Larry Barrett

eBay is no stranger to trademark and counterfeiting controversies but it got a reprieve this week from the 2nd U.S. Circuit of Appeals when the trio of judges concurred with a lower court ruling exonerating the online auctioneer of charges that it infringed on the high-end jewelers patent. But eBay didn’t escape entirely unscathed. In […]

There are a variety of ways to support and assist start-up firms, with venture money being the most common solution. IBM has another idea: it’s offering free access to its consultants and experts as well as IBM software to get their applications going. Of course, there is a string attached. Datamation explains what that is. […]

Data breaches don’t just sting consumers and companies whose critical data has been pilfered — it also hurts the banks responsible for picking up the financial pieces. eSecurity Planet takes a look at one of the newest efforts to help banks get back some of their losses when perpetrators of cybercrime are able to take […]

Two of the largest government agencies that are charged with protecting American citizens from the criminal element are falling a little short in their identity protection efforts. What’s going on at the DoJ and FBI? eSecurity Planet finds out. In audit by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General reveals that while the FBI […]

What happens when you lower the entry barriers to a lucrative criminal enterprise, where millions of dollars are to be made by the theft of usernames, passwords and credit card and Social Security numbers? Rather predictably, crime spikes. But despite the rising tide of cyber crime, PandaLabs security researchers have found that the perpetrators on […]

Data breaches in which tens or hundreds of thousands of records are swiped have become an almost daily occurrence, but even by those sliding standards this was a big one. Officials at the Educational Credit Management Corp., a nonprofit group that administers federal student loans, are asking the more than 3.3 million borrowers whose information […]

Most of the on-premises software vendors have made a move to on-demand/cloud-based offerings, however reluctantly, but SAP has been a real laggard in this area. Given the problems faced by the troubled German software vendor, a lack of cloud services is likely the least of its worries, but it is addressing them. The company has […]

Rimini Street has swiped back at Oracle, adding a new wrinkle to the two firms’ legal skirmish. In January, the software giant accused Rimini Street, a third-party software support provider, of stealing copyrighted material. Now Rimini Street has countersued, accusing Oracle its own copyright infractions, defamation and a host of other charges. Datamation takes a […]

The wired world has its pluses and minuses, and for most CEOs, that connection to the outside world and the Internet at large has a major negative. It’s not their employees goldbricking by messing with March Madness brackets or playing FarmVille on Facebook, it’s security threats. What percentage consider security as their top priority? eSecurity […]

With about 700,000 customers and slow increases in revenue per customer, Clearwire will require more investment and greater reach to meet its potential. The company’s CEO is optimistic, though, saying he expects to show a profit within 18 months, and provide coverage to more than 120 million people. LAS VEGAS — Sprint Nextel […]

Oracle does it again. The enterprise software colossus topped Wall Street expectations for its third quarter while proving it can digest even a massive acquisition like Sun Microsystems with aplomb. But if Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s rhetoric is accurate, the company’s success can also be attributable to taking “huge chunks” of business away from archrival […]

Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence Report discovered that while most unsolicited and malware-tainted e-mail is delivered through e-mail servers based in the U.S., the largest percentage of these missives are actually sent from hackers based in China. In March, security researchers also found that Chinese cyber crooksexpended a lot of time and energy targeting specific targets at […]