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"I was alarmed when I learned that some of my staff had applied there for jobs," he quipped ...

In Part 1 of this story, "Apple's New Bid for Insane Greatness," we looked at the iTunes Music Store's (iTMS) potential in the digital music marketplace. The Mac Observer publisher Bryan Chaffin told the E-Commerce Times that Apple's coveted iPod will play a critical role in determining the degree of iTMS' success ...

Before the year is out, Apple Computer plans to launch a Windows version of its well-received iTunes Music Store (iTMS). The store's success thus far -- Apple has sold 10 million songs through the Mac-only version -- has renewed enthusiasm about the ability of legitimate digital music sellers to make inroads against the Kazaa juggernaut, especially in light of the RIAA's lawsuit campaign against users of the free file-sharing service...

The chief technology officer of @stake, an IT security company with close ties to Microsoft, was reportedly sacked by his company just after he released a report critical of the Redmond, Washington-based software vendor ...

However, Winfield did say Nutch will eventually be a great tool for niche search engines. "Right now, Nutch does not have the hardware that it needs to offer a search engine on Google's scale," he noted. "They do have a very impressive board and an extremely talented staff -- not to mention financial backing by Overture."

Another factor that will affect the future of IT within NASA is the ongoing debate over using robotic missions instead of human-staffed missions. Whether one camp or the other gains influence will determine both the nature and the amount of IT development and spending in the future...

Amid all the publicity WiFi has received in the last year, another high-speed mobile networking technology, known as 3G, appears to have been overlooked as a viable means for transmitting data wirelessly over the same types of air interfaces used in cell phones ...

IBM and GE Interlogix, a division of General Electric that designs, develops and manufactures physical security devices, such as digital video systems and access control boxes, have announced they are teaming up to provide integrated security solutions to their customers ...

"IT folks [in large corporations] have no motivation to do it," said Turley. "IT staffs get pretty conservative; they are no longer techno cowboys." While the practice is almost never seen in large corporations, the overclocking underground seems to be gaining a great deal of ...

Greater judicial oversight is needed in this area, contends Wendy Seltzer, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "The courts can do that," she told TechNewsWorld. "If they don't do that, then we'll need a legisltive fix." At the hearing, RI...

In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux' potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun's proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more mission-critical functions ...

Verizon, one of two Internet service providers (ISPs) to resist the RIAA subpoenas legally, failed to convince District Court Judge John Bates to rule the subpoenas unconstitutional. Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Wendy Seltzer told TechNewsWorld that Verizon faces an uphill battle, given that the court already denied the company's motion to stop the subpoenas...

Setting up the perfect enterprise server system architecture seemed pretty straightforward just a few years ago ...

Informatica, a supplier of data integration and business intelligence solutions, has announced it plans to buy Striva Corporation in a cash-and-stock transaction worth about US$62 million ...

"Given IBM's spotty track record in getting their complex set of technology deployed in large organizations, there could be tough challenges at smaller ones [with less] sophisticated IT staff," Thompson said ...

There was a time, not so long ago, when the IT department was like an island unto itself. The CIO may have had to venture into the boardroom and chat with "the suits," but many IT staff were high-tech gurus who did not need to care about the bottom line, refined communication skills or managing employees...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is planning to offer music downloaders a reprieve from prosecution, provided they adhere to certain conditions, according to published reports ...

He added that the layoffs and additional savings, such as closure of overlapping offices, will save PeopleSoft as much as US$207 million per year going forward. The layoffs will target marketing, back-office information technology and management jobs, he added, with software developers, sales and consulting staffs largely untouched.

Thus far, more than three million people in 100 countries have taken the training offered -- online -- by the ECDLF and its affiliates. Students even included the CEO of Renault France, who then made his entire executive staff take the basic computing skills training course, said Maureen O'Connell, a spokesperson for the ICDL program...

Virginia Tech said the supercomputer's construction came about through weekly conference calls between the various players and included international expertise from Japan and Israel as well as input from university staff and students Aref said that despite concerns about U.S.