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Microsoft's Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Windows XP operating system is nearing its release, but repeated warnings from the software giant and a bug that bit some users of 64-bit hardware are highlighting the potential negative impact of the service pack, which analysts have called a whole new...

Today at its TechEd conference, Microsoft announced agreements with an initial group of appliance partners to extend Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server) 2004 to customers who want all those features in a dedicated hardware package. ISA Server 2004, part of Windows Serv...

Was the term "windows" used in the computing world before Microsoft's Windows operating system first hit the scene in 1985? A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled this week that Microsoft will not be able to make that case to the judge in the Microsoft-Lindows trademark conflict before trial, which now will ...

A federal court ruling that dismissed a seven-year-old patent infringement lawsuit against PalmOne's Graffiti handwriting recognition system will be appealed by Stamford, Connecticut-based Xerox Corporation. "We intend to appeal," Xerox spokesperson Christa Carone told TechNewsWorld. "We've won on a...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Managed Security Services: A Hedge Against E-Mail Attacks

In today's world of merged business and technology applications, e-mail has become as essential as the telephone. But e-mail on the corporate level is also one of the most deadly communication tools. It is through e-mail that most security risks occur, warn security specialists. If the corporate e-m...

Microsoft's trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world's largest software maker's appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word "windows" can be c...

At its latest conference for developers, Microsoft announced a technical preview of Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, and the release of Web Services Enhancements 2.0. The company also previewed Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a collection of tools designed to help software development....

A leading Green researcher and environmental advocate who was among the first to warn of the effects of global warming has caused a stir with his idea that a faster, more troubling timetable of climate change requires an embrace of nuclear energy. While warnings over global warming and an end to nuc...

In conjunction with the introduction of its new Performance-Power Rating, AMD today announced a line of low-power, high-performance AMD Geode processors, the AMD Geode NX 1500@6W processor and the AMD Geode NX 1750@14W processor. In addition to introducing the AMD Geode NX processors, AMD is renamin...

I was chatting with a journalist a couple of days ago to help with background on a story on Microsoft designed to debunk one of the most common misconceptions surrounding the company. I started to realize there were a lot of them -- some I actually held myself -- that either were no longer true or n...

Symantec, one of the largest providers of information security technologies, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will ...

There's an article in Britain's prestigious Times Online today called "Q&A: Napster and the Music Industry," which seems -- at least on the surface -- to explain what Napster 2 will mean to Britons now that its owner, Roxio, has succeeded in snaking it into the United Kingdom. "Easy, safe and le...

Napster UK Goes Live

Online music service Napster has launched a download service in the UK, offering a choice between individual song downloads or a monthly subscription. Users with Windows 2000 or XP systems can download the Napster jukebox application and begin downloading songs to their PC. Users that sign up to the...

National leaders reviewing the emergency response and communication during and after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9-11 are looking to the private sector to bolster readiness at the same time some local governments are considering 802.11 wireless technology, or WiFi, as the basis of their own...

Cingular and AT&T Wireless recently announced plans to merge, resulting in a bigger, more reliable network for customers. Not long after, Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America filed a petition to block the merger. Once again, so-called consumer groups are opposing market develop...


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