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Gric Communications Inc. said Monday it is integrating Jamcracker Inc.'s Enterprise Web services technology into its MobileOffice suite, offering corporate customers the ability to deploy and manage online applications through a single platform.

Motorola Inc. reaffirmed its full year and second quarter 2002 financial guidance Thursday, but said that it would cut an additional 7,000 jobs as part of an overall restructuring program

U.S. Representative Howard L. Berman said Tuesday that he is taking aim at the "unbridled" piracy taking place over decentralized peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file sharing networks, by introducing legislation that would allow copyright holders to employ a variety of technological tools to prevent illegal trading.

The U.S. government is at risk of a major cyber attack within the next 12 months and is inadequately prepared to defend itself, according to a survey of IT professionals released this week by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

Dell Computer Corp. is planning its first foray into the handheld market and has been negotiating with several Taiwanese original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to produce a higher-end product to gun against rivals Toshiba Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., reports this week indicate.

While Linux is being embraced by a number of governments thanks to its perceived flexibility, relative security and bargain basement price, some open-source proponents are still finding it a hard sell when pitted against the reputation and resources of major vendors.

While an economically bruised AOL Time Warner Inc. (AOLTW) has publically pledged to return to health by concentrating on its AOL Internet plans, the company has perhaps understandably kept under wraps the fact that part of those plans center on leveraging America Online Inc.'s instant messaging (IM) platform to edge its way into the business services market.

Users of the Kazaa peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file sharing network are unwittingly trading private files due to the confusing and somewhat misleading nature of the software's user interface, a new report indicates