Daniel Drew Turner

A new variant of the Atak worm, initially dubbed Atak.B, has been reported by most antivirus companies. However, the buzz around the malware—with its reported connection to the terrorist group Al Qaeda—may be greater than the threat itself, security professionals observed. Security researchers generally categorized the threat level of this new variant as low, thanks […]

Apple Computer Inc. is noted for its secrecy around forthcoming products. However, the company on Wednesday offered a peek into the future, with the announcement that the next-generation iMac consumer desktops will be powered by the PowerPC G5 processor, currently used in Apples workstations and servers. The admission came during the Cupertino, Calif.-based companys third […]

Whats behind Apples forthcoming Spotlight search, and how will its new interface benefit users? When he unveiled it at last weeks Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco alongside Mac OS X 10.4, aka “Tiger,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted Spotlight as a solution to the clutter of folders and files. It will take three separate […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Apple CEO Steve Jobs had good and bad news for software creators Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference here: While the next version of Mac OS X will afford Mac developers plenty of new capabilities for their applications, Apple wont spring the “Tiger” release on end-users until the first half of 2005. In the […]

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday reported upbeat second-quarter results and pointed to strong growth in the period from its diverse product mix. In a conference call with financial analysts today, Senior Vice President of Finance Peter Oppenheimer said the company had the “strongest second quarter in years,” noting that Apple has so far seen a […]

Desktop Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. announced Tuesday that it will begin to change its international corporate name April 14. The San Diego, Calif.-based company had been ordered by courts in the Netherlands and other countries as well as in Sweden to cease using its name as well as the Lindows.com and LindowsOS terms, which were […]

A security issue that could result in stolen passwords and data on Friday was revealed for Apple Computer Inc.s Apple Filing Protocol, a component of Mac OS X 10.3.2, a k a Panther. The file protocol allows Macintosh users to access files on remote systems. An alert on the vulnerability was posted to the Security […]

Motorola Inc.s Semiconductor Products Sector on Tuesday released the latest member of the PowerPC G4 series of processors. This new chip, the MPC7447A, offers both higher performance than previous versions as well as a new dynamic-frequency power-saving feature. Motorolas PowerPC G4 chips are used in Apple Computer Inc.s portable and entry-level desktop computers as well […]

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) announced Tuesday that it will be migrating its “out of the box” supercomputer to another platform. Made from 1,100 of Apple Computer Inc.s Power Macintosh G5 desktop machines, the supercomputer cluster will now use a similar number of Xserve G5 rack-mount servers. Though Virginia Techs “Big Mac” […]

Red Hat Inc. on Friday released Update 1 for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 line of its open-source distribution. The new software improves performance and server platform support as well as beefier security the company said. The update applied to all Enterprise Linux AS, Enterprise Linux ES, Enterprise Linux WS, Developer Suite and Cluster […]