Robert McMillan

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has filed criminal charges against the former policy director of recalled California Governor Gray Davis in connection with a 2001 database contract scandal.

A new version of the NetSky e-mail worm has begun circulating through the Internet, antivirus software companies reported on Wednesday.

Working as part of a three-year, US$50 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant, researchers at Sun Microsystems Inc. are aiming to avoid the kind of errors that caused the Patriot missile defense system failure.

Sam Palmisano has thrown down the gauntlet. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Corp. has challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop over the next two years, according to a leaked internal memo written by CIO Bob Greenberg.

Computer Associates International Inc. on Monday released a new version of its Brightstor ARCserv Backup software designed to speed up back-up and restore operations for departmental Microsoft Corp. users.

The SCO Group Inc. is now making its Intellectual Property License for Linux available to small and medium businesses, the company said on Wednesday.

In an apparent softening of its antipathy toward Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to begin certifying its hardware to run the Windows operating system, a Sun executive said on Thursday.

Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released software designed to improve the performance of Windows applications designed for 32-bit processors when they are running on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processors.