Wednesday's World IPv6 Day came and went with only a handful of reported problems. Observers say this is a good sign that the Internet is capable of handling the new protocols.
- By William Jackson
- 06/10/2011
Fujitsu expects to begin offering commercial cloud services in August from its datacenter in Japan that uses Microsoft's Windows Azure platform.
The world will move to Internet Protocol version 6 for one day on Wednesday, June 8, but just a small percentage of Internet users might be adversely affected.
Spearphishing and malware attacks via mobile systems, particularly targeting the Android platform, are on the rise, according to a report from software security firm McAfee.
- By William Jackson
- 06/06/2011
According to Google, Jinan, China-based hackers accessed hundreds of users, including U.S. government officials, military personnel, journalists, Chinese political activists and officials of several Asian countries, most of them in South Korea.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 06/02/2011
According to NetMarketShare, a Web tracking and analytics service provided by Net Applications, Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer finished off May with 12.0 percent of the worldwide browser market.
The W3C announced on Wednesday that the HTML 5 Working Draft has reached its Last Call milestone.
According to Rosario Valotta, an Italian security researcher, a security breach of Internet Explorer could occur if a hacker hijacks session cookies from users' visits to a Web site.
Google today has released Chrome version 11.0.696.71 which fixes four vulnerabilities in its browser.
Free software is now available that enables Internet connections to be shared using Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced that a final legal judgment against Microsoft, rendered in 2002 over antitrust concerns, expired on May 12.
Most business networks are not ready for the transition to IPv6, according to a poll conducted by Ipswitch Inc.
These technologies may not have been Microsoft originals, but today they bear the Redmond stamp.
Google is speaking out after Monday's news that a French security firm had found a zero-day exploit in Chrome's code.
French security firm Vupen claimed today that it discovered a zero-day exploit of the Google Chrome Web browser running on Windows.
Microsoft fielded some questions on Monday in a Webinar on Internet Explorer 9, focusing on what IT managers should know about the new Web browser.
Controversy over the control of IPv4 numbers was somewhat diffused this month after Microsoft entered into a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over IPv4 numbers purchased from Nortel.
- By William Jackson
- 05/02/2011
Limitations by ISPs could foil backup service plans.
Microsoft is gaining the upper hand over problems in Internet Explorer 9 traced to browser add-ons, the company announced today.
According to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory spokeswoman, a "very sophisticated" piece of malware apparently designed to steal technical information from the Energy Department lab's network caused laboratory officials to shut down its e-mail and Internet access last week.
- By William Jackson
- 04/20/2011