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In a move that could significantly alter the Linux competitive landscape, Novell has said it will buy privately held Linux vendor SuSE for $210 million in cash. As part of the agreement, Novell also will accept a $50 million cash investment from IBM when the deal closes. "Novell has a history of stu...

As individuals and companies have become more aware of the dangers facing electronic data, demand for security products has skyrocketed. At Zone Labs, a company that makes personal firewall software both for consumers and enterprises, a little insecurity has gone a long way. However, although the co...

Yahoo has discontinued its enterprise software division, which it initially set up to push its messaging and Internet broadcast offerings onto corporate desktops. The company laid off an undisclosed number of workers at locations in California, Dallas and Atlanta as a result of the division closing....

Although a stereotype exists that the political sector is slow to change, once it embraces a new approach, it does so wholeheartedly. The presidential primary race of 2003 is a prime example of this full-speed-ahead mentality: Politicians have discovered the Internet. The best example to date of the...

Now that Apple's iTunes Music Store (iTMS) does Windows and Napster has been rehabilitated, more people are venturing into the world of legal music downloads. However, the onset of legal music download services has brought a new issue front and center: sound quality. The bit rate of an iTMS AAC file...

Just in time for Halloween, a new spam relay worm has begun to circulate via e-mail attachments, aiming to turn PCs into e-mail-spewing zombies. The worm, dubbed "Mimail.C," is yet another iteration of the hearty W32 malware strain. It affects PCs running Windows 95 through Windows XP and was first ...

Hewlett-Packard has announced it plans to stop actively selling its e3000 servers, which have a history stretching back more than 30 years. Attachment to the product line remains strong in some corners, with a Web site listing dozens of locations that are holding mock "wakes" to mark the passing of ...

B2B online marketplaces, or exchanges, can help companies reach new levels of accuracy, efficiency and profitability. However, although conducting B2B transactions online has become standard operating procedure, the way these exchanges are designed and run is anything but standardized. Companies can...

Perhaps the most significant event at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, which ran from Sunday through Thursday in Los Angeles, was the company's release of a developers version of its upcoming Windows OS, also known as Longhorn. In his keynote address, Microsoft founder and chairman Bi...

Oracle has opened a second business development center on the Chinese mainland and has unveiled a program to help Japanese companies tackle this emerging marketplace. The company said its second China Development Center (CDC), now open for business in Beijing, will help Chinese companies accelerate ...

X10. Just the company name is enough to send some Internet users into convulsions. The firm was, for all intents and purposes, the first major user of the dreaded pop-under ad, which, at the time it was introduced, easily ranked as the most obnoxious and intrusive form of online advertising ever inv...

In an effort to downplay rumors that Hewlett-Packard will seek to beef up its consulting division by purchasing a major computer services company, such as EDS, HP CEO Carly Fiorina said she has passed on opportunities to make additional acquisitions. Instead, she said, she will focus on her company'...

In part 1 of this article, "The High-Stakes World of Online Gambling," the E-Commerce Times looked at the state of the Internet betting industry and its remarkable popularity. Roughly half of the industry's revenues come from U.S. residents. Even with the potential for anti-gambling laws on the hori...

Storage vendor Brocade Systems has unveiled a new platform, called the SilkWorm Fabric AP, that is designed to run storage-management applications. The goal is to let companies consolidate multiple storage area networks (SANs) into a larger, connected whole across networks and geographical distances...

Saying that customer data is woefully underprotected on corporate networks connected to the Internet, IBM has unveiled services that aim to make it easier and less expensive for companies to secure that data. Big Blue said it will team with Watchfire to offer the data-privacy services for enterprise...