MSN Shopping kicks off the holiday season with brand-new comparison shopping tools.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the opening of its Sun Solution Center for High Performance Computing.

Sanitarium Health Food Company, the company behind Weet-Bix has embarked on a major upgrade of its communications infrastructure.

To break into new markets, Linux is going to have to sell itself as a value proposition, not just a savings solution.

Hacker attacks on Sony's XCP stealth software prompts pull.

Gates Enters The "Live Era" Bill Gates has seen the power of Web-based applications and wants a piece of the action. This week, a memo written by the Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) chairman leaked to the

A government watchdog group is campaigning to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from scaling back an online toxic pollution program. OMB Watch has posted a call-to-action online opposing the EPA's plan to dismantle the Toxic Release Inventory, which the public-interest

Recently, without much fanfare, computer giant Dell started to offer a line of open source workstations...

Theodore Puck, the Denver scientist who was a pioneer in studying the human genome and founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, has died at age 89. Puck, who did groundbreaking work on somatic cells and who was in forefront of research

A remote user can cause in.named(1M) to make unnecessary queries for address records to root domain servers. This can be triggered by requests for domains that the target server is not authoritative for. The system will then query the root

Sudo does not properly validate the PERL5LIB, PERLLIB, and PERL5OPT environment variables. A local user with sudo permissions to run a perl script (without the tainting option) can set these variables to execute an arbitrary file with a name that

From " China Moving Up in Nano World " in Smalltimes: "New findings from Lux Research Inc. say that trends in Chinese nanotech research have set the world's largest nation on a course to challenge dominant nanotech players like the

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff tells employees Microsoft is a "dinosaur" and his company is poised to "demonstrate the next level."

Associates plans to consolidate its systems-management line to five products and give it a big marketing push.

Sales are still strong, but analysts aren't convinced that super cheap prices and faulty components are the dilemma.