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Two weeks ago, I wondered out loud about the top 10 worst IT business decisions ever made and nominated HP's decision to follow DEC down the road to oblivion for top spot. Today I'd like to suggest that the U.S. Defense Department's continued use of Microsoft's software is likely to top a future list of this kind The equation here is simple. First,...
A new group committed to evangelizing grid computing formed this week, with its inaugural roster boasting such high-tech heavy hitters as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NEC, Fujitsu Siemens and HP. Called the Enterprise Grid Alliance, or EGA, the new consortium seeks to create standards for critical business functions and formulate compliance test...
Underscoring the long-term potential it sees in applying technology advances to home entertainment, Intel has said it will dip into its US$200 million home-technology fund to back several startups in the space. The company's announcement came at its annual developers forum in Barcelona, Spain Specifically, the chipmaker said its Digital Home Fund h...
In response to growing interest in and deployment of Web services and similar business process technologies, IBM has announced new software and services designed to make IT infrastructures more modular and flexible. IBM said it wants to help its customers build "service-oriented architectures" (SOAs) -- sets of business processes that rely on reus...
Serious Internet security warnings are rushing in from a variety of sources, indicating that the Internet's underpinnings could come under attack and that conditions are ripe for a worm attack as well The most recent security alert came from the United Kingdom, where the government warned of a critical vulnerability in the Transmission Control Prot...
The Better Business Bureau this week issued a national warning about 321 Studios, a developer of DVD copying, backup and repair software that is causing controversy in U.S. federal courts and in Hollywood The BBB, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, issued the consumer advisory against the St. Louis, Missouri-based company in response to customer ...
Algorithms -- or, in layman's terms, defined procedures for accomplishing a task or solving a problem -- abound throughout the computing industry. These protocols have shaped the ways in which people communicate, transact business and even pursue recreation using computers Certain algorithms are more well known than others. Some of the most famous ...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has withdrawn its offer ofamnesty to file-sharers. Previously, the group had agreed not to sue individualswho would pledge to stop trading copyrighted music through peer-to-peer (P2P) services and applications However, the RIAA also diverged from its standard message of blaming online P2P file-sh...
Apple is building on its forays into servers with the Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware, introducing a new storage area network (SAN) file system that it claims is destined for wider enterprise use beyond its traditional audience of video and media professionals The Cupertino, California-based company said the Xsan -- touted as an end-to-end, "high-p...
Joining the ranks of Linux distributors HP, Novell and Red Hat, a companynamed Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) has launched a program to protectlarge and small users from legal entanglements arising from adoption of theopen-source operating system According to OSRM, its move into the indemnification business comes after arigorous six-month evalu...
Halting in mid-trial the only state-level antitrust case to make it to court, Microsoft and consumers in the state of Minnesota have reached a tentative agreement to settle all claims against the computer software giant. Terms of the settlement will not be announced until details are finalized and approved by the judge in the case, the two sides s...
Recently, a seemingly endless string of worms and viruses has focused attention on the sometimes-questionable security of firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and even the Internet itself. Network security software provider StillSecure aims to tackle the security issue at the desktop, a level that is often overlooked. With its new Safe Access product, the company believes it will make a splash in the endpoint security pool.
On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century Einstein published not one, but two theories of relativity: th...
U.S. residents not only are accessing the Internet via high-speed broadband connections more than previously presumed, but also are moving from dial-up access to mostly DSL or cable broadband more quickly than ever as they put performance at the top of their priority list, according to the latest Pew Internet and American Life Project report. The ...
The SCO Group late Friday disclosed that one of its investors is extremely unhappy -- and wants its money back. But the Lindon, Utah-based Unix provider apparently isn't going to resolve the legal controversy without a fight, at least for now In a letter released to other investors by SCO, BayStar Capital requested that SCO immediately redeem BaySt...
Saying it wants to help advance the "digital revolution" in the entertainment industry, Hewlett-Packard has announced alliances with DreamWorks and Warner Brothers The deals call for HP to help the studios create and distribute digital content. The company made the announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas....
An increase in suspicious activity this weekend has Internet security experts bracing for what some analysts warn could be the next big worm attack worldwide. Virus monitors spent the weekend watching an increased level of activity that experts said could be the start of a Blaster-like attack A spokesperson for VeriSign engineers told TechNewsWorld...
A few years ago, the History Channel had a program that covered great military disasters. One was the on the French Maginot Line. This was a line of supposedly impregnable forts that were put in place to prevent invasion by Germany after World War I. This solution was monumental in cost and it failed miserably because the analysis that created it ...
Barcodes, those familiar sets of lines on items from DVDs to refrigerators, eventually may go the way of the typewriter, the black-and-white television and the dodo. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology promises to replace bar coding and make it easier for suppliers, distributors and retailers to track individual items. Yet while the t...
A new study released this week indicates that nearly 28 "spyware" items infest each PC, demonstrating the broad proliferation of the secret software, researchers said Spyware is a rapidly proliferating type of software that covertly forwards information about a computer user's online activities to another individual or company without the user's kn...
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