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i-Technology News Desk
SYS-CON's i-Technology News Desk trawls the world of Internet technologies for news and innovations and presents IT professionals with updates on technology advances, business trends, new products and standards.

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McAfee LinuxShield Focuses on Novell
With the latest release of Linux kernel products from Novell such as Open Enterprise Server (OES) and Novell Linux Small Business Suite, McAfee is extending its support to these platforms. From small businesses running NLSBS to the largest enterprises running OES, ...
Sharing Photos By E-Mail Gets Easier Overnight: Yahoo! PhotoMail Is Born
'Sharing photos in Yahoo! Mail just got easier' says the beta site that went public today (http:/ /photomail.mail.yahoo.com /) - as Yahoo! PhotoMail is born.
Mozilla Firefox Hooks Phishers
A UK-based company has released an anti-phishing toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The company reports 60,000 downloads during the first day of the release. With 50 million Firefox downloads to date, it can likely expect many more thousands to flock to its site.
SYS-CON Media to Launch Six New Titles in 2005
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that it will be launching six new titles in the second half of this year to add to its portfolio of 16 leading i-technology titles. The new titles will include LAMP ...
SYS-CON Media Expands Its Global Offerings with Eleven International Web Sites
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that it will launch 11 International Web sites on July 4, 2005, serving original content in local languages to its readers in India (www.in.sys-con.com), United King...
SYS-CON to Launch the World's Top i-Technology Media Web Site
SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today the launch of its new Web site. SYS-CON.com will offer more than 86,000 articles; SYS-CON.TV (www.SYS-CON.tv), streaming live internet television and video news arch...
Portal Wars: Google Takes On Yahoo! / MSN / AOL
No sooner has Google challenged Microsoft's desktop computing dominance head-on by launching Google Desktop Search, than it is now confronting the portal giants Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL by launching (in beta) a customizing functionality called 'Fusion.'
BigClique Is Born: New Java-Based Search Engine "Built for Scalability"
Built from the ground-up using Java technology, a new dedicated general search engine called BigClique is being launched today by owner and founder Femi Olu, CEO of New York-based gRock Media Group.
OS Wars: IBM and Red Hat Offer "Solaris-to-Linux Migration Factory"
IBM in conjunction with Red Hat yesterday announced the introduction of a Solaris-to-Linux server migration program that includes a 'Solaris to Linux Migration Factory,' and additional solutions and support offerings designed to help customers migrate from Solar...
Google Becomes "World Famous for 15 Minutes" For Being Down
'It was not a hacking or a security issue,' a statement from Google said yesterday, in response to speculation that Google's 15-minute weekend outage may have been a DNS hack.
Ballmer and Microsoft Rethink Gay Rights Stand
Steve Ballmer released an e-mail to all Microsoft employees this afternoon in which he explains how Microsoft will support HB 1515, a piece of legislation in the company's home state of Washington involving the addition of sexual orientation to the list of things ...
Can XQuery Be Saved on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0?
When Microsoft dropped XQuery from .NET Framework 2.0 (Whidbey), it hadn't perhaps reckoned with Stylus Studio's mission to support what it calls 'XQuery for All!' Just as the Java community - through their work in JSR 225: An XQuery API for Java - recognizes the ...
Cisco Enters the Grid Computing Arena With $250M Acquisition
Cisco has added Topspin's server fabric switches and virtualization software, which alongside its industry leading portfolio of Ethernet and SAN switches enables it to offer its customers 'compelling end-to-end data center switching capabilities,' a Cisco SVP says.
Mozilla Firefox Continues Surge vs IE; Has 5% of Browser Market
After dipping from 2.2 million surfers in January to 1.6 million in February, web traffic at the Mozilla website rose 62.5% to 2.6 million in March. This according to the latest Nielsen/NetRatings. It is now estimated that the Firefox browser has a 5% share of the browser market.
Google Mobilizes with "Google SMS" and "Google Local"
From local business listings to interactive street maps, users can now access Google Local information via a mobile web browser and driving directions using Google SMS.
WindowBuilderPro Serves Java Developers
Instantiations Inc. aims to enable developers to create 'elegant' swing form windows with its new WindowBuilder Pro 4.0 software. WindowBuilder Pro installs into any Eclipse-based development tool, including Rational Application Developer, and provides a Java GUI ...
Thunderbird Not As Successful As Firefox, Says Report
Available for free, and offering state of the art security functionality, including Firefox HTML rendering, Bayesian spam filtering, image blocking, and virus protection, the Thunderbird e-mail client 'stacks up well against MS Outlook in terms of functionality,' ...
