Microsoft quietly began shipping Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 on Thursday.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/29/2006
Keep records of your security recommendations to management or you might be left holding the short end of the stick.
IBM is readying a major update to its Lotus Sametime collaboration software that the company says will include ties into Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Outlook.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2006
Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised -- a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Dell seeks to expand in the lucrative business of maintaining other companies' computers, plans to launch a new service plan that uses Google mapping technology.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
The latest Internet Explorer update aims to make ActiveX more secure, but not without some difficulty.
An alliance of businesses, colleges and federal crime fighters will combine their expertise at a new research center that will study the problems of identity theft and fraud.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
The Bush administration's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000 under a two-year agreement with the university that employs him and also does extensive business with the federal office he manages.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2006
Computer Associates will ship in August a new database for storing configuration management information for its CA Service Management Accelerator product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/28/2006
Need to change local administrator passwords across your domain? Here are a few more ways to get it done.
Microsoft Corp. has launched an online preview of its new Office business software, as part of efforts to drum up more interest in the coming set of releases.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Microsoft quietly announced Friday that its long-promised next-generation universal file system is either dead or just emerging from its pupa to take wing as a butterfly.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 06/27/2006
DRBC #4: With a solid DRBC plan in place, it might be time to consider replacing your backup plan with more reliable technology that doesn't call for the janitor at a remote site to occasionally change tapes.
- By Bill Heldman
- 06/27/2006
Intel Corp. introduced its latest microprocessor for server computers Monday, one of a trio of new chips the world's biggest semiconductor maker is counting on to regain market share lost to Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
Police in Britain and Finland have arrested three men suspected of conspiring to spread computer viruses through spamming, Metropolitan Police said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/27/2006
As more people turn to Web applications for everyday tasks like e-mail, friendship and payments, cyber criminals are following them in search of bank account details and other valuable data, security researchers said.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Microsoft Corp. is eliminating 14 jobs in its Microsoft Learning division,
and will instead have an outside vendor perform that work.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
Say goodbye soon to those pop-up ads from Claria Corp.'s oft-vilified ad-targeting technology. On July 1, Claria will stop running ads generated by its pioneering but highly criticized "adware" programs that monitor where people surf.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2006
A single compromised server leaves 100 banks vulnerable. Also: OpenOffice/StarOffice virus hype, online banking surveys and rogue hotspots.
Make remote e-mail readily accessible to users through the Web, but do it securely with form-based authentication.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 06/26/2006