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Judging by bids on eBay and postings on craigslist, the market for slightly used PCs appears to be sizzling. Many almost-new computers are sold for what seem to be highly favorable prices, compared with buying a new PC direct from the manufacturer However, would-be buyers face several of the same pitfalls inherent in buying used cars. They do not k...
With more than mere reputation on the line, virus writers are using the MiMail worm as the basis for more advanced attacks aimed at identity theft Security experts said the latest MiMail-I variant --which spoofs official PayPal correspondence -- began to spread early Fridaymorning, and while it is not considered a particularlydangerous outbreak, it...
Looking to head off the kind of communications crowding and interference that has disrupted emergency services in times of crisis -- and to make room for the continued growth of 802.11 WiFi and other wireless devices, networks and services -- the Federal Communications Commission opened up a large chunk of unlicensed spectrum this week The commissi...
Three former Gateway executives face civil suitscharging they manipulated the computer maker'searnings in mid-2000 as the onetime market darlingstruggled to keep up with expectations amid slumpingsales. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suitThursday against former CFO John J. Todd, whom thecomplaint charges was the "principal archi...
As companies begin to pay more attention to eliminating spam, a host of software makers are trying to cash in on the trend. Especially in the last 18 months, numerous products have been created to vie for the title of most popular software, leaving companies to sort through the pile Small businesses in particular, always on tight budgets, are bomba...
With the discovery of a new property in commonly used plastics, researchers from Princeton University and Hewlett-Packard said they have invented a combination of materials that could lower the cost and boost the density of electronic memory The research, detailed in this month's issue of Nature, involves a previously unrecognized property in a wid...
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has said private enterprises plan to increase technology spending by as much as 4 percent next year, offering the first quantified look at the recovery that technology firms have hinted at in recent weeks. Palmisano said meetings with private customers indicate widespread increases in information technology budgets, although ...
A patent that critics say will vitiate the Web will be reexamined in a rare move by the U.S. Patent Office The patent, No. 5,838,906 -- or 906 for short -- governs the embedding of components into Web pages, a practice that, among other things, enables use of such popular applications as RealAudio, Apple QuickTime, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat a...
On a recent Sunday afternoon, Brian Olson went online at Dell.com and custom-designed a PC, a variant of the Dell 8300 series, for himself and his wife. "I had a Dell laptop when I was with EchoStar," said Olson, who is now a marketing executive at Video Professor in Lakewood, Colorado. "It was a great computer. I had an IBM ThinkPad before that.
Microsoft wants everyone to migrate to Office 2003. But at between US$239 and $329 per PC for the upgrade, users may wonder whether the step up is worth the cash. In this article, the E-Commerce Times delves into the new Office suite to identify the features users likely will crave -- and those that, while promising, are not yet poised to shake the foundations of enterprise computing...
The Liberty Alliance has locked up an open standard for federated identity management with new specifications that let companies share login and other information as they deploy and use Web services Touting accompanying policy recommendations in a "best practices" guide, the alliance -- a consortium founded by Sun Microsystems and consisting of mor...
Consumers are gearing up for another strong online holiday shopping season, but they continue to express concern about the security aspects of buying via the Web, according to a survey commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The BSA said the survey, conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs with 4,000 consumers in four countries, found that ...
Mobile phone giant Nokia said it is investigating and responding to a security breach that allows users to play games for its recently released N-Gage handheld on other mobile devices, including at least one device from another manufacturer The Finnish company made the announcement following the Internet circulation of techniques to crack the copy-...
In an effort to build on momentum generated by a robust earnings report, Cisco Systems has reached an agreement to buy Latitude Communications, a software firm that makes Web conferencing products Cisco said it will pay US$3.95 for each share of Latitude stock, making the deal worth an estimated $80 million. The takeover is expected to close by the...
Some ideas are so genius they're downright obvious. They're the ones that make you slap your forehead and wonder aloud why you didn't think of it first. Even worse is when you did think of it but didn't do anything about it That had to be the reaction across the Web search industry when word of Google's Deskbar began to circulate. The tool, which p...
Corporate America is outsourcing an increasing number and variety of jobs to foreign shores, a trend that few industry experts predict will slow, let alone reverse, in coming months and years "Offshore outsourcing is just one small part of a (US)$5 trillion global outsourcing market. This market is growing by more than 15 percent per year, and the ...
While some PC makers talk a good consumer electronics strategy, Gateway is turning talk into products That's what Gateway executive vice president Scott Edwards told TechNewsWorld in an exclusive interview following a New York City press conference at which the computer maker with the bovine brand introduced 14 new business and consumer products....
The desktop may be the final frontier for Linux, but one company is using a combination of Windows interface strategy, Wal-Mart sales and a wide selection of software to try to match the inroads Linux has made in the corporate datacenter. That company is Lindows.com Novell's acquisition of SuSE Linux, Big Blue's commitment to the open-source operat...
Electronics and music giant Sony is rolling out a new CD copy-protection technology that will let the company sell music on multiformat CDs with additional content that can be accessed through PCs The company said that in response to the digital piracy caused by copying or "ripping" CDs into digital form for Internet redistribution, it is introduci...
Microsoft has launched Systems Management Server 2003 at the Microsoft IT Forum 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark. For those unfamiliar with the software, Systems Management Server 2003 -- which technically is change-management software designed specifically for Windows -- automates patch deployment, application deployment and asset-management for large Windows deployments.
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