Todd R Weiss

IBM's has launched Open Client Offering, a software package that allows companies to deploy and use the same multi-platform applications on the operating system of their choice.

The 3-D virtual online community of Second Life is teaming up with the real-world open-source software development community.

Users of Symantec Veritas NetBackup software are being advised to immediately update their systems with newly-created patches that repair several serious security vulnerabilities that could allow remote intruders to gain access to affected systems and execute arbitrary code.

Linux vendor Xandros Tuesday unveiled its latest Xandros Desktop Professional Version 4 of its enterprise Linux operating system, which debuts just before Microsoft launches the enterprise version of Windows Vista tomorrow.

During Tuesday's midterm elections in the U.S., reports emerged from across the nation about a problem called "vote-flipping," where a voter selected a candidate on e-voting hardware - and the machine counted the vote for an opposing candidate.

A powerful new IBM supercomputer will soon be put to use at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, where it is expected to dramatically bolster the group's ability to model and predict climate changes, improve weather forecasting and predict the spread of wildfires.

To help customers cope with increasing power and cooling demands in their corporate data centers, IBM Tuesday unveiled five IT services aimed at creating and upgrading data centers that run more efficiently.

Although the U.S. Congress adjourned on Saturday without acting on legislation to ban pretexting in the wake of the scandal involving Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill last Friday that forbids the practice in the state.