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Sharp's Linux-based SL-6000 -- newly introduced in the United States this week and available at major retailers like Amazon.com -- offers a full 640x480 VGA screen and integration with IBM enterprise software to connect to remote offices, applications and databases ...

In a bizarre twist of fate for the burgeoning Linux community, the U.S. Department of Justice has banned Linux from the United States ...

When the managers of a Danish manufacturing company arrived at Microsoft's main campus, their expectations were as unclear as the weather outside. They wanted technology to eliminate the hassles created by their disparate business systems and streamline their operations. They just didn't know how -- or if -- Microsoft could help them do these things...

Spyware has surpassed viruses as the number one threat facing your computer today. In fact, most estimates report that 90 percent of computers already have been infiltrated by spyware, which is the name given to any program that installs itself on your hard drive, collects personal information about you and your computer habits, then sends it to a third party without your knowledge.

Today at the third annual Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft, laid out Microsoft's vision and technology road map for reducing the cost and complexity of managing and securing enterprise systems: the Microsoft "dynamic systems initiative." ...

Researchers in North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes today's high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) connections seem lethargic ...

These are indeed tumultuous times, particularly with international and local political conflicts shaping what appears to be a turning point in U.S. history. Clearly, technology is helping to define these changes at the global level, especially with third-world countries coming online every day and technology transforming the way first-world countries communicate and interoperate. But in discussions about technology in the IT press, ethical questions about technology's role are often sidelined or folded into questions about technology's benefits from the perspective of efficiency, information handling or processing power.

As the writer for several top-20 MP3.com hits last year, Paul Korda's perspective on the convergence of technology and music comes from many years of working as a musician and songwriter -- not to mention being a producer at EMI in the late 1960s. He has seen the old technology meet the new -- and witnessed the transformation of monolithic Big Music into a distributed network of thousands of peer-to-peer enthusiasts.

Lucent's Mobility Solutions Group has been working to meet the needs of the world's mobile service providers, including traditional wireless carriers and emerging third-generation (3G) mobile operators. The group believes that 3G spread-spectrum technology is the ideal way to address the future of wireless technology and help mobile operators create a sustainable 3G business.

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 this summer, said the new OS will represent a culmination of 20 years of research and development that will propel its customers and partners into the next decade.

In the world of P2P client software, there are two major contenders to the throne: Kazaa and Morpheus. In contrast to the many lesser-known file-sharing clients, both Kazaa and Morpheus have astonishingly high download numbers. Sharman Networks, which makes the Kazaa P2P application, claims the Kazaa client has been downloaded more than 315 million times. According to Download.com, there have been more than 119 million downloads of Morpheus since April 2001...

The legal and social debate over the legitimacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has made headlines since the days of Napster and Hotline -- and continues to be a major issue today. While there are certainly other hotspots in the tech industry, the P2P debate serves as a focal point for some of the most important issues of the day, such as security, personal privacy and copyright law...

Kirk L. Kroeker is the managing editor of TechNewsWorld and LinuxInsider ...

In his keynote address at the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates expanded on the company's vision for "seamless computing," demonstrating software designed to deliver unified digital experiences and make the technology in consumers' lives work as a connected whole...

Before discussing the results of our experience with the new ATI Radeon 9800 XT graphics card, it is important to mention a few points up front. There has been a significant amount of controversy in recent months concerning the validity of established benchmarking techniques for graphics cards. This controversy stems from a growing perception that graphics vendors have been optimizing their chipsets and drivers specifically to get higher benchmark results...

After recently building a new system with one of the latest Nvidia cards powering the graphics, I poked around Nvidia's demo area to see if I could push the new card to its limits. After installing a few of the demos designed to showcase Nvidia power, I was blown away. I've seen prerendered graphics look as good as the Dusk and Vulcan demos before, but never have I seen anything quite like these demos in real-time 3D. They clearly demonstrate the power of Nvidia's GPUs to handle all kinds of cutting-edge effects.

Chris Klaus, the founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems, was recently appointed to cochair the National Common Criteria Task Force. Klaus was selected as task force cochair by the Business Software Alliance, the Information Technology Association of America, Microsoft's TechNet branch, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Tom Ridge, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...

Computer Associates is not your average software developer. This US$5 billion company -- one of the largest in the industry -- designs software to help businesses manage critical aspects of their IT operations and to help programmers automate their daily work. The company's software products, which work with almost every commercially available hardware platform and all types of common software operating systems, focus on six main areas: enterprise management, security, storage, application lifecycle management, application development and business intelligence...

In his 20th annual Comdex Las Vegas keynote address, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates outlined the company's vision for seamless computing, a framework for software innovation that the company hopes will address many of the fundamental issues computer users face today ...

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, application deployment and asset-management for large Windows deployments.