Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.
A new whaling scam -- that's a phishing scam that targets big game -- using a supposed U.S. Tax Court notification as bait has reeled in about 600 victims so far, according to Internet security firm SecureWorks.
- By William Jackson
- 06/03/2008
A majority of North American IT chiefs view theft from within as a much greater threat than theft from without, according to a new survey from Secure Computing Corp., an enterprise gateway security provider.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/03/2008
A Microsoft executive said today that Microsoft may be considering rebranding its Live search engine brand.
Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/03/2008
Court documents released this week in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo assert that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's "hubris" and "deep hostility" against Microsoft are to blame for the Microsoft deal falling apart, and that Yahoo's board members should be held personally accountable for the failed deal.
An investigation launched Tuesday into the possible compromise of about 1,000 patient records at Walter Reed Army Medical Center serves as a stern reminder of how dangerous peer-to-peer and other social networking applications can be, security experts warn.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/03/2008
A new phishing scam is targeting debit-card accounts used to deliver government benefits payments in 15 states.
- By William Jackson
- 06/02/2008
There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
Microsoft continued to investigate what it called public reports of a remote code execution threat for XP and Vista when Apple's Safari Web browser is installed.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2008
Updated service has compatible metadata.
The Lone Star State's largest city offers plenty of extracurricular activities for attendees at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- 06/01/2008
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
Ringside Networks' Bob Bickel brings customers closer with social-networking technologies.
- By Peter Varhol
- 06/01/2008
Microsoft and Yahoo! look to uncertain futures as merger falls through.
A touch user interface turned out to be the big surprise in Windows 7, the latest operating system being developed by Microsoft.
Cisco Systems Inc. last week alerted users to multiple vulnerabilities in the Secure Shell (SSH) server implementation that ships with version 12.4 of its Internetwork Operating System (IOS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/28/2008
The European Commission (EC) this week announced plans to encourage its member governments, industry, Internet service providers and the public to adopt IPv6 networking in the next few years.
- By William Jackson
- 05/28/2008
The organization that oversees administration of the Internet last week reported that it has sent enforcement notices to a handful of domain registrars identified as having registered the names of the majority of illicit Web sites using spam to generate traffic.
- By William Jackson
- 05/28/2008
Last week, an open source variant of AtMail's commercial Webmail offering was released to the public.