Despite Massachusetts IT soap operas, the North American state government has confirmed that it will be sticking with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) OpenDocument file format until further notice.

Symantec has extended its security reach with the cash-only, US$75-million purchase of IMLogic and its IM Manager software.

Rambus today confirmed AMD’s licensing of its current patents and future high-speed memory and logic controller interfaces.

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...