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California legislators have introduced parallel bills in the state legislature that would punish file traders of copyrighted materials with up to a year in jail, US$2,500 in fines or both if the users do not provide their real names and addresses with the title of the work. A California State Senate bill introduced by Sen. […]

As Sun and IBM haggle over the terms of open-sourcing Java, I think its important to note: if theyre trying to jumpstart more widespread development of Java applications on the server, they are barking up the wrong tree. The reason is simple–Python. The scripting language is already in widespread use, is object-oriented, is proven to […]

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Microsoft is expected to detail next week some of the interim enhancements it is adding to its customer-relationship-management product at its Convergence customer conference in Orlando. The Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) division is working on adding mobile enhancements to its CRM platform, according to sources close to the company. The mobile technologies, customized to work […]

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On Thursday, less than a week after a major MSN services outage, many MSN users found themselves unable to access Passport and MSN Messenger. Microsoft acknowledged the problem. “This morning we identified an issue which began causing a portion of our customers to experience logon and connectivity issues to some MSN services,” said an MSN […]

Vendors of e-mail archiving and retrieval software will see revenue growth of more than $2.3 billion in their market over the next four years, according to analyst firm The Radicati Group Inc. A new study finds that sale of e-mail archiving systems will skyrocket, mainly because of companies ever-increasing storage needs and electronic document retention […]

Permabit Inc. this week unveiled its Permeon Compliance Vault, a complete compliance software solution designed to help enterprises meet the rules of such government regulations as SEC 17a-4, HIPAA, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The new software safeguards e-mails, instant messages, and other documents from destruction. The software turns magnetic disk-based hardware into non-rewriteable and non-erasable […]

Microsoft is broadening its Windows XP Service Pack 2 beta test as of release-candidate 1 (RC1), which the company made available for download Wednesday evening. Concurrent with the release of the RC1 bits, Microsoft acknowledged that it is continuing to make feature tweaks to SP2 as it inches toward its midyear ship date. Microsofts Windows […]

AT FIRST GLANCE, the company Employease seems unremarkable. But look a little closer. Employease, which provides employee benefits administration services to more than 1,000 organizations across America, has an IT architecture chiefly built around open-source software, which makes it a rare bird—not that it was planned that way when the company was founded in 1996. […]

Microsoft is continuing to finesse the new channel-partner program it launched at the start of this year. In January, the company debuted its Next Generation Partner Program. The new program combined, for the first time under a single umbrella, all of Microsofts various partner programs, including its Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains and Navision programs. […]

Macromedia Inc. has released a series of patches to plug security holes in its flagship Macromedia MX 2004 products. Affected products include Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Macromedia Contribute 2. The company said vulnerabilities were found in products […]