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Linux received a boost from Oracle today when the Redwood City, California-based company certified its database product on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. In addition, Oracle announced it will provide support for this product running on the Linux platform "This is another indicator that our partnership with Oracle is very strong and we are working clos...
Folding spam and spyware filtering into its desktop security software, Trend Micro has updated its PC-cillin Internet Security 2004 package to ward off the Internet's other evils in addition to computer viruses and worms The Cupertino, California-based security company will be among the first to offer antivirus and spyware protection bundled in a s...
Saying that customer data is woefully underprotected on corporate networks connected to the Internet, IBM has unveiled services that aim to make it easier and less expensive for companies to secure that data. In addition to reducing the risk of identity theft, IBM said securing data is a corporate priority because of recent U.S. laws that stipulate stiff penalties if customers' personal information is stolen or leaked...
Just as Las Vegas pioneer Bugsy Siegel imagined a city of dice games and slot machines in the middle of the desert, entrepreneurs looked at the Web a few years ago and saw an audience hungry for online gaming They were right to suspect there was gold in all those clicks. A December 2002 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office stated that onlin...
In my column last week -- "Pros, Priests and Zealots: The Three Faces of Linux" -- I divided the folks who have been writing to me about Linux into three groups. The most controversial statement I made in that column was a comment about the last group: I wrote that I was having trouble differentiating between terrorists and the glowing example of humanity I call the Linux Zealot...
Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft has released previews of the software The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company's next-generation development tools code-named Whidbey are as many as two t...
Dell has introduced the Dell Digital Jukebox -- or the Dell DJ -- and announced details of a partnership with MusicMatch to provide customers with an easy, legal way to download favorite songs and albums. As the next step in the company's overall strategy of moving into other markets -- especially consumer electronics and home entertainment -- bot...
Security experts and network administrators are once again on worm watch because of the existence of exploit code for a software vulnerability in a widely used Windows service The critical weakness lies in the Windows Messenger Service, a feature used primarily in business by systems administrators who use the service to send alerts to users on a n...
Intel and AMD, the two largest makers of computer chips, have moved to cut prices, setting the stage for PC prices to drop in time for the peak holiday sales season. Both chipmakers previously had stated their intention to lower prices, a move designed to clear inventory of older chip models in anticipation of next-generation product releases. Int...
The U.S. Postal Service would like to add a new word to the mix of adjectives like "slow" and "inefficient" that have been used to describe it in the past. That new word is "intelligent," and it symbolizes the high-tech spark that is energizing this old-line government agency. A confluence of factors is pushing the Postal Service to expand its ser...
Facing tough questions about the direction of its heavily used and heavily targeted Windows platform, Microsoft acknowledged it has work ahead to build more effective software-management capabilities into its products while at the same time ridding those products of the vulnerabilities that continue to open the door to attacks Along with pronouncem...
On Friday evening, Apple will launch the latest versions of both its desktop and server operating systems, version 10.3, nicknamed Panther. The desktop version will retail for US$129, while Panther Server, which can run on any Apple G4, including the Xserve, as well as the new Power Mac G5 towers, will cost $499 for 10 users or $999 for an unlimited number of seats...
Touting hands-free capabilities -- including voice recognition and audio playback of text documents -- Toshiba has rolled out its newest Pocket PCs, the e400 and e800 series. The Japanese company's e800 series also now include voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality Toshiba said the newest versions of its "thin-and-light value-priced" han...
Executives at search engine powerhouse Google have been meeting with investment bankers in recent weeks, fueling widespread speculation that the company will stage an initial public offering soon, possibly in the first quarter of 2004 Google has long been rumored to be the next big high-tech IPO. But with stock markets only recently recovering to a...
As IT departments battle trojans, viruses and worms, one particularly nasty critter is still finding myriad ways to slither onto enterprise PCs. Spyware, usually considered an annoyance of home users, has been showing up more often in the corporate world, and it is bad news for business users "For the most part, organizations are blind to it," Forr...
The most significant threat to open source isn't coming from SCO. It's coming from IBM. SCO isn't trying to shut down Linux. That demand for licensing fees from users was just a legal ploy -- one more step in an intricate legal dance to which IBM is calling the tune. It's well past time for IBM to act like a grown-up and settle this issue....
The makers and distributors of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series are being sued by the victims and family impacted by a June shooting spree that left one man dead and another woman injured An attorney for the plaintiffs told TechNewsWorld that the Tennessee boys responsible for the shooting -- being detained until age 19 after pleading...
Palm lost its leadership position in the West European handheld computer market last quarter, but analysts expect the Santa Clara, California-based company's sales to rebound in the final frame of the year "We fully expect that Palm will regain the leadership position in Europe in Q4," Andrew Brown, program manager for European mobile devices at ID...
IBM and Cisco have announced an initiative to simplify data storage with a network-hosted storage virtualization system. The two companies, which have collaborated extensively on storage area network (SAN) technology in the past, said IBM's TotalStorage SAN software tailored for Cisco's MDS 9500 directors and MDS 9216 switches will help cut the co...
Microsoft has said it will expand its "most valuable professionals" program, offering more access than ever to the code underlying its most popular products. Previously, access through the Shared Source Initiative, which Microsoft launched more than two years ago to help quell concerns about security holes in its software, was limited to specializ...
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