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Had enough yet? Did the Blaster worm send you over the edge? Maybe one of its variants is emptying out your hard drive right now. Or perhaps your bottom line is still suffering from a shutdown caused by the SQL Slammer worm back in January. Is any of that enough to convince you to stop using Microsoft products? There are plenty of people rooting f...
Calling its new office package an evolution from stand-alone, desktop applications to a more integrated software system, Microsoft has announced that Office 2003 is priced and ready for manufacturers Aiming to up the stakes in the office software market, the Redmond, Washington-based software company called the release the most powerful iteration o...
Hewlett-Packard fell short of expectations with its third-quarter results, but executives at the company vowed to post improvements in the current quarter and said they will undertake cost-cutting measures, including 1,300 more layoffs, to achieve their goal. The company posted revenue of US$17.35 billion for the quarter ended in July, up nearly 5...
Data security has become a far more complex proposition than it was a few years ago, thanks to the rise of storage area networks, or SANs. These networks allow users to store information anywhere within an enterprise and access it from any point as well, rather than tying storage to specific servers. Although such a model boosts storage efficiency, it also raises questions about the security of sensitive data that is accessed over a network.
As predicted last week in TechNewsWorld's "Profile of a SuperWorm," the latest variant in the SoBig worm family has been unleashed, with Internet security firms reporting that several copies have been found in the wild. Like the previous five versions of the worm, SoBig.F can be spread via either e-mail or network shares. It takes control of an in...
Electronic Data Systems (EDS), blasted last fall when its stock entered a free-fall from US$40 to $10 per share, continued to show signs of recovery Monday with the announcement that it has been awarded a multiyear contract by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) "This is one of our largest U.S. government contracts to date," ...
In responding to concerns voiced by U.S. Senator Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota), the Recording Industry Association of America has detailed its strategy for pursuing and prosecuting "egregious" infringers of copyright law The recording industry group -- which announced in June its plans to seek out and possibly sue individual file traders who use peer-...
Last month Microsoft Research hosted a summit of some of the best minds in academia to discuss major computing problems and find areas for mutually beneficial collaboration. Held during the last week in July, the gathering brought together 340 academic researchers representing 115 institutions in 11 countries An annual event, the summit has become ...
Wireless startup Airgo -- a company that consists of some of the wireless industry's most prominent pioneers -- announced it is sampling a new WiFi chipset that promises to double the range and data throughput rates of wireless local area networks (WLANs) Palo Alto, California-based Airgo said its AGN100 WiFi chipset, for use in 802.11 wireless net...
Microsoft foiled a well-publicized denial-of-service attack on its Windows Update site over the weekend, but the company still faces questions about its handling of the flaw that allowed the Blaster worm to infect thousands of computers worldwide. The software giant said it thwarted the attack, planned for Saturday, by disabling the Web address th...
No longer a startup with a bright future, Google has become the search engine to beat -- a technologically superior company that has everyone in the industry looking over their shoulders, protecting their flanks and girding for battle Google's Goliath image is quite a change from its earlier role as the rising star of the Internet world, one it enj...
Apple announced Monday it is shipping the first of the highly anticipated G5 processors in two models of the Power Mac desktop computer Billed by the company as the "world's fastest personal computer," the Power Mac G5 takes advantage of 64-bit processing, new cache technology and increased memory support to deliver what industry observers call a l...
A curious change has come over the image of computer security in the last few years. Whereas headlines once screamed the exploits of allegedly evil hackers, the story now is all about bad code -- unpatched software, poorly secured firewalls and computer passwords left in plain sight. The hackers are not the real culprits; the security holes are It ...
Sony's digital camera line has reached new resolution levels with the release of the 8-megapixel Cybershot DSC-F828. The new camera is encased in a black, magnesium-alloy body, and is the first to incorporate Sony's recently announced four-color filter technology Recognizing that current digital cameras borrow a nearly 40-year-old color-reproductio...
The legal battle over alleged unauthorized incorporation of Unix source code into Linux is leading to scrutiny of the GNU General Public License (GPL) that covers the use and distribution of open-source software In its $3 billion lawsuit against IBM, Lindon, Utah-based SCO has claimed commercial users of Linux are benefiting from SCO Unix V source ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory announced plans with system builder Linux Networx to build a Linux cluster supercomputer, using AMD Opteron processors, that will rank among the top 10 of the world's fastest computers and will facilitate nuclear weapons research Salt Lake City, Utah-based Linux Networx -- which also scored a second deal for a smaller...
The Microsoft-versus-Linux skirmish has heated up discussions about how much a company should pay for servers, software and operating systems. In addition, the harsh economic climate has forced many companies to cut costs, so they are taking a long, hard look at licensing agreements, general ease of use and security -- and they are considering Linux more seriously than ever before...
Dell's fiscal second-quarter numbers demonstrated growth in both its consumer and enterprise operations. In addition, the computer maker reported increased growth and profitability worldwide, bucking overall industry trends Although the company's numbers were impressive, they were not surprising to industry watchers....
A Verizon customer in the United States has decided to singlehandedlyfight the recording industry's crusade to pry from Internet serviceproviders (ISPs) the names of Web surfers who share music and video files online. Meanwhile, north of the border, a more benign campaign against piracy was announced bythe music industry's Canadian counterpart The ...
Lindon, Utah-based software company SCO has broadened its licensing attack against IBM by terminating a Sequent license on the same grounds it used as the basis for its earlier claims against IBM. SCO maintains that its Unix source code was used in Linux and therefore violates SCO's rights SCO, suing IBM for billions in an intellectual property sui...
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