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Chinese Legal System Hinders IP Protection Efforts

If finding a software pirate is as simple as walking down the street and looking around for wheelbarrows, why is China—home of the largest...

Developing Securitys New Image

Federal agencies and contractors have until Oct. 27 to define a new standard of personal identification. Thats the deadline for compliance with the first...

EMC to Acquire Captiva Software

In a move designed to beef up its ECM (enterprise content management) Documentum business and storage portfolio-wide archival strategy, EMC has announced it will...

Open-Source Databases Spreading Like Rabbits

Open-source database adoption has shot up 20 percent in the last six months, according to new research. Evans Data Corp.s Fall 2005 Database Development Survey,...

Microsoft Scuttles Plans for Standalone Microsoft Business Framework

Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) is no more. The new strategy is to make the various technologies that were to comprise MBS available as part of...

The Ultimate Privacy Argument Against RFID

Privacy arguments tend to be emotional, often expressed in terms of "security versus privacy." A new book out about the future of RFID goes far...

Open-Source App Firms Draw VC Funding

Open-source application software companies have grown to the point where they are starting to catch the attention of venture capital firms looking for new...

Search Finds a Nerve to Rub Raw

Internet search technology may be getting too smart for its own good, says Michelle Weil, co-author of the book "TechnoStress." Bleeding-edge search products no longer...

OpenOffice Packs a Powerful New Database Punch

OpenOffice.orgs latest update includes a database that matches Microsofts popular and competing Access database, experts say. "Its definitely a big deal," said Stephen OGrady, an...

Office 12 to Anchor Microsofts Business Intelligence Strategy

Microsoft Corp. is hot to change the perception that Office is just a desktop suite. With the Office 12 release, due out next year, the...