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Microsoft beefed up its security offerings, buying the anti-spyware companyGiant and announcing it would make available for free a beta version of thesoftware for Windows 2000 and later. The test version will be availablewithin a month, Microsoft said Microsoft will use Giant's intellectual property and technology to developits anti-spyware product...
Ending a disappointing chapter in its history, Hewlett-Packard todayannounced that Intel would hire its Itanium chip team, severing a 12-yeardevelopment partnership between the companies. HP, however, said it wasstill planning to spend US$3 billion over three years on the 64-bittechnology "It surprised me to find there were still HP guys involved i...
The Motion Picture Association of America continued its assault on filesharing, joining with police in Europe and the United States to try to stopdefendants that John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracyoperations, called "parasites, leeching off the creativity of others." Monday, a series of raids around Europe shut down several pe...
The New York Stock Exchange and IBM announced in a conference call todaythat TradeWorks, a new processing system complete with custom hand-helddevices -- all designed and built by IBM -- was up and running on the tradefloor "The key point is that the NYSE represents the largest application in theworld," Mike Gilpin, a Forrester Research analyst, to...
IBM said grid computing is moving beyond the early adopter phase andannounced today a series of "Think Grid" workshops to help its businesspartners learn more about creating, selling and using enterprise grids The three-day workshops will be held in IBM Innovation Centers in Hursley,UK; San Mateo, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts; and will be...
Google's quest to aggregate all content on the Web has expanded to encompasswhole libraries The search engine company announced it would be scanning all or parts ofthe collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford,Stanford and the University of Michigan, which will then be searchable online....
Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD camp,saying it would manufacture players for that f...
Men who have been balancing laptops on their knees as they work during rush hour on the train or wait in the airport for flights may be at risk of more than aches and pains from hunching over that little keyboard. They could also be prone to another major side effect: infertility Dr. Yefim R. Sheynkin has found that men who balance their laptops on...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown theirconsiderable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs,escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies thatare promoting Blu-ray. Warner Bros. Studios, Paramount Pictures, UniversalPic...
PalmSource, the separate company that develops the palmOne mobile operating system, announced today it would buy China MobileSoft, whose Linux technology will give PalmSource an instant foothold in the open-source market Analysts praised the move. "PalmSource will greatly extend its reach in both the low-end feature phone market and the highest end...
In an attempt to get a jump on the spread of malware through instant messaging, a group of security firms has banded together to create a community of watchdogs that will share information about potential threats Led by IMlogic, which sells enterprise security software for IM systems, the group comprises security companies MacAfee and Sybari Softwa...
As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa's parentcompany should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes onover its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about the effectiveness of themusic industry's enforcement efforts Today, the Federal Court in Sydney heard from Leon Sterling, chairman ofSoftware Innovation and Engi...
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is extending its PowerNow technology into theserver and workstation realms, building it into Opteron processors, thecompany announced today PowerNow, already available in laptops and desktop computers, helps keepchips cooler by cutting back on the power supplied to them when they are notin use. The technology, called Co...
Trend Micro is giving away its antivirus and anti-spam software forsmartphones until June, the company announced today, but how necessary that software is remains unclear "It's a solution in search of a problem," analyst Ed Moyle of SecurityCurvetold TechNewsWorld....
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 out in beta, and upgrades to its Hotmail e-mail se...
Hewlett-Packard has worked out the bugs in software it says will slow down the spread of worms and viruses within servers Virus Throttler -- which HP had said it was shelving back in August because it was having trouble integrating it with Microsoft Windows server software -- is now back, HP CTO Tony Redman said Tuesday at the company's Software Un...
Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled network management software developed from tools it acquired when it bought Novadigm and Consera Software earlier this year OpenView Automation Manager is part of HP's plan to build a set of individually available components as a replacement for the unwieldy Utility Data Center, which HP discontinued in September....
In an attempt to cut down on the use of counterfeit software use, Microsoft is allowing users of non-licensed copies of Windows XP in the United Kingdom to trade them in for legitimate versions of the operating system The program, Windows XP Counterfeit Project, has some strings attached. To be eligible, users must live in the UK and have bought a ...
One hundred independent software vendors (ISVs) have pledged to use software under the umbrella of IBM's Workplace, a direct competitor to Microsoft .NET. Both are attempts to move PC-centric productivity software onto a network. The company did not say exactly how much of the software that falls under the Workplace umbrella the ISVs will be using ...
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 Responsibility both called attention to what they said wer...
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