Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

Inform Technologies today announced a Web site that lets online news consumers navigate through multiple news Web sites in one location. Inform.com went live today in a beta version Inform is the brainchild of Neal Goldman, founder of Capital IQ, who sold a similar information distribution tool for the financial industry to McGraw-Hill/S&P last yea...

Red Hat this past week announced the availability of a new security certification for IT professionals: Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS) The announcement of the RHCSS certification is the company's latest milestone in its "Security in a Networked World" initiative launched in August....

Linux lovers can rejoice this week as two new distributions of the open-source platform make their way to the market Mandriva released the latest version of its Linux product, Mandriva 2006, yesterday, and Canonical launched its latest Linux version, Ubuntu 5.0, today. Analysts said both companies are offering interesting propositions for their res...

Palm yesterday unveiled a new PDA with built-in WiFi and -- rock n' roll. Palm is working with Alliance Group Entertainment to provide multimedia content on Palm handhelds, mobile managers and smartphones Dubbed Palm TX, the PDA-maker's latest device hit store shelves yesterday complete with the sounds of pop artist Jake Coco's new hit single "Grac...

Skype has been making some new friends since it was acquired by eBay last month. The VoIP provider's latest announcement taps Cisco Systems' Linksys division The companies announced an agreement this week to market a cordless phone designed to take free Skype Internet phone calling off the computer and put it into the hands of callers. The companie...

The past two years have seen several high-profile corporate scandals that illustrate the dramatic consequences of e-mail misuse -- and those are just the ones that have made headlines In fact, one in five employers has had an e-mail subpoenaed by courts and regulators, and another 13 percent have battled workplace lawsuits triggered by employee e-m...

IBM and Novell partnered this week to offer customers a single subscription option for servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 in the IBM BladeCenter chassis The companies said the new chassis subscription model will help customers maintain control over the cost of computing by potentially reducing subscription administration requirements an...

In a move to attract more small business customers, Microsoft is launching a subsidy program to allow this growing business demographic to receivecredits toward consulting services when they purchase Microsoft software Small businesses that purchase a minimum of five copies of Microsoft Office or one copy of Windows Small Business Server 2003 throu...

WiFi may see more rapid advancement, thanks to a new coalition determined to accelerate the IEEE 802.11n standard development process Twenty seven WiFi industry leaders banded together this week under the name Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC). These diverse companies have one commongoal: to speed up the introduction of the new wireless standard a...

Google unveiled its latest beta product offering at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week. The Google Reader is a Web-based RSS reader designed for the search engine's registered users Similar to the online service offered by NewsGator, Google Reader allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds and receive an e-mail notification when a Web si...

In a move to speed up the outcome of an ongoing legal dispute, IBM on Friday agreed to drop its patent infringement claims against the SCO Group Big Blue initially filed the claims in August 2003. The countersuit was a response to SCO's lawsuit that alleged IBM has infringed its Linux patents....

It's party time in blogland. So say analysts in the wake of two successive blog-related acquisitions this week. First, AOL said it would acquire Weblogs, Inc. yesterday. Today, Verisign said it has purchased Weblogs.com VeriSign purchased the company and its ping service from Scripting News in a US$2.3 million cash deal. VeriSign said the acquisiti...

In the latest in a long string of mergers and acquisitions in the security segment, Check Point Software Technologies yesterday said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for about US$225 million in cash and stock Sourcefire is the developer behind Snort, an open-source intrusion prevention and detection technology. That's an overa...

AOL has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, editorialize, comment and learn....

America Online this week announced new initiatives aimed at protecting its 20 million Internet service subscribers from phishing attacks. As a result, AOL said it is blocking roughly 8 million phishing attempts against its members each day Phishing is the use of fraudulent e-mail and fake Web sites to gather sensitive personal information from user...

AOL today signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, editorialize, comment and learn....

Dell yesterday began peddling its latest PC without an operating system. The computer is designed for consumers who plan to install open-source software instead of commercial tools and platforms Dubbed the Dimension E510n PC, the computer comes with a blank hard drive and a copy of the FreeDOS operating system that customers can install....

Much the same as any other open-source debate, opinions about the future of Linux on the desktop are about as varied as they come On one side you've got the Desktop Linux Consortium with its mission to advance the open-source operating system on desktops everywhere. On the other side you've got software giants adamantly opposed to its spread....

Motorola will tap Microsoft's platform to enhance its emergency services software applications, the company announced today The Microsoft-Motorola alliance will provide marketing and development support to deliver a rapid incident management solution for law enforcement, first responder and criminal justice customers....

Symantec has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquirean agent-less IT security compliance software company in a US$209 millionall-cash transaction Symantec said the acquisition of BindView Development Corporation wouldallow it to offer customers an end-to-end solution for policy compliance andvulnerability management with a ch...