execu...
It may be just in North America, just on the retail desktop and just a week, but challenger AMD is being credited with selling more of its processors in retail desktop machines than rival Intel for the week ended April 24th. In the findings from La Jolla, California-based Current Analysis, AMD accounted for 52 percent of retail desktop sales compa...
Microsoft yesterday pulled the wraps off the latest version of its digital rights management (DRM) software, a move awaited with great anticipation in some corners of the online music universe "We're very excited about it," Richard Bullwinkle, senior product marketing manager at Rio Audio in Santa Clara, California, told TechNewsWorld. "We believe ...
PayPal yesterday introduced PayPal Web Services, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that the company hopes developers will use to build code that will integrate the PayPal platform into other e-commerce systems PayPal Web Services, based on open standards and currently in beta, consists of four new informational and transactional AP...
A new worm that first materialized last Tuesday appeared in its third minor variant early this morning. The Sasser worm threatens any unprotected Windows computer tethered to the Internet via a broadband connection The rogue code was officially recognized and named early Saturday morning. The new worm also is known by a variety of aliases, includin...
The SCO Group is amending its federal lawsuit against IBM, changing its legal tactics in the ongoing public drama over Linux software But contrary to some reports in the press, the company didn't claim earlier in a letter that the Linux General Public License (GPL) was "unconstitutional." ...
IBM has unveiled the first in a line of servers powered by its own Power5 microprocessor. The new product family is designed to add customized hardware to the company's server virtualization arsenal. Big Blue said its eServer i5 is aimed at small and mid-size businesses that need their servers to run multiple software applications, even on differe...
We may be watching the demise of Apple as a PC company and its rebirth as a cross-platform multimedia company. This has been going on for some time, but it just became obvious to me when I had a chance to review Apple's latest financials. The PC market grew at a good rate -- at least compared with previous years -- with 16 to 20 percent growth, depending on who provided the numbers. Apple grew its PC business at a near-flat 5 percent and lost share, again.
Software designed to steal computer users' personal data is gaining more attention from Congress even as top consumer protection officials in the Bush administration say it is too early for the government to step in and deal with it Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) plans to introduce a bill that would outlaw "spyware" programs designed to record Web brows...
In some ways, the computer business is a bit like show business. There are stars that become household names -- names to conjure with. But for every one of them, there are dozens of workaday actors who may deliver perfectly credible performances but remain largely anonymous Something similar goes on with personal computers. Everybody knows Dell -- ...
Gateway has reported preliminary results for its first quarter, showing a larger-than-expected loss. The company booked revenue of US$868 million during the period, with a net loss of $166 million, or 49 cents per share. Its first-quarter financial statements include the operations of eMachines, which Gateway acquired earlier this year Approximatel...
Cisco and IBM have announced a new partnership and new products to tie the network and datacenter closer together to reduce IT complexity while increasing performance The two companies said their "global strategic alliance" will integrate Cisco's networking technology with IBM's systems and software through products and services such as an IBM-Cisc...
Making good on a marketing promise uttered late last year, Red Hat today is ending support for the final version of its Linux 9 product The Raleigh, North Carolina, Linux vendor in January stopped supporting its other legacy versions of Linux, hoping that customers would switch to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux line of products.
In previous columns, I've described the benefits of transportable music files, especially for getting your music heard [Paul Korda, "Kissing Big Music Goodbye: Diary of an Online Musician," TechNewsWorld, April 7, 2004]. To balance the virtues of such thinking, one must ask oneself whether the method of digital sampling and recording -- or even, for that matter, digital video -- is really capturing the essence of the matter being recorded...
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