Discussion threads on 2004-06

'Wobulation' to boost HP digital projectors
'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
.Net develops advantages over Java
3,000 blogs lose their voice
321 Studios close to shutting down
A look at ZoneAlarm Security Suite
Abandoned shopping carts an e-tail challenge
Abolish the FCC
Abolish the FCC? You're crazy
Adobe targets piracy in Asia
Adobe's PDF hitches a ride with Linux
Advocacy groups back antispam proposal
Adware firm uses IE flaws to spread pop-up toolbar
Adware maker WhenU 'exploring' options
Airgo wins Wi-Fi following
Airlines call for end to paper tickets
Alliance turns up heat on spam
Amazon partners to sell photographs
AMD advances its dual-core plans
AMD boosts Athlon 64 performance
AMD is betting on low-priced chip
AMD offers fix for processor glitch
AMD to market discount Sempron
AMD, others unveil new wares at Computex
Analysts call on Microsoft to dole out some cash
Anti-spyware bill heads for House
Antipiracy bill targets technology
AOL quits enterprise IM game
AOL snaps up interactive ad firm
AOL unveils premium instant-messaging services
AOL worker arrested in alleged spam scheme
Apple and OS security--communication is key
Apple lets young Tiger roar
Apple pares AirPort Extreme prices
Apple patches 'critical' OS X flaw
Apple readying new Power Macs?
Apple sells supercomputer sequel
Apple updates Rendezvous for Windows, Linux
Apple ware remotely controls Mac, Linux, Windows
Apple's Tiger stalks Longhorn
Are developers stealing code?
Are security companies ahead of hackers?
AT&T slashes Net-phoning prices
Atomic particles 'teleported'
Australia may permit 'personal' music copying
Ballmer memo targets Linux
Barrett: It's all based on performance
Beehive politics flush out J2EE handicap vs. .Net
Bell tolling for DSL?
BellSouth may shimmy out of 'naked' DSL
Best Buy to peddle Gateway gear
Beta on tap for Visual Studio, SQL Server
Big Blue: The future is now
Big music stores squelch download plan
Bigger Web ads endorsed by industry
Biggest Windows to Lindows migration
Blackout hits major Web sites
Blade innovation slows but differentiators still exist
Blades: 2004 and beyond
Blocklist wins round in spam spat
Borland jumps into Java tools group
Bottom-line pricing for PCs
Brits hit by surge in phone-charge Net fraud
Bush administration won't appeal phone decision
Bush vs. Kerry on tech
Bush wants FCC to delay phone hikes
CA shifts focus to product strategy
Can't stop the pop-ups
Canadian ISPs win on copyright ruling
Cell phone cameras getting day in court--or not
CERT: IE bug is bait for phishers
Cheaper Pentium Ms arrive
Checklist for deploying open sourced GroupWare
Chief justice rejects telecom case
Chinese railway to ride on Turbolinux
Chinese supercomputer headed to top ranks
Chip equipment makers see better days
Chipmaker brings pro sensors to consumer cameras
Chipmaker unveils next-generation DSL chips
Cingular moves ahead with high-speed plans
Cingular systems open door to fraudulent credit card transactions
Cisco extends relationship with Trend Micro
Cisco preps new enterprise routers
Cisco Security Agent Can Offer Potent Protection to Vulnerable Systems
Cisco snags Procket
Cisco target of wireless lawsuit
Claria sues L.L.Bean
Clinton book mania explodes on the Web
Comcast blocks spam loophole
Comcast launches on-demand game service
Comcast reports 35 percent decline in spam
Comdex: Missed more than you think
Companies start to get the instant message
Company claims patent for download apps
Computer pioneer Bob Bemer dies
Congress to scrutinize patent tax breaks
Consumer group blasts cell phone lockdown
Controversial Accenture deal moves ahead
Copy-blocked CD tops U.S. charts
Corel discounts software for students, teachers
Corporate IM not an instant success
Corporate Web servers infecting visitors' PCs
Corporate workstation to go
Court ready to rule on Net porn
Court rules DirecTV can't sue for gear possession
Critical flaw found in game software
Deal ends Microsoft-Nevada suit
Decision bolsters online-publisher immunity
Dell plans new LCD TV models
Dell puts $100 bounty on iPods
Dell to buyers: 'Beware the blade myth--at least until November'
Dell to expand printer business to Asia
Developer calls Apple's Tiger a copycat
Digital Envoy wins geotargeting patent
Digital home alliance tunes up
DirecTV exec quits TiVo board
DirecTV sells its TiVo stake
Disk storage sales climb in first quarter
Documents show PeopleSoft feared Microsoft
Does HP want Cisco users to switch?
Does Kazaa matter?
