Articles by Matthew W. Beale

Linux operating system (OS) vendor Red Hat, Inc. this week announced a partnership with Global Knowledge Network, an independent IT training company, to advance the open-source cause through a new exams-based certification program Global Knowledge, under terms of the partnership, will provide what Red Hat describes as "real-world, hands-on training...

British Telecommunications plc (BT) last week announced an agreement with the iCat E-Commerce Provider Program to offer e-commerce services to its 1.3 million small to mid-sized business customers through the newly created BT StoreCentre. iCat, a division of Intel Corp., joined in the announcement iCat provides services and support for small to mid...

While hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) held a press conference, announcing the release of Back Orifice 2000 (BO2K) to a throng of celebrants attending the DEFCON convention in Las Vegas, researchers were anxiously awaiting their own copy in order to provide users with a defense Consisting of a server and client application, BO2K is a backdoo...

Penguin Computing, a provider of Linux-based hardware solutions, has announced that it will offer sales and technical support in 15 languages in addition to English, including Arabic, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chiuchow, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese "Linux is well on its way to beco...

The Electric Mail Company, Inc. (VSE: ELE) last week announced the availability of its free E-mmunity Outbound e-mail virus scanning service. With recent virus-related incidents, such as the proliferation of ExploreZip, spread by way of e-mail contact, such services are certainly gaining more attention from consumers and the media The new outbound ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and San Jose, California-based Secure Computing (Nasdaq: SCUR) co-sponsored the Black Hat Briefings '99 security conference in Las Vegas last week, focusing on computer-related security issues The intention behind the now annual, two-day conference is to bring corporate and government engineers and software programmers face...

Network Solutions, Inc., aka NSI (Nasdaq: NSOL), moved into the holiday weekend with something of a bang last Friday -- albeit a bang without a celebratory tone to it. Hackers hit the IP address allocation company's Web site, rerouting traffic and fueling an existent controversy Surfers visiting various sites maintained by the company -- including ...

IBM this week announced a strategic alliance with LaSer, the services and technology division of French retail firm Groupe Galeries Lafayette, a move that some industry analysts feel will serve to advance e-commerce in Europe Under terms of the 15-year agreement, the two companies will develop and offer IT solutions for European retailers, and work...

TurboLinux announced the release of its Workstation 3.6 product last week, commencing its official debut in the United States. The product is currently available at the company's information and e-commerce Web site, and soon through retail outlets and resellers Lonn Johnston, Vice President of North American Operations for TurboLinux told E-Commerc...

EBIZ Enterprises, Inc. (OTC BB: EBIZ) this week announced the availability of its Personal Internet Appliance (PIA), a sub-$200 (US$) Linux-based computer system aimed at the consumer who may not yet be an experienced Internet user The AMD-driven PIA -- featuring a 2.1GB hard drive, 32Mb of RAM, database, spreadsheet and word processing software, a...

U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley recently stated that "if people don't feel safe and secure, they will not use the Internet." A recent Rockbridge Associates report indicated that consumers are indeed reluctant to embrace e-commerce, based in part on mistrust for online transactions. Consequently, online merchants are being forced to recognize that Internet security is becoming an increasingly vital issue...

Caldera Systems, Inc. and IBM have announced a joint development, marketing and support agreement to promote the Linux operating system (OS) As disclosed by the terms of the agreement, the two companies will recruit independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators and value-added resellers (VARs) to sell IBM and Caldera OpenLinux solutions....

As the epic antitrust trial drew to a close, Microsoft was taking care of other business as usual, which included announcing a series of steps aimed to strengthen security for e-commerce and other online activities Speaking at PC Expo in New York, Microsoft Executive Vice President and CEO Bob Herbold discussed initiatives to assist both his compan...

North Carolina-based Red Hat, Inc. this week announced that they are making on-site professional services available for Corporate users of the Linux operating system (OS) Aside from the issue of software development, support is a significant factor that many industry analysts feel will help Linux to become a much more widely adopted operating syste...

At an International Data Corp. (IDC) conference held in Prague this week, experts predicted steady growth in the field of e-commerce for Eastern Europe, driven largely by regional IT market growth The Eastern European IT Forum 1999 - Strategy and Vision: The Challenge of Managing Growth in Transition, featured talks by regional industry executives,...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has posted a patch on its Security Advisor Web page to eliminate a significant vulnerability discovered by eEye, an independent online security firm, and reported on last week by the E-Commerce Times The vulnerability involves Microsoft's Internet Information Server 4.0, "the most commonly used web server on the Internet." ...

Applix, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLX) has announced the creation of a new Linux division to source and brand applications for the increasingly popular open-source operating system (OS) Westboro, Massachusetts-based Applix has also renewed its vow to push acceptance of the OS by announcing a new Web site intended to be a collaboration system addressing the ne...

When the latest virus-like worm slithered its way online recently, e-commerce sites such as Beyond.com didn't mistake it for Dennis Rodman. They did, however, see opportunity written all over it While the media picked up the trail of Worm.ExploreZip, and companies were busy shutting down their e-mail systems, Beyond.com posted fix-related links at ...

"We have been debating how to start out this advisory. How do you explain that 90% or so of the Windows NT web servers on the Internet are open to a hole that lets an attacker execute arbitrary code on the remote Web server?" eEye's Digital Security Team recently issued a security alert regarding the latest release of Microsoft's Internet Informati...

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, approximately one third of the small business sector has not yet taken action to address a potential Y2K computer glitch Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) have teamed up with the US Small Business Administration (SBA) to help change the situation.