Todd R. Weiss

In an IT support blockbuster deal, financial services giant American Express Co. has signed a US$4 billion, seven-year IT contract with IBM Global Services.

In an IT support blockbuster deal, financial services giant American Express Co. has signed a US$4 billion, seven-year IT contract with IBM Global Services.

Search engine company AltaVista Co. is refocusing on its core search business and will end its free Altavista.com e-mail account service for some 200,000 U.S. customers on March 31.

A feature in a compiler included in Microsoft Corp.'s newly announced Visual C++ .Net application can unwittingly allow developers to create programs vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, according to a warning issued today by security consultancy Cigital Inc.

Search engine company Google has released its Google Search Appliance, a device designed to make it easier for corporate customers to find information on their intranets or Web sites.

Microsoft Corp. today acknowledged that it shut down a Web site for an online Microsoft Developers Store last Thursday to look into a possible security vulnerability that could compromise customer information.

When two high-tech companies become embroiled in a legal dispute, the technologies at stake can become quickly outdated by the end of the 18-month-long legal fight they might typically have to endure.

The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) has revised its recent security bulletin regarding Windows XP's universal plug-and-play (UPNP) service.