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In the past year, enterprise networks have faced a plague of security issues. Now, many companies are finding themselves forced to channel more time and money toward improving security. From worms and viruses to compliance and patching issues, businesses must develop ever-more complex protocols to keep unwanted visitors out of their networks. Is a new Iron Curtain about to fall as businesses lock down their network environments, or are more moderate measures still feasible?...
Internet search giant Google has rolled out new features aimed at making Web searches more personal with user-selected preferences and keywords, plus delivery of search results via e-mail The Mountain View, California-based company sits atop the search engine market but is poised to face an avalanche of increased competition as former partner Yahoo...
Contrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales, unlicensed downloading and Internet file-sharing of copyrighted music has no effect on CD sales, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill...
A bill to criminalize file-sharing on the Internet is moving rapidly through the U.S. Congress The measure -- which last week was just a draft proposal circulating among members of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property -- has been scheduled for action by that panel tomorrow afternoon....
More than 100,000 technology jobs have been outsourced from the United States to overseas workers, a trend that will continue for several more years but is actually good for the U.S. economy, a new report from the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) argues The report, released today, states that continued outsourcing of white-colla...
Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. Its EnCase series of applications allows law enforcement and IT administrators to gather and analyze forensic data using a graphical user interface (GUI) -- a far cry from previous DOS-based methods According ...
Promising a more integrated and economical development environment, Microsoft has released a beta of its newest embedded operating system (OS), Windows CE 5.0, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco The company touted cost savings that can be achieved using the new OS, thanks to the blending of command-line and graphical integrated dev...
Dell and Intel have been hit with a patent infringement lawsuit that claims the two companies pilfered graphic display technology developed by a small California company to create entire families of processors and computers. The suit, filed by MicroUnity Systems Engineering, claims that technology used in almost all Intel Pentium III and Pentium 4...
At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) last week, Microsoft raised the bar on what has become one of the more interesting battles in the industry. Actually, it would be more accurate to say Microsoft has taken the gloves off and now -- really -- is going after the entertainment segment The Xbox and MSN groups at Microsoft have been more like indep...
When most people think about IT forensics, if they think about it at all, they likely imagine a scenario out of the hit TV series CSI "When the show first started out, they would show someone at the keyboard and one of the leaders would ask, 'Oh, can we look at all his e-mails?' Then the guy would hit two keystrokes, and he would say, 'Oh yes, I se...
On Thursday, Apple Computer disappointed European consumers jonesing to get hold of the new iPod Mini. After originally setting an April launch date for the candy-colored portable jukebox, Apple said the iPod Mini will not become available until July "The iPod Mini is a huge hit with customers in the U.S., and we're sure it will be the same worldwi...
It's bad enough when virus writers can download their worm code of choice and relatively simply unleash a new variant on the Internet, but Friday showed something even worse: Virtually zero effort is needed to entice people to open attachments. So far, the non-sophisticated, no-subject, no-text Bagle.U variant has spread to a substantial number of computers worldwide...
After failing to reach an agreement to renew technology licensing deals, computing giant Hewlett-Packard has filed suit against Gateway in U.S. District Court in San Diego, near Gateway's Poway headquarters HP is claiming that Gateway, which recently acquired budget PC maker eMachines, is infringing on several HP patents related to personal compute...
In a move that highlights the convergence of Web search and online shopping, Yahoo has announced plans to buy European comparison-shopping site Kelkoo for about US$575 million in cash France-based Kelkoo, which operates in nine European countries, uses a shopper-referral model that will fit well with Yahoo's paid-search and referral program, CEO Te...
Let's do some arithmetic. Multiply the number of different hardware platforms in current use by the number of operating systems that have a reasonably large user base. Subtract the systems that simply won't work together. Multiply the result by the number of applications, servers and databases used in business, academia and on the Internet A silly ...
In part 1 of this article, the E-Commerce Times examined how network redundancy -- a vital if not exactly mesmerizing technology -- is becoming more accepted, especially by those who control the IT purse strings James Decrescenzio, owner of Internet Data Storage & Systems, noted that terrorism and natural disasters have highlighted the need for red...
Microsoft unveiled a new software development environment this week that the Redmond, Washington-based company claims will remove the chains that have shackled developers to creating different versions of one gaming title Unveiling its XNA software development platform at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California, Microsoft said the pl...
The creators and distributors of the Gnome open-source desktop software project are investigating a server breach that reportedly did not affect released Gnome sources and the project's source-code repository, but nonetheless delayed the latest update scheduled to come out this week The sysadmin team of Gnome, a free Unix-Linux desktop suite and de...
Keystroke loggers and spyware developers may soon be silenced, as Congress is debating a bill that would outlaw the intrusive software and declare it akin to trespassing on private property "It's my computer. It's my private property," said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana), during a public hearing in the U.S. Senate earlier this week, talking about hi...
After spending years in sell-off mode, Internet-era darling CMGI has returned to bullish acquisition mode, saying it will pay a combination of cash and stock worth approximately $230 million to acquire supply chain management firm Modus Media. CMGI said the deal also highlights a return to its original focus on supply chain services and technology...
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