Vyatta, an open-source router company, released the first beta version of its WAN router code this week, with the goal of becoming the networking equivalent of Linux or Firefox, but taking aim at Cisco instead of Microsoft.

The flurry of security issues involving Apple's Mac OS X over the past few days once again hammers home the fact that no technology platform is invulnerable to attacks, whatever the perception might otherwise be, security analysts said.

Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server initially will be limited in how users can access it over the Internet, according to a Microsoft blogger.

A federal program that funds "high-risk" technologies is at high risk of going out of business if Congress approves U.S. President George Bush's proposed federal budget for next year. Since it started awarding grants in 1990, the Advance Technology Program (ATP) has distributed some US$2.2 billion in funding to projects focusing on a range of subjects, including information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and advanced materials.

Nokia Corp. and Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. have basically agreed to merge their CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone businesses into a single company with a view to capturing the top share of the global CDMA market, they said Tuesday.

Microsoft Corp. plans to give users a first look at its Office Live hosted service on Wednesday, according to the company. Microsoft plans to offer the service in three versions, one of which will be advertising-supported and free of charge to customers.

A Microsoft szerdán tervezi kiadni az Office Live első kipróbálható változatát. A szolgáltatás a későbbiekben három változatban lehet majd megvásárolni. Az egyik teljesen ingyenes lesz, ám cserébe el kell viselni a reklámokat.

If you use a Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB mobile phone, you may want to disable the Bluetooth function, the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) warned this week, saying a security vulnerability potentially puts the phones at risk to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.

Sales and profits at Trend Micro Inc. reached record levels in 2005 despite the company incurring millions of dollars in costs after releasing a faulty update to its antivirus software early in the year.

History buffs can search George Washington's manuscripts online today for terms like "revolution," but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form.

Though the new head of Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division has been calling the company's MSN portal "MSN Media Network" internally, Microsoft has no formal plans to rebrand the site, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Thursday.

As earnings season wound down this week an upbeat forecast from Cisco Systems Inc. sparked a jump in trading in IT, while news of shakeups at Borland Software Corp. and Gateway Inc. caused concern for technology investors.

Rövidesen eldől, hogy fellélegezhetnek-e a digitális kamerákat és képszerkesztő szoftvereket gyártó cégek: amennyiben az amerikai szabadalmi hivatal megsemmisíti a .jpg formátum szabadalmi oltalmát, akkor nem kell többé fizetni a szabadalom birtokosának.

Google Inc. is tightening the link between Gmail and Google Talk by allowing users to conduct instant messaging text chat sessions from within the Webmail service's interface, the Mountain View, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday.

Kis és közepes vállalatok, magánszemélyek, egyesületek, alapítványok a legfőbb célközönsége az IBM Magyarország által február 7-től kínált, ingyenes DB2 adatbázis-kezelőnek, a DB2 UDB Express-C Edition-nek. Az IBM ingyenes alkalmazásszerverével kiegészítve teljes értékű, ingyenes webes környezet hozható létre.

A Google beindította Gmail chat névre keresztelt szolgáltatását, amely lehetővé teszi az ingyenes levelezőrendszer használói számára azonnali üzenetek küldését.

Hany Farid ingyenes szoftvere képes lesz érzékelni egy kép olyan utólagos módosításait is, amelyeket az emberi szem már nem vesz észre.

Az új Flex Enterprise Services 2.0 és az ingyenes szoftverfejlesztő készlet átalakítja az internetes alkalmazások fejlesztési lehetőségeit.

An Azusa, Calif., man was arrested on federal charges Thursday after allegedly using fake e-mail accounts to trick America Online Inc. users into sending him their personal and credit card information so he could make illegal purchases with their information.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates is planning this week to unveil the company's strategy for the government IT market, an intensely competitive area that has seen open-source software gain a strong foothold.