Google Counter-Attacks AskJeeves With Emerging "Google Q&A" Service
If you type 'Where is Brazzaville?' into your Google search box, the first entry it will return is an answer: 'Location: Republic of the Congo' - followed, of course, by a hyperlink verifying that answer. AskJeeves.com had better look to its laurels, 'Google Q&A' ...
As Google Launches New "Mini" Appliance, Search Gets Cheaper
An integrated hardware/software search appliance called 'Google Mini' has just been launched by Google. It comes with one year of support, software updates and hardware replacement coverage, and indexes all content within a company's intranet or public website.
Google Trying Out Video Blogging
Google is giving people the ability to upload video files and send them across the Internet.
Streaming Media Update: VitalStream Launches Two New Facilities
The recent consolidation of the Content Delivery Network space signals increased opportunity and VitalStream continues to expand by opening an additional sales office in New York to better serve East Coast customers and a new data center in Amsterdam to offer more...
Intel Dual Core Processor Ships With Velocity
Intel's launch partner Velocity Micro will ship systems running at up to 4.0GHz.
Adobe Releasing Major Upgrades Next Month
News of the upcoming release result of press release mistakenly posted on Adobe's site.
Gmail vs Yahoo! Mail: Google Boosts Its Free Storage to 2GB
Now that Yahoo! Mail has matched the Gmail offer of 1GB storage to its free e-mail customers, Google is doing the obvious thing and pulling ahead again, reopening 'the one-gig gap' between its Gmail service and all-comers.
Atari's Got 21st Century Game
Now owned by a French company, Atari continues to develop games. A new strategy game based on Dungeons and Dragons, called Dragonshard, will be released by Atari soon, long after the last 'Atari Democrat' has left the U.S. Congress. Its newest release will feature...
Comdex Bites The Dust...Again
MediaLive International Inc's diligent efforts 'to determine how Comdex can best meet the future needs of the industry' have apparently led the company to the conclusion that it can best serve the industry by not taking place.
MCI And Qwest On Speaking Terms Once More
The on again, off again dalliance between MCI and its hopeful suitor, Qwest, has been 're-engaged,' despite MCI's decision to be acquired by Qwest rival, Verizon.
New IETF Chair At Work On New Internet Standards
The new chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is focusing much of his energies on a new Internet standard to replace today's IPv4.
Mark V. Hurd, Incoming HP CEO, Speaks Out
'It would be wrong for me to try to take the formula I used at NCR and try to use it at HP,' said HP's new CEO yesterday as he 'met' the world's press for the first time via a telephone conference call. We bring here a brief round-up of quotes from the call.
HP Confirms, Mark Hurd New CEO
HP board selects Mark Hurd to run the company, stating that they were impressed with the work he did while CEO of NCR.
FyberSearch, The Little Search Engine Than Could
FyberSearch upgrades relevancy, user friendliness and adds more advanced features.
IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer 2x Faster
IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer has been made to operate twice its current speed. The model the new computer replaces is already the world's fastest.
SunGard Bought For $11.3 Billion
A group of investors has purchased SunGard for $11.3 billion, making this the largest leveraged buyout in 15 years.
Novell Expands Its ZENWorks Offering, Buys Asset Management Experts Tally Systems
Novell's award-winning ZENworks 7 Suite, announced March 21, 2005, will very soon include a set of integrated tools with discovery and inventory, license management, and software usage and trend analysis capabilities. Because Novell is buying Tally Systems Corp.
Intermec Files Patent Infringement Claims Against Symbol
Intermec files suit, claims Symbol infringed on six patents.
Yahoo! Plays Catch-Up With Gmail, Quadruples Free E-Mail Storage Limit To One Gig
While MSN Hotmail still offers only 250 megabytes of free storage, Yahoo! is playing catch-up with Google Mail and will start offering 1 gigabyte of storage to users of its free e-mail service Yahoo! Mail.
Newest "Internet Security Threat Report" Released
'Attackers are launching increasingly sophisticated attacks in an effort to compromise the integrity of corporate and personal information,' said Arthur Wong, vice president of Symantec Security Response and Managed Security Services, as Symantec issued its late...
Intel Brings Its First 64-Bit Chips To Market
Intel has put its first 64-bit chips on its price lists. This is Intel's first entry in the 64-bit market.
SCO Seeks Transparency, Issues Official Statement
SCO, in the news following the apparent suicide of board member Val Noorda Kreidel, daughter of Ray Noorda, the founder of SCO's parent company Canopy, issued an official statement discussing its recent talks with NASDAQ regulators over SCO's failure to file mandatory financial forms.
MasterCard And H&R Block Offering 0% Convenience Fee
Taxpayers can now pay their federal taxes with a Debit MasterCard without paying the standard 2.49% convenience fee.

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