Recent Articles
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Windows JPEG Exploit Ventures into the Wild
The first example of a working program designed to exploit a bug in Microsoft’s GDI+ librarywhich allows malicious code to be run simply by viewing a JPEG imagehas been found in the wild. EasyNews, a provider of Usenet newsgroup services, claimed it had already found two images containing code designed to take advantage of the…
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Cognizant Technology Solutions: Coveting the High End
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is seeking to grow beyond its core markets of health care and financial services outsourcing and move toward complex application development and high-end business process outsourcing. Lakshmi Narayanan, who was named president and CEO of the Teaneck, N.J., company early this year, is guiding that initiative. Narayanan discussed Cognizant’s approach to…
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Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows
As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn’t end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source alternative. Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem…
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IBM Exec Outlines PeopleSoft Deal
At PeopleSoft’s Connect 2004 user conference, CEO Craig Conway claimed that his company and IBM will jointly spend $1 billion in a development alliance to integrate PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications with IBM’s WebSphere middleware. John Pallatto, eWEEK.com Enterprise Applications Center editor, interviewed Buell Duncan, IBM’s general manager of ISV and developer relations, about…