Data Management

Rootkits: The next big enterprise threat?

Capable of cloaking malware, rootkits are fast infiltrating the enterprise to expose sensitive data without detection

In Brief: China’s Baidu sees profits double

Google Desktop 5 speaks 29 languages

Google faces renewed competition on the desktop from Microsoft

When should you run from scary code?

A top consulting company asked whether I would write some software that would intercept Web pages and replace certain words with other words. I said I could and went into some detail about how I would use a combination of regular expressions and buil

XA transactions using Spring

JTA/XA transactions without the J2EE container.

RIP, electronic medical records?

Kaiser Permanente's pioneering foray into digitizing health care records may mean the concept goes belly up

Microsoft’s search group loses another executive

Dane Glasgow, the general manager of Windows Search Live, is the latest exec to leave Microsoft's floundering search business

PC vendors push automated management

Improved IT management capabilities will help business users oversee large fleets of corporate PCs

Video search engine Blinkx to go public

Upcoming IPO is latest sign that online video has taken off

Yahoo China to appeal music piracy ruling

Company claims search engine operators should not be held liable for content posted on third party Web sites