A scan of Web servers by Internet security company Finjan Inc. has found more than 1,000 legitimate Web sites that had been compromised by a new wave of attacks in recent weeks.
- By William Jackson
- 07/16/2008
Oracle has released the latest quarterly round of critical patches for all its products.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/16/2008
In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees looking into antitrust matters heard testimony on Tuesday from executives representing the top-three Internet search ad companies -- Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
Unisys announced yesterday that it is offering companies a free 30-day unified communications trial using Microsoft solutions.
Sentrigo Inc. released its new Hedgehog vPatch database security software product on Tuesday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/15/2008
Intel is publicizing its new Centrino 2 processors, which are currently being integrated into laptop computers by about 250 equipment manufacturers.
Yahoo's management on Saturday rejected an offer from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo's Internet search ad business.
Microsoft today described its own version of events concerning Friday's failed talks with Yahoo's management, which were focused on a renewed effort to buy Yahoo's search ad business.
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which was technically approved in April as an international standard (ISO/IEC 29500), may be on its way toward surviving an appeals process -- the last challenge to its legitimacy as a standard.
Microsoft confirmed reports of a distribution glitch preventing patch uploading in certain implementations of WSUS programs and provided a solution to the problem.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/10/2008
Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/10/2008
Users of the security program ZoneAlarm encountered a problem accessing the Internet after applying a Microsoft Windows domain name system (DNS) patch described in security bulletin MS08-037.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/10/2008
Less than 24 hours after its Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft issued a security advisory connected to a possible vulnerability in Word 2002 Service Pack 3.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/09/2008
Microsoft is offering a helping hand to small businesses that buy new Windows Vista-based PCs over the summer by providing limited free technical support.
Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/09/2008
Diane Greene's precipitous and unexpected departure from VMware yesterday may have resulted from an ongoing rift between Greene and executives at parent company EMC, according to analysts.
On its face, today's July patch release from Microsoft seems to be light one. There are no "critical" or "moderate" ratings this time.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/08/2008
Major vendors of domain name system (DNS) servers are making an unprecedented coordinated release of patches for what is being called a fundamental flaw in DNS, a core element of the Internet.
- By William Jackson
- 07/08/2008