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The article reports on the new product offering of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), which consists of three desktop models for its HP Compaq Business PC product line. The two models offers the Core 2 Duo chip of Intel Corp., while the other one is supported by the new Athlon 64 X2 processors of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HP has increased its focus on security and manageability and two major concerns for senior-level information technology managers. The HP Openview Configuration Management Agent is preinstalled to track and update software.

The article focuses on the plan of Intel Corp. to use software to improve computer security. The company is currently contemplating a standard method for adding virtual virtual applications, purpose-built software applications running on top of their own miniature operating systems inside virtualized partitions, to personal computers. The technology could improve security, greater manageability, and improvements in applications such as voice over Internet Protocol, and developers can custom applications that live within virtual partition.

This article reports that business enterprises should think of good security as an affirmative business practice, not just a cost to be minimized. The Sarbanes- Oxley Act has given impetus to this idea, but IT builders are still walking around the elephantine Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), trying to decide if its legs are pillars of new strength for their infrastructure or if its tail is a rope that will hang them with application incompatibilities and attendant help desk workloads. If anyone thought that SP2 reflected a new commitment to security as fundamental to software's fitness for use, the year-end confirmation that Windows 2000 won't get its own version of the SP2 repair job should make the reality clear. But if short-term change has been less than what was hoped, longer-term changes have been greater than anyone would likely have predicted. Dominant vendors, such as Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., are the ones whose missteps matter to the greatest number of people. The importance of these vendors, though, is itself a testament that they've done much more right than wrong in the process of creating a commodity computing platform.

The article reports developments related to the U.S. computer industry. The Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that the vulnerability in Visual Studio 2005 could let a computer hacker execute code on a targeted Windows machine. McAfee Inc. former senior financial officer has agreed to settle charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A court in Delaware has been asked by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to compel Intel Corp. to disclose documents about its activities outside the country.

The article offers news briefs related to the computer industry in the U.S. Microsoft Corp. patched a security hole in its Server Message Block protocol which was first reported in 2001. Spam volumes have declined by more than 40 percent after Internet service providers' cut off the hosting company McColo Corp. from the web site. Intel Corp. released its Penrym processors, a high-end line of Xeon and Core 2 chips.

The article presents news briefs on the computer industry in the U.S. Microsoft Corp. has released a patch fixing a critical flaw in the Windows operating system that could be used by criminals to create a self-copying computer worm attack. The company has also agreed to acquire Oslo-based search software firm Fast Search & Transfer ASA for $1.3 billion. The state of New York launched an investigation on Intel Corp.'s suspected antitrust violation.

The article reports on the difficulty of computer industries to find qualified data center managers in the U.S. It stated that the required skills for the said position have expanded beyond information technology (IT) expertise to a mix of IT, facilities and security management abilities. According to Neal Smith, data center manager at Intel Corp.'s Oregon data center operations, the best thing an IT manager can do is to learn something in each area they know nothing about and develop a base knowledge.

The article offers news briefs related to developments in the computer industry in the U.S. Intel Corp. was accused by the European Commission of antitrust violations, charging that the company has abused its microprocessor dominance to the detriment of rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Mozilla Corp., an open-source software vendor, has acknowledged that its Firefox browser has the same security flaw that it had insisted was unique to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

The article discusses the integration of Green Hills Software Inc.'s "Padded Cell" technology, an extension to the Integrity Workstation real-time operating system (RTOS), to Intel Corp.'s Virtualization Technology, a set of processor enhancements that improve traditional software-based virtualization solutions. It is stated that the company's RTOS comprises the Human Interface Device Manager, a class of peripheral device that handles the display of information at multiple security levels. In addition, the Integrity Workstation RTOS meets the DO-178B Level A and Evaluated Assurance Level (EAL) 7 of the Common Criteria, an international standard for computer security.

The article presents information about the computer industry as of April 4, 2005. Microsoft Corp. is investigating a set of potentially serious security flaws in Internet Explorer and Outlook reported by security company eEye Digital Security. The flaws in the browser and e-mail client could let an attacker take control of a system with minimal action from the user. Intel Corp.'s Japanese subsidiary has agreed to accept recommendations made by the Japan Fair Trade Commission as part of an investigation into alleged unfair business practices by Intel. MCI Inc. will consider a new bid from Qwest Communications International Inc., even though MCI has twice said that it intends to be acquired by Verizon Communications Inc.

The article presents an update on the computer industry as of September 9, 2004. Sun Microsystems stated that it plans later this month to unveil its content switch: a load-balancing and Secure Sockets Layer acceleration switch. Fast Search & Transfer announced that it has developed an application called Fast AdVisor to help providers of online business directories and online ads improve the presentation and navigation of their listings. IBM and Intel Corp. opened up their jointly developed technical specifications for IBM Corporation's BladeCenter platform. Oracle releases security patches that plug vulnerabilities reported in its database software. NEC Corp. claims it developed a method of positioning tiny tubes of carbon in a way that, in a decade, will make circuits run faster and consume less power than the fastest and most powerful silicon chips.

Presents news briefs on the computer industry in the U.S. as of August 11, 2003. Computer breach at Acxiom Corp.; Acquisition deal between Sun Microsystems Inc. and CenterRun Inc.; Settlement deal between Broadcom Corp. and Intel Corp.