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Computer Associates International today said it will lay off 800 workers worldwide in a restructuring plan it said is designed to more closely align its investments with its strategic growth opportunities. In issuing a statement announcing the action this morning, the company said the effort is expe...

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Online attackers today are using popular sources of pornographic images to target a recently revealed weakness in Microsoft software and to spread a Trojan that can provide remote access and control of infected computers. Just two weeks after Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in virtually all vers...

Amazon.com and Microsoft have joined forces for what they described as a "wake-up call" to spammers, filing lawsuits seeking damages from defendants they say sent millions of pieces of spam and attempted phishing and spoofing against the two companies' customers. The companies together sued a Canada...

Labor market conditions can change dramatically in a few months. As American firms become increasingly dependent on labor market conditions in other parts of the world, changes in those labor markets can have profound economic consequences in the U.S. Here we examine the rapidly changing IT labor ma...

The Internet has delivered dramatic productivity improvements. Executives now have a simple way to exchange electronic mail messages, large and small companies are able to market their products worldwide and corporations have replaced manual procedures with automated ones. Along with these advances ...

A surge in demand for personal computers from business users has prompted research firm IDC to raise its forecast for overall sales for 2004, with the firm now predicting that sales will grow more than 14 percent over last year. However, sales in the U.S. are actually falling short of targets. IDC s...

In a move that deals a blow to a line of chips for which Intel once had high hopes, Hewlett-Packard has said it had stopped selling workstations loaded with the 64-bit Itanium 2 processors. HP said only that it was responding to "customer requirements" in the workstation space in making the move. HP...

The Internet has topped television as the first choice of media by 18- to 54-year-olds, according to a study released today by the Online Publishers Association (OPA). The Generational Media Study -- the fourth in a series of research reports aimed at providing a detailed view of 18- to 34-year-old ...

Microsoft is taking flack for saying it won't offer some key security patches and upgrades for older versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, some of which are still widely used, that are available as part of its much-ballyhooed Service Pack 2 update. In a move that some observers say is desi...

Microsoft announced today that it has filed nine new lawsuits against alleged spammers, including a Web-hosting company that offered services specifically for people who send unsolicited mail. The suits are part of a larger effort by Microsoft to target the perpetrators of spam. With this batch, fil...

The tech industry is buzzing with rumors that search engine giant Google might be developing an Internet browser, with the speculation fueled by the company's recent hiring of former Microsoft employees as well as other factors. As part of a surge of hiring in the wake of its recent blockbuster IPO,...

In my last article, Sarbanes-Oxley: Avoiding Its Pitfalls, I talked about alleviating the fears of well-meaning management. This article addresses the concerns of sincere board members of publicly held corporations and of privately held companies. It provides guidance that will enable board members ...

Online malice again was targeted at one of the backbones of the Internet, with the launch of a denial-of-service attack against credit card processor Authorize.net reportedly coupled with an attempt to extort money to halt the barrage. Authorize.net, which offers credit card processing services to o...

Global communications systems equipment supplier Andrew Corp. today updated its previously issued earnings guidance for the fourth quarter, noting it now expects a loss of 4 cents to 8 cents per share. The company attributed the loss to slowed purchases by two big customers planning to merge, higher...