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EMC is continuing its strategy to appeal more to SMBs by acquiring Allocity, the startup behind Live!Ex, a storage system specifically for for Microsoft Exchange databases. Read more about this acquisition and why Live!Ex is an attractive addition to EMCs portfolio. Read the rest of this article at InternetNews.

A leading bank regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, warned in June that increased corporate outsourcing of call-center tasks and other jobs overseas had heightened the risk of identity theft. The crimes ranged from the theft of a credit card number to more elaborate identity thefts used to secure loans. During those 12 months, the […]

As the nation heads to the polls this week, we note that issues of U.S. competitiveness in technology have been disappointingly far from the eye of the campaign storm. Intel CEO Craig Barrett offered a world travelers perspective on some of these questions at the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, where Barrett began a farewell tour before […]

It started out as a trickle. Our help desk was getting calls about slow PCs, Web browsers that werent functioning correctly and home pages that had magically changed to some site called “aboutblank.” Soon, the drip turned into a stream of phone calls with the appearance of additional tool bars, rogue registry entries and Web […]

When it launched its “Windows Genuine Advantage” pilot program in September, Microsoft Corp. was hoping 20,000 customers would opt into the voluntary program, via which Microsoft checks whether customers are running counterfeit copies of Windows. But by a little over a month later, 828,000 customers had opted in, Microsoft officials said Wednesday. And they did […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—What will be the dominant programming languages a decade from now? Microsoft Corp. developer division architect Herb Sutter told attendees of the OOPSLA conference here that he couldnt predict the names of the most prominent programming languages of 2014, but he had a good idea of the characteristics of those languages. Sutter said […]

An MD, PhD graduate from Harvard and MIT has created mobile computer systems that health workers use to manage diseases like diabetes and AIDS in rural areas. To encourage diabetic patients to monitor their own care, he designed a game that patients can play on their own or with other patients in the wireless community. […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Ward Cunningham, the father of the wiki concept, hardly mentioned wikis at all during his keynote address at the OOPSLA 2004 conference here. Instead, Cunningham focused on programming patterns and practices during his hour-and-a-half keynote address Tuesday. His talk, “System of Names and Other Tools of the Not-Quite Tangible,” was as intangible as […]

WASHINGTON (AP)—The Federal Communications Commission gave its approval Tuesday to Cingular Wireless LLCs $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., completing the federal regulatory blessing necessary for creation of the countrys largest cellphone company. Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department had cleared the way for the merger on Monday. Both agencies, however, set conditions […]

In TV commercials for a financial services company, Bill Cosby used to look at the viewer and intone, “Because … its my money.” That message must be understood whenever the Net is propounded as a forum for payment processing. When money is involved, the minimum standard of service is high—but events of the past few […]

Check-fraud versions of phishing scams are a possibility once Check 21 becomes law. According to a recent study by Surrey, U.K.-based Next Generation Security Software, nine out of 10 financial Web sites contain security flaws that could expose them to phishing attacks. A white paper authored by three fraud experts describes the emerging risks of […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)—Stepping up the heated battle of online search and services, Yahoo Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. have joined forces to tap each others customers and put Web search features into Adobes popular Acrobat Reader software. The broad strategic relationship to be announced Monday is Sunnyvale-based Yahoos latest maneuver against chief rivals Google […]