DOJ: Big three rule corporate market
DOJ: Oracle-PeopleSoft rivalry fueled innovation
DVD 'ripper' pre-empts DMCA ruling
E-mail upstart searches for Outlook defectors
eBay to stop customer service e-mail
Eclipse readies 'rich client' software
Economist: Oracle-SAP duopoly would hurt market
Encryption firm says secrets for sale at auction
End of upgrade program cuts users' options
End-User Advice on Spam and Viruses
Equant's VoIP VPN Sets the Pace for VoIP in the WAN
EU reignites Intel probe
EU revisits Intel probe
EU suspends Microsoft sanctions
EU suspends Microsoft sanctions
EU's Intel probe highlights regulation tussle with U.S.
Europe's 'insult' to the Internet
European launch set for iTunes
European online music store bought out
Ex-Handspring boss named PalmOne president
FCC chair to pen new phone-line rules
Fed raises rates by quarter point
Fed's underground data-mining
Feds want e-voting source code disclosed
Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists
Firm sweetens Mac virus tool, but will Apple-ites bite?
Fishing for 'phishers'
Flash brightens AMD outlook
Flaw pops up in Linux kernel
Former chief of Vivendi in French custody
France eyes la vie en open source
From Cisco, self-defense weapons for networks
From keeping threats out to keeping data in
FTC: All eyes on consumer privacy
FTC: Thumbs-down on 'do not e-mail' list
Fuel cell firm's neat solution for batteries
Fujitsu, Microsoft extend partnership
Game lets players stump for Bush, Kerry
Gartner: Outsourcing drives IT services' growth
Gartner: Phishing on the rise in U.S.
Gates dishes out security promises
Gates issues 'progress report' on spam
Gates: Open source a great ad for Windows
Gateway increases quarterly revenue expectations
Gateway to consolidate Midwestern facilities
Google crosses off Merrill Lynch
Google feels spyware strains
Google invests in Chinese search
Google mulls RSS support
Google updates enterprise search appliance
Government links few layoffs to offshoring
Government to review contested Microsoft patent
GPS glitch hits wireless 911 calls
Group files suit over CA's executive pay
Harry Potter and the worm of doom
Has IT made us richer and happier?
High Density Interfaces: More than Meets the Eye
Hollywood takes aim at campus file-swappers
Hoosiers get free access to online software
Hotmail incinerates customer files
Hotmail to offer 250MB of free storage
House panel passes spyware permission bill
House panel: Don't fiddle with stock options
How to save the FCC
HP gets behind the desktop
HP makes color printing push
HP ponders a less-glorious Itanium future
HP says as many as 900,000 notebooks buggy
HP seals open-source e-mail deal
I want my LCD
IBM faces copyright infringement suit
IBM faces Gypsy holocaust suit
IBM invests effort in venture capitalists
IBM moves Linux beat to Brazil
IBM opens up high-end Windows options
IBM pushes into corporate search
IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights
IBM, Indian firm strengthen ties
IBM, Infineon advance magnetic-memory prototype
IBM: Defending its services empire
IDC offers sunny forecast for servers
IE competitors mull ActiveX alternative
IE flaw may boost rival browsers
In Brazil, Microsoft decries Linux use
In Europe, Microsoft aims to mute open-source 'noise'
India's software sector: We'll keep data safe
InfiniBand could boost Linux supercomputing
Inside offshoring: The best place to go?
Intel brings wireless broadband to Chinese cities
Intel offers glimpse at new chips
Intel plans processor party for June
Intel says so far, so good for second quarter
Intel to open code for booting up PCs, servers
Intel unveils its 32/64-bit chips
Intel wants bad chips back
Intel's 3D divorce rate
Intel's Nocona to bust out in June
Intel's Opteron competitor comes out Monday
Internet speed record broken
Is Java cooling off?
Is the dust on your computer toxic?
IT doesn't care--and it matters
IT morale drops to all-time low, study says
IT salaries stuck in the middle
IT salaries vary greatly by country
IT security budgets expected to rise
iTunes music store rolls into Europe
Java desktop wins over major bank
Judge dismisses 50 IBM toxics lawsuits
Judge rules to move Google, Digital Envoy case
Judge tosses online privacy case
Kazaa launches ringtones service
Kerry makes pitch to high tech
Key figure in BlackBerry case dies
Korean regulators search Microsoft offices
Labels to dampen CD burning?
