The U.S. government's Department of Homeland Security plans to spend $1.24 million over three years to fund an ambitious software auditing project aimed at beefing up the security and reliability of several widely deployed open-source products.
 
The grant, called the "Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project," is part

CBS is developing a soap opera specifically for broadcast to cell phones, the entertainment industry site Variety.com reported Wednesday.

The publication said that the network plans to run between five and seven original episodes of the unnamed soap opera a week. Each episode will be between three and five minutes long, according

As Macworld gets in full swing, the appearance of so many accessory makers indicates a robust and growing market for third-party devices and add-ons geared toward the iPod media player.
 
In the exhibition hall for Macworld, about 20 percent of the 330 vendors are selling iPod-related products, ranging from nifty

Don't write off the Unix server market just yet.
 
Sales for servers running the decades-old Unix operating system aren't growing as quickly as those that run on Microsoft's Windows and the open-source Linux. But recent maneuvers by large server vendors show that Unix is still a big business -- and

Two Indonesians in their 50s exchanged wedding vows this week without ever meeting by using the Internet to make up for the oceans that separate them.
 
Wiriadi Sutrisno works as a physiotherapist in California, and Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi is from the Indonesian city of Bandung.

They met through

Microsoft has quietly extended the support lifespan of Windows XP Home, which as recently as last week was scheduled to be put out to pasture at the end of this year.
 
Analysts had pointed out that XP Home, and most other XP operating systems, would be cut off from technical

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Removable data storage media supplier Imation Corp has begun to scale-up manufacturing of HD DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media for product introduction in early 2006.

The company invested more than $10 million in research, development and modular manufacturing capabilities to deliver the newest high-capacity optical formats to customers.
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Web search leader Google Inc. on Thursday said it was now offering U.S. mobile phone users a personalized version of the Google home page tailored to work on most recently introduced mobile phones. 
 
The Google Personalized Home page for mobile phones will allow consumers to conduct Web searches and check

NetSuite on Thursday detailed a new effort to let third parties tap its data model as a platform on which to build applications distributed as SaaS (software as a service).

The NetFlex Applications Program lets partners use the company's NetFlex platform of Web services, integration technologies, and customization capabilities to build applications.Read More...   Category: Software

SAN JOSE, Calif. — IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. on Thursday (Jan. 12) said they have begun a new, five-year phase of their joint technology development alliance in ICs.

As part of this broad semiconductor R&D alliance, the three companies said they will work together on fundamental research related to