Publisher:Robert Mullins Time:08/04/2007

As more than 11,000 attendees prepare to converge on San Francisco for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week, one industry analyst says customers are evaluating open-source software the same way they evaluate proprietary software: It has to be priced right and work well.... Read More

Publisher:Gregg Keizer Time:08/04/2007

Microsoft Corp. today pushed back the release date of Office 2008 for Mac until January, a delay from an earlier promise to deliver the new suite this year.... Read More

Publisher:Gregg Keizer Time:08/04/2007

Security researchers at Trend Micro Inc. have spotted a Russian server loaded with more than 400 different pieces of malware that may be poised to launch a large-scale attack through malicious Web sites hosted in Italy.... Read More

Publisher:Candace Lombardi Time:08/04/2007

When I was in college, there was this one classmate everyone found especially annoying. Quite the little joiner, she would post opinions of dubious intellectual worth on the class message board just to show that she did the reading and to puff herself up with some tangentially related story.... Read More

Publisher:Scott Dunn Time:08/04/2007

If you poke around tip sites, you'll find a lot of myths and harebrained theories about optimizing virtual memory (the hard-disk space Windows uses to supplement your RAM)--a few of them even perpetuated by me. This time I went to the horse's mouth for the Microsoft-approved ways to set Windows' memory management to full steam ahead. ... Read More

Publisher:Sumner Lemon Time:08/04/2007

Diebold Election Systems Inc. electronic voting machines are not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election, and an attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an election using viruses, according to a review of Diebold's source code.... Read More

Publisher:Robert McMillan Time:08/04/2007

That's what organizers of the 15th annual DefCon hacking conference are telling attendees Friday, after being tipped off that the TV news program Dateline NBC has sent a producer with a hidden camera to investigate the show. ... Read More

Publisher:Ellen Messmer Time:08/04/2007

Can rootkit malware that hides by mimicking a software-based virtual machine ever be detected? That was the topic of debate as security researchers presented their latest findings to packed audiences at the Black Hat conference here.... Read More

Publisher:Horia Covaci Time:08/04/2007

Comba Telecom announced the availability of its TD-SCDMA Remote Radio Unit (RRU) solution for China¡¯s 3G Market.... Read More

Publisher:Horia Covaci Time:08/04/2007

Siemens and Fujitsu announced a business collaboration designed to expand the market for the PalmSecure palm vein authentication system developed by Fujitsu in combination with Siemens¡¯ biometric software ¡°ID Center¡±.... Read More