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Red Hat and Global Knowledge Team Up To Offer Linux Certification

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 ...

iCat E-Commerce UK Invasion

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 ...

E-Commerce Security Alert: BO2K Hacking Tool

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 ...

Penguin Offers Linux Support in 16 Languages

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 ...

E-Commerce Service Provider Offers Free E-Mail Virus Scanning

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 ...

Microsoft and Secure Computing Don A Black Hat and Hit Vegas

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 ...

Domain Name Keeper Hit By Hackers

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 ...

Big Blue and Galeries Lafayette Move on E-Commerce

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 ...

TurboLinux Begins U.S. Market Debut

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 ...

E-Commerce Site Brings Linux to Mainstream Consumers

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 ...

Verisign Puts Clamp On E-Commerce Security

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 and IBM Announce Agreement to Push Linux

Caldera Systems, Inc. and IBM have announced a joint development, marketing and support agreement to promote the Linux operating system (OS) ...

Microsoft Announces Steps to Increase E-Commerce Security

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 ...

Red Hat Expands Support for Corporate Linux Users

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) ...

IDC Projects Growth For E-Commerce in Eastern Europe

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 ...

Microsoft Puts Patch On Server Security Holes

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 ...

Applix Creates New Linux Division

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) ...

Beyond.Com and Others Head Battle Against Computer Viruses

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 ...

Security Team Discovers New Microsoft Server Vulnerability

"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?" ...

Dell, Microsoft & SBA Address Y2K Issues

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 ...

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