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As the nature of Internet threats has morphed, IT systems professionals and security providers have adapted their response tactics Part 1 of this two-part series takes a look at how the security threat landscape has shifted. This second installment considers what strategies the experts are cooking up to prevent and protect against the latest onslau...

Slumping Dell has lost the label of world's largest PC maker to rival Hewlett-Packard, according to two research firms, with HP grabbing the crown Dell wore for nearly three years Both Gartner and IDC said HP pulled ahead of Dell in the third quarter, though both firms emphasize the gap was narrow, leaving open the possibility of the two companies ...

Software maker Adobe made available the highly-anticipated Linux version of Flash Player 9 in beta form this week The media player, combined with Adobe's Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK), make up a fully-supported, free platform for rich Internet applications....

Sling Media on Tuesday announced a partnership with smartphone operating system developer Symbian to bring mobile TV to consumers Sling Media will deliver a version of its SlingPlayer Mobile software application for the Symbian OS in select European and Asian countries during the fourth quarter of this year. The companies plan to bring the service ...

With the launch of the PlayStation 3 game console less than one month away, Sony on Thursday revealed additional details on the device as well as which game titles will be available first for the next-generation machine Sony unveiled 22 titles for the PS3 that will be available when it launches on Nov. 11 in Japan and Nov. 17 in the United States.

Oracle is offering to support clients' PeopleSoft and Siebel applications in its own data center -- a managed service option that it has offered with its own Oracle applications for the last few years Oracle is including these new offerings in its On Demand portfolio, although the name is confusing. Basically, clients purchase a traditional license...

Search leader Google blew away analyst forecasts for profits and revenue Thursday, turning in a third quarter financial performance that seemed certain to put to rest any doubts about the company's short-term growth prospects Google's revenue came in at US$2.69 billion, up some 70 percent over the quarter last year, and 10 percent higher than the s...

The Western World realized decades ago that small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, are really the main drivers of the economy. While big businesses are still necessary to preserve and maintain structure, they face considerable challenges The mega corporations of the last century have increasingly lost their edge to the smaller, nimbler organization...

Scalix, a software company providing Linux-based e-mail, calendaring and messaging clients, is now offering a series of open source components based upon its products The company announced this week an open source project through which it is releasing the source code to several of its flagship offerings. The code disclosure follows a plan company o...

North Korea's detonation of a nuclear bomb has made Silicon Valley, Calif., leaders even more eager to offer their expertise to help spread freedom and peace. Technology can jumpstart this quest at home and abroad, but not alone. A human element has to be present as well Technology is often viewed as an empowering force, and most people in the Unit...

Novell is bundling more and more software with its Suse Linux distribution, this week announcing a partnership with IBM that puts Big Blue's proprietary WebSphere and DB2-Express C database technologies alongside open source Suse Linux The Integrated Stack for Suse Linux Enterprise will combine Linux and closed code to create competition for rival ...

Amid heavy speculation over possible copyright issues, major record labels are vying to profit from Google's acquisition of YouTube -- as allies Specifically, three of the world's largest music companies -- Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music and Warner Music Group -- quietly negotiated stakes in YouTube as part of video- and music-lice...

Lenovo announced this week that it is arming its ThinkPad notebooks with the ability to fully encrypt the hard drive to bolster security and reduce the risk of data theft Lenovo's latest technology move links fingerprint identity to the active directory. The fingerprint swipe recognizes 30 data points of identity to authorize access to the encrypte...

After years of waiting, consumers on Wednesday finally got the chance to download a new version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The software giant released Windows IE 7 for Windows XP, the latest version of the market-leading browser, with plenty of promises The browser comes with the pledge of greater security, Web site compatibility and ease of...

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered what they say is more evidence that compulsive use of the Internet may be more than just a bad habit "Potential markers of problematic Internet use seem present in a sizable proportion of adults," the researchers concluded in an article published in CNS Spectrums: The International Journal of Neuro...

At its first CRM customer summit, held this week in San Diego, Microsoft announced the availability of tools to integrate its Dynamics CRM application with competing ERP (enterprise resource planning) back-end systems Called "Solution Accelerators," the integration packages connect via BizTalk Server. They are available forOracle's Siebel CRM, Orac...

Recognizing the mutual benefit that accrues to helping their online merchants succeed, e-commerce hosting companies, along with e-tailers themselves, are driving demand for software applications that can help them better manage and grow their businesses "Our mission is to organize the world's information," Emily White, Google's director of online s...

Of all the CRM subsector technologies, sales force automation is the most mature. Expecting dramatic change in this category, therefore, would be akin to expecting the radical realignment of a general accounting ledger package Yet, over the last year or so, dramatic change is exactly what has occurred, as a new generation of providers have entere...

Open source database vendorMySQL released new functionality and services under an "enterprise" moniker, reflecting the Swedish company's aggressive strategy for acquiring bigger and better customers Taken together, all of the open source databases -- including MySQL, Ingres and PostgreSQL -- occupy only a sliver of the enterprise market. However, t...

Home networks have become relatively commonplace and now are following a trend similar to one found in business networks: creating ways to fulfill a need for higher speed. Because users are now working with more high bandwidth video transmissions, they are on the lookout for new network options to support that need The Multimedia over Coax Alliance...