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Early warning last week about increased signs of a possible superworm in the making may have slowed down a new attack on the Internet. But evidence continues to grow, according to a VeriSign security officer, of a major new denial-of-service attack to be mounted from thousands of already-infected co...

Two leading U.S.-based technology developers -- IBM and Stanford University -- are partnering to launch an advanced research project to create new high-performance, low-power electronics in the emerging field of nanotechnology called "spintronics." A recent report by a leading technology analysis fi...

The Recording Industry Association of America is succeeding at pushing Internet users away from illegal music downloads, but those in search of free file trading are also moving to lower-profile applications and other platforms, such as e-mail and instant messaging, according to the latest research....

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

The Mystery of BayStar, Microsoft and SCO

SCO has just over $60 million in resources to sustain it while it fights IBM in what clearly is one of the most volatile wars in the history of technology. What has been very interesting is that SCO publicly has been given almost no chance of winning, while privately the company has convinced severa...

Forgent Networks announced today that its subsidiary, Compression Labs, has initiated litigation against 31 companies for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 -- the so-called '672 compression patent -- in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division. Forgent has...

In what analysts have described as the company's biggest transformation ever, security giant Network Associates sold the Sniffer network protection product line this week to orient its focus on antivirus, intrusion prevention, research and its consumer business -- changing its name to McAfee in the ...

OPINION

Giga-Fretting over Gmail

What do you get when you cross a posse of anti-corporate "consumer advocates" with an innovative new e-mail service that most beta testers enjoy? Trouble, as evidenced by the recent hysterics over Google's new Gmail service. At first blush, the idea of an e-mail host scanning all incoming mail -- as...

Chip challenger AMD marked the one-year anniversary of its Opteron processor this week, touting the chip's 64-bit computing capabilities and indicating it will expand its market to the four-way server datacenter sector as well. The company also said demand has driven top original equipment manufactu...

A new group committed to evangelizing grid computing formed this week, with its inaugural roster boasting such high-tech heavy hitters as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NEC, Fujitsu Siemens and HP. But despite the group's support from so many big names, neither IBM nor Microsoft has joined this alli...

In response to growing interest in and deployment of Web services and similar business process technologies, IBM has announced new software and services designed to make IT infrastructures more modular and flexible. The company said it wants to help its customers build "service-oriented architecture...

Serious Internet security warnings are rushing in from a variety of sources, indicating that the Internet's underpinnings could come under attack and that conditions are ripe for a worm attack as well. The most recent security alert came from the United Kingdom, where the government warned of a crit...

The Better Business Bureau this week issued a national warning about 321 Studios, a developer of DVD copying, backup and repair software that is causing controversy in U.S. federal courts and in Hollywood. The BBB, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, issued the consumer advisory against the company...

The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn its offer of amnesty to file-sharers. Previously, the group had agreed not to sue individuals who would pledge to stop trading copyrighted music through peer-to-peer services and applications. However, the RIAA also diverged from its standa...

Apple is building on its forays into servers with the Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware, introducing a new storage area network (SAN) system that it claims is destined for wider enterprise use beyond its traditional audience of video and media professionals. The company said the Xsan -- priced at less...

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NASA Tests Relativity Theory with Gravity Probe B

On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century. Whether Gra...


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