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Microsoft has launched Systems Management Server 2003 at the Microsoft IT Forum 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark. For those unfamiliar with the software, Systems Management Server 2003 -- which technically is change-management software designed specifically for Windows -- automates patch deployment, appl...
Eastern Ontario voters today were allowed to vote by Internet or telephone -- but not by paper ballot -- in what is being called the first all-electronic election of North America. Despite e-voting security issues in the United States that have pitted some researchers, publishers and ISPs against Di...
Not to be ignored in the wake of several big online music announcements made over the course of the past few weeks, RealNetworks has announced a partnership with Intel that could help move RealNetworks' on-demand music service -- called Rhapsody -- from the office into the living room. While Apple's...
Continuing a stream of activity surrounding newer, simpler security for remote access to corporate networks, Cisco has announced it will support Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology in its widely used VPN 3000 Series concentrators. Cisco's announcement to include the cl...
While I was at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference last month, I finished Merrill R. Chapman's book In Search of Stupidity. In the book, from the perspective of an insider, he lays out the mistakes other companies have made to contribute inadvertently to the dominance of Microsoft. While ...
Software constantly evolves, and change often sparks controversy. Such is the case with Zip, a popular file-compression technology that almost every computer user has run into at one time or another. One reason why the technology, developed back in 1986, has gained such widespread acceptance is that...
Virus writers reportedly are talking tough about Microsoft's bounty offered in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of major malware authors, downplaying its effectiveness and calling it just a publicity stunt. Security experts differed on the likely effectiveness of Microso...
In a technology-industry version of the battle of the bands, Apple has come out swinging against a reborn, legitimate Napster, boasting that the iTunes Music Store has sold five times the number of songs Napster did in the challenger's first week of business. The original, free Napster song-swapping...
A research paper posted online warns of holes in the latest WiFi (or 802.11) wireless cryptography protocol and outlines how WiFi Protected Access (WPA) can be compromised using a traditional network assault known as a dictionary attack. The paper, written by TruSecure's ICSA Labs senior technical d...
An outfit that has exploited a networking feature in Microsoft Windows to send pop-up ads to consumers' computers as frequently as one every 10 minutes has been slapped with a temporary restraining order to halt the practice, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced at a press conference in Wash...
The original Napster software emerged and blossomed on university campuses, so it seems only appropriate that one of Roxio's first strategic steps with Napster 2.0 would be to return to the university -- this time with a legal system that will provide music to students and faculty at Penn State Univ...
Microsoft this week released the first patch -- described as "critical" by the Redmond, Washington-based software company -- for its new Office 2003 software suite. The patch addresses a problem with use of previous Office versions. Microsoft warned the problem could result in corrupted, incomplete ...
Promoted as a way to foster digital television but derided as a halfhearted antipiracy measure that caters mainly to Hollywood, a new mechanism known as the "broadcast flag" has been adopted by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC will require the copy-control measure to be built into all ...
Chip giant Intel claims to have cleared a major hurdle in the quest to maintain power and heat efficiency in computer chips by discovering a process to shrink the transistors on the chip smaller and smaller to atomic levels. The Santa Clara, California-based company said it has identified new materi...
After initiating its pursuit of Microsoft in 1998 to stand with the U.S. Department of Justice and more than eight other states, which all eventually settled with the software company, Massachusetts is still seeking tougher sanctions. Complaining that the two-year-old Microsoft-U.S. antitrust settle...
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