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Spyware, Rootkit Maker Stops Distribution

ContextPlus, an adware company implicated in a large number of stealth rootkit infections, has stopped distributing its software, citing concerns over the practices of...

W3C Approves Web Services-Addressing Standard

The World Wide Web Consortium has approved the Web Services-Addressing specification as a standard. The standards organization announced on May 9 that Web Services-Addressing 1.0—consisting...

Preparing for the Worst: Avian Flu

The disaster recovery systems that kicked in following Hurricane Katrina last fall were a good sign that many businesses and IT staff had planned...

Symantec Touts New Server, Storage Foundations as IT Standards

SAN FRANCISCO—Symantec executives and customers extolled the virtue of "standards" on May 9 at the Symantec Vision conference here, as the company introduced its...

Cisco Reports Flat Earnings, Strong Revenue Increase

Despite flat earnings in its third fiscal quarter of 2006, Cisco Systems was bullish on its quarter overall and in looking ahead into the...

Sun, SAP Virtualize App Environments

Users of SAP applications looking for ways to improve manageability and reduce deployment times are getting help from the software maker as well as...

Symantec Brass Tackles Complaints, Touts Progress

SAN FRANCISCO—Symantec will seek to extend its security protection beyond the client and infrastructure to encompass Web 2.0 models and data, top executives told...

Packeteer Picks Up Tacit for $78M

WAN optimization provider Packeteer on May 9 sought to extend its business into the wide-area file services arena when it announced its plans to...

Unisys Server Unites Xeon, Itanium

Unisys is rolling out new products designed to add greater infrastructure flexibility and data protection to the data center, such as a new server...

Mercury, NetScout Team Up on Network, Application Performance Management

NetScout Systems and Mercury Interactive on May 10 will team up to combine NetScouts deep-dive network monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting with Mercurys application management. Mercury,...