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  • Most PCs have fallen victim to spyware

    A study carried out by America Online and the National Cyber Security Alliance has discovered that 80 percent of 329 inspected computers have been infected with spyware without the user knowing.

  • Dicom buys Neurascript to strengthen Ascent

    Dicom has bought U.K. based Neurascript, which specialises in software that automates the recognition, extraction and indexing of information from business documents and forms, to help boost its information capture technologies.

  • IBM to issue online security warnings

    IBM is planning on releasing monthly reports of possible attacks to computer networks so that computer managers can be better prepared to deal with threats by malicious hackers.

  • Yahoo, Adobe in web services alliance

    Adobe and Yahoo have pitched into the intensifying battle over online search and services with the news that the pair have reached an agreement for Yahoo to install web search features into Adobe's Acrobat Reader software.

  • Aussie services firms urged to export

    The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) is urging local professional service providers to get into exports to take advantage of the current worldwide boom in professional services.

  • Focus must be on RFID benefits, not costs

    Radio frequency identification (RFID) has climbed from relative obscurity to become one of today's most discussed technologies, but companies are being bogged down by debate over how cheap the technology will become, rather than focusing o...

  • Three security holes found in Linux

    Open source vendors have acted quickly to security holes found in three different Linux components in one day by releasing updates to help minimise the damage.

  • SAN data protected over long distance

    NeoScale Systems has unveiled a new system that can protect information as it passes from one place to another via long distances over storage area networks through the use of encryption technology.

  • Ernst & Young loosen risk of compliance

    80-20 Software and Ernst and Young have joined forces to provide an integrated corporate governance, risk management and compliance solution for companies and government departments, which face tough new regulations.

  • IBM joins Liberty, is Microsoft to follow?

    IBM has joined a consortium of IT companies which aim to develop standards for managing user authentication services for online businesses, despite initially having a user identity scheme of its own.