At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
Rewiring Yahoo plan establishes a "front door" for developers into its evolving Open Stack of platform services.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
Identity thieves and hackers appear to be coming at Windows users from all fronts, most commonly with spam. They were particularly active during the third quarter of 2008, when they did it eight times more frequently than in the previous quarter, according to a report released Monday by Sophos.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/27/2008
The IT security function, as a percentage of total IT staff at enterprise organizations, appears to be in decline, according to an addendum on security in a research report released this week by Computer Economics.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/27/2008
Looking for the coolest jobs in IT? A new survey of information technology and network security specialists suggests that the place to look is on the front lines of cyberspace -- and that the variety of work is greater than many might suspect.
Redmond on Thursday released a critical out-of-cycle security patch affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/23/2008
Big Blue upped its ante in the software as a service (SaaS) space this week with the release of a hosted version of its venerable corporate e-mail software.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/23/2008
"Disaster breeds opportunity," so the old slogan goes. But when it comes to uncertain economic times, companies should double-check their internal policies and procedures, security experts say.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/22/2008
One of the most closely tracked companies on Wall Street's radar screen did not disappoint expectations with reported revenues for the third quarter of $472 million, a 32 percent increase achieved under increasingly difficult market conditions.
Yahoo's revenue was up by one percent, year-over-year, according to its third-quarter results published on Wednesday, but its workforce will still get cut by 10 percent.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/22/2008
Data breaches at state and local government agencies exposed the personal information of nearly 3.8 million Americans in the first three quarters of this year, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
- By William Jackson
- 10/21/2008
On-line gamers using profanity in audio chat sessions may have their act cleaned up if Microsoft has anything to say about it.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/21/2008
Enterprise IT professionals concerned about laptops holding proprietary corporate data should be heartened by a new 3G mobile security technology update from Alcatel-Lucent.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/21/2008
Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that it did not release the next version of its Sync Framework on Oct. 13, as reported by some news outlets last week.
Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008), the second major component of its virtualization strategy.
An IDC study released on Thursday depicted a slowing worldwide market for virtualized servers.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2008
What's the top threat to data security going to be in 2009? According to the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009 out of Georgia Tech's Information Security Center, the answer is malware specifically disguised as "benign social networking links."
Google on Thursday reported strong revenue growth for its third quarter, despite a faltering economy.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2008
The updated Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 will make the IP private branch exchange (PBX) "the electronic typewriter of enterprise voice" by using software to do the job that hardware did in the past -- only do it better.
- By Jim Barthold
- 10/20/2008