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Tape library and management software maker Overland Storage Inc. has acquired Okapi Software Inc., which makes backup appliances, for $5 million, officials announced Thursday. “Customers absolutely want to use disks to back up today. They still want ultimately to get the data out to tape [but] they dont want to have to change their infrastructure,” […]

The Recording Institute of Association of America (RIAA) will begin “gathering evidence” of illegal file-sharing activity to be used against consumers in hundreds of lawsuits, beginning today. The RIAAs first targets will be those who share “substantial” amounts of copyrighted material, the organization said. The first lawsuits are expected in early August. “Once we begin […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is continuing his anti-spam war, promising in an interview published on Thursday to implement a Microsoft-Research-developed scheme that would charge spammers for sending junk mail. Gates also said in the same interview that Microsoft is considering another research-developed technology that would delay by a number of seconds the delivery of spam […]

Birdstep, TerraWave Partner on Wireless Access Software Birdstep Technology and TerraWave Solutions have teamed up to provide wireless LAN infrastructure software to Wi-Fi resellers. Under the agreement, TerraWave will distribute Birdsteps IP Zone Server and Intelligent Mobile IP Client to resellers deploying wireless networks for Internet service providers and hotspot operators. Read the full story […]

Spam Overload For the first time, the majority of e-mail received by businesses is now spam, claims a new report from e-mail security provider MessageLabs. In May, spam accounted for 55.1 percent of the 133.9 million e-mails scanned by the firm. MessageLabs also keeps track of which industries are most vulnerable to spam and found […]

Enterprise Storage Sun, NetApp to Boost File-Sharing Speed In a quest to update outdated standards in data exchange, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Network Appliance Inc. announced this week a plan to offer Network File System (NFS), a distributed file system created by Sun that allows users to access files and directories located on remote computers, […]

NeoWins got the dish on the 675 fixes that are part of Windows Server 2000 Service Pack (SP) 4. Sounds like Microsoft has already provided its top partners with the SP4 bits. It now has released SP4 to the Web, NeoWin reports.

Veritas Software Corp. this week announced OpForce 3.0, enhancing the platform support and simplifying administration of the former Jareva Technologies Inc. OpForce 2.1 server automation software, officials said. The new version is the first since Veritas acquired Jareva for $62 million in December 2002, but full technical integration wont come until Version 4.0 in the […]

All Im asking Microsoft to do is humor me. I already know that the PDA is dead, but all the company is proving is that the less things change, the more they stay the same. Time was when Microsoft was eager to take every play they could out of Palms book—the memo pad form factor, […]

Having taken the technology reins at general Motors Corp. seven years ago with much fanfare, Ralph Szygenda has brought in a team of top IT management talent to guide IT operations that are almost entirely outsourced. In those seven years, he has weaned GM from total dependence on Electronic Data Systems Corp., once a GM […]

Call it a paradigm shift if you want. By whatever name, in information technology, its a seismic event when the epicenter of innovation shifts from one platform to another. Its happened before as data centers gave way to desktops, and it could be happening again as the PC, in turn, gives way to the wireless […]

Microsoft Settles With West Virginia Microsoft last week announced an agreement with West Virginia for the state to drop its appeal—leaving Massachusetts as the lone holdout for penalties harsher than in a settlement accepted by several other states and the U.S. government. Massachusetts officials plan to press on. “Nothing has changed with West Virginias decision […]