As the busy holiday shopping season gets into full swing, a federal security agency affiliated with the FBI is warning that attacks by malicious hackers against e-commerce Web sites and other companies doing business online are on the rise.
Decreasing demand by users has caused Red Hat Inc. to quietly drop support for Sun Microsystems Inc. Sparc processors in its latest Red Hat 7 Linux distribution.
The first independent Open Source Development Lab is in the final planning stages
As Corel Corp. looks for ways to return to profitability, no ideas seem to be off limits, according to a company spokeswoman.
Starbucks Corp. yesterday said US$58.8 million in losses from its investments in four e-commerce ventures nearly wiped out the operating profit that the coffee maker earned from its core retail business during the company's fiscal fourth quarter.
A federal judge in New York has halted the state's enactment of a new law that would ban direct cigarette sales over the Internet to prevent minors from obtaining them.
The company that maintains the master database of Internet domain names tomorrow plans to start testing the use of multilingual Web site names, initially supporting Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters in addition to the English ones used now.
In what could be the largest commercial deployment of its kind to date, IBM last week announced that it's selling 15,200 Linux-based servers to a Japanese convenience-store chain.
Microsoft now says its information technology security managers knew that a hacker was combing through the company's computer network for a 12-day period this month. But the software vendor allowed the invasion to continue in an apparent effort to increase its chances of identifying the culprit.
A group of vendors including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems said that it's working to develop a proposed XML-based standard for use by companies in coordinating and processing multiparty transactions via the Web.
PeopleSoft Inc. Monday announced a host of new additions to its flagship PeopleSoft 8 suite, including new customer relationship management (CRM) applications and a portal feature that was designed to improve relationships with customers.
The first version of a new Linux Development Platform Specification was released Wednesday, clearing the way for the adoption of standards that will make participating Linux platforms work together seamlessly.
Linux vendor TurboLinux Wednesday announced the acquisition of a $US30 million third round of funding.
A former European sales executive at Informix Software has been indicted by a federal grand jury in California on fraud charges after he allegedly inflated his division's income and revenue figures from 1994 to 1996.
Analysts this week questioned WalMart.com's decision to close down for renovations just as the busy holiday shopping season starts.