Law turns tables on anti-spam group
Lawsuit accuses Google of code theft
Life in disorder? InfoSelect hits the right note
Lindows invites comparisons
Linksys Wi-Fi router vulnerability discovered
Linux companies hit play on Real's software
Linux e-mail company wins government contracts
Linux ensnares another European city
Linux gets trial 'NX' security support
Low-end Power Macs get dual processors
Lycoris licenses Bitstream fonts
Macrovision to pick up InstallShield
Mainsoft unites .Net and Java programming
Making software fun again
Man indicted in Google fraud scheme
Market research gives Oracle top database spot
MasterCard tackles phishing
MasterCard: Risk is in the cards
Maxtor, Linksys to debut wireless external hard drive
McDonald's: Would you like a song with that?
Merrill Lynch to HP: Time for a break-up
Microsoft appeals Eolas decision
Microsoft appeals European antitrust ruling
Microsoft appoints a new IE evangelist
Microsoft checks off patent win
Microsoft cleared--in Brazil
Microsoft confirms supercomputing plans
Microsoft documents detail SAP buyout plan
Microsoft elevates Great Plains division
Microsoft gets set to file EU appeal
Microsoft goes on a 'myth-busting tour'
Microsoft haunted by old IE security flaw
Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office vision
Microsoft ordered to pay Lindows court fees
Microsoft patches a pair of flaws
Microsoft patents body power
Microsoft plans to block EU ruling
Microsoft prepares for search assault
Microsoft puts mobile developers on the map
Microsoft reaches beyond professional programmers
Microsoft releases Media Player beta
Microsoft releases security-minded Windows code
Microsoft releases update of accounting software
Microsoft researchers dream big
Microsoft scraps online game for Xbox
Microsoft set to appeal EU ruling
Microsoft settlement upheld
Microsoft settles Arizona antitrust suit
Microsoft slows to support customers' pace
Microsoft switches on to RFID
Microsoft updates business software roadmap
Microsoft wins patent for handheld clicks
Microsoft's checkbook security
Microsoft's other founder finds the limelight
Microsoft, SAP mulled merger
Microsoft-SAP talks rooted in database concern
Microsoft: Linux threat is rising
Microsoft: No antivirus product yet
Migrating to 64-bit systems
Minidrive maker Cornice slapped with another suit
Mixed rulings advance two SCO cases
More Americans banking online, study says
More flaws foul security of open-source repository
Motorola rolls out new phones
Munich to stick with open source
Music industry preps more lawsuits
Napster to give away music players
Net visionary urges e-mail ID standard
Netscape takes aim at pop-ups, spam
Network admins get peek at Microsoft's security
Network Associates awarded antispam patent
Network Associates denies sale rumors
Network Associates goes back to McAfee
New Apple gadget streams music through the home
New eMachines desktops hit stores
New security spec could shore up Wi-Fi
New Toshiba minidrive to pump up Apple's iPod?
New worm terminates antivirus apps
New York suit against Microsoft can continue
Next-generation DVD moves ahead
Nextel races into the pit
Nokia cash boosts Mozilla
Nokia gets hip to flip phones
Nokia licenses patents from RIM rival
Nokia releases 'moblog' camera phone
Nokia, Sun make multiplayer mobile game play
Not your everyday landmark case
Novell ships cross-platform Mono tool
Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine
NT 4 laggards get reprieve on support
Offshoring obsessions miss the point
OnStar steering toward cell phones?
Open source: Prepare for attack
Open-source screening company hires legal muscle
Oracle beats quarterly profit expectations
Oracle brings out outsourcing witnesses
Oracle calls antitrust case 'confusing'
Oracle hits hard at Justice Dept.'s case
Oracle judge vows 'tougher line' on testimony
Oracle moves to blunt Microsoft testimony
Oracle president backpedals on 'oligopoly' report
Oracle sees plenty of competitors
Oracle urges customers to patch Web apps
Organizer cancels Comdex 2004
Overzealous security: CLEARly an issue
Panasonic to release Blu-ray recorder
Patent suits hit cable, satellite giants
PayPal settles customer suit
PC makers reconfigure with new Intel chipsets
PCs out sick more than users
PeopleSoft CEO blasts Ellison's "jealousy"
PeopleSoft exec delivers prescription for acquisitions
Piracy battle begins over digital radio
Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords
Private rocket zooms into space
Quadrics adds lower-end supercomputer switch
Qualcomm serves up BREW strategies
Reader: Where are Web tools for the rest of us?
RealNetworks, Starz launch movie service
Red Hat CFO resigns in surprise move
Red Hat Linux upgrade bug hides Windows
Red Hat tries financial tease
Refurbished OpenOffice gets release
Regulators tackle wireless broadband issues
Reinventing the lightbulb, with nanotubes
Removable-storage revenues double
Report: Cell phone explodes in trousers
Report: IT executives to open wallets wider
Report: More mainstream firms using pop-ups
Report: PC-TVs set to take off
Report: Send it offshore, ASAP
RIAA takes hundreds more 'John Does' to court
Riemann hypothesis proved?
