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Liberty Alliance, a group dedicated to forging an open identity standard, this week certified nine single sign-on products. The certification, which covers Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) version 1.1 and 1.2 for single sign-on services, involves a rigorous testing process that gauges identity federation, authentication, session management and privacy protection. Vendors must demonstrate interoperability […]

Network Associates Inc. on Wednesday announced that it has changed its name to McAfee Inc. The company said it will focus on intrusion prevention solutions that allow customers to block both known and unknown attacks. McAfee will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the new ticker symbol MFE. McAfee expects to close […]

British MPs this week proposed a revised cybercrime law that would give computer hacking a maximum two-year prison term. In addition to stiffer hacking penalties, a revamped Computer Misuse Act (CMA) would seek to criminalize denial-of-service attacks. Any cybercrime reforms are expected to be closely watched outside the UK as many national laws in other […]

Motherboard maker Micro-Star International Co. (MSI) is offering a free upgrade to consumers worried that they may have been stuck with one of the bad Intel “Grantsdale” boards. MSI said it will test and screen all upcoming boards using the Intel 925X “Alderwood” chip set or the two Grantsdale chip sets, the Intel 915P and […]

Voltaire Inc. this week introduced several products to improve storage networking on clusters and grids. The companys NAS (network-attached storage) cluster provides access to a unified namespace up to 16 petabytes in size. The product combines Voltaires interconnect gear with software from Terrascale that transforms standard Linux file systems into parallel file systems. Read the […]

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. this week announced plans to introduce its Blu-ray disk recorder on July 31, 2004. The Panasonic DMR-E700BD recorder supports dual-layer disks with 50GB capacity. The device also comes with four built-in tuners for terrestrial digital broadcasting, satellite broadcasts and and terrestrial analog broadcasts. Read the full story at EE Times

Storage Technology Corp. this week unveiled a mid-range, rack-mounted system that features much more simplified robotics than the companys high-end tape modules. The base unit of StorageTeks SL500 can accommodate up to 50 slots and the expansion units up to 130, allowing around 500 slots in one, full-length cabinet, with a capacity of around 100TB. […]

Now that Apple has previewed publicly its “Tiger” Mac OS X 10.4 release, everyones raring to pit Tiger against “Longhorn.” And theres plenty of fodder for a grudge match. Both Apple and Microsoft are set to showcase new search systems, built-in RSS readers, new scripting shells and 64-bit support in their next-gen operating systems. But […]

So you think youre good at case customization? Do you know your way around a Dremel tool? Are you on intimate terms with your wire cutters? Then put your case mods where your mouth is! All this month, ExtremeTech is running a stupendous contest to find the best-looking customized PC cases in America! Send three […]

On Tuesday, Microsoft officially took the wraps off a new line of low-priced tools aimed at nonprofessional programmers. The first betas of both the full Visual Studio tool suite and the so-called “Express” versions of Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J# and SQL Server (as well as a new product, Visual WebDev Express) […]

Juniper Networks Inc. on Monday said it integrated the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specification with its network access appliances. The companys NetScreen Secure Access SSL VPN products now use SAML to share authorization data between different security systems. SAML incorporates XML and SOAP and other frameworks to enable security-oriented tasks like single sign-on services. […]

Windows users should turn on their auto-updating features to help combat potentially dangerous attacks, said Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates. “We will guarantee that the average time to fix will continue to come down,” said Gates, who was in Australia for a charity launch Monday. A virus designed to steal financial data and passwords from […]