Worldwide shipments of portable PCs surpassed desktop PCs in the first quarter of this year, marking the first time it has occurred, according to an IDC report announced on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 06/11/2009
AirTight, a provider of Wi-Fi security services, recently scanned 3,632 access points and nearly 550 clients in different financial centers and found that half of them were either open -- unprotected -- or used Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/11/2009
Google just made it easier for IT organizations to ditch Microsoft Exchange Server.
June may prove to be a busy month for IT pros, with Microsoft planning to release 10 fixes in its next security patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/05/2009
Plus: Obama names fed ITSec chief; QuickTime, iTunes fixed; Twitter users targeted yet again.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/02/2009
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/29/2009
Google this week took developers off guard by revealing Google Wave, a real-time shared communications stream that can include text, photos, videos and maps to which all participants have access.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/29/2009
President Barack Obama will release the long-awaited report on U.S. cybersecurity policy on Friday, May 29.
- By William Jackson
- 05/28/2009
Microsoft announced "Bing" on Thursday, the company's newest search engine technology and brand campaign.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the creation of the "Social Enterprise Alliance," a partnership centered on the customization and integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
Software security continues to trouble IT pros, who often have to do more with less in the current recession, according to two industry-sponsored studies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/26/2009
Microsoft has cancelled a hearing on alleged competition violations that was scheduled to take place before European Commission (EC) officials in early June.
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
As expected, Microsoft rolled out only one patch for this month's Patch Tuesday, a critical bulletin for PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/12/2009
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/12/2009
Companies looking to reduce costs through cloud computing will have to make some tough decisions about security.
- By Naomi Grossman
- 05/01/2009
It's all fun and games until Barney (the dinosaur, not the journo) loses an eye...or worse.
Facing strong competition from Apple and Google, Microsoft looks to re-tool Windows Mobile for the enterprise market.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 05/01/2009
How Adobe is handling critical vulnerability discovered in its Reader software gets mixed reaction from IT security experts.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/01/2009
Under pressure from competitors in a high-stakes game, Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 8. But will the new browser scratch or run the table?