Symantec is acquiring instant messaging software maker IM Logic.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/04/2006
Intel kicked off the new year by updating its brand image to focus on the company’s emerging strategy of featuring itself as a platform company rather than just a chip giant.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
Code hints and code completion are welcome features for the scripter, so how can you make sure those features pop up when needed?
The Effective Permissions tab can sometimes yield misleading results.
MIT drops support for Kerberos 4; DNSSEC; port scans; AIM worms and fradulent Whois records.
Microsoft is nearly finished with a patch for a zero-day exploit discovered in malware last week, but the software giant doesn't plan to release the fix until next week.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/03/2006
The Semiconductor Industry Association announced Tuesday that global sales of semiconductors continued to set a record pace in November, up 7.2 percent over a year earlier.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 01/03/2006
The 11th annual salary survey from Redmond magazine shows pay going up. Is yours?
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/01/2006
Security experts at F-Secure reported on Tuesday a zero-day exploit that exposes vulnerabilities in the Windows graphics handling engine to enable malware to take control of PCs running fully patched Windows XP SP2.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/29/2005
If your plans call for taking the new-generation MCP developer and SQL exams in the next few weeks, tell us how you plan to approach them and what steps you'll take to pass them.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/29/2005
Network executables and DLLs must enter .NET Framework's zones of trust for them to work right.
Just as the holiday weekend was about to start, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee got a special Christmas present -- an end to his legal problems surrounding his departure from Microsoft and his simultaneous recruitment by search competitor Google.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Watch WAN IP is a handy tool for monitoring the external IP address of SOHO routers.
Twas the week before Christmas when Seagate Technology announced plans to acquire smaller rival Maxtor in an all stock deal worth an estimated $1.9 billion.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Users of Microsoft’s upcoming Outlook “12” will be able to monitor Really Simply Syndication (RSS) feeds from within the e-mail client, according to a Microsoft official’s Weblog.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/27/2005
Research group IDC has upgraded its projections of global PC shipment growth for the fourth quarter of 2005 and calendar 2006. It seems that, even as growth slows, it’s nonetheless still continuing to grow, and more quickly than earlier estimates had predicted.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
The European Commissioner for Competition warned Microsoft on Thursday that it is facing fines of nearly $2.4 million per day unless it immediately delivers complete documentation of its programming interfaces, particularly those for work group servers, to enable competitors to interoperate with Windows.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
Microsoft reaffirmed this week that, with the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Apple Mac versions of Internet Explorer will no longer be supported.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 12/22/2005
.NET-based exams 70-526 and 70-529 get their time in front of developers next month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/22/2005
If you're crazy enough to connect your multihomed DC to a DMZ, here's how to do it.