Richard Adhikari

Remember how, when we were kids, our parents taught us never to talk to strangers? Well, we can (and jolly well should) extend that principle to strangers on-line. Read on before uttering wheepling cries about this being one world and how being unfriendly is bad and you’ll see why. McAfee’s Avert Labs predicts that cybercriminals […]

Novell is adding new elements to its enterprise portfolio — and finding new ways to compete with other big names in the industry — by striding into the hot market for business service management (BSM) products, courtesy of its purchase today of Managed Objects. Financial terms of the deal, which is slated to close during […]

Although it is reeling from the impact of the global financial meltdown, like every other vendor, and squirming under the weight of Oracle’s lawsuit over its soon-to-be-shut-down TomorrowNow subsidiary, German software giant SAP (NYSE: SAP) is soldiering on. Out in Berlin, at the SAP TechEd 2008 conference, being held through Thursday, SAP has announced EcoHub, […]

Microsoft has filed suit against DHL over a trainload of XBoxes that spilled during a train derailment. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, comes about one year after about 21,600 Xboxes were spilled in the train wreck near Duke, Texas, according to the complaint. The […]

Although financial analysts are publicly comparing the current financial crisis to the Great Depression, and it’s widely expected that the IT industry will be impacted, IT vendors may weather the storm better than feared. That’s the thinking at least at industry analyst firm Gartner, which found that IT spending will only slow down — not […]

Despite grim predictions for IT spending overall, spending on security will continue to grow through 2009 across most industry sectors, according to the Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS). However, security needs and expenditures will differ between geographic regions in the United States. These findings resulted from two information security forums held by IANS in […]

After years of suffering from spammers, I’m outraged at news from MessageLabs that the global ratio of spam in e-mail traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was only 70.1 percent, a decrease of 8.1 percent from the August figures.. What, are the spammers taking a rest now? After keeping me and zillions of […]

Symantec’s acquisition of MessageLabs for about $695 million in cash may give it indigestion, analyst David Ferris of Ferris Research said in a conference call today. “The company may lose focus; it happened with Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) before when they bought BrightMail, which lost a lot of its momentum as a result of the merger,” […]

NetSuite CEO Zack Nelson Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, may be the poster boy for SaaS (software as a service), but watch out for Zach Nelson. The CEO of 10-year-old NetSuite has transformed the 10-year-old company from one that was barely limping along to a powerhouse that is growing rapidly. NetSuite’s (NYSE: N) revenues for […]

A call to the Texas Workforce Commission by a Shell Oil employee whose Social Security number had been stolen kicked off an investigation that led to the discovery of the alleged thief. The suspect, an IT contractor’s employee performing data indexing for Shell at the oil company’s Houston, Tex. offices, is accused of stealing the […]

Oracle on Wednesday filed the third amendment of its lawsuit against SAP over allegations of industrial espionage. However, it may have breached some provisions of the agreement between the two that allowed it to file the amendment. SAP, which is scheduled to file its response to the amended complaint by October 15, declined to discuss […]

Ah, security, the word that’s on everyone’s lips. Necessarily, it seems, from the almost-daily reports of data breaches we keep on seeing. Things are only going to get more complicated for security professionals as new technological and social trends emerge. Think about virtualization, the cloud, social networks, twittering, and the readiness of people today to […]