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Microsoft messaging tactics recall browser wars
News The battle over today's instant messenger market is vintage Microsoft: Embrace a rival's technology, extend it to work best with Windows, and extinguish the competition.
Mainframes fall short on technical skills
News Availability of IT professionals with mainframe capabilities is shrinking in Asia, despite ongoing need for such expertise, say market observers.
Tags: Mainframes, Recruiting, Trends, Mainframe, Computer Associates International Inc., IBM Corp., GUI, Asia, India, IT Professional
Bringing free software to the masses
Insight Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, bares his soul on what the open-source body stands for.
Tags: Operating systems, Digital rights management (DRM), Open source
Week in review: In the hot seat
News How do you right a listing ship? Hire a good captain. Yahoo hopes a new chief will get it back on track, and auto megamarketplace Covisint grabs a new leader.
Eolas, Microsoft make their case--again
News Eolas won the first round in a key Web patent fight, but it could face an uphill battle in appeals court.
Tags: Web sites, Business applications, Patents
Domain customers chagrined by registration glitches
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MS back to old tricks with new instant messenger?
News The battle over today's instant messenger market is vintage Microsoft, whose strategy enemies call "the three E's" in a parody of the company's marketing mantra: embrace, extend and extinguish.
Barksdales donate $100 million to literacy program
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Job-seeking tips for 'older' professionals
Insight Age bias is an unfortunate, prevalent obstacle to older IT professionals. But it can be overcome if you identify it early during the job interview process and know the best way to respond to age-related questions.
Mozilla takes on Microsoft in China
News Internet Explorer has held a virtual monopoly on the mainland, home to 160 million Internet users. Now, Firefox is pushing for more market share.
Tags: Web sites, Browser, Web browsers
Privacy expert resigns to focus on security
News Last month's terrorist attacks prompt well-known privacy watchdog Richard Smith to leave his post and instead research security issues.
College plans virus-writing course
News While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the Canada's University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum.
'Spyware' steps out of the shadows
News Late in July, an e-mail that hit employee in-boxes at a British credit card and finance company carried a secret payload--"spyware" capable of recording confidential corporate data and sending it over the Net.
M'sia warns e-mail users of Net abuse
News Following the recent arrest of individuals suspected of circulating bomb threat on the Net, the Malaysian government urged users to be cautious when forwarding e-mails.
SAP to add 500 software jobs in India
News Plans for this year also point to the German company hiring 500 more workers in the United States, where sales are on an upswing. May 7, 2004, 1:32 PM PDT
Tags: Software, Recruiting
