An independent study, commissioned by Unisys, yesterday revealed that UK consumers' apathetic attitude to fraud could be helping to perpetuate the rapidly growing identity theft industry, which is now estimated to be costing UK businesses £1.3 billion per year.

3 million U.S. consumers were in the past 12 months victimized by fraud involving automated teller machine (ATM)/debit cards, according to Gartner, Inc. The findings are based on a Gartner survey in May of 5,000 U.S. adults who are active online and demographica...

One of the 'ripe areas' for tech investment - as in, a pocket of opportunity that exist for future growth - may be in companies that are poised to take advantage of the growing convergence of services into personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones, says P...

'With this acquisition, IBM can now deliver the industry's most comprehensive set of master data management solutions on the market,' said Janet Perna, IBM's general manager, Information Management, as Big Blue today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire...

First launched in January 2004, ILOG Gantt for .NET was the first Gantt chart available for the C# programming language. Yesterday the company announced ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.0, now with a customizable pre-built project management capability.

Designed to converge the integration capabilities of an Enterprise Service Bus with operational service management in a single software product, BEA this week announced the general availability of the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0 product, a key part of BEA's mark...

A new corporation, The Mozilla Corporation - a wholly owned subsidiary - has been formed by The Mozilla Foundation. Many of the Mozilla Foundation employees who have been working on development and marketing will now become employees of Mozilla Corporation. 'Both ...

'Since joining VitalStream, I have been impressed with the companys significant market presence, its obviously talented executive base, and technology resources, as well as the very real market opportunities available to us,' said Jack Waterman, CEO of VitalStre...

Speaking during a visit to Dublin, where Macromedia has just closed a deal with mobile operator Meteor to use its Breeze web conferencing and online training software via a hosted service, Macromedia's MD for Northern Europe, Ian Turner, has been talking about h...

'Compuware delivered a good first quarter, featuring year-over-year increases in software license fees, maintenance fees and total revenues,' said Compuware Chairman and CEO Peter Karmanos, Jr., as Compuware reported first quarter revenues of $297.3 million, compa...

Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, will be a featured keynote speaker at the first annual EclipseWorld Conference, scheduled for August 29-31, 2005, in New York City. He will be joined by Kent Beck, an expert on agile methodologies and...

'The confusion created by Microsoft and its choice of the word 'Vista' is an affront to the people who take care of our nation's veterans,' said Barbara Boykin, Chairman of the VistA Software Alliance, denouncing Microsoft's choice of the name 'Windows Vista' for th...

Yahoo News will integrate video content from ABC and CNN throughout its pages, as part of a new deal the company has signed, which ups the ante in the burgeoning search market warfare among Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft.

IBM has made announcements across a broad spectrum of its speech offerings, demonstrating progress with open-source based initiatives that can advance the speech self-service ecosystem

Security officials at Cisco have released a patch to fix the problem that resulted in 'Ciscogate' T-shirts going on sale last week in Las Vegas, after Michael Lynn - who gave a controversial presentation on Cisco security (or, rather, insecurity) at the Black Ha...

If you have a successful e-commerce site - and your stats show visits constantly from various time zones - you realize the need to have a service answer for those who prefer to leave orders over the phone with a 'real live human being' - or who have an important q...

'Intel and Connexion by Boeing have collaborated extensively to test the high-speed, in-flight Wi-Fi service, which provides a secure and reliable service for travelers who want new choices for how they spend their time in-flight,' said Keith Kressin, director of ...

A patent applicaton filed by Google at the end of 2003 has surfaced. The application seeks to grant Google exclusive rights for 'incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated presentation format.'

GM has agreed to deploy Java ES throughout its enterprise IT infrastructure, and in the process will grow the total number of Java ES subscribers to nearly a million. Sun said GM plans to deploy the Solaris 10 as the standard operating system for this infrastructure.

The AskJeeves sarch engine will replace its Premier Listings service with on in which advertisers will bid on keywords. The ads will appear on search results on the Ask Jeeves site, as well as on its syndication network.

King County Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez ruled yesterday that while Dr Kai-Fu Lee may join Google, Inc., he cannot do for Google anything competitive with his work at Microsoft. The two sides are still arguing about whether that effectively precludes him f...

Splunk technology, to be available free at launch to individuals to beta test, aims to let systems admins search machine data exponentially better than anything else on the market right now. Search technology will be on log files to get sys admins out of the awk/gre...

George Colony, the president of Forrester Research, recently said that HP CEO Mark Hurd doesn't have a strategy, saying that Hurd hasn't been there long enough to formulate one. Meanwhile, the long-running HP User Group show, Interex, has folded.

IBM's Blade.org 'community' features several other founding members, including NetApp, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Nortel, Novell and VMware. IBM has shipped more than 200,000 blades since market introduction, the first and only vendor to reach that milestone.

The Redmond giant has not fallen asleep at the switch when it comes to search, but rather plans to continue to be the leading force in the entire computing universe. Tha is, if CEO Steve Ballmer's recent remarks are any indication.

Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, led Sun's technical strategy as the chief scientist from the company's inception in 1982 until 2003, has joined SpikeSource's board of directors.

Yahoo has announced that it has named Prabhakar Raghavan, a former IBM researcher, to head Yahoo Research as it competes with rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Sybase today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Extended Systems Incorporated, a leading provider of mobile software solutions, in a cash merger with a total diluted equity value of approximately $71.3 million, or $4.460847 per share. The t...

SMBs need to better automate their security, backup and PC upgrade processes, according to a report just published.

'Avocent continues to innovate with KVM, KVM over IP, and wireless KVM, among other technologies,' said John Humphreys, research manager at IDC, as Avocent this week introduced the AMX 5130 switch and a range of intelligent cables to the AMX product family.

IE 7.0 has tabbed browsing just like Firefox. That was one of the things that emerged as pre-release editions of Windows Vista Beta 1 began circulating this week in advance of the August 3 release date announced last week by Microsoft.

'Coherence is a quality product from a vendor we've grown to trust,' said Morten Lileng, Manager at Capgemini, as he sung the praises of Coherence 3.0 for in-memory distributed data management, clustered caching, and data-intensive grid computing. 'The performan...

'The legal profession depends upon secure, anytime, anywhere access to information, and being able to safely manage documents is an important part of that,' explained Ed Miller, CEO of Xythos, as Xythos yesterday announced the selection and deployment of its Enter...

New Xythos customers include the United States Joint Forces Command, California State University at both Long Beach and Sacramento, Pittsburgh State University, Queen's College, and Sudbury Regional Hospital. The number of licensed users has now exceeded two million.

An early access version of the server plugin for the JBoss 4 Server can now be downloaded from the Beta Update Center in NetBeans 4.1.

General Motors Corporation yesterday chose Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) to provide an integrated software environment for its global IT infrastructure. This contract grows the total number of Java ES subscribers to nearly 1 million. Additionally, Sun ann...

In a move that increases flexibility of content management-driven Web sites, Ektron has announced that CMS400.NET now supports ColdFusion, JSP, PHP and ASP as well as ASP.NET sites.

Information Builders and ESRI announced a formal partnership to more tightly integrate ESRI's geographic mapping software with Information Builders' business intelligence reporting software, which will simplify reporting solutions for organizations and government agencies.

Laszlo Systems has teamed with IBM to propose the 'IDE for Laszlo' integrated development environment (IDE) project at Eclipse, a joint initiative designed to further accelerate the development and deployment of OpenLaszlo applications.

Microsoft announced the transition of the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) pilot to a version 1.0 launch with worldwide availability. WGA is part of what Microsoft calls its 'ongoing commitment to protecting...customers from software counterfeiting and to helping s...