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The makers and distributors of the popular Grand Theft Auto video game series are being sued by the victims and family impacted by a June shooting spree that left one man dead and another woman injured. An attorney for the plaintiffs told TechNewsWorld that the Tennessee boys responsible for the sho...
Palm lost its leadership position in the West European handheld computer market last quarter, but analysts expect the Santa Clara, California-based company's sales to rebound in the final frame of the year. "We fully expect that Palm will regain the leadership position in Europe in Q4," Andrew Brown...
IBM and Cisco have announced an initiative to simplify data storage with a network-hosted storage virtualization system. The two companies, which have collaborated extensively on storage area network (SAN) technology in the past, said IBM's TotalStorage SAN software tailored for Cisco's MDS 9500 net...
Red Hat and SuSE today continued their Linux-fueled assaults on the enterprise market and proprietary vendor Microsoft with new releases that seek to broaden the open-source operating system's use in the data center and replace Microsoft e-mail software and servers. While Raleigh, North Carolina-bas...
Apple has released new iBooks that feature PowerPC G4 processors. The new notebook computers offer wireless connectivity with AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth, and all models include 256 MB DDR memory and slot-load combination drives for burning CDs and watching DVDs. The new iBooks also ship with Appl...
Big Blue is again aiming at smaller targets with the announcement of its DB2 Content Manager Express, new content-management software intended to help small businesses store, manage and protect documents and other data. IBM, which also announced DB2 Content Manager for Linux, said it has priced the ...
U.S. schools will spend nearly $6 billion on technology before the 2003-2004 school year is over, much of it on wireless PDAs. Why do small screens have such a big impact on K-12 students and their teachers? For one thing, they're just the right size, said Elliot Soloway, a professor of education an...
Microsoft said it is making progress complying with its settlement of the antitrust case against it, but not everyone is buying the company's soft sell on the subject. In an interim status report filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the company, the U.S. Justice Departmen...
Adding yet another piece to its portfolio of computer network security solutions, security giant Symantec announced the purchase of SafeWeb for $26 million in cash. On the heels of NetScreen's $265 million acquisition of Neoteris earlier this month and F5's $25 million purchase of uRoam in July, Sym...
Facing increased competition and negative perceptions -- yet still optimistic and ready to fight for its home turf on the desktop -- Microsoft has made its new Office 2003 available to retail customers. Microsoft said the new Office "system" -- consisting of six suites, 11 products, four servers, on...
I've begun to see parallels between Microsoft's image problem and my own view of the Linux community. Much as the Linux community sees just one aspect of Microsoft, the bad one, I tend to see just one aspect of the Linux community. Generally speaking, our view of a person, initiative or company ofte...
The U.S. Department of Defense will begin testing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a technology that many have called the next-generation Internet and that the DOD has said is critical to national defense. The DOD is teaming with hardware and software vendors -- including Fujitsu, Cisco, IBM, Mic...
Moving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services. Yet iTunes and other paid services, which differ only slightly in their rules for downloading, ...
Microsoft once again is discussing plans to overhaul its security just as the company has released five patches for seven newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows desktop and server software. The company issued the patches for a range of Windows systems that could be compromised as a result of th...
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