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Can the Mac Do Without Microsoft Office?

Can the Macintosh survive without Microsoft Office? Its a question that has followed Steve Jobs since his return to Cupertino in 1996. At the...

Drug Firms Slow to Post Results on Internet

Six months after drug companies promised to make results from clinical trials available on the Internet, only five unpublished studies have appeared on the...

Mobile Phones: Birth of the Third Generation

Verizon kicked the US mobile phone market into the third generation at CES this year, lighting up 32 cities with high-speed data services and...

Hackers Tune In to Windows Media Player

Hackers are using the newest DRM technology in Microsofts Windows Media Player to install spyware, adware, dialers and computer viruses on unsuspecting PC users. Security...

Pervasive Seeds an Open-Source EcoSystem

A long-time ruler in the realm of embedded databases is busting out of that paradigm and eyeing the enterprise database market, with Mondays announcement...

Thunderbird: Not Quite Ready for Business

I love Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations standalone e-mail client. I mean I really, really like it a lot. I use it on my Windows XP...

Microsoft Walks Fine Line on Malware Removal

Back in DOS 5.0, Microsoft included an anti-virus scanner (a licensed version of Central Points PC Tools scanner). That was Microsofts last entry into...

Pervasive Looks to Open Source for Corporate Databases

Embedded-database company Pervasive Software Inc. is breaking out of devices and into the mainstream corporate database market with the open-source database PostgreSQL. The Austin, Texas,...

Demand Brings High-Capacity Drives to SMBs

High capacity and backup once were the mark of enterprise storage. However, as seen on the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show last...

Oracle Ousts Its Own Execs

In the midst of swapping out executives at recently acquired PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp. is also making some internal adjustments. The company quietly replaced...