Search

Informatica, a supplier of data integration and business intelligence solutions, has announced it plans to buy Striva Corporation in a cash-and-stock transaction worth about $62 million. Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica, told the E-Commerce Times that Striva...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is planning to offer file swappers a reprieve from prosecution, provided they adhere to certain conditions, according to published reports. People who have illegally downloaded copyrighted music files allegedly would be required to destroy all of ...

As 2003 dawned, Linux seemed poised to take off. However, in March, SCO sued IBM for allegedly using its proprietary Unix code without compensation. Industry experts have expressed skepticism about the suit, but at the same time, research firm Gartner has cautioned clients against embarking on full-...

Amazon.com has sued 11 entities in the United States and Canada for forging its domain name in their e-mail spam messages. The lawsuits seek millions of dollars in punitive damages. Gartner research director Maurene Grey told the E-Commerce Times that Amazon would have had a lot to lose from a credi...

In the month of August alone, Microsoft has had to contend with nearly half a dozen major worms, including MSBlast, two variants of SoBig and Nachi/Welchia, a so-called "good" worm that nevertheless is creating headaches for IT departments. Now, the company has released yet another security bulletin...

As predicted last week in TechNewsWorld's "Profile of a SuperWorm," the latest variant in the SoBig worm family has been unleashed, with Internet security firms reporting that several copies have been found in the wild. SoBig.F takes control of an infected PC, then creates and sends e-mail messages ...

Dell's fiscal second-quarter numbers demonstrated growth in both its consumer and enterprise operations, with revenue of $9.8 billion, up 16 percent from the year-ago period. In addition, the computer maker reported increased growth and profitability worldwide, bucking overall industry trends. Perha...

Google has announced that sales of its Google Search Appliance increased 200 percent in the last year. According to Google, high-level business and government entities that have installed the GSA for use on their own intranets and the Internet include the U.S. Army, Nextel, Xerox, Procter & Gamb...

SCO has announced that it will sell intellectual property licenses to make it legal for enterprises to run Linux, which allegedly uses portions of SCO's proprietary Unix source code. The company is offering an introductory license price of $699 per CPU until October 15, 2003, after which the price p...

As the LinuxWorld conference kicks off, Novell has announced the purchase of Ximian, a privately held company known as a trailblazer in the open-source space, for an undisclosed all-cash amount. "Novell sees the handwriting on the wall," Aberdeen research director Bill Claybrook told the E-Commerce ...

Qwest Communications and Sprint have jointly announced that Sprint will wholesale its PCS Vision voice and data services to Qwest customers under an exclusive agreement. The deal offers Sprint a new sales channel, especially for PCS Vision's data services, and Qwest now will be able to offer its wir...

Buzz about WiFi has swelled to a dull roar this year. Ads for laptops highlight Intel's Centrino technology, which gives users wireless networking capabilities without requiring them to buy a separate PCI card. Across the United States, Starbucks enables customers to check e-mail wirelessly, and McD...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued an updated advisory entitled "Potential for Significant Impact on Internet Operations Due to Vulnerability in Microsoft Operating Systems." The warning listed all the major iterations of Windows server platforms as well as client-side Windows XP. The a...

Sprint PCS and Samsung have announced a new gaming accessory that will convert certain Samsung mobile phones into gaming devices. Called the PCS Game Pad, the add-on works only with Samsung's new A600 mobile phone, which was released in conjunction with the announcement. The phone retails for about ...

Microsoft has revealed portions of its Windows source code to a dozen foreign governments as part of its Government Security Program Initiative, Microsoft spokesperson Alex Mercer told the E-Commerce Times. The initiative allows controlled access to the code so that foreign governments and organizat...

Part 1 of this article discussed the relative advantages and disadvantages of IBM's DB2 and Oracle's 9i software. However, IBM and Oracle are not the only vendors in the database race. Microsoft has seen tremendous growth in the last few years for its Windows-only SQL Server. "Microsoft leads all ve...

A group of companies in the mobile device industry has established a new organization dedicated to defining and endorsing open standards for mobile devices, such as cell phones and PDAs. The four founding members of the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) Alliance are STMicroelectronics, Texa...

Although databases have been a fundamental component of the enterprise IT stable for decades, they now seem to be multiplying faster than ever before, both in number and in importance. Many enterprises now rely on hundreds or thousands of databases, and administering them has become a major challeng...

On paper, the allure of no-name PCs, or "white boxes," may seem almost irresistible. Today's typical white boxes are equipped with industry-standard Intel motherboards and processors and are usually cheaper than their branded counterparts. But if no-name hardware is such a bargain, why are so many b...

Microsoft has released a security bulletin warning that a flaw in the DirectX graphic interface in a majority of Windows computers leaves users vulnerable to buffer overruns The vulnerability allows hackers to execute code on a user's PC at the user's security level. It affects PCs running Windows 9...