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Microsoft's long-anticipated operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- has been hard to lasso. The company has been carefully controlling disclosures about the new OS, which is slated to be released in 2005. Even developers are keeping mum, for the most part. Extreme Logic's Paul Hernacki, like other software developers, spoke cautiously about Lo...
Lexar Media is shipping the world's first 4-GB CompactFlash memory card. Specifically designed for professional photographers shooting high-resolution images -- and priced at an industry high of US$1,499 -- the card can store about 600 images captured in raw mode using a 6-megapixel camera Amateur photographers shooting with lower-resolution camera...
As the LinuxWorld conference kicks off, Novell has announced the purchase of Ximian, a privately held company known as a trailblazer in the open source space, for an undisclosed amount. According to Novell, the deal was an all-cash transaction and will not affect its financial statements this fiscal year According to a statement issued in conjuncti...
A denial-of-service (DoS) attack that took down Microsoft's Web site Friday, two days after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of a widespread Windows vulnerability, is being investigated by the Redmond, Washington-based software company and law enforcement officials Microsoft has some clues as to the origin of the outage, which lasted...
Qwest Communications and Sprint have jointly announced that Sprint will wholesale its PCS Vision voice and data services to Qwest customers under an exclusive agreement Sprint (NYSE: PCS) spokesperson Dan Wilinsky told the E-Commerce Times that this deal is a win-win opportunity for both companies. It offers Sprint a new sales channel, especially f...
An e-mail worm posing as a system administrator message was rapidly spreading over the Internet as workers returned to the office Monday and unwittingly contributed to its proliferation by opening attachments The worm, dubbed "MiMail," indicates to receivers that their e-mail account will soon expire and tricks users into opening an attachment that...
Imagine a completely networked home -- a smart home, if you will -- in which every appliance has its own Internet address and can be remotely managed from anywhere on the Internet with a simple Web browser. Did you forget to turn off the coffee pot before you left for work? Simply log on to your home's network and shut it off remotely A few years a...
In an effort to trim costs, U.S. companies increasingly have been shipping work overseas, especially to India, China, Eastern Europe and South America. While this practice boosts the bottom line in the accounting office, it also raises the anxiety level of U.S.-based employees Since foreign workers are willing to perform programming, help desk and ...
Buzz about WiFi has swelled to a dull roar this year. Ads for PC laptops highlight Intel's new Centrino technology, which gives users wireless networking capabilities without requiring them to buy a separate PCI card. Across the United States, Starbucks enables customers to check e-mail wirelessly, and McDonald's has just followed suit with plans to offer WiFi service at about 75 restaurants in the Bay Area...
Security will move farther from the fallible hands of users and closer to the heart of the computer with a deal announced by Intel and Wave Systems. The deal will help bridge the gap between hardware and software protection Chip giant Intel will use software from Lee, Massachusetts-based Wave Systems to support a security measure known as the Trust...
Users of Sun Microsystems' hardware will now have another open-source software option thanks to an alliance between Sun and SuSE that means Sun will sell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on Sun's x86 systems. According to the deal announced Friday, SuSE will become a Java 2 Standard Edition licensee and will distribute Sun's Java Virtual...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an updated advisory Wednesday entitled "Potential for Significant Impact on Internet Operations Due to Vulnerability in Microsoft Operating Systems." The warning listed all the major iterations of Windows server platforms as well as client-side Windows XP. The advisory said that, while the depar...
Background checks for IT recruits are standard, but as some companies discoverpainfully, potential black hats can still get hired. Threats from within have become all too commonplace, sometimes leaving companies to battle their own employees in order to achieve better security Yet, clamping down too fiercely can wreak havoc with employee morale and...
Sprint PCS and Samsung have jointly announced a new gaming accessory that will convert certain Samsung mobile phones into gaming devices. Called the PCS Game Pad, the add-on works only with Samsung's new A600 mobile phone, which was also released today in conjunction with the announcement. The phone retails for about US$350, while the Game Pad costs about $40.
Microsoft has revealed portions of its Windows source code to a dozen foreign governments as part of its Government Security Program Initiative, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) spokesperson Alex Mercer told the E-Commerce Times The initiative, which was first announced in January, allows controlled access to the code so that foreign governments and organi...
After receiving nearly 200 subpoenas to turn over information about users of its Internet service, communications giant SBC has filed suit against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), calling the subpoenas a misapplication of copyright law In a U.S. District Court complaint, filed by SBC's Pacific Bell Internet Service in San Franc...
Signs of the times follow patterns. In the fat years of the 1990s, we heard a lot about supersize drinks -- and ballooning IT budgets. In the present belt-tightening environment, the FDA is forcing food makers to disclose harmful "trans-fat" content -- and the SEC is forcing onetime high-fliers to open their books to scrutiny. Likewise, whereas pi...
Version six of Internet Protocol -- or IPv6 -- was approved as a standard many years ago, but the high cost of rolling it out has been too severe for the slow economic recovery. After all, implementing the required networking technologies associated with rolling out the protocol en masse requires replacing routers and other equipment geared to the older standard, IPv4.
The latest update to Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system includes the option of using the open-source Gnome desktop interface, but the network computing giant is still sending mixed signals on open source and Linux, according to industry analysts The release, called Solaris 9 8/03, is scheduled for August 13th and will include support for Sp...
IBM has announced that Japan's largest national research agency, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), has commissioned the company to build what will be the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer The system will comprise a cluster of 1,058 of IBM's new eServer 325 systems with 2,636 processors. Specificall...
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