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Oracle Corp. will boost support for wireless and voice applications in the upcoming version of its Oracle 9i Application Server, one of several enhancements highlighted by the vendor as it officially launched the product at Oracle OpenWorld Tuesday.

Antarctica is the continent renowned for being covered with ice and home to a handful of humans assigned to research posts. The other notable inhabitants of Antarctica are the variety of penguin species which call the frigid continent home. With the mascot of the world's fastest growing operating system, Linux, a slightly overweight penguin by the name of TUX, Computerworld Antarctica decided to take a peek at where and how Linux is being used on the southern icecap.

A new worm that can delete files from infected hard drives is using the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago, as well as the expected U.S. military response, to trick users into executing it, according to Ian Hameroff, business manager for security solutions at Computer Associates International.

Microsoft Corp. said late last week that it has discovered and created a patch for an Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability that might allow hackers to run a program of their choice on another user's machine.