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In the face of criticism that any legislative efforts to curb spam will be limited by national boundaries, the Federal Trade Commission has announced collaboration with 36 agencies in 26 countries to inform ISPs and other organizations that their servers can be used to relay spam with spoofed Internet addresses The FTC said it and the other agencie...
In a move aimed at bolstering its business model after struggling in the PC space and attempting to move into the consumer-electronics market, Gateway has announced it will buy low-end PC seller eMachines for 50 million Gateway shares and US$30 million in cash. It is a deal altogether worth about $234 million The deal will make the combined company...
A new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce a new line of 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is commercially available Adding 64-bit features to consumer-grade processors would let x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and Pentium overcome today's 4-GB memory ...
Microsoft has announced it will hold off on implementing modifications to the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer as a result of an ongoing patent lawsuit Web software firm Eolas sued Microsoft in 1999, claiming the software that allows IE to use plug-ins infringes on a patent that it holds jointly with the University of California. Last...
PeopleSoft on Thursday reported earnings that paint a mixed picture, with revenue up but net profit down as a result of charges related to its J.D. Edwards acquisition Revenue in the fourth quarter reached US$685 million, including $185 million in license revenue. Of that amount, $112 million, or 15.3 percent of total revenue, went to the bottom li...
Not everyone watches the Super Bowl just for the football. Given that many of the previous 37 Super Bowls were duller than watching golf on TV, some people would argue that the advertising is as much, if not more, of a reason to watch This year, AOL has posted several classic Super Bowl ads on its Web site and has teamed with CBS in an interactive ...
After its initial print-advertising offensive against the Linux operating system in the United States this month, Microsoft soon will be telling U.K. technology professionals to "Get the Facts" as it broadens its cost-benefits campaign overseas Microsoft initially launched the multimillion-dollar marketing campaign -- which details cost savings of ...
Marking a new level of sophistication in computer attacks, a variant of the MyDoom worm -- described as the fastest-moving virus in history -- is following up on the first worm's success with a new outbreak While antivirus experts indicated MyDoom.B is not spreading nearly as quickly as MyDoom.A -- which generated an estimated 3 million copies and ...
The five-year antitrust probe of Microsoft in Europe appears to be drawing to a close, and there are indications that punitive action will be recommended against the Redmond, Washington-based software colossus Although lots of unnamed sources have been talking freely to the press about a draft of a decision in the case, the European Commission, Eur...
A new vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser that could deceive Web users into downloading malicious files has been reported. The hole was identified in version 6 of IE, but previous releases also could be affected Specifically, the vulnerability allows a site owner to misidentify a downloadable file, so a malicious file can app...
In a new report, the Entertainment Software Association counters the perception that it sells mostly violent video games to America's youth. Mature-rated games accounted for just 12 percent of last year's US$7 billion in computer and video game sales, according to the report. Despite the decline in violent video game sales, lawmakers across the co...
In response to what is being called the fastest-spreading computer virus of all time, SCO Group -- targeted by the MyDoom worm's estimated 3 million infected machines in a planned denial-of-service (DoS) attack scheduled for February 1st -- is offering a US$250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the worm's creators C...
Three times during the last week -- first in his State of the Union, then in his weekly radio address on Saturday, then during a campaign stop at a Baptist hospital in Arkansas on Monday -- President Bush touted technology as a way to reduce healthcare costs "By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous medical mistakes, reduce costs and...
Amazon.com, perhaps the premier e-commerce site, announced late Tuesday its first-ever full-year profit. According to the company's balance sheet, 2003 net income totaled US$35 million. In 2002, despite booking a small fourth-quarter profit, the company recorded a full-year net loss of $149 million "Our commitment to year-round free shipping and lo...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is set to unveil a cyberalert system that could include a way for businesses and individuals to report security issues and Internet threats Details of the system will be outlined by Amit Yoran, the department's director of the National Cyber Security Division....
A general rule for IT departments is no matter how much bandwidth a network offers, users want more. So as soon as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers completed work on the 802.11b specification, which supports 11 Mbps wireless LAN transmissions, the 802.11 working group began to work on a higher-speed option, 802.11a, which operates at 54 Mbps...
Notebook computers may not have the same cachet as a Hermes purse or a Savile Row suit, but for some executives, carrying the right laptop ranks on a level with choosing the most suitable restaurant for a power lunch or driving the best company car Fortunately, there are myriad notebooks from which to choose, and the trend toward diversification is...
Virginia Tech, whose G5 Mac-based supercomputing cluster made headlines last fall as the third fastest supercomputer in the world, has announced it plans to migrate the cluster from Power Mac G5 desktop computers to Apple's recently released Xserve G5 1U server According to Virginia Tech, the team that assembled the original cluster of 1,100 Power ...
News of Microsoft's move to file XML-related patents in Europe and New Zealand is being seen in some quarters as an attempt by the Redmond, Washington-based software company to erect barriers to competitors seeking greater compatibility with the company's market-dominating office suite "When Microsoft added an XML format to Word, suddenly Word's fo...
A malicious program spread quickly over the Internet Monday, slowing down network traffic and potentially leaving electronic back doors open on individual computers Known as MyDoom, Novarg and a variant of the Mimail worm, the infection usually appears as an e-mail error message. An attached executable file can send approximately 100 e-mail message...
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