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In what analysts have described as the company's biggest transformation ever, security giant Network Associates sold the Sniffer network protection product line this week to orient its focus on antivirus, intrusion prevention, research and its consumer business -- changing its name to McAfee in the ...
Apple is building on its forays into servers with the Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware, introducing a new storage area network (SAN) system that it claims is destined for wider enterprise use beyond its traditional audience of video and media professionals. The company said the Xsan -- priced at less...
Court papers filed this week demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice is asking Microsoft to reveal more to rivals who license essential Windows computer code as part of the company's ongoing antitrust settlement. The documents in federal court show that Microsoft has agreed to a deal with th...
In its monthly scheduled security update, Microsoft released four sets of patches, totaling 33 updates, to counter several vulnerabilities in the company's widely used Windows operating system and other software products. Microsoft said three of the four patch sets are "critical vulnerabilities," wi...
How far Sun Microsystems and Microsoft take their newfound cooperation remains to be seen, but analysts agree both companies are being forced to embrace one another to fight off the successful interoperability and multiplatform approach of others, such as IBM, HP, Dell and Novell. The recent announc...
Software can kill you. Don't think so? Talk to the family members of 21 deceased patients treated at the National Cancer Institute in Panama in November 2000. The cancer patients died after being overdosed by a Cobalt-60 radiotherapy machine. The technicians who entered patient and medication data i...
Now that it has more firmly projected 2006 as the year it will deliver the next-generation Windows operating system, known as Longhorn, Microsoft is cutting overly ambitious parts of the software to avoid delays and ensure quality. The industry, which has been promised much by Microsoft with its tal...
The first reported malicious code to target Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a potentially damaging Trojan Horse computer program, is serving as both a validation of the platform's security and a warning that more may be coming. Announced by Mac security vendor Intego, the Trojan horse, dubbed MP3...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ratcheting up the computer industry establishment's pressure on hackers, meeting this week in Washington, D.C., with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and IT industry leaders to decry Internet crime. Ballmer observed that the circle of active hackers today is large...
Most businesses secure their information infrastructure by regularly backing it up onto tape. Some have gone further, enhancing their backup strategy with expensive disk arrays and mirroring. If an earthquake, flood, blackout or hard-disk failure should catch them by surprise, these backups would en...
Perhaps the biggest part of and reason for Microsoft's dedication to security is the pain of the software-patching process. On one hand, Windows customers are told that to be as secure as possible, they must keep up with and promptly download and install all patches from Microsoft. TechNewsWorld tal...
A slew of new senior appointments at Sun Microsystems comes as confidence in the recovery of the U.S. economy and technology industry is growing. Santa Clara, California-based Sun last week named Jonathan Schwartz as its new chief operating officer, and on Monday announced that John Loiacono has bee...
Despite aggressive tactics by U.S. agencies to crack down on illegal software warehouses, distribution of illegal software continues to rival legitimate software retail sales. Studies by industry watchdogs show that while worldwide software piracy has declined steadily from a rate of 50 percent to a...
The old adage about there being "safety in numbers" no longer applies, at least not in the world of IT security. Microsoft platforms are not only the most widespread, but also the most attacked. About that much, most -- but not all -- commentators agree. The mi2g Intelligence Unit issued three bulle...
The European Union this week heard arguments from lawyers for Oracle, which is seeking to acquire PeopleSoft, but won't rule on the issue until May 11th, TechNewsWorld has learned. Regulators are examining the financial and human-resources software market throughout Europe -- a business applications...
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