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Media Center: Youre Hired
Although most Media Center PCs pass their days at home in the living room or study, a few have begun taking office jobs.The desktop...
Rare Database Bug Causes Salesforce.com Outage
Salesforce.coms daylong outage Tuesday was caused by "an extremely rare, undocumented bug" that neither the company nor its database vendor had ever seen before,...
Microsoft, Google and Lee Settle Hiring Dispute
Some five months after Google announced plans to open a product research and development center in China, and said it was appointing former Microsoft...
D-Day Arrives for SCO
After more than two and a half years, SCO must finally turn over to the U.S. District Court in Utah any proof it has...
Googleites Gripe About Sloppy Service
Michele Neylon was once very happy with Urchin Software Corp., which provides a service to analyze Web site traffic.
But ever since search giant Google...
Tall Tales from Redwood Shores
Oracle wants to be the market leader in enterprise applications. The companys most recent quarterly results show its not doing a very good job...
Microsoft Corrects Patch Day Glitch with SUS Update
Microsoft Corp. has shipped an update to Software Update Services 1.0 to correct a Patch Day glitch that caused some previously approved security updates...
RSA CEO Bets on Authentication, Anti-fraud Technology
RSA Security Inc. President and CEO Art Coviello cruises the company cafeteria on his scooter on a late December morning, looking like a kid...
Symantec Confirms AV Library Flaw, Promises Patches
Anti-virus vendor Symantec Corp. has publicly acknowledged that a high-risk buffer overflow vulnerability in its AntiVirus Library could lead to code execution attacks when...
Microsoft Lashes Out at EU over Fine Threat
The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has again rapped Microsoft Corp. over the knuckles, this time warning the Redmond-based software...