Margret Johnston

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Modularization of XHTML (extensible hypertext markup language) specification as a W3C recommendation, the consortium said Tuesday.

PGP Security's Computer Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (COVERT) has notified three vendors that new vulnerabilities have been discovered in their FTP (file transfer protocol) server software, a PGP official said Monday.

Vendors vying for firm footing in the growing application server market used the CeBIT trade show to promote the latest versions of their software, including products newly certified as compatible with Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and to highlight alliances that are designed to increase the development activity on application server platforms.

Citrix Systems Inc. is showcasing at CeBIT its Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client software that can be used to link mobile workers wirelessly from handheld devices to data stored on central computers.

In a direct challenge to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a new domain...

In an effort to keep pace with the United States and other countries that are opening their doors to foreign IT workers, Germany's main IT industry association used last year's CeBIT trade show to recommend radical changes in Germany's immigration policy aimed at attracting as many as 50,000 highly skilled IT workers from other countries.

The research firms International Data Corp. (IDC) and Ovum Ltd. have released data on the adoption of unified messaging (UM), both indicating that UM systems, which provide employees with one "mailbox" for all business-related communications, will become much more broadly adopted in the near future.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on Wednesday announced a new service that will issue digital signatures on smart cards through post offices across the country using "in person proofing" as part of the process.