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Mandrakesoft, hoping to serve the dual purposes of repositioning itself in the Linux market and throwing the monkey of its back in a trademark infringement battle with Hearst Publishing, announced last week that it has changed its name to Mandriva ...

As computer users get more sophisticated, so too do the schemes to ensnare them. Security company Sophos warned Friday that a bogus Web site, set up to look like the Microsoft Windows Update page, was luring Windows users into downloading a Trojan horse ...

Consumers' online searches for inexpensive airline tickets may end up costing them more than they bargained for if they're not careful ...

Security software firm F-Secure announced today that it has found another piece of mobile phone malware, this one a Trojan horse called Fontal.A, which can cause Nokia 60 series phones running Symbian to crash. Analysts say that while mobile malware is likely to become a bigger problem over time, so far the attacks have been proof-of-concept, or malware written just to prove it can be done...

Computer Associates made Concord Communications an offer it couldn't refuse, announcing it would pay US$17 per share -- a 71 percent premium -- for the performance management software company. CA will lay out $330 million in cash and assume $20 million of Concord's debt ...

Velocity Micro is set to become the first PC manufacturer to release a machine built around Intel's dual-core Pentium processor. The DCX line, announced yesterday, will use the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840, which runs at speeds of up to 4 Ghz, and will be available by the end of June ...

Fujitsu showcased its additions to the high-end server world today, the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, built on Itanium 2 chips. The servers will be released in June with Red Hat Linux, but Fujitsu said it will offer a version running Novell/SuSE Linux as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter and Enterprise editions in September ...

The latest twist in mobile malware, Mabir.A, poses as a reply to a text message a user has already sent. The virus targets Symbian Series 60 phones just as did CommWarrior and Cabir, the two other know mobile phone viruses, but it is not expected to spread quickly, according to security experts ...

A new architecture that uses micro-threading in DRAM cores may result in four-times faster performance for gaming applications, among other uses ...

Hitachi said today that it is a step closer to releasing its version of next-generation storage technology: perpendicular recording, which allows for much more densely packed hard disk drives ...

Symantec today made public security vulnerabilities in the 2004 and 2005 versions of its Symantec Norton AntiVirus suite of products. The company said patches have already been released ...

Intel's newest platform offering, code-named "Truland," is an evolutionary step in the established path toward dual-core processors and 64-bit architecture ...

A new lithium-ion battery from Toshiba may hold promise for the future of electric vehicles. The electronics giant yesterday unveiled a battery that takes only a minute to recharge to 80 percent of its full strength, making it by far the fastest recharging lithium-ion battery available ...

Even before the news was officially announced by Hewlett-Packard yesterday, the speculation had begun on the wisdom of the company's choice of NCR's Mark Hurd as its new CEO ...

The latest mass-mail worm to attack unprotected computers is Mytob, which first appeared at the beginning of the month, but last week, threatened with eight new variants, two of which were reported by security firm Symantec yesterday ...

Oracle has made its third purchase in less than a year, announcing today that it has acquired Oblix, a small identity management software company. Terms of the sale were not announced ...

Fans of "Halo 2" -- and there are many -- will soon have the chance to wander new realms. Bungie.Net, the Internet home for Bungie Studios, which developed Halo, announced it will release nine new multiplayer map packs for the game ...

Just days after the hugely successful North America release of its PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony was dealt a blow by a U.S. federal court, which ordered the company to stop selling PlayStations and to pay US$90.7 million to Immersion Corp. in a patent infringement suit ...

The IBM supercomputer BlueGene/L has done it again, almost doubling its already world record-breaking speed to 183.5 teraflops -- or 183.5 trillion floating point calculations -- per second ...

Sony, which has spent the past year touting the Blu-ray high-definitionvideo storage format and rallying other companies to its cause, hinted thatit may be amenable to working with its rival format, HD DVD, in some fashion ...