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Chris Klaus, the founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems, was recently appointed to cochair the National Common Criteria Task Force. Klaus was selected as task force cochair by the Business Software Alliance, the Information Technology Association of America, Microsoft's TechNet branch, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Tom Ridge, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
Boasting half a billion dollars of technology innovation and no fewer than 20 new products, Sun Microsystems has released new software, systems and pricing aimed at leveraging its new relationship with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. As part of the strategy, Sun plans to move into the small-business market by promoting Java as a programming language and a platform...
A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor had a yard sale. Like others in the same position, she was glad to take any offer for no-longer-wanted stuff. So what if she paid $100 for that lamp a few years ago? She now considered it junk, and $5 was better than the nothing she would get if the trash collector took it away. In fact, the 5 percent recovery sh...
Hewlett-Packard plans to launch a music download service and to attack the consumer electronics market with its own music player and a line of high-end flat-panel televisions HP executives indicated the company plans to use the January Consumer Electronics trade show in Las Vegas as a venue for launching the new initiatives, though they said that t...
Linux is poised to claim a major victory: the bourgeoning market for robot software. The battle is not over yet, but if developments in Japan are any indication, Linux will rule the world of robots The stakes are high. Carmaker Honda believes that robots will become its most important business. If Honda and other proponents are correct, the size of...
Over the last several months the U.S. economy has shown signs of improvement. John Challenger, CEO of outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times that there has been a 50 percent drop in high tech job cuts from last year However, the IT job terrain has changed irreversibly from its high point of a few years ...
A Norwegian court is again hearing the case of prominent cracker Jon Johansen, known as "DVD Jon" for his 1999 software program that circumvents DVD copy protection, the publication of which launched a swarm of lawsuits against Web publishers, including hacker site 2600.com While a three-judge panel in January rejected charges that Johansen had ill...
Despite holding the threat of legal action over college students and ISPs involved in publishing information about flaws in its electronic voting systems, Diebold has now retracted its threats and is looking to settle a suit brought against the company by those it threatened North Canton, Ohio-based Diebold agreed in federal court not to sue or sen...
We are a few days from the launch of the new MSN, so it seems appropriate to take a look back at the history of this property to get a better sense of what really didn't happen. Back in 1995, I was working for Dataquest where I made an aggressive prediction about how many users would adopt Windows 95. Using that prediction, Steve Case started screaming bloody murder that Microsoft would put him out of business in short order by instantly signing up tens of millions of customers and easily eclipsing AOL...
In a move designed to enable the company to better serve emerging markets and changing industries, IBM said it will reorganize its software business to enable it to target vertical industry segments more effectively Big Blue plans to retain around half of its 13,000 sales employees around the world in industry-specific products and configurations a...
An industry group has approved a standard for the next generation of DVD players, but the move could be just the first skirmish in a future format war The Tokyo-based DVD Forum has given its nod to a design for "blue laser" DVD players proposed by Toshiba and NEC. Blue-laser players use DVDs that store five times the data of current DVD discs. That...
As e-commerce shoppers have become as comfortable booking travel online as they are buying a book on Amazon.com, the competition in the online travel market has become brisk indeed Although the sudden decline in travel after the terrorist acts of September 11th caused fiscal repercussions for travel companies long afterwards, the industry seems now...
Software pirates in Malaysia are reportedly selling an illegal version of Microsoft's next-generation Windows desktop operating system, codenamed Longhorn, which is not scheduled for official release for another two years at least In October, Microsoft gave out previews of Longhorn at its developers' conference in Los Angeles, and the company has s...
Online shoppers joined their real-world counterparts in roaring out of the gate as the official holiday shopping season began in the days after Thanksgiving, setting up e-commerce to exceed already lofty estimates for growth, according to reports. Nielsen//NetRatings reported that online retail sites saw traffic jump 28 percent on Friday compared ...
Today's teenagers have powered the ongoing success of apparel seller Abercrombie & Fitch and music heavyweight MTV, among many other brands -- but the vast majority of e-tailers have long ignored the buying power of this group of consumers That neglect is shortsighted, say industry experts who track and work in the youth market. Last year, people b...
Internet security experts are divided on the source and purpose of computer viruses and worms like Blaster and SoBig. But some government agencies are investigating a possible connection between the increasing spread of infected computers and organized crime Recent trends are leading many experts to worry that malicious code buried in infected comp...
Back in the IT good old days -- just three or four years ago -- money was plentiful, nearly all projects wereapproved, expanding bandwidth and the Internet made all things possible, and confidence in the economy ran high. What happened next has been described by Harvard University lecturer and author David Collis as the perfect IT storm -- the con...
What's in a name? Not much, according to Shakespeare. But today, the answer is "plenty" -- especially when you're talking about the intersection of domain names with trademarks The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- most commonly known as ICANN -- is a nonprofit corporation that was set up in California to administer several cor...
The disclosure of a handful of critical security holes reported in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser is conjuring up an old debate about the process of reporting security vulnerabilities as well as the usual concern over hacker attacks and compromised computers The five scripting vulnerabilities, described as "extremely critical" by Danish ...
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker indicated growth for nearly all classes of the network computers, with a whopping $10.8 billion in overall revenue representing 2 percent growth in the third quarter of 2003 Overall shipments of servers worldwide grew almost 20 percent, driven primarily by demand for lower-end, lower-cost servers that are in...
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