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When Apple raised the curtain on its online digital music store a year ago this week, there were more than a few skeptics in the audience. Why, they asked, would websters buy something they could get for free through numerous file-sharing networks? Well, after selling 50 million songs from its iTunes store, it's apparent that Apple is doing somethi...
It appears writing viruses is becoming as easy as ABC, particularly given the deluge of worm variants in the Bagle, Netsky and Phatbot families. But the collections of worms are causing some confusion among virus fighters as well as increased danger for users The latest example is the Bagle.Z variant, which, among various antivirus and other securi...
Mountain View, California-based Stretch, a fabless semiconductor developer, this week debuted a new family of process that can be configured by software, making this the first design to embed powerful programmable logic within an off-the-shelf processor. The chip family -- the S5000 -- also includes a suite of development tools that let developers...
Pushing into new territory as it seeks to solidify its enterprise customer base, Hewlett-Packard has unveiled its entry into the desktop PC blade space. PC blades use minimal desktop equipment in favor of racked, blade server-style computers. HP is positioning its offering as a more secure, less expensive alternative to traditional networked deskt...
Yahoo yesterday announced a new public beta version of its Yahoo Messenger application. Leading the instant-messaging industry in time spent per user, at least according to recent reports, the latest version of Yahoo Messenger introduces several new features and deeper integration with Yahoo services. The latest version of Yahoo Messenger is curre...
In a move to build better relationships with certain classes of customer, Microsoft in 2001 began allowing them to look at portions of Windows source code. Several programs were set up, serving selected enterprises, "most valuable professionals," OEMs, system integrators, academics and several other customer categories all grouped under one heading: the Shared Source Initiative...
With its release of the Google Search Appliance last year, the long-time leader of consumer Web search turned its attention to the needs of complex, data-intensive enterprises The search appliance -- which includes hardware, software and support -- interacts with an organization's datacenter to search either an intranet or a business' external Web ...
A memorandum from Microsoft argues against the European Commission's antitrust decision, stating that Brussels is creating legal precedents that inflict long-term damage on the software developer's business model. The memo outlines the legal strategy that the Redmond, Washington, software maker is to take in the appeals court in Europe shortly....
Early warning last week about increased signs of a possible superworm in the making may have slowed down a new attack on the Internet. But evidence continues to grow, according to a VeriSign security officer, of a major new denial-of-service attack to be mounted from thousands of already-infected computer systems Charles Kaplan, MSS information sec...
Two leading U.S.-based technology developers -- IBM and Stanford University -- are partnering to launch an advanced research project to create new high-performance, low-power electronics in the emerging field of nanotechnology called "spintronics." A recent report by a leading technology analysis firm indicates that ongoing research into spintronic...
The Recording Industry Association of America is succeeding at pushing Internet users away from illegal music downloads, but those in search of free file trading are also moving to lower-profile applications and other platforms, such as e-mail and instant messaging, according to the latest research The Pew Internet and American Life project reporte...
SCO has just over US$60 million in resources to sustain it while it fights IBM in what clearly is one of the most volatile wars in the history of technology. What has been very interesting is that SCO publicly has been given almost no chance of winning, while privately the company has convinced several folks, including me, that it has a strong chance.
Google has selected two high-profile investment banks to underwrite its initial public offering, fueling rampant speculation that the search-engine leader will file to go public sometime this week The company tapped Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters for its offering, which is expected to be the largest and most soug...
A Philippines-based software developer this week released software that enables Windows-based programs to run on computers using archrival Linux In a statement, Peter Valdes, CTO of SpecOps Labs, said the software ultimately will help users migrate from Windows machines to the open-source Linux platform....
Forgent Networks announced today that its subsidiary, Compression Labs, has initiated litigation against 31 companies for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 -- the so-called '672 compression patent -- in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. Forgent has engaged in aggressive pursuit of royalties relat...
In what analysts have described as the company's biggest transformation ever, security giant Network Associates sold the Sniffer network protection product line this week to orient its focus on antivirus, intrusion prevention, research and consumer business -- changing its name to McAfee in the process. The deconsolidation and reorganization is am...
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched its most comprehensive attack to date on software, music and movie piracy, conducting more than 100 raids in 10 countries and seizing scores of computers Operation Fastlink, as the push is known, involved 120 searches in 27 states as well as nine other countries, ranging from Northern Ireland and Germany ...
What do you get when you cross a posse of anti-corporate "consumer advocates" with an innovative new e-mail service that most beta testers enjoy? Trouble, as evidenced by the recent hysterics over Google's new Gmail service Gmail is Google's new free e-mail service that provides users witha gigabyte of storage space -- about 100 times more than the...
Sun Microsystems on Thursday revealed it has forged 21 deals with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) during the last four months. The massive announcement provides an objective sign of growth in open-source technologies, according to the company But is demand for alternative, open-source computing technologies, including the Java Desktop Syste...
Chip challenger AMD marked the one-year anniversary of its Opteron processor this week, touting the chip's 64-bit computing capabilities and indicating it will expand its market to the four-way server datacenter sector as well AMD credits Opteron's lowering of the 64-bit threshold for the success of the chip, which is 32-bit and 64-bit compatible w...
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