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Open-Source Database Technologies Flourish at LinuxWorld

Microsoft can snipe all it wants at the TCO and security of open source, but a flood of database-, BI- and data-center-related news coming...

TPM Hardware Offers Easier Security

The good news is that in less than five years—if we survive that long—we may be able to take PC security for granted. That...

Sunbelt Adds Detection for ID Theft Keylogger

Anti-spyware vendor Sunbelt plans to release a free tool to zap a sophisticated keystroke logger being used by an organized ring of identity thieves. The...

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...

Vista Gives the Linux Desktop a Chance

My friend Mary Jo Foley wants Microsoft to come clean about what will be in Vista. I just want Microsoft to fess up to...

Apples Switch Raises Peripheral Issues

How a computer interfaces with the outside world is always a defining characteristic. One of the main differences between early PCs and early Macs was...

Chip-Based Security Finds New IT Niches

Once purely a business desktop feature, Trusted Platform Modules are on the verge of a population explosion which will see them proliferate inside consumer...

SCO Launches Office Appliance Program

LAS VEGAS—At its annual users forum here this week, The SCO Group Inc. quietly rolled out the SCO Office Appliance Program—one reflection of the...

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...

Open-Source Software Companies Face Challenge to Build Business

When I think of companies that are emerging around the open-source software phenomenon, I cant help but think of an old Saturday Night Live...