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Only 15 years ago, we watched in amazement while the rusty iron curtain collapsed and the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe embarked on new lives in the global market. For most of us, this neglected region stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans then retreated to the fringes of our attention. Yet the region is very close to Western ...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is planning to offer music downloaders a reprieve from prosecution, provided they adhere to certain conditions, according to published reports People who have illegally downloaded copyrighted music files allegedly would be required to destroy all of those files on their PCs, destroy any known CDs...
Looking to land its first major handset maker as a Windows Mobile software customer, Microsoft is reportedly involved in a deal with Motorola, the company that will build the new smart phone to be offered by French operator Orange The companies would not comment on the deal, but a briefing is scheduled for next week, and industry insiders told Tech...
Lifted by higher sales of more powerful and less expensive notebook computers, the worldwide and U.S. PC markets are delivering better results than expected, according to industry research firm IDC In its upcoming quarterly forecast, IDC ups its numbers two points, raising the global market growth forecast to nearly 8.5 percent and the U.S. market ...
PeopleSoft has laid out plans to integrate newly acquired J.D. Edwards, saying it will cut about 900 workers and consolidate offices. The company also raised its financial outlook for the rest of the year and 2004. PeopleSoft chief financial officer Kevin Parker said the job cuts will represent a reduction of about 7 percent of the two companies' ...
Sean North, president of North Notes, LLC, earlier in his career worked for five years on a computer help desk, supporting employees who didn't have proper computer training and didn't know a PC from a portal "It does seem like one needs to be certified in IT just to be able to use a PC or a laptop these days," North told TechNewsWorld....
As spammers dream up new strategies for slithering into e-mail inboxes worldwide, their counterparts, anti-spam software developers, are always on the lookout for new ways to stop them cold. A bevy of companies think they may have a good answer in challenge-response technology The tactic is a simple one, requiring an e-mailer to verify his or her i...
Authorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant The U.S. arrest and European investigation involve copycat versi...
With many users still reeling in the wake of the Blaster worm and its offspring, Microsoft has warned that its widely used Office productivity software contains several newly discovered security holes The company issued a security bulletin Wednesday, saying one of the flaws warrants a "critical" rating -- its most serious classification. That vulne...
With nearly 10 million Americans reporting identity theft that cost banks and other businesses nearly US$48 billion last year, the Federal Trade Commission said the problem is worse than previously estimated The latest FTC survey on identity theft, which revealed more than 27 million victims of this crime in the last five years, did not differentia...
Read Part 1 of this story Clothing retailer Eddie Bauer has only been online since 1996, but it already is setting the pace among retailers when it comes to keeping its site running smoothly. In fact, Eddie Bauer claimed the top spot in the most recent Keynote Systems e-tail rankings, outpacing such online stalwarts as Amazon and eBay in terms of t...
The hackers have gone too far now. When they were defacing Web sites and launching denial-of-service attacks against eBay and the like, they were annoying, but the general public still gave them a grudging amount of respect. After all, to take down well-protected networks and hack firewalls and intrusion detection systems, they had to be pretty smart.
Online and on-demand media services in digital form are likely to make CDs and DVDs obsolete as consumers switch to downloads and streaming media to get their music, movies and other entertainment, according to Forrester Research Providing evidence that downloads cost the music industry US$700 million in lost CD sales last year, Forrester said in i...
Using several new technologies and more than 1,000 dual-processor Power Mac G5 computers, Virginia Tech University is building a supercomputer cluster that is likely to rank among the fastest in the world In addition to the G5 machines, the university said it is using a beta version of the latest release of OS X, new networking hardware from Mellan...
EBay, Amazon.com and Microsoft are among a group of companies that will work together to fight online identity theft, which some say could hold back e-commerce growth. The coalition is being shepherded into existence by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). ITAA president Harris N. Miller told the E-Commerce Times that the grou...
As recently as the late 1990s, a simple counter provided the only metric most Web site operators were interested in -- how many people had visited their sites. However, as e-commerce has matured and evolved, so has Web performance measurement. Site metrics are now a complex -- although essential -- proposition, telling a company not only how often...
In a bizarre twist to the file-sharing fight in which the Recording Industry Association of America is using copyright law to pursue file traders, search engine Google pulled links to sites hawking unofficial Kazaa alternatives after the popular file-swapping service made its own copyright-infringement claims The RIAA has used the Digital Millenniu...
The other day I was asked what the odds were that SCO would win against IBM. On the basis of how the two parties were behaving, I offered a range of between 55 and 65 percent. I've spent a lot of my life watching litigation, and I believe that you can better tell the outcome by trying to determine what the parties believe and how believable they are than if you just try to dig through their rhetoric...
Saying continued reliance on Microsoft and its Windows operating system threatens their local economies, government leaders in Japan, China and Korea may be considering a plan to develop an alternative to the world's most popular computer OS. Newspapers in Asia are reporting that a meeting this week in Cambodia among ministers of those three gover...
SoBig.F, Blaster, Nachi and MiMail -- the most frequently occurring viruses in August -- helped make last month the worst in the history of computer security, according to antivirus firm Sophos The business-focused antivirus company, in its monthly virus ranking, pegged the newest viruses as the top four, with SoBig garnering a whopping 37.6 percen...
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