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With the release of two toolkits this week, IBM has dramatically sped up the time it takes to find and solve application problems by more closely linking development and operations, analysts said ...

An easy-to-write hack could leave computer users locked out of their own files. The scam, discovered by San Diego security firm WebSense when one of its clients was attacked, encrypts files on infected computers and then seeks a ransom to unlock them ...

The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) has gained another means of fundraising with a special edition notebook computer from Hewlett-Packard and AMD. The Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC has the Livestrong message on the cover and a reproduction of Lance Armstrong's autograph. HP has pledged that US$50 of the purchase price of each PC will be donated to the LAF...

Just a few hours after releasing its new browser, Netscape 8.0, to analysts' praise, America Online has issued a critical update that plugs 44 security holes ...

IBM and Nortel this morning announced a joint research agreement in the telecommunications market that will focus first on a new class of blade servers ...

America Online may have hit on the perfect way to get the name Netscape back into the midst of the browser wars with Netscape 8.0, unveiled today. At least one analyst has said that Web users should seriously consider switching to the browser, which has been in public beta testing since March ...

Oracle announced it's working to allow developers to use the open source PHP scripting language to work with its 10g database ...

America Online today invited developers to build AOL Instant Messenger or its ICQ instant messaging service right into their games. The company released AOL Messaging Software Development Kit (SDK), which contains the tools necessary to do so ...

Microsoft's new desktop toolbar, released today in its final version, adds several new features, but is missing the tabbed browsing function for Internet Explorer that had been previewed in beta versions ...

Microsoft pulled back the curtain on its next generation console, Xbox 360, and announced some impressive features, but that and the fact that it beat its rivals to the public's eye, may not give it an edge in the market, one analyst said ...

America Online is stepping into the free Web mail game today with the second beta of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.9 ...

Motorola Labs announced today what it called a "breakthrough" in high-definition TV technology, but analysts were more skeptical about its significance ...

Napster and Dwango Wireless said today they will begin selling ring tones graphics, "shout-outs" from celebrities and wallpaper and graphics from Napster's library. The new service will be called Napstertones ...

Buoyed by a significant increase in the number of RIM Blackberry's, the PDA market is showing surprising growth, according to sales figures from research firm Gartner. Gartner, which breaks the market into data-centric or voice-centric devices, said that worldwide data-centric PDA shipments increased 25 percent to 3.4 million in the first quarter of 2005...

IBM wasted no time announcing the first product suite to come out of its US$1.1 billion acquisition of Ascential Software, which closed Monday. Big Blue also released today technology that enables companies to manage all their electronic records even if they are housed within different document-management systems ...

Enterprise is far from the days when it was enough simply to have a Web presence. More and more sophisticated consumers are shopping for services based not only on what a company offers, but what it offers online and how easy it is to negotiate ...

Sony's latest DVD burners, announced today, add compatibility for the DVD-R DL format to its 800 line of dual-layer drives. Its earlier versions supported only DVD+R DL ...

Security professionals just can't say it enough: Download those patches ...

Prone to typos? Beware. Hackers have revived a once common scam in which they use a URL that contains a misspelled real site to spread malware. The latest targets Google users with the misspelled "www.googkle.com." ...

Within the next year, Hewlett-Packard will shift its entire line of ProLiant servers and storage to 2.5-inch, 10K RPM disk drives, the company said yesterday ...