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Ballmer: Vertical Leap Will Benefit Customers

As he enters his second five-year stint as CEO of the worlds largest software company, Microsoft Corp.s Steve Ballmer is looking firmly forward and...

Partners Await Managed Services Impact

Microsoft Corp. is looking at how best to package its managed services for customers, a move the company hopes will drive it deeper into...

Journalism Teacher Fired for Lewd Blog Comments

If there was any doubt about the power of blogs, consider the case of Michael Gee. A part-time journalism professor at Boston University, Gee...

Legislators Split on Data Privacy Laws

Despite a steady stream of data breaches this year—most recently at CardSystems Solutions Inc.— members of Congress are unable to agree on how to...

Serious Vulnerabilities Reported in Open Source Anti-Virus

A mysterious security research group is reporting that they have found several serious vulnerabilities in the ClamAV open source antivirus program. According to the advisory,...

IBMs WebSphere Update Will Let Spiders Crawl More Pages

IBM is enabling spidering technology to reach and index more of WebSphere Commerce users Web pages in its coming upgrade, due out next week. In...

Adware Tries to Climb Out of the Muck

I was a little surprised when Microsoft started reclassifying adware programs in its anti-spyware software to less severe levels. But I was downright curious...

AMD Hits Server Milestone

Advanced Micro Devices says it has cracked the 10 percent mark in x86 server processor shipments. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker, citing fresh figures from...

Paying for Flaws: Undermining Security or Rewarding Good Deeds?

3Com Corp.s announcement that its Tipping Point division would start paying for the rights to security flaw information found by private researchers has reignited...

SMBs Take Spotlight

Dont tell Michael Barrera that small businesses are a marginal part of the U.S. economy. Barrera, national ombudsman for the U.S. Small Business Administration, in...