Dennis Fisher

Adobe Systems Inc. last week acquired the digital rights management business of Navisware. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, allows Adobe to jump into the burgeoning DRM sector and deploy its own technology for protecting documents created with Microsoft Corp.s Office software. Naviswares FileLine DRM products are designed to provide security and version control for […]

Its been a long time since the security community had a full-fledged Microsoft patch controversy to sink its collective teeth into, but the new year was just a couple of days old when the first opportunity presented itself in the form of the Windows Metafile vulnerability. The flaw, which allows attackers to take control of […]

Chip maker advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued the momentum generated last year by the Opteron and Athlon 64, particularly by beating rival Intel Corp. in releasing dual-core processors. This year, company officials expect to continue to push that technological advantage. Dirk Meyer, president and chief operating officer of AMDs Microprocessor Solutions Sector, recently spoke with […]

Adobe Systems Inc. on Monday acquired the digital rights management business of Navisware. The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, allows Adobe to jump into the burgeoning DRM sector and deploy its own technology for protecting Microsoft Office documents. The FileLine DRM products from Navisware are designed to provide security and version control for CAD, Office […]

Storage market leader EMC Corp. said late Friday that it plans to cut 1,000 jobs and take a charge of about $80 million, but is also raising its revenue target for the fourth quarter. The layoffs are intended to eliminate redundant job functions, but company officials said that they still expect to see an overall […]

One of the immutable truths of the technology industry is that vendors are constantly at least one step behind users needs. Its not their fault; its simply a function of the speed at which business requirements and user preferences change these days. Software companies can work for months to integrate features that users have been […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. are readying security and virtualization technologies that will make their way into products as early as next year. The features are key components of the chip makers respective pushes to move beyond simply making processors and create platforms based on their chip architectures. The on-chip technologies also are […]

Vinton Cerf last week joined an eclectic group that includes such luminaries as Nelson Mandela, Andy Griffith, Hank Aaron, David Packard and Gordon Moore when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The medal is the highest honor given to a civilian in the United States. Cerf co-wrote the TCP/IP protocol with Robert Kahn, who […]

A charitable foundation started by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, last week donated $15 million to the Computer History Museum. The gift was the largest in the history of the museum and is part of its current effort to raise $125 million. The money from the Bill & […]

Internet Security Systems, which has had a reputation in the industry for testy relations with its resellers, has hired a new vice president of channels as it continues to try to improve its standing in the VAR community. The company announced last week that it has brought in Sergio Gemo, a veteran of Alcatel, to […]

Whipped into a frenzy at the prospect of acquiring Apple iBook laptops for approximately 5 percent of their original price, thousands of people jammed onto a racetrack in Virginia last week, eventually creating a ministampede that injured 17 people. Officials from the Henrico County school system announced that they were going to sell 1,000 used […]

The huge success of the open-source Firefox browser has spurred the browsers creator, the Mozilla Foundation, to create a for-profit arm called Mozilla Corp. Mozilla officials, however, said they have no plans to begin charging for Firefox or the foundations other software, such as the Thunderbird mail client. The new corporation will be owned by […]