Stories by Eric Lai

Novell releases Identity Manager 3

Novell is set to release Identity Manager 3, which it said will speed up the process of managing employee passwords and user access rights inside the corporate network by moving that function away from the IT department. "IT people are not the people who know who should have access to things," said Ferris Argyle, product manager for the Identity Manager software.

IBM to add native XML storage support to DB2

IBM last week released the initial open beta of a planned update to its flagship DB2 database that will offer users the ability to natively store unstructured XML data separately from conventional relational data.

IBM to add native XML storage support to DB2

IBM last week released the initial open beta of a planned update to its flagship DB2 database that will offer users the ability to natively store unstructured XML data separately from conventional relational data.

CA restates financial results

Computer Associates International Wednesday filed restated financial results with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for all but one of its fiscal years between 2000 and 2005, reporting changes that boosted revenues during the period but also raised pretax compensation expenses.

CA buys messaging management software vendor iLumin

Computer Associates International announced plans to buy iLumin Software Services, a move designed to give CA a stake in the fast-growing market for software that manages and archives e-mails and instant messages.

Teen uses worm to boost ratings on MySpace.com

Using a self-propagating worm that exploits a scripting vulnerability common to most dynamic Web sites, a Los Angeles teenager made himself the most popular member of community Web site MySpace.com earlier this month. While the attack caused little damage, the technique could be used to destroy Web site data or steal private information -- even from enterprise users behind protected networks, according to an Internet security firm.

Gartner: US IT spending to rise in 2006

Led by small to medium-size businesses, IT spending in the U.S. will increase by 5.5 percent in 2006, although the job market for IT workers will remain "challenging," Gartner said Wednesday.

Browser wars: Netscape gains as Firefox wanes

A key feature in version 8.0 of Netscape Communication's Web browser may have deflated the Netscape browser's market share by as much as half earlier this year -- while artificially boosting the market share of rivals Firefox and Internet Explorer, a Web tracking firm said Tuesday.

New Firefox beta released

The Mozilla Foundation has released a second beta of the Firefox 1.5 Web browser that, like the first version released last month, focuses on tackling nagging security issues.

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