Applications

New Roadblock Fights Spam

A new generation of anti-spam artillery is helping Internet Service Providers fight more successful battles in the war against spammers. IronPort Systems is arming some of the largest ISPs with a new type of Reputation Filter powered by the SenderBase E-mail Traffic Monitoring Network. This filterin...

Microsoft today handed aspiring bloggers a simple, free tool to get started, releasing a public beta version of MSN Spaces. The tool is integrated into Microsoft's other Internet services, which the company has also upgraded. The latest version of its instant messaging service, MSN Messenger 7.0, is...

The group Reporters Without Borders is blasting search engine leader Google for its supposed complicity in government censorship, requesting that the popular Web tool provider pull its news service that excludes content not approved by the Chinese government. The group, which has been critical of co...

Video game distributors are under fire from two groups today that claim children can still buy games with violent and sexual themes despite a rating system designed to prevent just that. In separate events, The National Institute on Media and the Family and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Respons...

A host of trends in the technology industry could lead to a sharp increase in licensing fees next year and beyond, and enterprises should consider renegotiating existing deals now, research firm Gartner says in a new report. The firm said that even if per-unit software prices change little, as expec...

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Is Your Site Under Attack?

Denial of service (DoS) attacks get all the press, but stealth attacks are the ones to really worry about. What are some of these attacks (with colorful names like "Bot" and "Zombie"), and how can you determine if your site has been compromised? Unfortunately, on the Internet, there is no real borde...

Microsoft inked a deal with a prominent French software company in an effort to broaden the market for product lifecycle management (PLM) software used in 3-D design and graphics. The deal may also be another counter-move by Microsoft, which is facing an unfavorable position against the European Co...

Google today launched a site dedicated to results that it says will help scientists and other academics get up-to-date research that may not be available at libraries. Searches on Scholar.google.com target academic, scientific and technical publications. The company worked with some scholarly publi...

On the very day that "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" officially topped video game rental charts, other headlines point to research into the impact of such violent games on user behavior. Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine researchers have already determined in previous studies that exposure ...

Microsoft is aggressively pursuing Novell NetWare customers with discounts, new migration tools and services for Windows Server 2003. Industry analysts called the strategy a smart one, indicating that the majority of enterprise NetWare users -- at a crossroads of moving to SuSE Linux with Novell or ...

Dell and Microsoft have struck a partnership aimed at making it easier and faster for enterprises to update their server software with security patches and new releases. The companies said they will work to merge Dell's OpenManage 4 systems management software and Microsoft's Systems Management Serv...

In an unaccustomed role as challenger, Microsoft unveiled its search engine this week to some glitches and complaints -- nothing new for the software giant -- and the new presence prompted Google to respond immediately. The result is a bit of a role reversal as the upstart turned dominant player, Go...

Microsoft yesterday released a patch aimed at protecting its ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000), an enterprise-level firewall and Web cache server, and Proxy Server 2.0, which serves as an Internet gateway for networked computers. The affected software includes Microsoft Proxy Serv...

Computer Associates yesterday announced the launch of its eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware r5. The new product integrates CA's eTrust Security Management software portfolio with a revised version of the PestPatrol anti-spyware application CA acquired in an earlier buyout. The software, with a retail p...

Aiming to keep all-important software developers eager to work on its platform and to stay ahead of Java-based rivals, Microsoft is laying the foundation for what it sees becoming "software factories" where specific applications can be quickly customized from a base of existing code. The software gi...

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