James Niccolai

Enterprise software vendor Semotus Solutions Inc. has acquired Expand Beyond Corp., which makes a family of products called PocketDBA for monitoring databases remotely from a wireless device, the companies said on Tuesday.

If the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is to yield miraculous discoveries in particle physics, it may also require a small miracle in grid computing. Engineers at the famed Geneva laboratory are hard at work building a giant grid to store and process the vast amounts of data the collider is expected to produce when it begins operations in mid-2007. They announced last week that the computing network now encompasses more than 100 sites in 31 countries, making it what they believe is the world's largest international scientific grid.

Jef Raskin, the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces, died Saturday at age 61. He had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, his family said in a statement. Raskin joined Apple Computer Inc. in 1978 as employee number 31 and headed the company's Macintosh development team from its founding in 1982. He named the project after his favorite type of apple, changing the spelling for copyright reasons.

A new version of the Sober worm wriggled out of its hole early on Monday and set about quickly attacking computers in Europe and the U.S., a security services company said. The worm is a mass-mailer, meaning it spreads itself via e-mail using contacts listed in the address books of computers it infects.

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The European Commission is battling to ensure that a new, "reduced" version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system will appear palatable to customers, but...

Oracle's top executives will lay out their vision for the combined company during the online event, which has been warmly titled "Oracle-PeopleSoft

The group hopes to build software development and management tools that will cut the costs and complexity of large IT projects, particularly those using Linux.