With last week's outage of Amazon Web Services and the ongoing PlayStation Network issues, you're lucky I could find links that actually work for this edition.
In the next step in the joint action between the FBI and the Department of Justice to take down the international Coreflood botnet ring, federal authorities will begin contacting some infected users to manually remove the botnet software.
Barnes & Noble rolled out its legal defense brief on Monday, rebutting all of Microsoft's patent infringement claims.
IT organizations appear to be dragging their feet on migrating to Window 7, according to a recent poll by Unisys Corp.
Google's Apps for Business is changing its terms of service by requiring any organization of 10 or more to subscribe to its paid service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/27/2011
Strictly speaking, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can't perform server virtualization using Intel's new second-generation Core vPro processors.
Sony finally released a statement about the outage of its PlayStation Network since April 20, and it also confirmed a mass theft of customer data.
Microsoft indicated late last week that it has sold more than 350 million Windows 7 licenses.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2011
Microsoft is gaining the upper hand over problems in Internet Explorer 9 traced to browser add-ons, the company announced today.
After a three-day outage, Amazon Web Services has restored service for a majority of its customers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/25/2011
Thinking of breaking into Google's datacenters to steal information? Think again.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per FISMA standards.
Microsoft and Nokia announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement on Windows Phone production, confirming their February strategic agreement.
Amazon Web Services suffered outages that it attributed to latency and connectivity issues affecting its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/21/2011
ARM, maker of tablet and smartphone processor architectures, plans to release its Cortex-A15 system-on-chip at the end of 2012.
- By Kevin McCaney
- 04/21/2011
Definitely check out the first item, where ADTMag.com's David Ramel points out some secret Easter eggs in well-known software programs.
The U.S. Department of Justice today acknowledged a positive response from a Microsoft-supported holding company that is looking to buy patents held by Novell Inc.
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
Microsoft assembled a panel of MVPs, product managers and consultants on Monday to prod those still stuck on Windows XP to move to Windows 7.
Microsoft announced a licensing change late last week that may make it easier for PowerShell to be devised for use on platforms other than Windows.