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The encryption of Skype VoIP phone calls might not be as secure as you think.

To make it easier for its customers to deploy new applications on virtualized or standard servers, Novell's SUSE Linux division is jumping into the software appliance wave.

Computerworld catches up with the man behind Linux, Linus Torvalds, at Linux.conf.au

Increasingly, the most critical networks, those run by telecom carriers, are turning to Linux, and MontaVista's latest release of its "carrier grade" platform is intended to accelerate that trend.

Monta Vista, the mobile and embedded Linux company, unveiled version 5.0 of its carrier-grade embedded Linux kernel this week.

On the Internet, there's always a ghost in the room -- watching you, listening, recording your activities and interests, aggregating profiles or categorizing you, and whispering secrets and lies about you to others again and again.

Most enterprises have some type of messaging security in the form of spam and virus filtering. When installing a new or replacement messaging-security system, key areas to pay attention to are performance, user experience, and management and operational costs. Performance is generally easy to manage. Aside from simply having enough hardware to do the job, there are three keys to keep performance up to par.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google and Yahoo.

There's a geek version of the question, "What is the meaning of life?" It's this: "Why do some technologies take off while others fail?"

A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the use of predictive analytics to determine which of Philadelphia's parolees were likely to commit murder caught my attention. A broad definition of predictive analytics would be the process of matching statistics with historical data in order to predict future events, mainly human behaviour.

Oracle's and Microsoft's moves to accommodate Linux show how important it is to have an operating system, said Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, promoting Sun's own Solaris OS.