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Though "everyone knows" the threat and consequences of insider attacks, it was still shocking to read the headlines that a former Unix engineer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae was charged in federal court with allegedly planting a logic bomb that would have effectively shut down all 4,000 servers at Fannie. The FBI alleges that this logic bomb planted in a script would have "caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not shut down operations" for at least one week. And it was "only by chance" that another Unix engineer spotted the logic bomb a week after it was planted and prior to its detonation...

After a year in development and testing, Google last month added an offline mail client to provide local access to mail folders when there is no Internet connection Gmail Offline is still experimental and limited to synchronizing a maximum of 10,000 messages. It does not yet provide offline access to other Google features such as Calendar and Docum...

Struggling mobile phone maker Motorola announced Tuesday that it will sell Good Technology -- its "push" email, calendar and contacts unit -- to Visto Terms of the deal, which is expected to close at the end of the month, were not disclosed....

Gmail users worldwide went without Web mail service for several hours early Tuesday morning. Google's monitoring system indicated that service went down around 9:30 am GMT -- 4:30 a.m. on the U.S.'s East Coast and 1:30 a.m. in the Pacific time zone "If you've tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probably aware by now that we're having ...

Yahoo is fine-tuning its online advertising platform with the launch of three new targeting tools. The company introduced them Tuesday morning, during its keynote presentation at the annual conference of theInteractive Advertising Bureau. The new products:...

Shrinking client pools, lack of access to credit and competition from offshore destinations are squeezing some business process outsourcing service providers in the United States. With declining revenues come cheaper valuations. This creates opportunities for other entrepreneurs seeking to expand their outsourcing business quickly through acquisitions...

Earlier this month Zuora, a startup that's less than a year old, launched Z-Commerce, a platform that gives developers access to its applications as well as Z-Force's API (application programming interface) documentation, sample code and toolkits. There is also a sandbox environment, currently available in private beta. A few years ago, this might...

The ongoing economic meltdown has presented a unique strategic opportunity to vendors of open source software. Slashed budgets and riffed staffs are forcing enterprise users of proprietary software business solutions to rethink the suitability of open source replacement products....

As a former senior executive of Swiss Reinsurance, the world's largest reinsurer of life-health and property-casualty risks, Donna Childs was well versed in both the need and the practice of disaster data recovery. Her experience proved critical when she returned to the United States to start her own small business -- in the area subsequently designated "Zone 1" of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Microsoft has introduced an initiative to provide up to 2 million people with job training on its applications. Called "Elevate America," the program consists of two main offerings: free training available through an online portal; and more elaborate, hands-on training offered in conjunction with several states including Florida, New York and Washington...

It can be argued that Yahoo doesn't need to engage in a lot of executive housecleaning and downsizing during a reorganization expected this week from new CEO Carol Bartz. The turmoil at Sunnyvale over the last year has achieved that goal for her "They've already had a pretty significant exodus of top talent over the last six months," Tim Bajarin, p...

Would an enterprise be more likely to deploy a virtual solution if it were free? That is the question Citrix has asked with the unveiling of a new version of its XenServer virtualization platform that the company will offer free of charge at the end of March The software, available to any user for unlimited production deployment, will include new f...

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest US$1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006....

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest US$1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006....

AT&T announced Monday that it will invest US$1 billion in its global network in 2009 to better serve businesses in the U.S. and overseas The communications giant has invested more than $3 billion in its network since 2006....

Part 1 of this four-part series details the steps to acquire and install the beta edition of Windows 7. Part 2 takes a closer look at the OS's new features. Part 3 assesses the pros and cons of Windows 7 based on several weeks of experience using it. Part 4 considers whether or not Windows 7 has the marketing potential to excite consumers and enterprises into willingly embracing a new computing platform...

When Christopher Cabrera, president and CEO of Xactly, says his Software as a Service sales performance management company began 2009 with a big bang, he didn't -- as one might assume in this economy -- mean it in a bad way. In January, the company acquired Centive, its primary competitor. In February, it lured a new CFO on board -- Steve Cakebrea...

I spent Thursday of last week at an event put on by A&R Edelman talking about the importance of trust, where they discussed their findings on a survey of around 4,000 companies. They concluded that that trust is directly tied to the market recovery and that tech companies were the most trusted In addition, in Barcelona, what may be the birth of the...

Cable operators Time Warner and Comcast are reportedly in talks with the owners of major cable television networks to organize a plan that will bring a large amount of cable programming online and made accessible only to the providers' subscribers The cable companies have met with Viacom, Time Warner, General Electric (parent company to NBC Univer...

Beleaguered Internet search portal Yahoo has launched a new type of online ad that incorporates traditional search results with images and video Here's an example: Go to Yahoo, type in the keyword "pedigree," and a sponsored search result for Pedigree dog food will come up accompanied by a video ad that's been airing on television for the past seve...