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By 2006, about 20 percent of the top 2,000 global organizations will use digital rights management to protect content, an analyst firm said Wednesday. About 2 percent of so-called “Global 2000” companies currently use DRM to protect their content, mainly media and music companies, the META Group Inc. said in a report issued Wednesday. DRM […]

Hartmut Sell knows that the European Unions $613 million fine for antitrust violations at Microsoft Corp. means little to a company with more than $50 billion in cash reserves. But Sell, who runs a small computer store in downtown Berlin, relished the punitive spirit of Wednesdays EU ruling against worlds largest software maker. “Its about […]

A variant of the MyDoom worm discovered on Wednesday does more than launch a denial-of-service attack; it also locks out infected users from contacting Web sites that can come to their assistance, including most antivirus companies and Microsoft. The MyDoom worm has been spreading through the Internet at a furious pace since Monday. The variant, […]

The SCO Group, fresh off of news of suspending its Linux distribution last week, today announced it has licensed its Unix technology to Microsoft Corp., according to a company release. The license includes a software patent and source code, and enables Microsoft to be in compliance with SCOs intellectual property rights, according to the company […]

Just days before its largest trade show of the year is set to kick off, Key3Media Group Inc. announced late Thursday that it may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to “maintain continuity of services to its exhibitor and attendee clients,” among other things. The company, which produces such legendary trade shows as Comdex and […]

Soon after planes struck the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon and one crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, stunned Americans began the surreal exercise of imagining the next possible targets and planning to protect the nations critical infrastructure. During the past few months, eWeek reporters have contacted a dozen hot points in […]

Quantum Corp. announced Wednesday morning that industry veteran Richard Belluzzo is joining the network storage provider as CEO effective Sept. 3, 2002. Belluzzo, who had spent 20 years in the executive ranks at Hewlett-Packard Co., also held the position of CEO at Silicon Graphics Inc. His most recent job prior to heading to Quantum, was […]

Apple Computer Inc. is making a strong play for the enterprise and positioning its technology as a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp.s. At Macworld Conference & Expo here last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled an enhanced Mac OS 10 operating system, as well as a host of tools and applications to help enterprise customers […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. said late Wednesday a preliminary vote count of its proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. shows investors approved the measure by a margin of 45 million shares out of more than 1.63 billion shares cast. The results of the March 19 polling of HP shareholders are being disputed, however, by major stockholder Walter […]

WASHINGTON — The states involved in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case are split over the federal governments settlement with the Redmond, Wash., software company and may push for further litigation or, at least, an extension of the mediation process. Both sides have been given until 2 p.m. today to iron out their differences. In a […]