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Amid this year's ongoing plague of viruses and worms, there has been much discussion about virus creators, antivirus software developers and frequent virus targets like Microsoft and The SCO Group. But one important group still toils in near obscurity: the virus hunters. One of the field's most a...

As the standard for e-business Web sites moves ever higher and online shoppers become increasingly demanding, Web site performance can make the difference between a sale and a lost customer. CEO Tim Drees, who founded privately held Webmetrics in 1999 to provide transaction monitoring services and h...

Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. Jon Bair, Guidance's senior director of development, joined the company after years spent working as a U.S. Army investigator and developing the protocols and ...

In December, Check Point Software Technologies acquired personal firewall leader Zone Labs for $205 million, creating a high-powered security firm poised to crank out more products for businesses and consumers. One of the first applications to result from the acquisition is an upgrade to a popular Z...

With half a billion copies of its Reader document software in use, Adobe has shown its strength in the digital dimension. But the company now is committing more to government agencies, businesses and other organizations that are forced through regulation, mandate or competition to maintain use of ha...

Centralized desktop management -- already a necessity to prevent adverse impacts from rolling out new applications or patches -- has become a critical part of fending off the latest worms and other viruses that can wreak havoc on an IT environment. OnDemand claims its latest WinInstall software is t...

Many signs point toward a bright future for e-business: Online shopping activity is up, holiday seasons are becoming positively merry, and customer service is improving. On the other hand, some customers still fear identity theft, site usability is a continuing issue, and establishing an online bran...

In the post-9/11 world, the path to U.S. government contracts is paved with gold -- and crater-size potholes. Marcia Madsen, a partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Washington, D.C., spends her work hours advising clients -- would-be government contractors -- about contracts, teaming and strate...

For years, Juniper Networks has been Cisco's chief competitor in the networking arena. With its recent acquisition of NetScreen, Juniper seems to have bought some clout that could make a difference in that fight. The $3.4 billion deal brings Juniper into the security and low-end corporate sectors. P...

Touting findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and other Internet use researchers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has credited its controversial strategy of suing individual file-sharers with cutting the number of illegal trades in half. TechNewsWorld talked w...