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In a move that expands its decade-old data storage management software portfolio, IBM on Friday announced a new application designed to continuously protect information -- on laptops, desktop PCs and file servers -- from viruses, file corruption or accidental deletion. IBM is billing its Tivoli Cont...
Enterprises are constantly looking for ways to reduce their IT expenses, and hardware purchases represent a significant portion of those costs. "Companies want to avoid buying faster systems year after year and grid computing has that potential," said John F. Andrews, chief operating officer at mar...
As of yesterday afternoon, users of computers running the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system were feeling serious affects of network worms, thanks to a Plug-and-Play vulnerability known as MS05-309. Media outlets including CNN, ABC, the Associated Press and The New York Times have suffered comp...
Sun Microsystems recently reported decreased revenues for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, but you wouldn't know anything was amiss by the other actions of the company. Sun is planning massive investments overseas -- primarily in India -- and has reached deals to develop new thin client techno...
Microsoft yesterday issued its monthly round of patches, including a fix for a security flaw that could allow an attacker to gain control of a computer. The software giant released six security bulletins this month, compared to 12 bulletins in the last round of patches in July. Three of the flaws we...
Corporations' reliance on e-mail systems to circulate information has grown exponentially, but their ability to sort, retain, and locate e-mail messages has not evolved as quickly. "In many organizations, few procedures are in place that outline how to manage e-mail correspondences, and often compan...
Last week I focused on Windows Vista and how things didn't look particularly good for that product, at least not right now. I also mentioned that neither Apple nor Linux was likely to be able to take advantage of a Microsoft stumble. However, I didn't explain why, in addition, I was focused on the ...
The first beta of Vista was released last week and quickly a set of viruses, named Danom.A through Danom.E, were published the following week by a virus-writer. However, the malware actually exploits a new command line and scripting language that Microsoft has not yet confirmed will be included in V...
A new really simple syndication (RSS) feed aggregator from NewsGator touts the enterprise benefits of the blog form of communication, but analysts indicated RSS feeds have yet to substantially penetrate the corporate market. However, RSS feeds -- increasingly popular with consumers seeking to cut th...
The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company has announced that it is launching a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., to develop, market and distribute ...
Microsoft has signaled while its next version of the Internet Explorer Web browser, IE7, will be improved, it will not pass the browser standards test known as Acid2, and will not address all of the issues that hold up Explorer developers, including Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation and su...
Microsoft's latest effort to validate the legitimacy of Windows copies and thwart software piracy has been hit by a hack published online that illustrates easy bypass of the new software scheme, known as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). Microsoft is requiring the validation process for all updates a...
There is no doubting the importance of Windows Vista, formerly known as "Longhorn" and the successor to Windows 95 through XP, as it forms the foundation for Microsoft's future fortunes just as its predecessor did for the company in years past. Vista will be Microsoft's strongest response to competi...
Electronic Arts announced this week that it has been granted the rights to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." EA has been developing games based on New Line Cinema's theatrical productions of "The Lord of the Rings" since 2001. The new deal expands EA's rights to the bo...
In a move to combat software piracy, Microsoft yesterday launched its Windows Genuine Advantage program worldwide. The company hopes to save millions by clamping down on the use of unlicensed software. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) reports that 35 percent of the software installed on computer...
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