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Chris Klaus, the founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems, was recently appointed to cochair the National Common Criteria Task Force. The task force will examine ways to improve "common criteria," a set of standards developed by a coalition of nations to help ensure that sof...
Boasting half a billion dollars of technology innovation and no fewer than 20 new products, Sun Microsystems has released new software, systems and pricing aimed at leveraging its new relationship with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. As part of the strategy, Sun plans to move into the small-busine...
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker indicated growth for nearly all classes of the network computers, with a whopping $10.8 billion in overall revenue representing 2 percent growth in the third quarter of 2003. Overall shipments of servers worldwide grew almost 20 percent, driven primarily by d...
Computer Associates announced this week at Comdex that it will offer a free one-year subscription to its eTrust EZ Armor antivirus and firewall desktop security suite. TechNewsWorld turned to Ian Hameroff, Security Strategist and Director of Research and Response at Computer Associates, to talk abou...
Dell is the number one PC maker, according to research firm Gartner. The company is also a leading maker of computer servers. In fact, Dell was the second-leading server vendor in terms of units shipped last year, notching a 28 percent year-over-year sales gain to 276,000 units. The company's server...
After closing the controversial merger with Compaq engineered last year by CEO Carly Fiorina, HP has become one of the world's largest technology companies, with $71.8 billion in annual sales. But does HP really lead the world in any new technology fields, and does it have the right technology strat...
Folding spam and spyware filtering into its desktop security software, Trend Micro has updated its PC-cillin Internet Security 2004 package to ward off the Internet's other evils in addition to computer viruses and worms. The Cupertino, California-based security company will be among the first to of...
Red Hat and SuSE today continued their Linux-fueled assaults on the enterprise market and proprietary vendor Microsoft with new releases that seek to broaden the open-source operating system's use in the data center and replace Microsoft e-mail software and servers. While Raleigh, North Carolina-bas...
Sierra Wireless has announced a new line of phones that will use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The first of the Voq line of phones, which will include a flip-open computer-style thumbpad for text entry, is expected to become available in 2004, providing "compelling voice and data func...
I spend a lot of time listening to lots of folks complain that they don't have a choice, that big, bad Microsoft has come in and made their lives a living hell and that someone should do something about it. If you are one of those folks, today is your lucky day. I'm going to start telling you how to...
Windows is often the whipping boy when it comes to server platforms. But many in the industry now admit that Windows Server 2003 offers some significant breakthroughs over earlier versions of Microsoft's server software -- a change that could help Microsoft compete more effectively against Unix and ...
Similar to the action toys of two decades ago, prototype ThinkPad notebooks from IBM can be transformed from the traditional notebook form factor to a disconnected desktop with a more comfortable keyboard and separate monitor. While the models, which Big Blue showed off at a trade show this week, ar...
Computer hobbyists for years have tweaked their computers' innards to squeeze out extra bits of performance. Known as overclocking, the practice has long been a holy grail to users who demand maximum performance from their systems. But overclocking a system poses hazards to the hardware, making the ...
Microsoft has moved up the public prerelease date of the new edition of its Office 2003 productivity suite to Monday, September 15, to let some of its business customers download the desktop application bundle about two weeks sooner than originally planned. The software -- which will be released to ...
Antivirus giant Symantec is touting features like centralized management and wireless Web updates in its new AntiVirus for Handhelds line that will be available in consumer and corporate versions beginning in September. Symantec joins other antivirus and security companies, including Network Associa...
The next major step for Linux might be to penetrate higher-security computing environments, primarily in government and financial services, thanks to a certification achieved by an open-source configuration from SuSE and IBM. Calling it "the first ever security certification of Linux," Big Blue and ...
Users of Sun Microsystems' hardware will now have another open-source software option thanks to an alliance between Sun and SuSE. Sun will sell and support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on Sun's x86 systems. According to the deal, SuSE will become a Java 2 Standard Edition licensee and will distrib...
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