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McAfee Falcon antivirus software now in beta

Company touts product suite as an alternative to Microsoft and Symantec products

BuysUSA.com operator pleads guilty to piracy

The operator, who is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 25, could receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine

The government’s plan for e-voting security? Trust!

The EAC releases a new "quick start" guide for managing e-voting machines. Without enforceable federal e-voting standards, though, it's short on details.

Divergent paths for SOA governance

True Vista Premium hardware requirements out

Sun joins OpenAJAX, Dojo Foundation

Sun plans to help drive standards for AJAX programming and boost its interoperability

Phishing scam uses PayPal secure servers

Flaw in PayPal Web site lets phishing attack masquerade as a genuine PayPal log-in page

CTOs embrace ‘open innovation’

CTOs innovate by exchanging IP rather than having closed walls around their R&D labs

Google to internationalize its products

Google is seeking a 'localization guru' to head up an initiative to make all its products available everywhere

Wall Street Beat: Apple buzz renewed

Apple basks in a healthy share price that is 50 percent higher than this time last year

Microsoft battles slavery in Asia

Microsoft donates $1 million to groups battling the modern human slave trade

Quote of the day: BPM and SOA need each other

Vulnerability found in Microsoft Excel

Vlnerability comes from an e-mail with a malicious Excel document attached

Analysis: Look for change at Microsoft after Gates

'You can't help but see some level of change,' says one analyst

Update: Ozzie’s illustrious IT career takes another turn

Microsoft's plan is for him to work "side by side" with Gates, who turned over the chief software architect's job to his colleague and good friend

Dueling SOA governance initiatives questioned

Overlapping of Governance Interoperability Framework and SOA Link is noted at conference

Gates and Spider-Man: misunderstood

Gates to end daily role at Microsoft

Microsoft WGA program continues to irk users

The company gave users another reason to complain about Windows Genuine Advantage when it confirmed a "high priority" automatic update for Windows PCs is a test version

CIOs: Fear the worst

Net-telephony convergence, open-source software, and other next-gen technologies and trends will remake the IT landscape by 2015 — and drive CIOs crazy

U.S. Enterpises: Don’t be left behind on IPv6

China, Japan and South Korea all have mandated adoption of the next-generation protocol, so companies in other countries will be left behind if they don't start using it, warns one exec

Japanese tech gear cranks out

Broken Windows: Why Vista’s so late

Patent ‘trolls’ are elusive, experts say

House subcommittee looking to slash the number of claims regarding illegitimate patents

Update: Google unveils U.S. government search site

New site makes it easier to search content on U.S. federal, state, and local government Web sites

Update: Motorola and others launch mobile Linux group

New foundation aims to create APIs to enable interoperability of applications across Linux handsets

Run Windows, Mac OS X side by side

Digging Deeper on Microsoft’s New Clustering Technology – Part 3 of 3

Fast growth fuels Asian telecom demand

Motorola and Lucent will be among those showcasing their latest products at the CommunicAsia exhibition

June’s coolest gadgets

Ultra-portable PCs, HD-DVD laptops, and flexible e-paper displays top the list of cool gadgets

Micron, Lexar shareholders set for Friday showdown

If approved, the merger could create a new flash memory powerhouse

Danish parliament to use speech recognition

SpeechMagic will provide quick access to speeches by Danish parliamentarians

Netscape portal morphs into ‘social news’ site

AOL retools Netscape.com as a site where users can post, vote for, tag, and review articles

Microsoft offers IE users an ActiveX reprieve

Latest security update renders inoperable the ActiveX 'compatibility patch,' but customers can contact Microsoft for solutions

“Red Hat 7:21” taken from gcc.gnu.org mailing list

AOL tests AIM for the workplace

AIM Pro professional edition is expected to launch in the third quarter of this year, and an enterprise edition will follow next week

Oracle unveils ‘content management for the masses’

Increasing pressure to comply with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley rules governing U.S. public companies has made content management more topical, the company said

Red Hat 7:21: “Apple, borkest thou not thy ABI”

Microsoft AJAX framework forges ahead in spite of difficulties

Company's technology for AJAX deemed a tough  undertaking

Veterans Affairs ignores cybersecurity warnings

Government auditors say that the VA cannot be forced to comply with security recommendations

HP banks on next-generation blade architecture

BladeSystem c-Class box replaces p-Class, which will be supported through 2012

After lawsuit, Cisco embraces Black Hat

Cisco at this year's conference has signed up for "platinum" sponsor status

FedEx seeks innovation in IT overhaul

Company focused on improving speed, innovation, service levels, cost effectiveness, business alignment and people

Open source and the persistence of evil

Fewer e-mails bear malware

Sophos exec says 'E-mail is safer than it was last year'

IBM hands over more WSDM code to open source

Big Blue hopes to cease duplicate development work and use IBM's

What users hate most about Web sites

Too many sites are low on usability and high on annoyance

IBM unveils R&D consulting practice

IBM aims to help companies better use their R&D to drive innovation and growth

EBay adds blogs, wiki to site

EBay enhances its online auction site with community building features

Computex highlights digital evolution, not revolution

Show offers incremental improvements in a range of digital devices but no new killer application or hardware