Sam Costello

The slump in the technology sector bottomed out in May and spending will increase, if by only small amounts, over the next 12 months, according to a new poll of chief information officers (CIOs) and other high-level managers conducted by U.S.-based CIO Magazine and Yardeni.com (CIO is owned by the same parent company as the IDG News Service, International Data Group Inc.).

McAfee Consumer Products, a division of Network Associates Inc., will ship a raft of updated security products for the home and small business in early October, with upgrades coming to the company's flagship VirusScan application, the company said this week.

Managers everywhere will soon have the power to remotely look through employee e-mail boxes, search for common words and even delete employee e-mail without notification, thanks to software from MicroData Software Inc.

A new script that can severely limit user access to infected systems is spreading slowly worldwide, anti-virus companies said Friday.

Struggling telecommunications equipment manufacturer Lucent Technologies Inc. is on track to complete the second phase of its restructuring plan and has a new product and organizational strategy to complement that plan, officials from the company said Thursday on a Webcast.

The hype about Linux's potential as a desktop operating system started years ago. But just as easy-to-use interfaces are being crafted for the operating system, which has had a stronghold in the server arena for a number of years, troubles faced by some Linux companies lead observers to question whether it will ever truly compete with Windows for desktop dollars.

Touted as the fastest supercomputer in the world, IBM Corp.'s ASCI White was given a public dedication at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Wednesday where researchers showed the first scientific data obtained using the system.

By obtaining a new patent for how it delivers software services via the Web, McAfee.com Corp. may have cornered the market on what is viewed by some as a major source of future growth. Opinion on the matter is split between lawyers and vendors, while McAfee says that it is just protecting its business.