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It's bad enough when virus writers can download their worm code of choice and relatively simply unleash a new variant on the Internet, but Friday showed something even worse: Virtually zero effort is needed to entice people to open attachments. So far, the non-sophisticated, no-subject, no-text Bagle.U variant has spread to a substantial number of computers worldwide...

After failing to reach an agreement to renew technology licensing deals, computing giant Hewlett-Packard has filed suit against Gateway in U.S. District Court in San Diego, near Gateway's Poway headquarters ...

Microsoft unveiled a new software development environment this week that the Redmond, Washington-based company claims will remove the chains that have shackled developers to creating different versions of one gaming title ...

The creators and distributors of the Gnome open-source desktop software project are investigating a server breach that reportedly did not affect released Gnome sources and the project's source-code repository, but nonetheless delayed the latest update scheduled to come out this week ...

A week after announcing it was putting Linux on more of its desktop machines for the Asian market, HP made bigger waves this week, disclosing a deal with Novell to put SuSE Linux on the entire HP portfolio of business desktops and notebooks in North America, to be followed by other markets later ...

The Recording Industry Association of America has done it again, putting another 532 alleged illegal file-traders in its legal crosshairs as it tries to push users from free, unlicensed peer-to-peer networks to legitimate song sites for purchasing music on the Internet ...

Recent acquisitions have helped Novell rise to higher prominence as a vendor of Linux and nonproprietary software, but the company now is touting a wholehearted move toward a total, open platform ...

Norwegian company Opera is adding IBM speech-recognition technology to its free browser software. The company, which raised about $18 million in an initial public offering earlier this month, said it is aiming the standardized ViaVoice speech technology from IBM at enterprise customers and developers initially. ...

Game giant Electronic Arts is giving the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division a multimillion-dollar donation to advance interactive media education and produce professionals for the next generation of gaming ...

A computer worm that targets antivirus or firewall protection is nothing new, but the most recent case of a direct attack against computer defenses unfolded with alarming speed, less than two days after vulnerabilities in BlackICE and RealSecure software -- made by Internet Security Systems -- were disclosed ...

Rounding out the last half of the alphabet with Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T variants, the latest worms in a long string of malware have become more sophisticated and sneaky, leaving security experts to ponder what might come next from the evolving family of malicious code ...

A former Romanian software programmer who now works for Microsoft has filed a $25 million lawsuit against peer-to-peer (P2P) leader Sharman Networks, which owns and runs the Kazaa file-sharing utility that the man, Fabian Toader, claims is his work ...

Adding to what the company says is a successive list of firsts for Linux, Novell has released SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional and Personal, the first retail offerings of the 2.6 Linux kernel. ...

Internet civil libertarians are raising red flags over parallel bills in the California state legislature that would punish file traders of copyrighted materials with up to a year in jail, US$2,500 in fines or both if the users do not provide their real names and addresses with the title of the work ...

Despite lacking a legal requirement to comply with government surveillance rules, Time Warner is reportedly among major cable operators working to follow the controversial Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which the FBI has recently argued should apply to Web-based, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications ...

Along with efforts to make its software more manageable, Microsoft has announced it is replacing its Software Update Services with a new, more forceful program called Windows Update Services, which will be aimed at getting security patches installed more quickly ...

New York-based Xandros this week began shipping its Linux-based Xandros Business Desktop and Operating System, an enterprise Windows desktop replacement that the company says is completely compatible with Microsoft Windows servers ...

The number of security holes poked in computer software may be leveling off as vendors scramble to make their products more secure, but the vulnerabilities that are found these days -- despite these efforts -- are more severe. New vulnerabilities increasingly are being leveraged to attack companies and consumers with worms that threaten confidentiality and privacy, according to Symantec's latest "Internet Security Threat Report."

With half a billion copies of its Reader document software in use, Adobe has shown its strength in the digital dimension ...

In addition to assigning traditional clock speeds to processors, Intel is rumored to be preparing to assign performance names to its chips. But in discussions with TechNewsWorld, an industry analyst and Intel company insider have indicated those reports are incorrect. ...