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Ellison Settlement Invites Cynicism

There are so many different things wrong with Larry Ellisons being able to make a $100 million charitable donation to settle allegations of insider...

Dell Drops Intel Itanium Chip

Dell is stopping sales of its servers powered by Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium 2 server, apparently choosing instead to focus on its line of...

Mozilla Readies Another Firefox Security Makeover

The Mozilla Foundation has shipped release candidates for a new version of its Firefox Web browser to provide a thorough fix for a known...

Security Relaxes as IT Threats Increase

The news on the IT security front is alarming. Recent months have seen one report after another of companies exposing, selling or simply losing...

New Skin for the Onion

Soon, a whole crop of uninitiated readers will discover "Americas Finest News Source" on the Web. As they scroll past obscene headlines, absurd Presidential...

Microsoft Extends Its Next-Generation Graphics Tech to Macs, Mobile Devices

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. on Thursday took another poke at graphics powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc. At its developer confab here, the Windows company announced that...

Court Orders Brazen Data Thieves to Stop

A New Jersey court has ordered a company charged with tricking Verizon Wireless workers into divulging sensitive customer information to halt its practice of...

Debian Consortium Is Keeping Its Promises

In San Francisco at LinuxWorld a few weeks ago, the newly formed Debian Common Core Alliance promised that it would soon deliver its first...

Shedding Light on Windows Server 2003 R2

LOS ANGELES—Bob Muglia, Microsoft Corp.s senior vice president for Windows Server, on Thursday shed some light on the upcoming Windows Server 2003 R2 release...

Siemens Reinvents the Car Brake

FRANKFURT, Germany—If your car uses fuel injectors—as most modern vehicles do—you are already driving "by wire." Instead of using mechanical pressure to control a...