VeriSign on Monday unveiled a new security system to protect online buyers from identity theft, and said it had signed up PayPal, eBay, and Yahoo as the first sites to support the authentication service.
 
Called VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP), the system will let consumers use a single security device to

SAN FRANCISCO — Mitrionics Inc., a Swedish provider of FPGA programming tools, announced new diagnostics and optimization features for its Mitrion Software Development Kit to facilitate faster development times through troubleshooting, debugging and optimizing Mitrion processor designs prior to FPGA synthesis.

New features include error checking that presents messages with cause/remedy descriptions

Looking to jump-start its fortunes in the market, Lexmark is rolling out a series of new multifunction products and printers that company executives say offer greater performance, ease of use and security.

On Monday, Lexmark unveiled a lineup of products ranging from the very low end--$149--to the high end--a device priced higher

Two trendy software development technologies, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and agile programming, are being advanced this week with rollouts from Tibco Software and Rally Software.
 
Featured is a new version of Tibco's General Interface development platform that includes a free deployment option.

Although AJAX technology has gotten hot

British telecoms operator BT Group announced a deal with Endemol that would see the Dutch production company providing part-content for BT's new broadband Internet television service.

 
Endemol, the firm behind the "Big Brother" reality television format, will produce "high-quality programming and compelling interactive content", according to BT. Neither company released

Nullriver Software — best known for their Playstation Portable (PSP) to Mac sync software PSPWare — has introduced Connect360, a utility that helps the Mac share content with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console. Available now as a public beta version, Connect360 costs $10 to register.
 
The Xbox360 is more

Open-source code advocates are calling for cooler heads to prevail in the often-heated debate about many of the revised terms in the first discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 that was released in early January.
 
While there are many opinions and questions about how the draft

Opsware Inc, a supplier of software used to automate computer data centers, on Monday said it had reached a multimillion dollar distribution agreement with Cisco Systems Inc.
 
According the agreement, Cisco will distribute the company's network automation system under the Cisco brand, using its sales force and marketing partners. The

U.S. communications regulators said on Friday they will investigate whether tougher protections are needed to safeguard telephone customer information.

The Federal Communications Commission voted to examine the security measures that telephone carriers have in place and "what kind of security measures may be warranted to better protect consumers' privacy."

The move comes

Is there room in the world for another WAN accelerator? If Massachusetts startup Certeon can support its claims, there just might be.
 
Though Certeon was founded in 2003, it's only now surfacing with a WAN acceleration appliance called the S-Series. The vendor claims the rackmount unit can improve the performance of