The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software - freely distributed programs that anyone can modify - the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday....
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Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code by tightening up the existing sanctions and prohibiting any unauthorized user from disabling or circumventing computer security measures...
The US's largest internet provider has enshrined the principle of internet neutrality in an agreement to treat all web traffic equally. The move has reignited the debate about net neutrality. AT&T's agreement comes as part...
Cisco is planning to issue security severity scores as part of its security advisories. The programme is designed to help users pick the vulnerabilities that require the most attention. Current severity ratings are generally limited...
ARM on September 6 announced that Samsung Electronics has licensed ARM Jazelle software technology for deployment in the Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc (BD) player. The ARM Jazelle Java Technology Enabling Kit (JTEK) software licensed by...
Adobe has taken a leaf from Microsoft's book and decided to adopt a monthly security patch cycle instead of releasing software fixes on an ad-hoc basis. The move - which is geared to helping customers...
Developer preview models of Apple's forthcoming Intel-powered computer contain a security chip that has come under fire for its ability to compromise the privacy of users. Apple recently started shipping Developer Transition Kits that help...
One of the best known Linux distributors announced that it has adopted an e-mail enhancement that Novell previously released to the open source community. This feature allows Linux e-mail software to connect to Microsoft's Exchange...
Dell's decision to use NiMH (nickel metal hydride) batteries in its recently launched Inspiron 1000 notebooks reflects the vendor's new pricing strategy of lowering the unit costs for the notebooks, according to sources at Taiwanese...
Armed and Dangerous, Giants: Citizen Kabuto shop says sayonara to PC, Xbox, PS2--devotes itself to the PSP exclusively. At E3 this year, word spread that Planet Moon Studios, developers of the...
Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it has adopted an e-mail "whitelist" program by IronPort Systems Inc. that will allow legitimate marketers to thread the gauntlet of spam filters protecting its inboxes. Microsoft's Hotmail and MSN...
When it comes to adopting leading-edge technology, Wall Street is among the first in line, despite the fact that other people's money depends on the street. These days, Wall Street is moving on service-oriented architectures...
In an exclusive conversation with Sun Executive Vice President Jonathan Schwartz and eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor, the software chief revealed Sun's plans to adopt RSS (Really Simple Syndication or RDF Site Summary) as a...
Adobe Systems is set to unveil a conversion strategy Monday for customers still using its orphaned PageMaker page design and layout application. It has been more than two years since Adobe last...
Apple is bringing the big screen to its all-in-one iMac desktop. The company on Tuesday revealed a new iMac with a 20-inch display and also updated its Power Mac G5 desktop line with a dual...
Adobe Systems Inc. has completed tests on product activation, and plans to roll out the technology soon. Microsoft quietly introduced product activation — a method of registering software so that it cannot be installed on...
SOFTWARE FIRM Adobe has released a veritable blizzard of press releases announcing a mass of new products and protocol support. The firm said that it has introduced an XML architecture for document creation which will...
Another great reason to get into the civil service :P The United Kingdom announced late Friday that it has signed up to participate in Microsoft Corp.'s recently announced Government Security Program, which gives...
The Finnish city council of Turku that was considering moving to OpenOffice and Linux systems by the end of 2003 has come to a decision. And that's their decision. In a final...
(IDG) -- The European Parliament Wednesday adopted a report that says the global electronic-surveillance network known as "Echelon" does exist. Some 367 members of the European Parliament voted to support the report, which...
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