Mainframe pioneer Evans dies at 77
Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died on Thursday. He was 77.
Evans died of heart failure at his home in the S...
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India to get tough on foreign data security
Indian IT body Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) has announced it is to examine its 860 member companies' security as businesses looking t...
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No virus' Linux PCs break into supermarkets
France's number one supermarket chain, Carrefour, has launched a pilot project to sell PCs that come equipped with an OS not often sold by the retail big boys - Mandrake ...
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Irish bank chooses Sun and Linux
The Allied Irish Bank is migrating to the Linux desktop despite the relative immaturity of the platform
Sun has finally received the seal of approval it has been seeki...
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UK is scam haven, says Office of Fair Trading
Internet sites offering 'too good to be true' deals are alive and well, and happily doing business in Britain, according to the latest report from the Office of Fair Trad...
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Xerox PARC pioneer Pake dies
George Pake, the scientist who founded Xerox's fabled Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), died after a long illness last week, less than a month shy of his eightieth birthd...
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Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
An American man has been found guilty of typosquatting - using names based on popular web searches to trick people into visiting pornographic websites ? and sentenced to ...
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JD Edwards users happy with PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft is earning guarded praise from customers of its latest acquisition, former rival JD Edwards.
A survey IDC released Monday showed that more than 80 per cent ...
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Personalised websites are driving customers away
Companies trying to get personal with their website visitors in hopes of increasing sales are wasting more money than they're earning, warns an upcoming report.
The J...
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Librarians tell RIAA: Shhhhhhhh!
In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians.
The five major ...
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