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Oracle today officially released the mobile version of its grid computingdatabase, 10g A version of Database Lite 10g has been in use since 1996 as a means ofaccessing the main 10g database through PDAs, laptops and handheldcomputers. The company says its new release is a giant step ahead of theprevious mobile management offering....

Another mobile virus has been spotted by security researchers, again designed to attack Symbian-based smart phones, but this time able to spread by more than one method Like the vast majority of mobile viruses, the Lasco worm, as the threat has been dubbed, is aimed at the Symbian operating system. F-Secure, which is calling the worm Lasco.A, said ...

As security experts warn that search engines can be used by attackers to search out vulnerable systems, new software shows that search technology can also be used to promote security: McAfee's SiteDigger 2.0 uses Google to learn where the computer systems of organizations are vulnerable to exposure and attack McAfee said the software tool, which u...

International Business Machines announced today that it plans to provide free access to the information in 500 company patents to individuals and groups working on open-source software The company said this could be the largest pledge of patents of any kind and applies to any individual, community or company working on or using open-source software...

In their search for ways around anti-spam legislation, some spammers are using unregistered domains to distribute unwanted messages, a tactic experts say is putting additional strain on servers at Internet service providers and on corporate networks Illegal commercial spammers, wary of being tracked and prosecuted under the CAN-SPAM act that took e...

First it was Google, then Microsoft and Ask Jeeves. Now Yahoo is getting into the latest search battle with today's announcement of the release of its Desktop Search Beta application Powered by XI Technologies, the free download indexes the information and content users have on their computer, like e-mails, attachments, documents, music, images and...

A developer of security software for Linux had some harsh words yesterday for what he sees as a lax attitude toward security in the operating system's community "Linux is being presented by commercial vendors as a professional, enterprise-ready product," Brad Spengler, of grsecurity, said. "When it comes to security, I don't see it as either profes...

The Internet revolution has had the unintended effect of decreasing the use of oral communication and increasing the importance of text -- particularly e-mails -- as the primary means of business communications. Why has e-mail become so popular? Why use e-mails instead of phone calls? It is harder to control the conduct of phone calls than e-mail, ...

It is a sight that one sees seemingly everywhere, from neighborhood streets to busy highways to bumper-to-bumper traffic jams: drivers taking their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel to use their cell phones. This dangerous activity has become commonplace, but attempts to address the issue remain controversial A number of states have passed ...

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) must proceed with its securities fraud lawsuit on behalf of WorldCom bondholders in federal, rather than state, court, after the U.S. Supreme Court today chose not to review the jurisdictional matter Two federal statutes disagreed on which court should hear the litigation. The 2nd U.S. Ci...

Cable television giant Comcast plans to roll out a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to all of its customers by the end of 2005, arriving to the party later than some competitors but bringing with it the type of deep pockets and market reach that could speed adoption of the technology Even as companies that were traditionally telephone se...

Samsung has found a way to increase memory while allowing for theever-thinner profile of mobile devices, the company announced today Its eight-die multichip package (MCP) creates an eight-layer chip stack1.4 mm thick, the space normally taken up by four chips. The chips have acapacity of 3.2 GB....

Microsoft is again being forced to respond to serious Internet Explorer security holes coupled with exploit code that could allow attackers to saddle Windows users with spyware, Trojans or other trouble, even if they have updated with Microsoft's Service Pack 2 (SP2) Security research firm Secunia reported and posted an example of the latest explo...

Telephone service provider Alltel has finalized a deal to buy fellow niche carrier Western Wireless for US$4.4 billion in cash and stock as the merger activity in the wireless field moves into the regional space As part of the deal, Alltel will take on about $1.5 billion in debt that Western Wireless is carrying on its books, boosting the total val...

On the heels of a Windows product introduced two weeks ago, Opera Software on Friday released an unnamed beta version of its Linux browser with a range of new usability tools. The back-to-back releases illustrate the strategy of what some analysts said is perhaps the most diverse browser company in an increasingly competitive landscape The Norwegia...

Analysts predicted that online shopping would increase 20 percent over the last holiday season. Don't they know that you should never underestimate the (spending) power of a woman? There is no denying that female shoppers are flexing a lot more monetary muscle on the Internet these days. E-commerce experts are reporting that this demographic was a ...

Enrico Pesatori knows a thing or two about business strategy. He has been admired for his self-sustaining executive track record at Digital Equipment, Compaq and BlueArc. Now, as chairman and CEO of Penguin Computing, he's out to make the company a leader in high-performance computing servers, systems and cluster-management software When the compan...

As I was working up my impressions of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, one thing became painfully clear: The most important vendor, from the standpoint of interest, wasn't even there Not since the beginning of the PC era has Apple had this much attention. While much of the attention focused on iPod accessories, it was al...

The arrival of the New Year finds software security firms scampering to create new products or adapt existing packages to protect the enterprise workplace from spyware. Even Microsoft has joined the fray with its mid-December acquisition of Giant Software and that company's innovative AntiSpyware package Microsoft has now released a beta version of...

Bidding to capitalize on the mobile services trend by extending its powerful brand beyond the bounds of the Internet, MapQuest has launched a service that enables users to send the company's maps to cell phones The Send to Phone service will be offered as part of the monthly subscription plan to MapQuest Mobile, which costs US$3.99. With Send to Ph...