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Security: The Right to Know

Lets say theres a security vulnerability in the software you are using. Do you have a right to know about it? If so, when...

Sales System a Lottery Winner

Lottery scratch tickets have always been a source of instant gratification or instant disappointment. At the Indiana State Lottery, Andrew Hendricks experienced the latter.Hendricks...

Microsoft Fleshes Out Acrylic, Vista Connection

Microsoft on Monday announced the second early release of its new design tool known by the code name Acrylic. Acrylic, a professional illustration, painting and...

Corel Battles for the Small Business Crown

After a 20-year career at high-tech behemoth IBM, Dave Dobson was named CEO of Corel in June 2005. What led Dobson to sign on...

Change in Focus Helps Corel Regain Footing

Only three years ago, Canadian-based software company Corel Corp. looked to be circling down the drain. Despite such software offerings as the venerable WordPerfect...

Manhattan Associates to Acquire Evant

Supply chain execution software developer Manhattan Associates announced Thursday its intent to acquire Evant for about $50 million in cash.Evant Inc., based in San...

Oracle Backs Linux with File System Release

SAN FRANCISCO—While it remains one of the top providers of proprietary database and applications software in the world, Oracle this week made several moves...

Shoot-to-Kill Policy, Shock, Awe and Change Management

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. —Benjamin Franklin Last months mistaken execution of a London commuter by British security forces...

Critics Claim FCC Ruling Creates Duopoly

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin says that the agencys new rules on broadband Internet access create a "level playing field." But critics—including...

LinuxWorld Visitors Look for Real-World Apps

SAN FRANCISCO—The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here this week has drawn fewer people who came to learn what Linux is all about and more...