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CS Group acquires FAST
News Any doubts that the Federation Against Software Theft is a commercial software company in the guise of an independent company claiming to represent commercial and user interests in the fight against counterfeit software were dispelled on Tuesday...
[May 9, 2007, 17:14]
Largest software group sides with DoJ
News The computer industry's largest trade group will side with the Justice Department in its antitrust case against Microsoft over the software maker's strong objections, members said. The filing by the big software-industry trade group is expected to...
[February 1, 2000, 14:45]
New security group locks down the real world
News The computer software and services company also said its partner Pinkerton had adopted as standard CA's eTrust audit, security-policy management and intrusion detection software for its investigation and consulting services.
[April 15, 2003, 7:51]
Microsoft domination 'threatens US security'
News A computer industry group critical of Microsoft plans to release a report on Wednesday arguing that the software giant's dominance in key technologies threatens US infrastructure. The report, issued by the Computer and Communications Industry...
[September 24, 2003, 14:30]
New program mimics Napster
News The Gnutella Web sites were flooded yesterday after news of the software was released on Slashdot.net, a popular site with Linux users and other computer buffs. Napster has become one of the most popular online destinations in recent months because...
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
Another Microsoft Web site hacked
News This time the software giant's US Web site may have become the victim of computer crackers According to Alldas.de, a German Web site that records Web page defacements, a Web server located within Microsoft's .com domain at streamer.microsoft.com...
[May 8, 2001, 9:55]
IT giants form open source storage group
News The group, dubbed Aperi, also will include Brocade Communication Systems, Computer Associates, Engenio Information Technologies, Fujitsu, McData and Sun. This will further enhance SNIA and be a win-win for both of us," said Sam Greenblatt, a...
[October 26, 2005, 9:00]
Apple backs MPEG-4 despite fee dispute
News The computer maker took the unusual step of releasing the software in absence of a final licensing agreement with MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders that have claims on underlying MPEG-4 technology, a next-generation...
[June 5, 2002, 9:00]
Security clearinghouse under the gun
News David Litchfield is managing director of UK-based computer security company NGS Software and is now best known as the discoverer of the Microsoft SQL flaw used by the Slammer worm to ravage corporate networks last weekend.
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
Microsoft deploys Linux watchers...
News In what amounts to a case of "The Empire Strikes Back," the software giant in recent weeks has deployed a team of engineers and marketers to keep tabs on Linux, the fast-growing, free operating system that is making waves in the computer world.
[May 21, 1999, 15:53]
Red Hat wins over Windows convert
News Acuity Lighting Group, an 11,800-employee company that sells $2bn (£1bn) worth of light fixtures annually under brand names such as Lithonia and Peerless, decided to use Red Hat's Advanced Server version of the Linux operating system to run Oracle...
[November 15, 2002, 9:08]
Sony faces multiple lawsuits over DRM rootkit
News The software is difficult to remove and if removed manually could shut off access to the computer's CD player. The possible charges range from arbitrarily 'self-made' justice, intentional damage to computer systems, and diffusion of software that...
[November 10, 2005, 16:35]
A Year Ago: New program mimics Napster
News The Gnutella Web sites were flooded yesterday after news of the software was released on Slashdot.net, a popular site with Linux users and other computer buffs. Napster has been such a hit on college campuses that many universities are banning the...
[March 15, 2001, 6:01]
EU vote 'widens loopholes' in software patent directive
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a group campaigning against software patents, said the only amendments to the directive that were passed have symbolic value only: for instance, replacing the term 'computer-implemented...
[June 21, 2005, 13:25]
A Year Ago: Microsoft deploys Linux watchers...
News In what amounts to a case of "The Empire Strikes Back," the software giant in recent weeks has deployed a team of engineers and marketers to keep tabs on Linux, the fast-growing, free operating system that is making waves in the computer world.
[May 22, 2000, 7:02]
IBM hunts Firefox coders
News The Firefox work could dovetail with IBM's effort to build its Workplace software, which moves several personal computer applications to a server that users access with a Web browser. According to the job ad, candidates should have "acceptance as a...
[April 14, 2005, 8:50]
Civil liberties group denounces 'trusted' PCs
News Remote attestation allows other organisations that "own" content on a person's computer to ascertain whether the data or software has been modified. Many critics of the proposal have warned that such systems will wrest computer control from...
[October 2, 2003, 15:35]
Linux consortium takes on Red Hat
News Software companies that are working on certifying their products with UnitedLinux include database seller Oracle, business software maker SAP, management software maker Computer Associates, and developer-tools company Borland, UnitedLinux general...
[November 20, 2002, 7:58]
Nasa turns to open-source problem-tracking tool
News The software, called the Problem Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (PRACA) system, was created by the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Nasa's Ames Research Center, and is designed to give a wide cross-section of people in the Space...
[November 18, 2008, 16:59]
C# gains support
News C#, like Java, is a language that lets a program run on a software foundation that shields it from the particulars of the underlying computer. To convince potential customers that C# is a sound, independent technology, Microsoft has already...
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
