Chris Gonsalves

Network and applications monitoring vendor Micromuse Ltd. today said it will buy network analysis software maker RiverSoft Technologies Ltd.. in an all-cash deal valued at $64 million. The deal will give Micromuse, maker of the Netcool suite of assurance tools, access to RiverSofts flagship NMOS network intelligence engine, officials said. Greg Brown, Micromuses chairman and […]

Embattled WorldCom Inc. President and CEO Bernard Ebbers called it quits today, stepping down from the top spot in the company he founded more than 20 years ago. The move comes as WorldCom faces increased scrutiny over past deals and as Ebbers himself is mired in controversy over a $360 million personal loan from the […]

Im a fan of Stardog, personally. Maybe you like CelticGrove or BlueCityJazz. Doesnt matter. In a few weeks, listening to music on Internet radio will be dead as a mackerel. Shame really. The Internet radio business has been growing at something like 100 percent annually and is thriving in genres underrepresented on FM stations, such […]

Notes from on the ground at the RSA Conference in San Jose. It was a little jarring to discover that a show about security had become a show of security. At the outset, getting to the scant few booths here required running a gauntlet of law enforcement from just about every California agency as well […]

Following days of rumors, Sapient Corp. this morning laid off more than 500 employees and bid goodbye to its chief financial officer. The moves come less than a month after the Cambridge, Mass., Web integrator reported dismal annual revenues that dropped 34 percent from the previous year and resulted in a $53.5 million loss. The […]

Skittish at the prospect of being held liable for security breaches, software vendors are examining ways to get ahead of problems with solutions ranging from restrictive user agreements to forced security patches. The movement is in response to a growing sense that lawsuits will be the next tool used to counter expensive security problems such […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–PC makers could begin shipping hardware based on the latest Trusted Computing specification as early as this spring, according to one founding member of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. Clain Anderson, program director for client security at IBM, said his company could begin shipping TCPA 1.1-compliant hardware in April. IBM is one of […]

Distributed denial of service specialist Reactive Network Solutions Inc. later today will release a new version of its flagship FloodGuard product with a new graphics interface and a beefed-up ability to handle high-speed traffic. The improvements bolster the vendors anti-DDoS tool, which is made up of hardware detectors and a software management system that sits […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Compaq Computer Corp. is readying a number of security enhancements for its iPaq device including an embedded feature to lock down wireless e-mail. The technology, dubbed Multiprime, uses an extension to the algorithm from RSA Security Inc. built into the handheld device that allows for secure messaging with little computing overhead, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.–White House cyber-security czar Richard Clarke paints a stark picture of the nations IT vulnerabilities, saying both public and private networks are unprepared for attacks. Clarke portrayed the IT industry as complacent and in danger of falling into the same trap that aviation officials were lured into that led to the Sept. 11 […]