Ring tones not making ka-ching tones
Salesforce.com IPO off to a fast start
Samsung unveils supersized OLED display
Sarvega brings routing to XML
Saving business from itself
SBC plans billions on high-speed fiber
SBC told to unhook phone from broadband
School teaches 'ethical hacking'
Schwartz spreads pricing ideas beyond Sun software
Scientists craft nano night goggles
SCO buyout settles BayStar investment spat
SCO embraces more open-source software
SCO revenue takes a tumble
SCO tries to reinvigorate product line
Seagate drives, both big and small
Seagate sues small-drive maker
Seagate to cut costs, work force
Search engines rethink paid inclusion
Search weapons aim at privacy
Second source, not open source, is the key
Security escapes from the lab
Security specialist to add Web-filtering tools
Senate bill bans P2P networks
Senate debates cybercrime treaty
Senate gives OK to anti-piracy plan
Senate to debate Net phone regulations
SharePoint: Why Not?
Six arrested over 'Nigerian e-mail' fraud
Smaller firms to fuel explosion of Web services
Smart systems will erase jobs, report warns
Smart-phone worm has a hang-up
Software Assurance not so assuring?
Software crash grounds UK air traffic
Sony challenges Apple with 20GB music player
Sony pays millions to inventor in Walkman dispute
Sony revs up speedy DVD burner
Sony to exit U.S. handheld business
Spam a workplace threat? Be serious
Spam is still growing--and costing
Sprint to cut 1,100 workers
Spying on spyware
Spyware following spam into the enterprise
Spyware-killers multiply online
StarOffice scores Canadian win
Steve Winwood promotion targets swappers
StorageTek gets set for tape release
Study: CDs suffer sagging prices
Study: Dipping costs to fuel corporate VoIP growth
Study: SAP leads in customer loyalty
Summer means back-to-school desktops from HP
Sun execs at lovefest: 'Java's got game'
Sun licenses search software for desktop push
Sun opens some Java source code
Sun plans to open-source Java--someday
Sun pushes to innovate and disrupt IBM
Sun puts Java into gear for cars
Sun raves about $99 developer tool plan
Sun to beef up Java tools
Sun warms to open source for Solaris
Sun's gimmicky good idea
Sun's Kitty Hawk aims high
Sun's McNealy swings at rivals
Sun's new success formula: NPV
Sun, Fujitsu to collaborate on Unix servers
Sun, Red Hat gird for traditional OS battle
Supercomputer ranking method facing revision
Supreme Court disagrees with Intel on EU probe
Survey: Dell customer satisfaction unsatisfactory
Survey: Security efforts paying off
Suspected 'Half-Life' code thieves arrested
Symantec CEO hits Microsoft's security myth
Tablets take their time
Takeover attempt takes its toll
Tech giants go for the games
Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law
Tech workers rally against expensing options
Teen guilty of mobile spamming
Testimony: SAP, Microsoft would rein in Oracle
Tests to uproot Windows passwords begin
Thailand to get slimmed-down Windows
The plot to disconnect VoIP
The quest for the four-minute disc burn
The software side of Intel
Tiger, Longhorn search for desktop answers
Time's up on clock speed
TiVo sets sights on Net content, cuts prices
TiVo steps into online content
Tool lets VoIP providers tap Yahoo IM
Top ten reasons why Microsoft is a good citizen
Torvalds leaves Silicon Valley for Oregon
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
Trade group favors Oracle in Justice Dept. suit
TruSecure readies defense-analysis tools
Trying to make Web services make sense
U.K. taps supercomputers for better weather forecasts
U.S. cell phone users pick up on new features
UCLA laptop theft exposes ID info
User exchanges: It's good to share
Users fume over Yahoo-Trillian scuffle
Utah judge freezes anti-spyware law
Verizon 'very close' to 911 glitch fix
Video game makers sue over copying program
Vint Cerf: Net's moving into Iron Age
Virtual Server 2005 virtually done
Vonage slashes price of Net telephony kit
Wallpaper designed to protect Wi-Fi networks
Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD
We're asleep at the wheel
Web site virus attack blunted
What's so exclusive about IM?
What's wrong with Tablet PCs?
When standards don't apply
Why click n’ drag IT may elude us
Why Vonage is Just a Fad
WiMax in the wings
Worm ready to wriggle into smart phones
Xandros debuts free Linux version
Yahoo blocks Trillian--again
Yahoo scraps enterprise IM
Yahoo tests new home page
Yahoo to launch 100MB free e-mail
Zombies may spoil Microsoft's spam plan
zSeries checks into hospital