Highlighting the importance of data security, the international Hotel chain Marriot and Income Tax company H&R Block have both admitted to potentially compromising customer data this week.

American hard-drive maker Cornice has stepped up competition with flash storage makers by announcing its new line of Dragon micro drives.

After the debacle that was its Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, Sony BMG is striving to settle the class-action lawsuits brought against it by angry customers.

The popular Windows Metafile format (WMF) is being cast as the demon as the spread of a new viral trojan is tracked across the internet.

An email claiming to direct people to a new version of Microsoft's popular MSN Messenger program has been shown to be a dangerous hoax.

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has announced a full review of the XAM (eXtensible Access Method) - also known as the X-Access Method.

In what is possibly 2005’s most absurd ‘world first’, the UK Government has announced that it will be monitoring all motor vehicle journeys. Not only will an estimated 35 million “numberplate reads” be harvested, the data must also be store...

Oracle’s US$5.85 billion purchase of enterprise software rival Siebel Systems has been cleared by the European Commission, clearing the way for Oracle to become the largest enterprise software company in the world.

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Getting into 2005 by the skin of their teeth, Seagate and Maxtor have struck an agreement to merge in a US$1.9 billion all-stock mega deal. The combined company will retain Seagate’s name.