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A malicious program spread quickly across the Internet Monday, slowing down network traffic and potentially leaving electronic back doors open on individual computers. Known as MyDoom, Novarg and a variant of the Mimail worm, the infection usually appears as an e-mail error message. An attached exec...

Jerry Ungerman, president of firewall leader Check Point Software Technologies, oversees the company's worldwide sales, marketing, business development, product management and technical services. The E-Commerce Times spoke with Ungerman last week, on the eve of the company's release of its new Inter...

Branching out into yet another area of the Web, search engine Google has quietly unveiled a social-networking site designed to compete with the fast-growing Friendster. Like Friendster, an invitation from an existing member is required to join the site, known as Orkut, which breaks free of its paren...

As the new year swings into high gear, e-business seems to be better positioned than it has been for years, with a rosy economic outlook ahead and a strong holiday season just past. Of course, 2004 will bring challenges too, including legal issues that will have to be addressed or at least closely w...

Digital music has been around for years, but the legitimate online music industry did not attract a critical mass of consumers until the launch of Apple's iTunes Music Store. Now, Apple has spiffed up iTunes by releasing new versions of its iPod digital music player, making iTunes available to Windo...

The SCO Group has accused Novell of libel, claiming Novell interfered in bad faith with SCO's Unix copyrights. SCO's lawyers filed the lawsuit in state court in Utah, where both companies' headquarters are located. "SCO is trying this case in the press with masterful precision," Ted Schadler, vice p...

Buoyed by a wave of consumer demand for personal computers, number-two chipmaker AMD's business turned profitable during the last quarter of 2003 for the first time in more than two years. AMD said it earned about $43 million in the fourth quarter, a dramatic turnaround from its year-ago loss of $85...

Following the lead of high-profile Linux vendors HP and Novell, Red Hat has announced it will offer legal protection to all existing and future customers of its enterprise installations of the open-source operating system. Novell's decision last week to indemnify customers of its newly acquired SuSE...

Check Point Software Technologies has unveiled its new InterSpect integrated security appliance. According to the company, InterSpect works to protect enterprise networks from attacks that originate internally. Gene Manyak, product marketing manager at Check Point, told the E-Commerce Times that the...

Signaling that 2004 likely will be a year of solid growth for the technology industry, IBM has raised its hiring forecast, saying it plans to hire 15,000 new employees in the coming year. The new outlook represents a 50 percent increase in the amount of hiring Big Blue envisions. IBM has said it exp...

Earlier this week, Microsoft posted a security patch for a flaw that affects control of VoIP (voice over IP) traffic in its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000. The company rated the flaw's severity as critical and urged users to patch it immediately. VoIP, which lets users phone one anot...

Microsoft has lost its bid to have a $512 million patent-infringement award thrown out of court. Instead, a federal judge ruled that a jury acted properly in awarding the payout to Eolas Technologies and the University of California. The award stems from an August 2003 ruling that Microsoft infringe...

The technology sector roared out of the gate with strong earnings reports from IBM, Yahoo and Apple. Optimism about strong sales and profits was muted only by somewhat cautious outlooks for the coming year. "It becomes a matter of the expectations maybe getting ahead of what is still definitely a st...

Many e-businesses, whether they sell physical goods or more intangible services, are casting a covetous eye at the vast potential of the international market. As more people and businesses around the globe connect to the Internet, a growing percentage will come to view it as an alternate -- and perh...

Intel has revealed that its fourth-quarter revenues reached a record $8.74 billion, with net income of $2.2 billion, or 33 cents per share -- more than double the year-ago tally. "[Those numbers are] telling me that corporate enterprises are now loosening the purse strings on capital expenditures," ...