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Most spam is sent from overseas on behalf of American spammers, privacy experts said Thursday at a conference sponsored by the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy. Most speakers firmly came down against legislation to solve the program, promoting a mix of private legal action and technology. Although the International Telecommunication Union has a […]

Trend Micro Inc. on Thursday announced second fiscal quarter 2004 net income of $35 million on sales of $136 million. Net income jumped 144 percent from a year ago. The companys sales of enterprise products for second-quarter 2004 grew 36 percent year-over-year, while sales of consumer products grew 60 percent year-over-year. Read the full story […]

Xelerence Corp. this week demonstrated a prototype of its IPsec wireless authentication scheme at the Black Hat Briefings. This years conference is using a WaveSEC overlay on the network and the CD of proceedings includes an X.509 digital certificate that lets users help work the bugs out of the tool. The company said the next […]

Banks are so concerned about assaults from a proliferating number of computer viruses and phishing attacks that they have rallied together under the auspices of industry associations such as BITS and the Financial Services Roundtable to prod their software providers into creating products that are not so open to attack. Banks now find themselves in […]

Impassioned battles between Linux and Windows partisans are no longer confined to the desktop and server arenas. With the growing ubiquity of smart devices, the device arena offers action every bit as intense, justifying massive vendor technology investments, high-dollar PR campaigns, and generous helpings of technical hyperbole from both corners, which contribute to a pugilistic […]

At the recent Rational Software Development User Conference, IBM Fellow and IBM Rational Chief Scientist Grady Booch delivered a keynote on his predictions of the software development landscape circa 2032, the 50th anniversary of Rational. Following his keynote, Booch sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft to discuss Rationals development strategy going forward […]

REDMOND, Wash.—For more than two years, Microsoft has been talking up its goal of providing users with an integrated search capability that would allow them to find information stored locally on hard disks, on corporate intranets and across the Internet. On Thursday, Microsoft finally showed a prototype of such a service. Here at the annual […]

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsofts war on Linux isnt about to let up. The Redmond software vendor plans to step up its “Get the Facts” anti-open-source campaign in the coming year by adding more evidence, in the form of customer case studies and analyst reports, to its arsenal. Thats what Kevin Johnson, Microsofts group vice president of worldwide […]

Veritas Software Corp. this week announced net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2004 of $86 million, or 20 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $485 million. The company reported net income of $46 million, or 11 cents per diluted share, for the same period a year ago. “While total revenue was up […]

Verbatim Corp. this week announced its new family of 5.25-inch Ultra Density Optical (UDO) 30GB dual-sided media. The write-once and rewritable media are based on blue-laser technology. The company said its discs have a data life of 50 years. Read the full story at EMediaLive.com

Sony Electronics this week announced the fourth generation of its Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) drive. The latest AIT-4 drives and media offer up to 200 GB of native capacity (520 GB with compression) and a transfer rate of 24 MBps in a 3.5-inch form factor. The company said the roadmap for AIT includes up to […]

Bell Microproducts Inc. this week announced an agreement to carry IP SAN solutions from LeftHand Networks Inc. for its OEM, contract manufacturing and solution provider customers. LeftHands proprietary SAN/iQ software virtualizes any number of the appliances into a SAN built using IP networks. Such a SAN is scalable both in terms of capacity and bandwidth […]