Todd R. Weiss

Despite changes and improvements made since the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, core parts of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s IT infrastructure remain vulnerable, making it harder for field agents to help protect the nation from future threats.

Storage vendor EMC Corp. is acquiring enterprise content management vendor Documentum Inc. in a US$1.7 billion stock transaction that will bring together two major players in their individual market segments.

IBM Corp. and the Russian Ministry of Communications and Computerization have agreed to put together a Linux Competency Center in Moscow to help push greater use of the open-source operating system in Russia.

The nonprofit Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has released the latest specifications in its ongoing Carrier Grade Linux development project.

A US$1.051 billion noncash charge recognized yesterday by Sun Microsystems Inc. for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2003 turned what had been US$12 million in net income for the period into a US$1.039 billion net loss.

More than 100 years of motion pictures, TV broadcasts and other images, now scattered in museums and collections around the globe, have never been catalogued in one massive worldwide database.

Linux vendor Turbolinux Inc. is the latest company to join the nonprofit Open Source Development Labs Inc. (OSDL) to help grow the development and adoption of Linux use in business computing.

The latest version of the Sobig worm is making its way through computer networks around the world, apparently causing no direct damage but hogging bandwidth and IT resources in its path.