MSN's Hotmail service, which at the latest count has 187 million users worldwide, has ditched McAfee as its antivirus provider, replacing it with rival Trend Micro.
While the IT economy at large is expected to remain fairly lukewarm in terms of growth in the coming year, the financial services industry is on pace to buck the trend, with significant increases in IT spending predicted for the sector.
Microsoft's plans to offer new software to help customers cope with vulnerabilities following the take over of anti-spyware company Giant Company Software could be scuppered after Sunbelt Software claimed that its share in the company woul...
Despite 2004 being a good year on record for catching virus writer and cyber criminals, with authorities in many countries completing big arrests, pocket PCs could be next year's big target for hackers.
CRM software provider Siebel Systems has capped what has been an incredible few days of activity in the software industry, with the acquisition of eBilling and customer self-service software provider edocs for US$115 million in cash.
Despite the operating system's close association with freely available software, there is certtainly money to be made from Linux, according to the findings of a new global Linux market share and forecast study conducted by market research firm IDC.
With Veritas fitted firmly under its belt, Symantec is now planning on acquiring even more companies in its bid to improve the quality of security and storage products offered to customers and in an attempt to reduce the number of vendors ...
Business workers could soon be free from breaking communication when they fly from one country to another with the new possibility of wireless technology being fitted into planes.
Exabyte has signed a new global sales and distribution agreement with Apple Computer that expands the availability of Exabyte tape backup storage across Apple's global sales and channel network. Through this agreement, Apple's internationa...
The fifth release of IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller has been designed specifically to expand its support to include virtualisation and management of the complete line of EMC disk storage systems.
