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Most businesses secure their information infrastructure by regularly backing it up onto tape. Some have gone further, enhancing their backup strategy with expensive disk arrays and mirroring. If an earthquake, flood, blackout or hard-disk failure should catch them by surprise, these backups would en...
Perhaps the biggest part of and reason for Microsoft's dedication to security is the pain of the software-patching process. On one hand, Windows customers are told that to be as secure as possible, they must keep up with and promptly download and install all patches from Microsoft. TechNewsWorld tal...
A slew of new senior appointments at Sun Microsystems comes as confidence in the recovery of the U.S. economy and technology industry is growing. Santa Clara, California-based Sun last week named Jonathan Schwartz as its new chief operating officer, and on Monday announced that John Loiacono has bee...
Despite aggressive tactics by U.S. agencies to crack down on illegal software warehouses, distribution of illegal software continues to rival legitimate software retail sales. Studies by industry watchdogs show that while worldwide software piracy has declined steadily from a rate of 50 percent to a...
The old adage about there being "safety in numbers" no longer applies, at least not in the world of IT security. Microsoft platforms are not only the most widespread, but also the most attacked. About that much, most -- but not all -- commentators agree. The mi2g Intelligence Unit issued three bulle...
The European Union this week heard arguments from lawyers for Oracle, which is seeking to acquire PeopleSoft, but won't rule on the issue until May 11th, TechNewsWorld has learned. Regulators are examining the financial and human-resources software market throughout Europe -- a business applications...
Software giants Microsoft and Computer Associates are heading up the National Cyber Security Partnership, a task force that is calling for security in software development from the start. The NCSP also is suggesting a more prominent role for government in securing software during the development pro...
Is Linux more secure than Windows? That's the question Forrester Research senior analyst Laura Koetzle attempted to answer in a recent report on the subject, but her analysis may be pouring gasoline on an already flaming debate. Koetzle's study compares security for Windows and four major Linux prov...
Hoping to steer its next-generation Windows operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- into the developer community, Microsoft released previews of the software toward the end of last year. The actual Longhorn operating system, the company's next-generation SQL Server known as Yukon and the company'...
Promising a more integrated and economical development environment, Microsoft has released a beta of its newest embedded operating system (OS), Windows CE 5.0, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. "Within CE, Microsoft has not been number one," Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio...
Microsoft unveiled a new software development environment this week that the Redmond, Washington-based company claims will remove the chains that have shackled developers to creating different versions of one gaming title. Unveiling its XNA software development platform at the Game Developers Confer...
Keystroke loggers and spyware developers may soon be silenced, as Congress is debating a bill that would outlaw the intrusive software and declare it akin to trespassing on private property. "It's my computer. It's my private property," said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Montana), during a public hearing in ...
The European Commission's finding that Microsoft has abused its monopoly market presence and the penalties stemming from that finding won't have a dramatic short-term impact on the operations of the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, according to one analyst. "The short-term impact is going t...
Norwegian company Opera is adding IBM speech-recognition technology to its free browser software. Opera, which raised about $18 million in an initial public offering earlier this month, said it is aiming the standardized ViaVoice speech technology from IBM at enterprise customers and developers init...
A former Romanian software programmer who now works for Microsoft has filed a $25 million lawsuit against peer-to-peer (P2P) leader Sharman Networks, which owns and runs the Kazaa file-sharing utility that the man, Fabian Toader, claims is his work. Toader, who worked on a freelance basis for Kazaa ...
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