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Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. Its EnCase series of applications allows law enforcement and IT administrators to gather and analyze forensic data using a graphical user interface (GUI) -- a far cry from previous DOS-based methods ...

When most people think about IT forensics, if they think about it at all, they likely imagine a scenario out of the hit TV series CSI ...

On Thursday, Apple Computer disappointed European consumers jonesing to get hold of the new iPod Mini. After originally setting an April launch date for the candy-colored portable jukebox, Apple said the iPod Mini will not become available until July ...

Novell has made several announcements concerning Linux at its annual BrainShare developers conference and is expected to announce a partnership with HP to bring Linux to its corporate laptop and desktop computers ...

However, Slevin said, the seasonal nature of the visual-effects business means that while labor rates are stable, the overall amount of man-hours required can vary widely, along with staffing levels "The swings tend to be somewhat seasonal, based upon the volume of projects in...

"That is a concern," Wendy Seltzer, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, told TechNewsWorld. "Anything that would try to regulate protected speech, prevent people from creating Web sites or punish people for appearing outside that domain would raise First Amendment concerns."

CDT staff counsel Lara Flint told TechNewsWorld that most Internet access providers want to work with law enforcement to cooperate in any way possible, but the real issue is what the FBI is asking the FCC to mandate: "That being the Internet and all of its many applications --...

Microsoft's attack against Linux desktop software provider Lindows.com has taken yet another turn, with Lindows legal counsel filing a motion Monday in U.S. Federal Court seeking to stop the flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has launched in a host of foreign countries over the last several months ...

No matter which side a company takes, it seems this type of outsourcing is destined to increase, leading to a need for middleman companies that facilitate the process. One such firm, global staffing company Accountants In India (AII), hosted a teleconference Tuesday to discuss major outsourcing issues like security, ethics and workflow...

Connecting IT managers with their development staff and end users, Muglia said, is critical to realizing the long-term vision of the dynamic systems initiative. The company's new "system definition model" -- SDM for short -- is a technology that will be supported across Microsoft and partner products to enable that connection...

"It's an unfortunate fact the motion picture industry has a great deal of political clout, especially in circumstances where a public official may require campaign contributions from the industry at some future date," Fred von Lohmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, told TechNewsWorld...

To a large degree, the impact of the directive will rest with individual EU members, according to Gwen Hinze, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco "We wanted to see a narrowing of the directive's scope so it would apply to only commercial i...

For its part, Costa Rica's government is expected to publish norms this month that will allow Sugef, a banking regulator, to monitor electronic transactions for signs of irregular activity, such as laundering, Costa Rican daily newspaper La Republica quoted Sugef head Juan Munoz as saying. However, for effective monitoring of adherence to the norms, banks would need to adjust their IT systems, and Sugef would need more staff and resources, Munoz said. At present, Sugef's laundering control activities are limited to analysis of cash transactions that the banks themselves pinpoint as suspicious, according to the newspaper's report.

Cisco Systems introduced new products Tuesday that advance the company's so-called "Self-Defending Network" strategy. In accordance with that strategy, these new hardware and software offerings are designed to improve enterprises' ability to protect and defend their networks at all points ...

Jack Palmer: The challenges are many, but I will sum up some of the apparent ones. A question needs to be asked: How much does it cost every time someone calls and says their desktop PC isn't working again? Analysts have argued for years that it costs somewhere between US$8,000 and $10,000 to manage each and every PC each year. How many of these calls does the IT staff get each day or week or year? ...

Adoption of RFID will be disruptive to the business process because the amount and quality of data that will be produced will expand exponentially. An important question to come from this is what to do with the data and how to distribute it in a timely and appropriate manner. With constant and up-to-date information flowing into your systems, there is increased need for managers, merchandisers, buyers, warehouse staff and others to have appropriate delivery of the information.

Although IBM has not backed down from its plans to outsource jobs overseas, the companyhas made every effort to match those plans with moves to add staff in the United States.For example, IBM has said it could hire as many as 15,000 people this year as it ramps up to meet growing demand. It also has said about 5,000 of those jobs will be based in the United States.

The plague of malware appears to be escalating worldwide. As a worm variant called Netsky.D bombards e-mail inboxes around the globe, an even newer version, Netsky.E, already is being analyzed, according to Joe Hartmann, director of North America antivirus research at Trend Micro ...

Bozeman, Montana-based RightNow Technologies is a major player in the on-demand CRM space. In an interview with CRM Buyer, RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte explained that unlike hosted CRM leader salesforce.com, which has its roots in sales force automation, RightNow focuses primarily on providing a complete offering for contact centers -- agent-facing applications as well as customer-facing ones...

Gartner analyst Betsy Burton said Oracle likely is not surprised by the ruling, which DOJ staff recommended earlier this month, and probably has set a strategy for moving forward. "Oracle has to make a decision now whether to publicly retreat, which is not going to be easy, o...