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  • IBM calls for more World Community Grid members

    IBM has made an appeal for new users to join the World Community Grid to help power math-intensive research that will unlock genetic codes underlying diseases such as cancer, HIV and Alzheimer's.

  • Intel, Cisco team up on wireless networking and security

    Intel and Cisco Systems have joined forces to deliver new capabilities that enhance the reliability of wireless LANs and deliver higher-quality services, and allow enterprises to use computers and the network as a combined defence against ...

  • BEA buys Plumtree to boost integration

    BEA has bought Plumtree for USD$200 million in cash in a bid to provide customers with improved enterprise productivity by offering both collaborative and transactional portals across multiple platforms and application servers.

  • Rootkits alarmingly on the march

    Rootkits are becoming more popular because the source code of these viruses are becoming more available on the Internet, but analysts from Kaspersky Lab believes that they can be combated against.

  • New system is set to nip ANZ email scams in the bud

    A new early-warning system that proactively notifies banks, online businesses and other organisations of fraudulent email scams that target their customers has been launched in Australia and New Zealand by IT security vendor Sophos.

  • Further consolidation in security market

    Secure Computing has bought CyberGuard, in the latest big consolidation move in the security market, to help it improve its capability of protecting data as it flows through the network.

  • Microsoft receives security vote of confidence

    Despite Microsoft's reputation for providing poor protection against worms and viruses, Forrester Research has praised the company for responding well to the recent Zotob worm, which brought networks to its knees.

  • Interwoven acquisition to speed up trading

    Interwoven has bought Scrittura, a provider of document automation technology and straight-through-processing for complex non-exchange based trading operations of financial services and institutions, in a bid to help these organisations pr...