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Expanding upon a long-term relationship, HP and Motorola today announced a multiyear agreement under which Motorola plans to incorporate HP technologies into its CDMA and iDEN network infrastructure offerings. The resulting platforms in Motorola's Radio Access Network will provide mobile operators w...

Munich announced that patent concerns will not affect a planned migration to Linux for 14,000 of the city's desktop computers. Although the city had unveiled a plan last year for the move, on August 4 it decided to postpone the program, nicknamed LiMux, citing legal and financial concerns over softw...

"Service Pack 2 is a significant step in delivering on our goal to help customers make their PCs better isolated and more resilient in the face of increasingly sophisticated attacks," said Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft.

Thin client vendors have shown a greater presence at this week's LinuxWorld conference than in the past, with Wyse Technology, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems all offering new products. The moves set the stage for broader deployment of the technology in the coming year. IDC analyst Bob O'Donnel...

Microsoft of Redmond, Washington, is reportedly finalizing a far-ranging security patch for its Windows XP operating system. The patch, to be known as Windows XP Service Pack 2, should be available some time this month.

Last year, the SCO Group spent most of its annual conference focused on its intellectual property litigation. This year the company is working to emphasize its products and boost enthusiasm for the future of Unix. In an interview with LinuxInsider, the company's CEO Darl McBride noted that 90 percen...

The SCO Group kicked off its annual technology summit with a dual focus on launching new products and fighting IBM through litigation. Because it is being held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the company used several movie clips to introduce its two key speakers, senior VP of worldwide marketing Jeff...

Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced that NASA has chosen the company's Altix as the foundation of Project Columbia, a collaboration between SGI and Intel that is expected to foster scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, global warming research and aerospace engineering. For the project, NASA pl...

Evans Data today released survey results showing that 90 percent of Linux systems have never been infected by a virus, and nearly 80 percent have never been hacked. The survey of 500 Linux developers worldwide was conducted earlier this month. The respondents' answers were compared to another survey...

A man in Florida has been indicted on 144 charges of conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer, device fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice, after hacking into the database of a high profile marketing company. Scott Levine, 45, is accused of breaking into systems at Acxio...

With the news of its first big government deal, Indian Linux vendor ELX has come a bit closer to meeting its sales goal of 100,000 seats of its desktop Linux product BizDesk 4.0 this financial year. "An Indian state court project has asked vendors to supply 600 PCs with ELX Biz Desk 4.0 preloaded in...

Hewlett-Packard has issued a statement calling a two-year-old internal memo that has been circulating on the Internet and raises fears that Microsoft would mount a litigation campaign to "shut down open-source software" now outdated and irrelevant. The memo dated June 3, 2002, a copy of which was ob...

Linux Networx today announced that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts has chosen the company for implementation of a Linux-based cluster computing system. The system, an Evolocity II Linux Networx cluster, will be used to evaluate the suitability of cluster technology for broader...

Former Red Hat and Cygnus Solutions executives Kim Knuttila and Eric Troan announced yesterday that they had formed Specifix, an open-source company producing Linux solutions. The new company brings together other executives and experts from the Linux and GNU open-source development tools communitie...

Red Hat has put its investors through a roller-coaster ride this summer, and the ride just took a major drop in recent days, as bad news hit the markets. The company announced that it would be restating its results due to new accounting policies, and also told analysts that the SEC had launched an i...