Aerospace vendor The Boeing Co. has implemented a 96-server supercluster developed by Linux NetworX Inc. and powered by Advanced Micro Device Inc. (AMD) Athlon processors to run applications that support Boeing's latest rocket development program, the companies announced Wednesday.
Larry Ellison's year-old New Internet Computer Co. announced Wednesday that it has begun shipping Version 2.0 of the operating system for its US$199 New Internet Computer (NIC).
Another security flaw has emerged with communications based on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that could be used to "hijack" a user's session on the Internet or a corporate network, a computer security services company announced Monday.
The election held last year to select additional board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was a mess, and much needs to be done to improve the organization responsible for overseeing the Internet's domain name system.
A new mass-mailing trojan worm called "NAKEDWIFE" is circulating and, if executed, can delete files that are necessary for everyday computer operation, several computer security companies confirmed Tuesday.
A face recognition technology used at the Super Bowl to identify criminals will now be taken to Africa to assist in reducing voter fraud in Uganda.
Compaq Computer Corp. has alleged that a company founded by several former employees of its server division are using the computer giant's intellectual property and trade secrets to launch their own company.
Claude E. Shannon, viewed by some as the father of digital communications and information theory, died this past Saturday. He was 84.
Seeking to offer its customers interoperable storage technologies that reduce the complexity of storage area networks, IBM Corp. on Wednesday announced a new product portfolio. The new storage offerings serve to assist with data consolidation, data protection, disaster tolerance and data sharing, IBM said in a statement.
Oracle Corp., seeking to help customers that want more efficient collaboration of back-office processes, announced on Tuesday its E-Business Hub at AppsWorld in New Orleans.
Opportunities brought by the Internet are only beginning and will improve as content distribution networks and greater bandwidth come into play, Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Koogle said during the kick-off keynote speech at the Cyberposium at the Harvard University Business School Friday.
A scientist at Bell Labs, the research and development wing of Lucent Technologies Inc., has discovered a flaw in the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) that could have affected the integrity of secure transactions on the Internet and adversely impacted virtual private networks (VPNs), online shopping and online financial transactions.
A newly identified snooping technology allows someone sending an email to see what the recipient wrote when it is forwarded on to another user, an Internet privacy group announced Monday.
IBM Corp. will close its Dublin disk manufacturing operation and move it to locations in San Jose, California, and Mainz, Germany, the company said.
Novell Inc. on Friday announced the formation of a new subsidiary that will target the content networking market.