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Microsoft's trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world's largest software maker's appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word "windows" can be considered a generic term as it is used by the public today.

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Richard Grasso on Monday, seeking the return of millions of dollars the former head of the New York Stock Exchange is alleged to have received improperly. Spitzer also sued former chairman of the NYSE's compensation committee, Ken Langone, and said the process used to determine Garsso's pay was "rigged" and that Langone had knowledge of at least $18 million in compensation that was not reported to the board.

At its latest conference for developers, Microsoft announced a technical preview of Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework, and the release of Web Services Enhancements 2.0. The company also previewed Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a collection of tools designed to help software development. "[IBF and WSE] are two of the absolute biggest releases we've ever done in terms of improving developer performance," Steve Ballmer told the audience. "But the biggest is Visual Studio 2005 Team System," which will ship in 2005.

The "quiet period" -- sometimes called the "waiting period" -- generally refers to the time that begins when a company files a registration statement with the SEC and lasts until the SEC's staff declares the registration "effective." During this stage, to prevent overhyping of a company's abilities, federal securities laws limit what information a company can release to the public.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, today announced its support for enhancements to the Linux kernel submission process to improve the tracking of contributions to the kernel and ensure developers receive credit for their contributions. Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton said they adopted the revised process after obtaining input and broad support from key kernel subsystem maintainers and others in the open source community...

Symantec, one of the largest providers of information security technologies, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will be a key complement to Symantec's array of gateway security solutions...

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Online music service Napster -- a division of Roxio -- has launched a download service in the UK, offering a choice between individual song downloads or a monthly subscription ...

Symantec, a global leader in information security, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Brightmail, a maker of anti-spam technology, in a cash transaction valued at approximately US$370 million. According to the company, Brightmail's anti-spam technology will be a key complement to Symantec's array of gateway security solutions ...

It also means systems are considered so untrustworthy and transient that users compromise the value of large-scale software like enterprise resource planning packages by limiting usage to the most basic parts of the package; the network software stack needed gets to be so complex that the reboot-reload cycle replaces failure analysis and remediation. In addition to all of this, the expectation that security will fail more or less at random is integrated into daily operations, and everything related to IT exists in a perpetual state of rollout or upgrade. Finally, systems management has to provide a well-staffed help desk simply to ensure that users can get their clients started up and connected to the central service.

"This might be big enough for the RIAA to follow up on," he told staff reporter Jeff Hage. "What the recording industry does is pick someone who has a clear infraction and make an example of them." The bottom line, Quinn said, was that burning the CDs wasn't unlike stealing fr...

Everyone agrees spam has evolved from a minor annoyance into a significant drain on corporate resources. "Curbing spam is the top priority for many corporate IT staffs," said Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, a market research firm focused on spam. "Users not only complain about it, but they also spend a lot of time sifting through a growing number of spam messages."

The announcement of the lowered bid precedes PeopleSoft's premier customer event for senior executives: its annual Leadership Conference scheduled for May 18th and 19th in Las Vegas. Obviously, PeopleSoft staff will have to address Oracle's newest offer both officially and unofficially during that gathering...

The challenge for our clients is, while the investment to support the Internet is not increasing -- staffs are smaller and more is being outsourced -- the impact on the overall corporate bottom line is increasing, and, therefore, performance reliability is getting to be that much more of an issue...

Despite a longheld defense of the DMCA in both the U.S. House and Senate, lawmakers are now joining consumers and industry representatives in questioning the six-year-old law's effects on law-abiding, paying customers, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Fred von Lohmann.

Just as we were releasing technology that we had been working on for up to two years, the market said, "Okay, we'll look [at it]." I can't take total credit, but it was certainly very rewarding, and you see it in our staff. They're in at 7:00 [a.m.] and in at 8:00 at night, sort of hopping around because we're getting great client validation. And that's more valuable than anything...

The Sapphire news barrage also included an announcement that SAP has broadened and strengthened its relationship with another software giant, Microsoft, expanding the level of joint staffing, collaboration, sales and marketing between the two companies. The companies say their agreement will lead to deeper integration between the Microsoft .NET and SAP NetWeaver platforms...

"If the top companies in each tech category start to turn from trimming staff to hiring, others will follow suit," Challenger said. In fact, his firm, which usually publishes statistics on announced layoffs, recently divulged plans to begin collecting data on job additions. A...

Smart companies will consider the organization's culture and position in the industry, as well as the style of its lead technical staff, allowing them to develop a policy toward the in-licensing of software that is a perfect fit for the organization. Legal liability around th...

Despite tremendous growth potential, the life of mid-market IT is tough. Many mid-market IT staff operate as "silos," with each person supporting different organizational needs, Scott Cosby, program director for WebSphere Business Integration at IBM, told CRM Buyer. In other ...