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An established, clandestine network of compromised computers could become the launching pad for a superworm that would have a massive impact on the Internet. The malware network was created by an unpublicized trojan called Sinit, which has already infected hundreds of thousands of computers, according to a report released Monday by Clearswift, a UK-based maker […]

A new version of the Mimail email worm is purporting to come from PayPal with the subject header “PAYPAL.COM NEW YEAR OFFER”. Rather than containing the well detected Mimail.P worm, the attachment actually contains a 2kb downloader which if run, promptly toddles off and downloads a copy of Mimail.P from a Russian web server. Read […]

Maxtor Corp., Seagate Technology LLC. and Western Digital Corp. are adopting tougher reporting policies for their distributors. The hard-drive vendors said they will require all their distributors to implement EDI within the new few months and will demand daily POS reports. Stephen DiFranco, vice president of corporate marketing and branding at Maxtor, Milpitas, Calif., said […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. recently said the companies will support the Blu-ray standard for DVD technology. The format, backed by a consortium of ten companies, including Philips Electronics and Sony, allows for recording of up to four hours of high-definition television on a single disc. Blu-ray is competing with another new blue laser-based DVD […]

SanDisk Corp. recently introduced a new 2GB version of the Memory Stick PRO card as well as a Memory Stick PRO Duo card. The Memory Stick Pro card with a 2GB capacity will be available this quarter and is expected to cost around $1,000. The MS PRO Duo cards are roughly half the size of […]

IBM and Topspin Communications at LinuxWorld in New York will demonstrate the companies commitment to the InfiniBand standard. The pair last week announced a multi-year agreement to integrate Topspins InfiniBand switch technology on IBM systems, and resell Topspin InfiniBand switches to customers worldwide. The companies said that the five-year agreement gives IBM access to current […]

NEW YORK—When Bill Gates founded his second company in 1990, he had an inkling that digital rights for images might be important some day. He was dead-on. The second and “perhaps the lesser known of the two” companies that the Microsoft chairman founded, as Gates quipped, announced on Wednesday that its revenues grew 20 percent […]

The WiMax Forum has increased its membership from 28 to 67 members in five months. The forum, which certifies broadband wireless access product interoperability, includes Siemens, Covad and ZTE Corp. The technology, which is known as 802.16a, can transfer data at up to 30 miles at data transfer rates that approach 70M bps. Read the […]

A group of vendors has launched efforts to develop a standard for handling voice data on Wi-Fi networks when roaming across different access points. The group, including Airespace and Spectralink, is seeking permission to create a Fast Roaming study group within the IEEE standards body. Current Wi-Fi standards produce a brief interruption in voice transmission […]

Think Linux cant work for a small companys core infrastructure? Think again, in this IT Managers Journal story by system administrator and IT manager Ryan Benner explains how he saved his firm tens of thousands by switching from a Microsoft-centric server upgrade plan to a Linux and open source based one. For the rest of […]

Microsoft Corp. committed its expertise to the cause of homeland security when it named Tom Richey as director of Homeland Security for Microsoft Public Sector in November of 2002. Most recently, last month the software giant named former U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Michael Byrne as director of Justice & Public Safety for […]

PalmSource Inc. has released Palm OS 6.0 for next-generation devices and smart phones to its licensees. The new software features the ability to multitask, as well as enhanced multimedia, better security, memory protection and a modular design framework. Developers will likely get a closer look at the new software at the Palm PalmSource developer conference […]