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Web Tags Gain Backers at AlwaysOn

PALO ALTO, Calif.—The phenomenon of tagging the Web appears to be gaining more converts, as another online startup embraces the metadata annotations and as...

Trouble Rolls into Win2K Town

Some third-party applications are encountering problems introduced by the cumulative Windows 2000 Update Rollup that Microsoft introduced in late June. There have been reports of...

Open-Source Investment Begins to Pay

Theres more than one way to make money from free software. In the last couple of weeks, Ive talked about how to make moolah from...

Contradictory Charges Rattle Data-Loss Case

During congressional testimony Thursday, executives from bank and credit card companies involved in the largest credit card data loss ever pointed fingers at a...

Microsoft Reports Q4, Full Fiscal Results

Microsoft Corp.s revenue for the third time topped the $10 billion mark in the quarter to end-June, coming in at $10.16 billion, a 9...

Clock Ticks for Windows Server SP1 Auto Update

Microsoft customers interested in disabling the automatic download of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 have only a few days left to install the...

Debian Core Consortium Continues to Come Together

Insiders say that the efforts to form a Debian Core Consortium are continuing to go well. There will be two types of participants in the...

Canadian Clothier Gets Personal

In the retail world, selling clothing is mostly about convincing customers what looks good on them. And it certainly helps if the salesperson already...

With a Name Like Microsoft…

It doesnt seem right to say that the entry of Microsoft should bring respectability to an eminently respectable market like managed secure e-mail hosting,...

Congress Nears Final Identity Theft Legislation

Since the ChoicePoint headlines in February, the number of reported data breaches of personal information has exploded to the point that the tally now...