VMware has issued patches that will eliminate the vulnerabilities found last month, according to an announcement the company posted on some security news mailing lists today.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/18/2008
Red Hat last week announced that it has acquired Amentra, a systems integrator specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) projects, as well as a provider of enterprise data solutions.
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- 03/17/2008
According to numerous reports on the Web, Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows XP SP3 may both be released this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.
Sun Microsystems and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced last week that they are working together to develop new security tools for the OpenSolaris operating system.
Microsoft admitted on Friday that a patch it released last week is causing Excel 2003 to make some incorrect calculations.
Microsoft licensed two of Adobe's software products for use with smartphones that run Microsoft Windows Mobile operating systems, according to an announcement issued by Adobe today.
IT pros looking at solutions to the Microsoft Excel bug that popped up as part of last week's patch release said Monday that the cell calculation snafu plaguing Excel 2003 isn't so much a security issue as it is a pain in the neck for programmers and Windows application developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/17/2008
A gathering of chief technology officers from the country's leading software companies is urging Congress to fully fund $3.26 billion in initiatives that industry sees as critical in the president's fiscal 2009 budget.
- By William Jackson
- 03/14/2008
Microsoft unveiled a new Web site yesterday that provides resources for developers to improve and test the accessibility of their applications.
The Software Freedom Law Center, which provides legal representation "to protect and advance free and open source software," has issued an analysis of Microsoft's "Open Specification Promise" and its compatibility with the GNU General Public License.
A Windows Home Server bug that's corrupting some users' data won't be fixed until June, Microsoft announced this week.
Microsoft chairman implored Congress and the President to "act decisively" to ensure that the country maintain global leadership in technology innovation.
CNET is reporting this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo are now talking, at least informally, about the merger. CNET reporter Dawn Kawamoto cites an unnamed source for the information. "Yahoo has shown some willingness to have a conversation and talk," the source said.
IBM today described a new "secure mashup" technology for the enterprise that is designed to make it easier for nontechnical users to create Web applications from multiple sources.
Microsoft this morning revealed to developers the expected next steps in the software development kit (SDK) for the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/13/2008
Microsoft releases three new exams for its newest network operating system in March.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/12/2008
The National Security Agency is leading an effort to extend its access control work into the arena of network file storage. The effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access control (MAC) architecture -- now the basis of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) -- into the Network File System (NFS) protocol widely used for network-attached storage devices.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/12/2008
Yesterday, Nortel and Microsoft jointly announced four new unified communications (UC) products designed to help bring together enterprise voice, data, e-mail and other systems.
The Naval Research Laboratory researchers are helping develop a set of routing protocols for setting up mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs).
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/12/2008