Larry Barrett

Another day, another spam scam. This time, hackers are luring unsuspecting users with an invitation to play an online game of Monopoly. But there’s no Boardwalk or Park Place — just a Trojan that, if activated, will turn your PC or mobile device into a spam distribution center. The discovery was made Monday by members […]

IBM on Tuesday announced a series of new social networking tools and features for its Lotus Connections 2.5 software, giving users an opportunity to better customize and manage their collaborative enterprise applications. IBM (NYSE: IBM) and all the other top-tier business application providers including Microsoft, Google, SAP and Oracle have made no secret of their […]

Oracle on Tuesday launched a new Web site and applications for the burgeoning mid-sized business market, adding tools to help companies install and use a variety of business applications as quickly as possible. Since Oracle Accelerate was launched in 2006, the software giant has increased its customer base of mid-sized companies by 7,000, to a […]

IBM on Tuesday announced that the police department of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is now using the business analytics software designed to drive corporate revenue and profits to reduce crime and improve the department’s overall efficiency. IBM (NYSE: IBM) officials said police servicing the one million-plus people in the western Canadian city will now be able […]

There was good news and bad news for EMC and its shareholders Monday when a pair of analysts offered up new and conflicting opinions on the storage software giant’s stock. Piper Jaffray analyst Troy Jensen downgraded EMC (NYSE: EMC) shares from an “overweight” rating to “neutral,” largely because the stock has surged more than 36 […]

Hackers took over sections of the PBS.org Web site earlier this week, installing malicious JavaScript code on the site’s “Curious George” page that infects visitors with a slew of software exploits. Security research firm Purewire found that when visitors tried to log onto a fake authentication page they were served with an error page that […]

In a year that saw automakers, banks and insurance companies implode and beg for billions in taxpayer assistance, technology companies like Google, IBM and Amazon managed to improve the value of their brands by billions of dollars. According to rankings released this week from a survey by BusinessWeek and Interbrand, a New York-based brand consultancy, […]

Google Docs, the cloud-based suite of productivity applications, is now widely used at one in five businesses—up from just 5 percent in 2007—according to preliminary data collected by market researcher IDC. If the trend continues, IDC analyst Melissa Webster said, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and other online application vendors such as Zoho and ThinkFree could pose […]

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) on Wednesday posted first-quarter profit in line with Wall Street expectations — but investors hammered the stock after it missed revenue projections. The database giant posted a first-quarter profit of $1.1 billion, or $0.22 a share. Excluding special charges, it earned $1.5 billion, or $0.30 a share, coming in exactly where analysts […]

Can’t get enough of Facebook? Love to post a comment or two on your favorite blogs? Guess what? Hackers and spammers love your Internet habits almost as much as you do and they’re turning it into quite a profitable little enterprise. Social networking and user-generated content sites have become a haven for spam, spyware and […]

Officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland  Security Tuesday said they are reviewing a startling report by a Chinese research scientist that outlines just how vulnerable information systems responsible for maintaining the grid powering the entire West Coast are to a possible cyber terrorism attack.   The report, which has been available online since March, […]

The latest data protection and information security survey conducted by the independent Ponemon Institute suggests that consumers would be willing to let Big Brother encroach a bit on their individual computing devices in exchange for more online security and lot less memorization of pesky user names and passwords. Of the 551 participants who responded the […]