David Morgenstern

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday pushed its WGA program over the Internet, hoping to thwart users running illegal or pirated copies of Windows XP and Windows 2000. However, online enthusiast sites reported on Thursday that the verification method had been broken in 24 hours. According to one site, the hack is simply a short JavaScript string […]

Citing national security and business concerns, officials of the U.S. Department of Commerce Thursday said the federal agency will retain control of the Internets domain naming system, rather than hand over complete responsibility to the international nonprofit currently running the operation. The move could roil governments and international businesses, analysts warned, as well as bring […]

If anything were guaranteed to set teeth gnashing in the executive suite at Apple Computers headquarters, it was Intels Thursday announcement of Yonah, the dual-core version of its Pentium Mobile processor line due next year for Windows notebooks. Or maybe not. Over the weekend, the rumors of Apple switching from its PowerPC-based platform to some […]

Adobe Systems top brass cant seem to catch a break. Last week, company execs were riding high with the acquisition of competitor Macromedia for $3.4 billion. Now, following Bill Gates showing of Microsofts forthcoming “Metro” document format and print architecture to developers at WinHEC in Seattle, some analysts say the end is near for Adobe […]

Microsoft officials, from product managers to the top brass, look to be busy starting Monday with the arrival of attendees to the WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) in Seattle. At the annual gathering, system and device vendors as well as a number of ISVs will look for the latest skinny on the various Windows platforms, […]

Hot new technologies (and no doubt, novel spins on old technologies) will be showcased next week at two conferences: DEMO, the computer industrys exclusive winter gathering in the desert, and VSLive, a developer event sponsored by Fawcette Technical Publications. Dubbed DEMO@15! this year in honor of its fifteenth anniversary, Network World Events & Executive Forums […]

As the Mac faithful continue to pack the ongoing Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday offered the public some further good news about the companys progress. Boosted by the success of the iPod, the company reported its highest-ever quarterly revenue and net income in its first fiscal quarter. For the quarter, […]

Symantec Corp.s Security Response service on Friday confirmed that unpatched Windows vulnerabilities could pose a serious risk for exploits via malicious Web pages and e-mail messages. One of the three security vulnerabilities involves image handling—a source of recent exploits on Windows and Unix operating systems. The other two risks are found in the Help system […]

Big Blue keeps extending the competitive reach of its TotalStorage virtualization software for SANs (storage area networks). IBM on Friday said its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller software now will manage all of rival EMCs SAN arrays. The software lets storage managers build complex, virtual networks of storage with products from IBM and other vendors. That […]

Cant live (or work) without instant messaging? Many thousands of America Online customers found the answer this week when the company accidentally pulled the plug on their accounts. While the shutdown proved the unreliability of the service, it also showed that theres nothing more reliable than a companys reluctance to give customers bad news. Like […]

Twenty years ago Friday, Cisco Systems Inc. was founded by a pair of computer scientists interested in computer networking. Nowadays, the company is the global powerhouse of the IP industry, with some 35,000 employees, working to keep data flowing on local networks and across the Internet. While not born in a garage—the Silicon Valley equivalent […]

PalmSource Inc. looks to have the open-source community in its corner as it comes out swinging at established contenders for a share of the growing mobile handset market. But analysts were unclear on how PalmSources Linux move will shake out for the operating system and for its customers, including sibling palmOne Inc. “Were going head-to-head […]