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Reinforcing its efforts to bolster software security, Microsoft is planning to release updates to its Visual Studio .Net developer tools and .Net development environment. The news comes on the heels of the company's announcement that it will release a large, security-oriented service pack for its Windows XP operating system The company indicated it...
Privacy concerns over Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology are the basis of both proposed legislation in the United States and protest in Europe. The protests have been linked to German retailer Metro Group's plan to use the tracking technology for items in its supermarket stores However, despite reports of RFID tags turning up in U.S.
The plague of malware appears to be escalating worldwide. As a worm variant called Netsky.D bombards e-mail inboxes around the globe, an even newer version, Netsky.E, already is being analyzed, according to Joe Hartmann, director of North America antivirus research at Trend Micro "There has been a flood of viruses over the last two to three weeks a...
Microsoft and eBay have forged an alliance to work together, making it easier for third-party software developers to build tools that can improve the auction experience for power sellers and buyers. The tools will use basic Web services to more closely tie Microsoft Office 2003 applications, such as Excel and FrontPage, to the eBay platform. For i...
Last week at the RSA conference in soggy California, Microsoft presented the most comprehensive plan I've ever seen to address a security problem. Granted, they currently have massive exposure, but it caused me to wonder what would happen if everyone followed their lead and focused on the human aspects of the problem rather than just the technical ...
There's nothing like a good legal battle to whip up passions, and the SCO Group-versus-the-open-source-world dogfight is no exception. Rhetoric runs high. From the open-source advocates, it's "you're stifling free thought in the name of greed." SCO allies counter with "you're attacking the core values of capitalism." As SCO president and CEO Darl M...
Bozeman, Montana-based RightNow Technologies is a major player in the on-demand CRM space. In an interview with CRM Buyer, RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte explained that unlike hosted CRM leader Salesforce.com, which has its roots in sales force automation, RightNow focuses primarily on providing a complete offering for contact centers -- agent-facing applications as well as customer-facing ones...
As online commerce becomes an everyday part of many consumers' lives, some companies are switching their focus from attracting new customers -- an ever-decreasing pool of recruits -- to rewarding frequent shoppers Conventional loyalty programs typically consist of point-based systems. Consumers accumulate points that can be redeemed for airline mil...
E-mail management company Sendmail is throwing its support to antispam efforts from both Microsoft and Yahoo as the major players seek to team up against junk e-mail and the increasing ease with which spammers fake their identities Spammers have remained ahead of both regulation and technology and have been able to continue sending a deluge of unwa...
Microsoft has revealed it is considering rolling out an enhanced version of Windows XP, a move seen as a way to bridge what could be a longer-than-expected wait for its next-generation Longhorn platform. Executives at the Redmond, Washington-based software company said the project, known as "Windows XP Reloaded," would be more than a service pack ...
The U.S. federal government is moving forward with civil -- and possibly criminal -- cases against major makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips The cases are being investigated on both coasts....
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has delivered a body blow to Oracle's languishing hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, suing to block the US$9.4 billion takeover because it reportedly would result in higher prices, less innovation and fewer choices. "We believe this transaction is anticompetitive -- pure and simple," Assistant Attorney Genera...
Hoping for even bigger market share with a smaller portable music player, Apple has been heavily promoting its iPod technology in the form of the iPod mini, which the Cupertino, California-based company indicated this week is selling wildly among music and technology fans Apple found sweet success last year with the original iPod, which, paired wit...
With a mission squarely focused on securing the Internet through public policy, private industry participation and education, a dozen top security companies have formed the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, announced at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week The companies, including Check Point, Computer Associates, Internet Securit...
Major Internet security vendors formed a lobbying group this week to give their industry representation in Washington, D.C., amid continued fears about the United States' critical information infrastructure The 12 companies called the new group the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA). Its agenda includes introducing policy initiatives, coordina...
Sun Microsystems has announced it will expand its HP Away programin a bid to lure Hewlett-Packard's Unix customers. The company will dangle its own Unix operatingsystem, Solaris, as an alternative to HP-UX Sun initially launched the HP Away strategy almost two years agowhen HP began to phase out its Alpha/Tru64 platform in favor ofItanium-based ser...
In what could be a blueprint for the future of sharing commercial music on the Internet, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Wednesday released a white paper outlining a scheme to squelch squabbles between the music industry and online peer-to-peer networks over music file-sharing in cyberspace "There are some logistical hu...
I've been puzzled by Sun's Linux strategy for a long time. On the software side, things make sense: Linux is Unix, so supporting Linux in the short term brings new value to Solaris in the long term. On the hardware side, however, I couldn't see any logical reason for Sun to sell x86 boxes until just last week, when Intel announced its 64-bit Xeon extensions. My idea about this is pure speculation, but if I'm right, Sun may be creating some interesting opportunities for Linux users everywhere to save a few bucks now while positioning itself to lead the next great wave in technology change...
Through the years, some malicious computer programs have come to be known as viruses. Dr. Fred Cohen, a principal analyst with market research firm Burton Group, coined the term when he was working as a graduate student at the University of Southern California in the early 1980s. "There was a resemblance in how computer viruses and biological viruses reproduced," he told TechNewsWorld...
In the past, enterprises too often adopted an application strategy that consisted of blindly throwing money at software vendors to solve problems. Not surprisingly, this was an unwise use of capital Now, with budgets tight and ROI paramount, companies must define their business processes internally before talking to vendors, according to Scott Tiaz...
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