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Trying to find the security holes in your customers networks? Then consider hiring a security assessment service, a new breed of service provider that does all the grunt work in seeking out network vulnerabilities. Vigilante.com last week secured$11 million in a second round of financing, allowing the company to build a network of solutions provider […]

Down for Count Microsofts online properties, the thirdmost popular destination on the Internet, were inaccessible for nearly two days because of an internal routing error and a subsequent denial-of-service attack, the company said. Security expert Elias Levy at SecurityFocus.com said the initial snafu causing the Jan. 24 outage exposed Microsofts Domain Name Server architecture to […]

Capitol hill is gearing up to tackle the online privacy issue once again — and this time there appears to be more resolve to get a law passed. Legislation will start moving “very soon,” Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., told a room full of Silicon Valley executives during a recent speech in Washington, D.C. The chairman […]

Sun Microsystems next month will begin unfolding concrete plans for its revamped partner strategy, including how it intends to integrate recently acquired Cobalt Networks. The summit, slated for Feb. 6, will bring together 50 executives in Suns National Systems Provider Program to discuss partner sales, distribution models, and the companys refocus on integration partners as […]

In a move its president said was a way to “combat middle-age fatigue” and regain a startup mentality, Progress Software Corp. is reorganizing to separate its myriad product lines into distinct businesses. “The motivation and goals have to do with making sure these new ventures were starting up—the open-source database and e-business messaging—are successful,” said […]

Microsoft has agreed to pay Sun Microsystems $20 million to settle their lawsuit and will send its Java license back to Sun headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. “Its pretty simple,” said Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy after the settlement was announced. “This is a victory for our Java licensees.” The settlement, in which Microsoft admitted […]

The $20 million java settlement reached last week between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. could lead to even sharper battle lines in the companies platform war. For developers committed to one technology or the other, the settlement will have little impact, but for those using a mix of both, it will cause integration problems […]

Hows business these days? If your first response is to blame a drop in corporate IT spending, you may have the right answer but the wrong strategy. I recently posed that question to Tom Fornoff, VP of alliances at Sapient, which ranked No. 1 on our Smart 50 Companies list for the past two years. […]

New economy books arrive on my desk as frequently as commuter trains pull into Penn Station. Theyre preview copies or first-bound editions aching for public review. Until a few months ago, many dwelled on how the Internet has transformed society. How-to-get-rich schemes by standing in the right spot at the right time were standard fare, […]

Last fall, speaking at dell Computer Corp.s DirectConnect conference in Austin, Texas, Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Jacques Nasser sounded like a dot-com entrepreneur flush with excitement over the vast possibilities of e-business. Ford, Nasser told his audience, was rushing to transform itself into a customer-focused e-business. “Technology and networks in particular determine the […]