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Computer security experts thought the impact of MyDoom would fade on February 12th, as the program was reportedly designed to terminate itself on that date. Instead, MyDoom's creators are suspected of masterminding a new malware attack that started Monday. The new worm, Doomjuice, landed on every computer still harboring the original MyDoom.A or M...
Diebold Systems, a US$2 billion company that makes most of its money by manufacturing ATM machines but most of its headlines by producing electronic voting devices, found itself in court Monday for alleged abuse of copyright protections created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) The lawsuit filed by two Swarthmore College students and a...
Network Appliance, which initially focused on network-attached storage (NAS), in recent years has moved toward offering a broader spectrum of storage technologies and capabilities, including iSCSI and SAN The move apparently is paying off. In its second quarter of fiscal 2004, whichended November 18th, NetApp's revenue rose 28 percent to US$275.6 m...
Privately held Norwegian technology company Opera Software, maker of the increasingly popular Opera Web browser that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has announced its intentions to offer an initial public offering next month The company, which also reported fourth-quarter revenue growth of more than 100 percent over the p...
Microsoft is poised to offer a lower-priced, scaled-down version of its Windows XP and Office XP software to compete more effectively in Thailand -- and similar developing markets -- against the threat of open-source software The Redmond, Washington-based company is hoping that by lowering its prices and thereby releasing more legitimate software i...
Juniper Networks has announced it will buy NetScreen Technologies in an all-stock deal worth an estimated US$4 billion. The pact gives number two network gear maker Juniper instant access to a well-regarded provider of network security solutions, including firewalls and virtual private networks "In the simplest terms, it's time to lead, and there's...
Microsoft has reached a deal with The Walt Disney Co. to help Disney deliver content over the Internet and to mobile devices using Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology to prevent piracy The deal boosts Microsoft's bid to establish its DRM technology as the standard for delivering and protecting digital media....
The seemingly unstoppable tide of junk e-mail known as spam has resulted in several different technologies and approaches to combat the inbox clutter, but one tactic has recently gained the attention of major ISPs such as Yahoo and MSN: e-mail postage. While consumers might find spam an annoyance and corporations might view it as a waste of time a...
Computing is moving out of the office and heading for the living room, the coat pocket and the car. In a convergence with traditional home entertainment, computing and telecommunications technologies are starting to weave together a pervasive mix of "lifestyle" products and services. In the near future, if some visionaries have their way, the personal computer will serve as the command-and-control center for devices to play audio CDs and DVD videos, view and download streaming video, download music, play video games, listen to online radio and burn music to CD...
RealNetworks has released several updates to close security gaps in its media players, including RealPlayer Enterprise and the beta version of RealPlayer 10. The vulnerabilities, if exploited, could give attackers control over victims' computers. The Seattle-based company said it has received no reports of actual attacks but has made available upd...
In a move reminiscent of government tactics used against drug dealers and organized crime, an Australian group working on behalf of the recording industry there raided offices and homes belonging to executives of the Kazaa peer-to-peer (P2P) network operator, Sharman Networks Using a search order secured from an Australian federal court, the Austra...
Venture capital commitments ended 2003 on an up note, with the fourth-quarter amount raised closing at US$5.2 billion. That amount represented almost half -- 47.8 percent -- of the total amount raised in all of 2003. The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) reports that for the full year, funds raised $10.8 billion in 2,715 companies, a lev...
The new offering by Sun Microsystems -- StarOffice 7 for the Solaris x86 desktop platform -- might be embraced by some corporate users as a way to provide leverage in future negotiations with Microsoft, computer industry analysts said. The move also could pave the way for Sun's planned Java-based desktop product for the x86 architecture. Sun's Sta...
The SCO Group has broadened its lawsuit against IBM by adding a copyright infringement claim to the case SCO announced at the beginning of last year that it was suing IBM, claiming that the company had used proprietary Unix code obtained from SCO in creating its version of Linux. Since then, the case has had numerous twists and turns, with IBM coun...
Imagine a war in which the combatants are invisible and the weapons they bear are hidden in trickery and stealth. Now picture that war being waged on a battlefield consisting not of desert fields but of thousands of ragtag computers in bedrooms, dens and corporate cubicles across America. The attacks in this war take place silently while Ma and Pa write e-mail to Johnny at college. Office workers huddled over their keyboards inadvertently join the fray with a daily onslaught of corporate e-mail exchanges...
Larry Kramer founded MarketWatch.com as part of a joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corporation (DBC) and CBS back in 1997. After years of turmoil, the company, which publishes business news and financial information and tools, recently achieved profitability in the fourth quarter of 2003 and for the year as a whole Also, in January 2004, Mar...
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has released a set of guidelines aimed at helping users deploy Linux in corporate data centers. Following a process that mirrors the open, ongoing development of Linux software, OSDL is inviting feedback on the Data Center Linux Technical Capabilities 1.0 specification. The document prioritizes Linux capabilities required by enterprise-class applications...
Diverging from its usual dedication to Intel-based machines, Microsoft has made public a beta version of Windows XP for use on 64-bit computers running the AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron processors Microsoft said its Windows XP 64-Bit Edition is designed for technical workstation users who require large amounts of memory and floating point performance i...
If you read a report sponsored by the Flat Earth Society in which an independent research organization found the world to be flat, would you believe it? I'd guess not, but any reputable research organization hired to survey the society's membership on the question would have to come to that conclusion -- and I don't think you could call the result dishonest...
Next week, IBM will release its lightest ultraportable notebook yet, the ThinkPad X40, and the company has high hopes that it will become the notebook of choice for the corporate market The X40 will weigh in at a mere 2.7 pounds -- 14 ounces lighter than its predecessor, the ThinkPad X31. Other features like data recovery tools, durability settings...
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