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A group of technology and consulting companies led by Accenture has landed a U.S. federal contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. The contract calls for them to implement a border access system that will rely heavily on biometrics and other technologies to track foreign visitors to the ...

Online sales grew more than 50 percent in 2003, soaring past the $100 billion level and turning increasingly profitable, according to a new report from Shop.org and Forrester Research. The "State of Retailing Online 7.0" says sales reached $114 billion in 2003 and are poised to post double-digit gai...

The Chinese government is establishing a committee that will review online games and censor them if it finds questionable content. The review will take place before the games are made available, so subscriptions will never be sold if the committee does not render approval. Objectionable material, ac...

Symantec has reported it has analyzed a virus capable of attacking 64-bit Windows files. The virus, W64.Rugrat.3344, is the first known threat to 64-bit systems. According to Symantec, Rugrat is simply a proof-of-concept virus -- the kind usually written by "white hat" hackers and given to security ...

Police in Taiwan have arrested Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old man who reportedly admitted to authoring Trojan code later used to steal and destroy information on government-owned computers. The arrest marks the second major capture of the week in the information security enforcement arena. Also in cust...

During the economic boom, a million domain names were registered every day. Ninety-nine percent of those names failed. Exhausted or expired, they now have disappeared. While ICANN and the domain registrars wonder on the disappearance of continual registrations and renewals, the real question now is ...

Yahoo has announced it will add a feature to its Web browser toolbar that allows users to easily remove spyware programs from their computers. Called Anti-Spy, the feature is currently in beta. Yahoo will be collecting feedback from beta users and intends to utilize that information to produce the f...

Database sales posted strong gains in 2003, with IBM and Microsoft winning market share but Oracle benefiting the most from the rise of Linux, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. Gartner said the worldwide market for relational database management systems grew 5.1 percent last year to ...

At its eWorld customer conference Tuesday, BEA Systems introduced new products and services that support Liquid Computing, an initiative that builds on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) foundation. Formerly named Project Sierra, Liquid Computing's goal is to improve interoperability between BEA ...

Seeking to move beyond a $2 billion accounting scandal, Computer Associates has offered to make a $10 million payment to put the probe to rest and has rolled out an information security product and services push designed to capitalize on what is already a strong growth area. Against the backdrop of ...

In October 2003, Lane Bess, who joined Trend Micro in November 2002, was named president of the company's North American operations. Bess, who has 20 years experience in sales, marketing and general management, previously held positions at NCR and AT&T. During his career, he has seen virulent ne...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has taken additional steps in its fight against music piracy by issuing nearly 500 more lawsuits against alleged music file-sharers. This action brings the total number of individuals it has sued to nearly 3,000. While the RIAA doesn't yet know th...

At its TechEd conference Monday, Microsoft announced several tools and technologies aimed at developers and other IT professionals, including an expansion of the Visual Studio line, an add-on to .NET and a beta release of a developer tool called the Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework. Sin...

Toysrus.com has sued Amazon.com, the company that has run its online store since early 2000, claiming the e-tail giant violated an exclusivity agreement and seeking $200 million in damages. The online wing of Toys 'R' Us claims Amazon is in breach of the original agreement between the two companies ...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Richard Grasso on Monday, seeking the return of millions of dollars the former head of the New York Stock Exchange is alleged to have received improperly. Spitzer also sued former chairman of the NYSE's compensation committee, Ken Langone, and said the pr...