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What started out for Microsoft as a bad day with the reported theft and Internet posting of source code for some of its Windows operating systems turned worse as the technology giant once again saw the security of its software tested with the emergence of a dangerous Internet Explorer exploit Security experts said the attacks via Microsoft's Web br...
Leading intellectual property lawyers are suggesting that a U.S. District Court ruling earlier this week, which stated the word "windows" is generic and cannot be trademarked, is incorrect and probably will be overturned on appeal U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, in the ruling released this week in a case filed by Microsoft in Seattle against r...
Many an intergalactic sci-fi flick has showcased the "instant translator" -- the clever box that makes earthling speech intelligible to alpha-centaurians, and vice versa. Now something similar is helping Australian organizations bring legacy applications and enterprise knowledge up to date. Perhaps the analogy with the instant translator is inexact. A sci-fi instant translator would operate as a kind of middleware; this new kind of translation is more about total "transformation" -- turning earthlings into alpha-centaurians...
Microsoft's Get the Facts site, which I discussed in last week's LinuxInsider column, "Getting the Facts About Windows and Linux," makes the case that Windows is cheaper than Linux. The site includes a contribution from Meta Group dedicated to the proposition that the combination of Linux plus a database costs more than a Windows Server plus SQL Server...
Intel has won an appeal of a 2002 patent infringement award based on the technology that powers its Itanium chip line, overturning the earlier decision and possibly saving the company more than US$100 million The U.S. Court of Appeals set aside the October 10, 2002, ruling that found Intel had violated patents held by Intergraph. Intel already has ...
A new variant of the Doomjuice worm has been reported by antivirus research firm F-Secure. The worm, dubbed Doomjuice.B, attacks Microsoft's Web site, much like its predecessor, Doomjuice.A Although it has similar characteristics to the previous worm, Doomjuice.B is smaller and does not contain any of the source code found in the related Mydoom.A, ...
Sharman Networks has moved to nullify a court order that allowed agents of Australia's music industry to raid the company's offices in Sydney last week in search of evidence for a copyright infringement case against the owner and distributor of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program The action by the Australian Recording Industry Associatio...
At an executive gathering Wednesday, Sun Microsystems previewed the Solaris 10 operating system, the upcoming version of the company's award-winning OS for systems based on UltraSPARC and x86 microprocessors. The company, which will make early-access versions of the software available for download this summer, said the new OS will represent a culmination of 20 years of research and development that will propel its customers and partners into the next decade.
Based on arguments that SCO Group is spoiling its own legal efforts, Linux backer Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has indicated most companies are ignoring the entire matter Referring to a position paper written by Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen and published by the Linux consortium, OSDL said Linux customers likely will ignore S...
It's happening again. A major security vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system has security experts concerned about widespread attacks even though Microsoft has issued a patch for the problem -- this time a security vulnerability in the widely used Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN.1) protocol. Microsoft, which rated the vulnerability cr...
Two new standards approved this week by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are poised to provide consumers with content more appropriate for their needs, enabling computers to locate relevant information on the Internet more quickly than was ever possible before The consortium disclosed Tuesday the new standards -- the Web ontology language (OWL) ...
Cable giant Comcast has announced that, despite being rebuffed by Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, it will move ahead with a US$54 billion bid to acquire Disney. According to Comcast, its offer would be a tax-free transaction. In a public letter addressed to Eisner, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts wrote: "It is unfortunate that you are not willing to ...
In what could be the beginning of the end of the Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover saga, staff attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) have recommended blocking the deal because it raises antitrust concerns The DoJ informed both companies late Tuesday of the recommendation, which will be used by the assistant attorney general in making a final d...
Recently, Bill Gates claimed the problem of spam, the annoying unsolicited e-mail that congests the Internet, could be solved in the next two years. Some may scoff at this idea, but when one examines the marketplace, Gates' prediction may even seem conservative. That's because an old idea is finally getting some new attention For years now, the two...
When the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech) opened itsdoors five years ago and started talking to high-tech professionals to gaugetheir interest in joining a union, many treated it as a joke. Now, with offshoreoutsourcing taking off and repercussions from years of layoffs hitting home, noone is laughing anymore Although unions tra...
Open-source developer the Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of its next-generation browser, dubbed Firefox after a name change and the addition of several new features that bring the browser, according to the group, to "the bleeding edge of Internet technology." The browser was formerly known as Firebird, but Mozilla changed its name to Firefox, now in version 0.8, because of a conflict with another open-source project...
PalmSource has released two operating system updates -- one major and one minor. PalmSource's Cobalt is an almost entirely new OS aimed at giving enterprise users more flexibility, while Garnet is a collection of minor updates to an earlier version of the popular Palm operating system. The company said its Cobalt OS features multitasking capabilit...
High-speed Internet access provider Covad has announced it will roll out Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to its business and consumer customers. The company noted that, following market trials planned for mid-2004, the rollout will start by the fourth quarter in most of its Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) In conjunction with the ...
PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's latest takeover bid, saying the sweetened US$9.4 billion deal still undervalues the software firm The directors said they arrived at the decision that the offer is "inadequate from a financial point of view" after consulting with financial advisers including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. They als...
This week, we will get one of the best views on how well the separation between the Palm hardware and software units is going, and, coincidentally, we'll also get yet another view of what probably would have happened had Apple taken a similar risk a few years ago and separated itself into hardware and software units. The fact that Apple missed a big opportunity resonates well with the conclusion that was inescapable once we saw how well the iPod did. Apple could have competed very well with PC vendors if it had stepped up to the challenge and not chickened out...
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