Stories about: Exodus

Yahoo will lay off at least 10 percent of its global staff before the end of the year, the company announced on Tuesday along with disappointing financial results for its third quarter.

In a statement Monday, Microsoft confirmed that it would be interested in resuming talks with Yahoo with a new board of directors, both to buy the search business or the entire company.

Two and a half years after launching its Trustworthy Computing initiative Microsoft is finding its products the target of escalating attacks, to the extent that some security experts are even warning that the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser is simply not safe to use.

Linux vendor Red Hat has confirmed that it will no longer offer consumer (pocketbooks) and professional (retail boxes) editions of its software once current stocks of its Red Hat version 9.0 have been depleted.

Months after the prime-time release of Microsoft's developer toolkit Visual Studio .Net, the company is offering additional tools and software upgrades that it says will harness the initiative's capabilities for delivering software and services over the Internet.

At the time of this writing, rumors are flying that AOL Time Warner Inc. may purchase Red Hat Inc. I've read many opinions and speculations on the motives behind such a move, but nobody seems to know yet why AOL Time Warner would be interested in Red Hat. I know at least one reason: AOL Time Warner should buy Red Hat to make its version of Linux the basis for an inexpensive all-purpose home console.

No matter how hard administrators try to secure a site, vulnerabilities built into the fabric of the Internet still leave them at risk. The new version of IP (Version 6) is designed to allow many more addresses as well as being inherently more secure.

Nokia last week extended its line of security appliances with the release of a dedicated gateway for VPNs that can support throughput speeds as fast as 220Mbps, company officials said.

Weather.com, the Internet presence for the US Weather Channel, is one of the most well-known weather forecasting Web sites around. Weather.com is moving its voluminous image and ad data over to Linux. The company is making the switch in part because of the talent supply from colleges and universities and, surprisingly, because of good support.

Popular file-sharing site Gnutella got inundated with traffic being detoured from the pending silence of Napster Inc. and was forced to shutdown for an hour last week. With a question mark over Napster's future, attention is being focussed on de-centralised sharing programs such as Gnutella and Freenet.

Caldera Systems has begun shipping its first computer based training product called Quick Start to Linux. The Quick Start CBT covers the Linux installation procedure as well as navigation of the Linux desktop.