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2010: Software spend up, IT budgets down
News Software budgets in the Asia-Pacific region in 2010 will grow 4.4 percent over last year, while overall IT expenditure will dip by 3 percent, new Gartner study shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Business applications, IT Budget, India, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia, Gartner Inc., Malaysia
From 'Phiber Optik' to security guru
Insight newsmaker The activities of Mark Abene aka "Phiber Optik" and his hacker friends, made him a media darling and inspired a book, but now he spends his time protecting computer networks.
Tags: Data security, Hacking, Security Management, Security, motivation, Password, Digital Equipment Corp., computer, phone, CompuServe
China sets up Windows-checking lab
News The lab to study the Microsoft Windows operating system source code was set up last week in Beijing, China.
Report: Hackers broke into US air traffic control systems
News Breaches exposed sensitive employee data, forced the shutdown of part of a network, and could have allowed hackers to disrupt the agency's mission-support network, a government report says.
Tags: Hacking, FAA, Security, Report, Air Traffic Control, Password, intrusion detection, Web Application, computer, commercial software
Green Hills spins off Integrity operating system
News Spinoff company aims to bring military-grade virtualization to corporations.
Tags: Security, Virtualization, Operating systems, operating system, Computer, Green Hills Software Inc., Airbus, commercial software, Boeing Co., desktop operating system
Microsoft, Linux Foundation find common ground
News The two parties may disagree on many issues, but are united in opposition to a law group's effort to add an implied warranty to the software industry.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley, TomTom, software company, software, blog, Linux
Is open source software more secure?
Techguide One of the more entertaining aspects of being involved with Internet and information security is predicting how long it will take a hacker to break or exploit a system or program assumed to be secure. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: With very few exceptions, all software has bugs.
Is open source software more secure?
Insight comment TechRepublic's Jonathan Yarden believes that commercial software has fallen far behind open source software when it comes to security and reliability.
Tags: Software
Open source vs commercial apps: the differences that matter II
Insight expert's view A comprehensive analysis of the cost, security, flexibility and interoperability schemes that apply to open source and commercial software licensing models.
Tags: Business applications, Open source
Ubuntu users get easy access to Windows apps
News Ubuntu users will get access to Parallels Workstation for Linux via the operating system's built-in update tool.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Microsoft Windows
Novell sets Open Enterprise Server release
News in brief Novell plans to begin shipping in February its Open Enterprise Server, which combines open source and commercial networking platforms.
Tags: Servers
Patching top worry in US government agencies
Insight Security managers in government agencies are most worried about patches and the poor quality of commercial software, a survey finds.
Tags: IT Management
Vietnam gov't opts for open source
News Vietnamese authorities have ruled that all government desktop computers must run open source operating systems by 2005.
Free your mind
Blogs Technology, it appears, is all in the mind. Think Wikipedia is all fun and no work? This week at the iX2006 conferenc...
Microsoft: Linux not 'reliable or dependable'
News Executive tells BBC it's mainly of interest to community projects, lacks benefits of commercial model.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux
