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On the heels of last week's revelation of a potential security breach in the form of a code leak, Cisco Systems on Tuesday is expected to unveil a new high-end router for large telecommunications carriers. Code-named HFR (Huge Fast Router), the product will be part of an event to mark the company's ...

As part of its legal wrangling with The SCO Group, IBM has filed a motion for summary judgment in an attempt to remove copyright claims from the multibillion-dollar lawsuit. In its request, Big Blue cited a lack of evidence from SCO that would prove wrongdoing on IBM's part. The copyright claims in ...

Thanks to eBay and its competitors, online auctions have become a common way for individuals and companies to sell goods. More recently, nonprofit organizations have begun to see the light as well, supplementing their fundraising efforts by auctioning big-ticket items and services online. The move t...

Phishing -- a tactic in which fraudulent email directs users to a malicious Web site that masquerades as a site belonging to a legitimate company, such as a credit card firm or bank, while stealing users' personal data -- is unquestionably on the rise. Fortunately, as strategies employed by phishing...

The United States has set its sights on becoming the country with the fastest supercomputer. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been chosen to lead a partnership toward that goal. The Department of Energy awarded the lab a $25 million contract for the effort. The five-year ...

In a recent report, Gartner estimated that 57 million U.S. adults received a "phishing" attack e-mail within the past year, and half of those who responded became victims of identity theft. Phishing is a tactic used to get credit card information from consumers who believe they are visiting legitima...

WebSphere Commerce, IBM's e-business software, got more than a fresh coat of paint and minor tweaks in a recent upgrade to version 5.6. In fact, Steve Gatto, marketing manager for IBM WebSphere Commerce, told the E-Commerce Times that enough improvements have been made to the application that it sho...

At its conference for customers, channel partners and user group members today, Hewlett-Packard announced two new products in its ongoing "adaptive enterprise" strategy. Specifically, the company unveiled an archive and retrieval product as well as a dual-processor module that will benefit its serve...

Identifying the storage-industry leader can be a tricky task, because various players in the space -- such as EMC, Cisco, Veritas and Network Appliance -- have taken different paths to success. In some ways, identifying the leader is like setting out to determine which company makes the best vehicle...

Gateway has reported preliminary results for its first quarter, showing a larger-than-expected loss. The company booked revenue of $868 million during the period, with a net loss of $166 million, or 49 cents per share. Its first-quarter financial statements include the operations of eMachines, whic...

As more people choose to pay bills online rather than shelling out for stamps and envelopes, a quiet battle is taking place behind the scenes: Retail banks are squaring off against companies that bill consumers directly, such as credit-card firms and utility companies. As it turns out, the most sign...

Morgan Stanley has signed a $575 million contract with IBM to employ utility computing for its Individual Investor Group and Discover Financial Services. John Hancock, Equifax and ING also recently have signed deals for IBM's on-demand services, but Morgan Stanley's contract is different. Rather tha...

Recently, a seemingly endless string of worms and viruses has focused attention on the sometimes-questionable security of firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and even the Internet itself. Amid this onslaught, network security software provider StillSecure aims to tackle the security issue at ...

IBM met Wall Street forecasts today when the company announced that it has shown first-quarter profits of 16 percent. The company earned US$1.6 billion in the first three months of 2004, in comparison to the $1.38 billion it earned in the same time period last year. Market analysts have pointed to a...

The latest privacy advocate to speak out against Google's Web mail service is California state senator Liz Figueroa, who is drafting legislation to block the free Gmail offering. Figueroa, a Democrat, said she believes Gmail's e-mail content scanning reduces users' privacy. She told the E-Commerce T...

AMD has announced the settlement of patent claims with Intergraph in an agreement that calls for AMD to pay Intergraph $10 million, plus 2 percent of profits from its microprocessor sales for three years. The maximum payment from AMD is to be capped at $25 million. In return, Intergraph will grant A...

When the inventors of the Internet created the technology, they never envisioned that it would become so ubiquitous -- or that it would serve as a way for malicious hackers to spread worms, trojans and other malware. They aimed for openness and functionality, which they achieved, but with that succe...

As more U.S. firms contemplate whether to send work overseas, a new twist is developing that could make the outsourcing debate even more animated. India-based software firm Infosys Technologies has announced that it will be opening a business-consulting practice in the United States. The company exp...

In part 1 of this interview, F-Secure director of antivirus research Mikko Hypponen spoke about getting his start in computer security 13 years ago and the changes he has seen over the years. In this continuation of his chat with the E-Commerce Times, Hypponen talks about what it might take to nab m...

Since its announcement last week that it will begin offering a free Web mail service called Gmail, Google has been blasted by privacy advocates. They say the service's features set a dangerous precedent in its collection of user information. On Tuesday, 28 electronic privacy organizations sent an op...