Monthly Archives: February 2004
Homeland Security Chief Warns of Cybercrime Costs
SAN FRANCISCO—More and more, the U.S. government will require the assistance of private industry to combat the war on terrorism, a top government official...
Cray Targets New Markets with OctigaBay Acquisition
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. is looking to expand its target market with the acquisition of start-up OctigaBay Corp.
Cray announced on Wednesday a deal to...
Motorola Rolls Out New PowerPC G4 with Power-Saving Feature
Motorola Inc.s Semiconductor Products Sector on Tuesday released the latest member of the PowerPC G4 series of processors. This new chip, the MPC7447A, offers...
Who Truly Owns Symbian?
At the 3GSM World Congress this week Symbian CEO David Levin worked hard to counter the general impression that his company is either a...
Group Sense PDA Launches Second PalmSource Phone
CANNES, France (special to eWEEK.com)—Group Sense PDA, a PalmSource licensee, announced Tuesday at the 3GSM World Congress here its second PalmSource phone: the Xplore...
ICQ Worm Spreads Malicious Payload Before Being Blocked
America Online Inc. said it has blocked a worm that began spreading this week through its ICQ instant messaging service that can steal sensitive...
Open Software, Secure Software
Fifty-plus years ago Grace Hopper used her experiences with programming the UNIVAC with FLOW-MATIC (an open-source project) to write her first compiler paper and...
Yukon to Ship with Features Securely Off
In an effort to make it more secure, Microsoft Corp.s "Yukon" version of its SQL Server database will ship with certain features turned off,...
Fresh Worms Attack E-Mail, Internet Explorer, User Data
A series of new worms spread on the Internet on Wednesday, spreading through conventional e-mail methods. The new versions have escalated their attacks and...
VeriSign Teams with Microsoft on Authentication
SAN FRANCISCO—VeriSign Inc. introduced on Wednesday a technology partnership with Microsoft Corp. that combines its strong authentication services with Windows Server 2003.
VeriSign Chairman and...