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Sharman Networks has moved to nullify a court order that allowed agents of Australia's music industry to raid the company's offices in Sydney last week in search of evidence for a copyright infringement case against the owner and distributor of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program. The act...
At an executive gathering Wednesday, Sun Microsystems previewed the Solaris 10 operating system, the upcoming version of the company's award-winning OS for systems based on UltraSPARC and x86 microprocessors. The company, which will make early-access versions of the software available for download t...
A major security vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system has security experts concerned about widespread attacks even though Microsoft has issued a patch for the problem -- this time a security vulnerability in the widely used Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN.1) protocol. Microsoft, which...
Two new standards approved this week by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are poised to provide consumers with content more appropriate for their needs, enabling computers to locate relevant information on the Internet more quickly than was ever possible before. The consortium disclosed Tuesday th...
Recently, Bill Gates claimed the problem of spam, the annoying unsolicited e-mail that congests the Internet, could be solved in the next two years. Some may scoff at this idea, but when one examines the marketplace, Gates' prediction may even seem conservative. That's because an old idea is finally...
PalmSource has released two operating system updates -- one major and one minor. PalmSource's Cobalt is an almost entirely new OS aimed at giving enterprise users more flexibility, while Garnet is a collection of minor updates to an earlier version of the popular Palm operating system. Cobalt OS fea...
This week, we will get one of the best views on how well the separation between the Palm hardware and software units is going, and, coincidentally, we'll also get yet another view of what probably would have happened had Apple taken a similar risk a few years ago and separated itself into hardware a...
Diebold Systems, a $2 billion company that makes most of its money by manufacturing ATM machines but most of its headlines by producing electronic voting devices, found itself in court Monday for alleged abuse of copyright protections created by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The lawsu...
Privately held Norwegian technology company Opera Software, maker of the increasingly popular Opera Web browser that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has announced its intentions to offer an initial public offering next month. The company, which also reported fourth-quarter...
Microsoft is poised to offer a lower-priced, scaled-down version of its Windows XP and Office XP software to compete more effectively in Thailand -- and similar developing markets -- against the threat of open-source software. The Redmond, Washington-based company is hoping that by lowering prices a...
The seemingly unstoppable tide of junk e-mail known as spam has resulted in several different technologies and approaches to combat inbox clutter, but one tactic has recently gained the attention of major ISPs such as Yahoo and MSN: e-mail postage. Goodmail, a startup with the motto "restoring trust...
Computing is moving out of the office and heading for the living room, the coat pocket and the car. In a convergence with traditional home entertainment, computing and telecommunications technologies are starting to weave together a pervasive mix of "lifestyle" products and services. In the near fut...
RealNetworks has released several updates to close security gaps in its media players, including RealPlayer Enterprise and the beta version of RealPlayer 10. The vulnerabilities, if exploited, could give attackers control over victims' computers. The Seattle-based company said it has received no rep...
In a move reminiscent of government tactics used against drug dealers and organized crime, an Australian group working on behalf of the recording industry there raided offices and homes belonging to executives of the Kazaa peer-to-peer (P2P) network operator, Sharman Networks. Using a search order s...
The new offering by Sun Microsystems -- StarOffice 7 for the Solaris x86 desktop platform -- might be embraced by some corporate users as a way to provide leverage in future negotiations with Microsoft, computer industry analysts said. The move also could pave the way for Sun's planned Java-based de...
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