Matthew Broersma

The British government has updated its guidelines for the way UK public authorities buy computer chips—a move designed to help level the playing field for Intel competitors such as AMD. The publication by the UKs OGC (Office of Government Commerce) of its EU Procurement Guidance document this month follows similar moves by several other EU […]

Ahead of an important decision by the European Commission on Microsofts antitrust compliance proposal, competitors have criticized the plan as deeply flawed. At the end of May, Microsoft Corp. submitted a revised plan to the Commission on how it would comply with a landmark EU antitrust ruling. That ruling required the company to help competitors […]

Kerberos, the popular authentication protocol developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is vulnerable to three serious flaws that could allow an attacker to gain access to protected corporate networks, MIT researchers disclosed late on Tuesday. Unix variants such as Solaris and Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X, and Linux distributions such as Red Hat […]

The European Parliament on Wednesday morning put the final nail in the coffin of the European Unions controversial IT patenting proposal, voting overwhelmingly to reject the proposed directive. The Parliament voted 648 to 14 with 18 abstentions to reject the directive, which would have become EU law if approved in its current form. The European […]

Many major European PC makers and retailers say they have no plans to carry Microsofts Media Player-free version of Windows, a product released as part of the European Unions antitrust plan. The European Commission last year imposed a record fine on Microsoft Corp. for abusing its Windows dominance to shut out competition. This year the […]

Campaigners hoping to keep software patents out of the European Union were dealt a serious blow on Monday, when the European Parliaments legal affairs committee threw out key amendments to a proposed IT patenting law. The committee, known as JURI, had been considering a number of amendments to the proposed directive on the patenting of […]

Apple Computer Inc.s switch to Intel chips may kill Mac OS 9 support once and for all. While Apple has not specifically addressed the issue, the Rosetta software designed to provide compatibility for PowerPC applications on Intel-based Macs will not support applications built for OS 9 or older systems, according to the softwares technical documentation. […]

Microsoft Corp.s proposal to European Union regulators for resolving its outstanding antitrust issues does not provide key concessions requested by open-source software projects, European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Monday. The revelation is a blow to the developers behind projects such as Linux and Samba, which use open source or “free software” licenses. Such […]

European regulators may be powerless to give open-source competitors effective access to Microsofts server protocols, despite antitrust rulings against the company and the EUs ability to impose massive new fines. The European Commission has said a proposal submitted by Microsoft Corp. this week on implementing EU antitrust sanctions is the companys last chance to avoid […]

A technical study of phishing techniques published this week by the Honeynet Project has found that large numbers of users are still being readily tricked into visiting fake sites designed to harvest banking and financial details, despite massive efforts to educate consumers. The study found that, far from being carried out by isolated hackers, such […]