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IBM said today that its bet on blade server technology is paying off, announcing that more than 100 companies had acquired its eServer BladeCenter specification since the blade server base technology was made available last September. IBM, which opened its BladeCenter design specification with Intel...
The New York Stock Exchange and IBM announced in a conference call today that TradeWorks, a new processing system complete with custom hand-held devices -- all designed and built by IBM -- was up and running on the trade floor. "The key point is that the NYSE represents the largest application in th...
Google's quest to aggregate all content on the Web has expanded to encompass whole libraries. The search engine company announced it would be scanning all or parts of the collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the University of Michigan, which will then be searchab...
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, video game publishers are seeing brisk sales and offering only a few surprises. Since December accounts for a major percentage of the industry's annual revenues, most video game publishers are playing it safe by promoting sequels to already succes...
As attention focuses on the increasing spyware threats to enterprise networks, vendors are beginning to view the enterprise landscape as fertile ground for anti-spyware protection. Webroot Software, a developer of Internet privacy and protection software, recently completed the first audit of spywar...
With Yahoo's announcement of a free desktop search tool to be available early next year, and other search engine and software companies such as AOL, Ask Jeeves, Microsoft and others delivering similar technology, the feature is becoming a standard part of search. All of the companies lag behind Goog...
Canary Wireless today announced the release of its Digital Hotspotter device, a WiFi detection and analysis tool with an LCD display that provides essential network information to WiFi users and technology professionals. The company says its device is the only one on the market to provide smart sign...
A new generation of anti-spam artillery is helping Internet Service Providers fight more successful battles in the war against spammers. IronPort Systems is arming some of the largest ISPs with a new type of Reputation Filter powered by the SenderBase E-mail Traffic Monitoring Network. This filterin...
Microsoft today handed aspiring bloggers a simple, free tool to get started, releasing a public beta version of MSN Spaces. The tool is integrated into Microsoft's other Internet services, which the company has also upgraded. The latest version of its instant messaging service, MSN Messenger 7.0, is...
The group Reporters Without Borders is blasting search engine leader Google for its supposed complicity in government censorship, requesting that the popular Web tool provider pull its news service that excludes content not approved by the Chinese government. The group, which has been critical of co...
Video game distributors are under fire from two groups today that claim children can still buy games with violent and sexual themes despite a rating system designed to prevent just that. In separate events, The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respons...
A host of trends in the technology industry could lead to a sharp increase in licensing fees next year and beyond, and enterprises should consider renegotiating existing deals now, research firm Gartner says in a new report. The firm said that even if per-unit software prices change little, as expec...
Denial of service (DoS) attacks get all the press, but stealth attacks are the ones to really worry about. What are some of these attacks (with colorful names like "Bot" and "Zombie"), and how can you determine if your site has been compromised? Unfortunately, on the Internet, there is no real borde...
Microsoft inked a deal with a prominent French software company in an effort to broaden the market for product lifecycle management (PLM) software used in 3-D design and graphics. The deal may also be another counter-move by Microsoft, which is facing an unfavorable position against the European Co...
Google today launched a site dedicated to results that it says will help scientists and other academics get up-to-date research that may not be available at libraries. Searches on Scholar.google.com target academic, scientific and technical publications. The company worked with some scholarly publi...
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