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Attendees Mean Business at LinuxWorld

BOSTON—At the OSDL Enterprise Linux Summit a few weeks ago in Burlingame, Calif., the focus was on the theory of taking Linux into the...

U.S. Mobile Deployments Lag Behind Asia, Europe

American consumers face no shortage of mobile technologies, but theyre still a long way from the level of service enjoyed by consumers in many...

Microsoft to Make MSN Messenger Fixes Mandatory

Microsoft Corp. on Friday lashed out at two security research firms for publishing proof-of-concept exploit code for MSN Messenger hours after Microsoft released security...

IBM DB2 Flaws Found

Several flaws have been discovered in IBMs DB2 Universal Database that can be exploited to cause DoS attacks, to reveal sensitive information, to read...

Muni Wi-Fi: Down from the Clouds, onto the Streets

In response to our recent editorials on the battle for municipal Wi-Fi, reader Evan Wilner, a former public advocate for the state of Delaware,...

Tower Records Tunes Its Site

Controlling how people listen to a song on a CD is as easy as humming compared with controlling how 70,000 people every day navigate...

Firefox Gains Yahoo Toolbar Support

Mozilla Firefox is gaining more search-engine supporters as Yahoo Inc. launches a version of its toolbar for the open-source Web browser.Starting Thursday, Yahoo will...

Aggregated Mobile Access Services Address Hot-Spot Security

Evil Twin, the phishing scheme that threatens users of Wi-Fi hot spots, has been well-known in the industry for as long as two years,...

HPs Crown Jewel Division Left in the Lurch

Last month it appeared as if Hewlett-Packard Co. had officially tabled the prospect of spinning off its lucrative printing business with its move to...

Trojan Targets Microsofts AntiSpyware Beta

Malicious programmers are already sharpening their claws on Microsoft Corp.s anti-spyware software, even before the applications official release. On Wednesday anti-virus firms said they uncovered...