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Dell Inc. this week joined with other vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Intel Corp., to create a working group within the Distributed Management Task Force that will help create standard server management software interfaces. The group will evolve the DMTFs Common Information Model—or CIM—specification that will enable customers to manage their heterogeneous environments using […]

Xandros Inc. on Tuesday announced general availability of the next release of its flagship software package, the Xandros Desktop Version 2. The softwares developers said that the new version allows greater ease-of-use and compatibility with Windows programs. Users will be able to install the new OS, based on the “Sarge” version of Debian GNU/Linux (Linux […]

Via Technologies Inc. on Monday announced the first integrated graphics chipset for the Athlon 64 processsor produced by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The Via K8M800 uses the S3 UniChrome Pro graphics core within the chipset, built on top of the platform infrastructure used by Vias K8T800 chipset for the AMD64 family of processors. The UniChrome […]

Novell last week joined the Open Source Development Labs and reported that Jeffrey Hawkins, a Novell Vice President, was elected to the OSDL board of directors. Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL, said Novell will participate in a number of OSDL initiatives, including the Data Center Linux working group, which is focused on the business hardening […]

Microsoft Corp. is pulling the plug on many of its legacy products as a result of the Java lawsuit with Sun Microsystems Inc. The products targeted for phaseout are those that embed Microsofts Java virtual machine technology. They include Windows 98, SQL Server 7 and a number of versions of Office 2000. The retirements mean […]

Security experts have found a new way to exploit a critical vulnerability in Windows that evades a workaround and enables the attacker to compromise a number of machines at one time. The new attack could also lead to the creation of another fast-spreading Windows worm, the experts warned. The workaround in question is for the […]

Samsung Electronics Digital Information Technology Division has unveiled a 17-inch monitor, the 172X LCD. The monitor weighs only 8 pounds and has a 1-inch profile, with 12-millisecond response times. The unit includes Samsungs MagicTune and MagicBright software. Scheduled to ship next month, it is priced at $649.

Bucking the industry trend of sending technical support offshore, MPC Computers is bringing its entire support staff into its Nampa, Idaho, headquarters. The computer maker, which targets midsize businesses, government agencies and educational institutions, had supplemented its in-house staff with a third-party call center in Minnesota. But company officials said support was so important to […]

Katharion is offering an outsourced filtering system that screens e-mail for spam and viruses. Using the service can reduce spam by more than 98 percent, the company said. The service employs several layers of filtering, including whitelists, blacklists, a heuristic rule set, an artificial-intelligence Bayesian engine and a database of known spam signatures. Read the […]

Network Associates Inc. said it agreed to sell its help-desk software unit, Magic Solutions, to BMC Software Inc. for $47 million as part of an effort to focus on its core network security business. Magic Solutions accounted for about $14.4 million, or 6 percent, of the companys third-quarter revenue of $226.9 million. Network Associates, best […]

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has announced a $205 million cash-and-stock deal to acquire Zone Labs Inc., which makes software that can tell whether a remote machine meets security policies before allowing it to access a corporate VPN. The software, called Integrity, will complement Check Points VPN-1/Firewall-1 software that can set up VPNs over the […]

3Com announced Monday an initiative dubbed Pervasive Network Security to integrate security features into its networking product lines. The company plans to overlay security elements, such as VPN, firewall, and intrusion detection and prevention technology across its networking portfolio. 3Com plans to develop the security technology in-house and through partnerships with security vendors. Read the […]