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Now that Apple's iTunes Music Store (iTMS) does Windows and Napster has been rehabilitated, more people are starting to change their music-buying focus, moving from old-school CDs to new-generation digital formats like AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) and WMA (Windows Media Audio) ...

Just in time for Halloween, a new spam relay worm has begun to circulate via e-mail attachments, aiming to turn PCs into e-mail-spewing zombies ...

Perhaps the most significant event at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, which ran from Sunday through Thursday in Los Angeles, was the company's release of a developers version of its upcoming Windows OS, also known as Longhorn ...

When both centers are fully staffed, they will employ about 200 software engineers and other workers, according to Oracle. ...

Of course, there are few clear-cut bad guys in the technology world. X10, for example, was no doubt staffed by professional, well-intentioned people who truly thought that if they could just convince enough people to buy their spy cameras and wireless transmitters, the world would be a better place...

The Windows Messenger Service patch came as part of Microsoft's first monthly update aimed to ease patch management, but Dunham said the updating process could overwhelm IT staffs that now must test multiple patches on their systems as Microsoft rolls them out "It's an overloa...

On Friday evening, Apple will launch the latest versions of both its desktop and server operating systems, version 10.3, nicknamed Panther. The desktop version will retail for US$129, while Panther Server, which can run on any Apple G4, including the Xserve, as well as the new Power Mac G5 towers, will cost $499 for 10 users or $999 for an unlimited number of seats...

Now that Bill Gates and company have vacated Manhattan's Millennium Hotel after their much-publicized launch of Office 2003, many people are asking whether Microsoft's venerable productivity suite is indeed the Office of the new millennium -- or whether they will stick with their present version of the software (or a competing product) until Microsoft's Windows overhaul, nicknamed "Longhorn," is released in late 2005 or early 2006...

"Education does play a role at helping people be successful," Faulkner told the E-Commerce Times, though he noted that the majority of his company's IT staff do not have traditional four-year college degrees. "I've always thought of education as a door-opener. Once you've opened that door, it's more important to see how you've continued to gain knowledge throughout the years with hands-on experience...

Neill Hopkins, CompTIA's vice president of workforce development and training, told the E-Commerce Times that because the job market has changed so significantly in the past three years, more IT staffers are trying to broaden their skill set "In this economy, you need to have ...

Following a spate of civil suits filed against music consumers in September, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched the next phase of its war on digital piracy. The organization has sent a total of 204 letters to individuals, each of whom, it claims, has made at least 1,000 songs available for upload on peer-to-peer file-trading services such as Kazaa...

VeriSign has announced it plans to sell its Network Solutions business unit to Pivotal Private Equity, a Phoenix, Arizona-based firm known for acquiring underperforming companies, for approximately US$100 million ...

To say the SCO Group has been making headlines frequently is an understatement. Since March, when the company filed suit against IBM for allegedly using SCO-owned Unix code in its Linux systems, SCO has gotten an unheard-of amount of press for a company that, according to its third-quarter results, posted only US$20.1 million in revenue ...

For its part, Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that high-tech job cuts have decreased 31 percent in the past quarter. And when TMP Worldwide, Monster's parent company, surveyed the high-tech industry's human resources executives, it discovered that businesses expect to increase their staffs by an average of 3.7 percent this year...

Napster, the onetime file-swapping nexus that sparked fear in the hearts -- and bottom lines -- of record labels, has officially been tamed and will relaunch as a legitimate online music service, parent company Roxio announced Thursday ...

Last month at the International Business Law Services (IBLS) Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce, Pauline Reich, an associate professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, gave a speech entitled "Legal Issues: Internet and E-mail in the Workplace." Reich is also a well-known expert in the areas of cyberlaw and Internet-based legal, business and government research...

"We're already seeing a broad coalition of people from all political points of view concerned about the abuse of these subpoenas," Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Wendy Seltzer told TechNewsWorld ...

Cisco Systems has been synonymous with routers for nearly 20 years. With more than 90 percent of the enterprise market, according to Yankee Group vice president Zeus Kerravala, the company is the incumbent vendor -- and a smart one as well ...

At present, financial institutions worldwide allot 6 percent of their total IT budgets to security, according to a report released earlier this year by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Also, despite the poor economy, 47 percent of respondents have increased their security staffing levels.

In conjunction with WebEx, Yahoo is now taking orders for its Business Messenger service. The company will host a demonstration of the service during the Instant Messaging Planet Conference October 15th and 16th at the San Jose Convention Center ...