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Sun Microsystems has revealed it is working on a server designed to enable faster and more expansive online game play. The company's goal is to create a dedicated server that can allow far more online gamers to play the same game at the same time. Meanwhile, a continent away, Sun is flooding the CTI...

A coalition of the U.S. government and private businesses has released a report calling for the formation of an early-warning system to alert companies to impending and ongoing cyber-security threats. In the report, the coalition laid out recommendations for increasing personal responsibility for se...

Google recently announced the integration of local search results into Google.com. Currently in beta, Google Local allows users to find relevant local information with neighborhood business listings, maps, directions and Web links. Combining sources from its catalog in excess of 4.3 billion Web page...

With disturbing frequency, big corporations' reputations are going down the drain. What took decades to build now stands like a crumbled ruin, in smoke and beyond repair. The same story is repeated again and again. The predicament of Martha Stewart Omnimedia is only the latest example. However, some...

There are a few cardinal rules of e-business sites that have become the goal of every Webmaster: Keep design simple, make navigation easy, and stress the need for speed. With Web architecture becoming more refined and vendors pushing out products that streamline operations, becoming faster has never...

Last-ditch efforts by high-ranking Microsoft executives to negotiate a settlement with European Union antitrust regulators apparently have fallen short, and the clock is now ticking toward a March 24th decision by regulators about what penalties to slap on the software giant. Microsoft had been in n...

In December, Check Point Software Technologies acquired personal firewall leader Zone Labs for $205 million, creating a high-powered security firm poised to crank out more products for businesses and consumers. One of the first applications to result from the acquisition is an upgrade to a popular Z...

Microsoft's attack against Linux desktop software provider Lindows.com has taken yet another turn, with Lindows' legal counsel filing a motion Monday in U.S. Federal Court seeking to stop the flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has launched in a host of foreign countries over the last sever...

In an effort to seize an opportunity created by regional resistance to the Windows operating system, Hewlett-Packard has said it plans to begin shipping more desktop computers loaded with the Linux operating system in Asia. Specifically, HP will partner with Turbolinux to ship the open-source deskto...

If one topic has become a hot potato in both the political and employment realms, it is offshore outsourcing. Global staffing company Accountants In India (AII) hosted a teleconference Tuesday to discuss major outsourcing issues like security, ethics and workflow. Although the tone of the teleconfer...

Nortel Networks has suspended its two top financial executives pending the outcome of an internal audit, sparking fear that the telecommunications equipment maker could become the latest tech firm ravaged by accounting scandal. Shares of Nortel, which had been climbing to new heights as the company ...

In what is being billed as the largest one-time investment of private equity in a technology firm, a leveraged buyout group led by two Silicon Valley venture capital firms has agreed to buy EDS' product design software business for $2.05 billion in cash. The business, UGS PLM Solutions, has about 42...

At the recent RSA conference, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in his keynote speech predicted traditional passwords are headed for their demise. Any CIO who has walked past a row of desks knows Gates has a point when he says passwords cannot adequately protect security: The number of Post-It notes aff...

Oracle has reported third-quarter sales rose 9 percent year over year to US$2.5 billion while profits climbed 11 percent to $635 million. The company also issued a positive outlook for the rest of 2004, a prediction that could help the stock market end a week-long slide. Oracle said new software lic...

Yahoo has announced an offering that will marry its instant messaging offering with British Telecommunications' BT Communicator service, creating a call management package that integrates PC-to-phone calling, Internet call waiting and directory lookup with Yahoo's Messenger service. Voice over Inter...