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• Gmail outage: Microsoft laughs all the way to the bank

  Created: 2009-09-04 07:20:50

  Google's attempt to prove to the world that office apps inexpensively delivered from the cloud beats running PC-based clients got a big setback yesterday, when Gmail suffered a world-wide outage. The big winner: Microsoft, which is laughing all the way...

• Fighting Conficker

  Created: 2009-09-29 07:21:33

  A lot of really good research has been published about the Conficker worm, its many forms, infection vectors and speculation as to what it’s going to do next. But what seems to be missing is the operational side of fighting Conficker. What signs wou...

• The JVM

  Created: 2009-09-04 07:16:04

  A JVM operates at the lowest, but extremely important, layer of the Java computing stack. It is the cornerstone of the Java platform-the technology responsible for Java's hardware and operating system independence. The JVM's processing capacity, predictab...

• Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux

  Created: 2009-09-05 09:14:15

  Company officials stress ROI, TCO at conference; projects for Ruby app server, ease of use also highlighted

  Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RH...

• Close to Patch Tuesday, new flaw surfaces

  Created: 2009-09-08 18:45:10

  NOTE: Knight Systems Incorporated, Advices All System Administrators should block access to the file-sharing port 445 on Vista and Windows 7, possibly Server 2008.

  As Microsoft prepares to release patches, researchers said they'v...

• Selling Open Source software in your company

  Created: 2009-09-04 07:00:50

  Is open source software right for your organization? Here’s how to realistically compare commercial software to open source software and make the right decision based on requirements and risk. Several resources are listed you can use and adapt for yo...

• iPhone Explosions

  Created: 2009-09-01 07:42:45

  Apple's iPhone may be the darling of the mobile-phone industry right now, but some users in France aren't singing its praises, claiming that the device ex...

• Google Gmail down across the world, massive outage (updated)

  Created: 2009-09-04 07:44:44

  We are in the midst of a huge Google outage it appears. I've got users in Europe and Asia that are also out. I've also tried to log onto Gmail from servers in London, Spain and France without any luck. The outage is affecting both Apps accounts and per...

• Google turns 11 with an eye on Microsoft

  Created: 2009-09-30 18:09:48

  Eleven years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. with a search engine and a plan. Now their company has grown into an online behemoth battling head-to-head with industry giant Microsoft Corp. while the term Google is a verb that means I...

• Do phishers have more poles in the water?

  Created: 2009-09-29 07:04:58

  Are phishing attacks going up or down? The answer depends on who you ask.

  Undoubtedly, phishing is still a big problem on the Internet, but regular statistical reports from various vendors leave a mixed picture. Vendors...

• IE 8 Gives Laptop Users Longer Battery Life

  Created: 2009-09-16 18:02:32

  A recent study has concluded that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser to use when it comes to getting the most out of your laptop b...

• Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns

  Created: 2009-09-29 07:12:58

  Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking co...

• New York Times tricked into serving scareware ad

  Created: 2009-09-16 18:04:00

  Scammers tricked the New York Times' Digital Advertising department into placing a malicious ad for fake antivirus software on the NYTimes.com Web site over the weekend, the company confirmed Monday.

  The newspaper had

  Company hosting Joe Wilson fundraising site recovers from DDoS attack

  Created: 2009-09-16 18:10:18

  A company providing online payment-processing services for U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C) is back online after being disrupted by a distributed denial-of service attack over the weekend.

  The attack on Piryx began Friday afternoon and lasted into th...

• Symantec adds Quorum antimalware analysis to consumer security software

  Created: 2009-09-08 18:43:25

  Symantec this week is taking the wraps off the 2010 editions of its flagship antimalware consumer software, Norton AntiVi...

• Google plug-in puts Chrome inside IE

  Created: 2009-09-23 19:03:55

  Google today released a plug-in that embeds its Chrome browser into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a move one analyst said may be an admission by Google that getting users to switch is harder than it anticipated.

• Need to crawl billions of Web pages? There's an app for that

  Created: 2009-09-22 18:26:26

  80legs leverages a 50,000-computer grid to search, crunch millions of pages in minutes

  80legs Inc. has officially launched its service, which brings supercomputer-scale data mining of the Web ...

• Russian antitrust regulators dropped their probe into Microsoft 's retirement of Windows XP, saying they had found no violations of the law, according to a government statement yesterday.

  Created: 2009-09-08 18:39:17

  Russian antitrust regulators dropped their probe into Microsoft 's retirement of Windows XP...

• Windows 7 drives RAM capacity explosion; Vista SP2 usage rising

  Created: 2009-09-23 19:09:13

  Windows 7 will drive the average PC RAM capacity to 4GB in the next 18 months. That's the conclusion of researchers at the exo.performance.network who are monitoring the ramp-up t...

• Microsoft to deliver five critical Windows patches next week

  Created: 2009-09-04 07:19:27

  Microsoft today said it will deliver five security updates on Tuesday, all affecting Windows a...