Yet more variants of the mass-mail Sober worm are making the rounds of the Net and could infect Windows-based computers, antivirus firms warned Tuesday. Thus far, the variants present a low risk and haven't been widely distributed.
A worm that affects Linux systems and spreads by exploiting Web server-related vulnerabilities has been reported by antivirus companies, but so far Linux.Plupii, which is also known as Lupper, hasn't spread much and isn't seen as much of a threat.
IBM will use Neterion's second-generation Xframe II Ethernet adapters in xSeries servers, making IBM the first major vendor to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology in its Intel processor-based servers.
If Google would agree to make a preliminary injunction become permanent in a lawsuit Microsoft filed against it related to a former employee who has gone to work for Google, the matter could be settled, Microsoft said in a statement issued Tuesday.
A road map aimed at guiding governments and companies in the development of open information and communication technologies was presented Friday at a World Bank meeting in New York by a group comprised of academics, government officials and industry representatives. The Open ePolicy Group contends that the adoption of open standards is vital to global economic growth and innovation.
Computer Associates International (CA) will allow access to individuals and groups in the open-source software community to technology included in 14 of its U.S. patents and counterpart patents held in other countries, the company said Wednesday, as it also announced a long-term patent cross-license deal with IBM.
Lenovo Group will release a new centralised management hub for its PC productivity tools worldwide on September 15. The LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage Technologies, announced Wednesday, will consolidate the company's ThinkVantage Technologies software for IT administrators.
Yahoo is poised to pay US$1 billion to buy a 35 percent stake in Alibaba.com and hand its Chinese operations over to the e-commerce vendor, the Dow Jones Newswire is reporting, citing "a person familiar with the deal."
Microsoft infringed an AT&T patent for speech-coding technology in its distribution of a master version of the Windows operating system outside of the US for replication abroad, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday, concluding the final issue remaining from a 2001 lawsuit.
Unisys and SupplyScape have begun a test project to track pharmaceuticals through the supply chain using RFID (radio frequency identification) or barcodes with the aim of cutting down on counterfeit medicines, the companies said Tuesday.
The decision by MCI's board to accept the latest acquisition offer from Verizon Communications doesn't mean the bidding battle between Verizon and Qwest Communications International is over, analysts said Tuesday. While Verizon is generally seen by analysts as the more compatible suitor, Qwest shouldn't yet be counted out, they said.
Linux is easier to deploy and maintain than its reputation might suggest, IT company executives said at LinuxWorld this week.
Novell is opening code from NetMail as part of a project to create an open source collaboration server, company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack Messman said Tuesday during a keynote at the LinuxWorld trade show. Novell also plans to expand its presence in the data center and release more Linux products for companies with a goal to "harden" the open source operating system for corporate use.
As has been expected, Computer Associates International (CA) named President and Chief Executive Officer-elect John Swainson officially to those posts and said Wednesday that he also will continue as president.
IBM has updated its Medical Assessment Workstation, which now allows health-care providers to set up two monitors for viewing patient information such as digital images and records at the same time, and also has released a new version of its Medical Archive Solution for data storage.