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Microsoft Patches Critical Win2K Worm Hole

Microsoft Corp.s October batch of security patches comes with a terse warning for Windows 2000 users: Pay special attention to MS05-051, a critical bulletin...

RSS: The Big Tussle over a Tiny Orange Box

Microsoft Corp. set off a storm of comments and feedback—both glowing and damning—this weekend when officials requested feedback on a proposed RSS icon redesign...

Prescient Eyes Scan-Based Trading for More Markets

Supermarket supply chain specialist Prescient Applied Intelligence is starting to use technology and customers gained through a ViaLink acquisition to work its way into...

Microsoft, Real Find Harmony in Settlement

Microsoft Corp. and RealNetworks Inc. announced a settlement in their long-running antitrust suit Tuesday, with the two companies agreeing to collaborate in the multimedia...

GAO Finds Public, Private Sectors Face Different IT Challenges

The responsibilities of government CIOs largely mirror those of their private sector counterparts, but the key challenges faced by the two groups of CIOs...

WebEx Taps Intranets.com Tools to Reel in SMBs

WebEx Communications Corp. today released the first fruits of its recent $45 million acquisition of hosted collaboration services provider Intranets.com. Intranets.com, which like WebEx provided...

Red Hat Names New CTO

Enterprise Linux software maker Red Hat Inc. Tuesday announced that it has appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president...

New Coalition Will Promote OpenDocument

Emboldened by the state of Massachusetts decision last month to require the use of open-standard document formats in all state offices by Jan. 1,...

Oracle Lets Fly Zippy TimesTen Database

Oracle Corp. has put out its first branding of the hyper-fast TimesTen in-memory database it acquired in June, releasing Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 6.0...

Oracle Scores Open-Source InnoDB Storage Engine

Oracle on Friday purchased InnoDB, the Finnish open-source database company whose add-on table storage engine for MySQL rivals MySQLs own MyISAM in popularity. InnoDB Oy...