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Blog Search Engine Threatens Ban of Blogger Blogs

Mark Cuban—self-dubbed "blog maverick" and owner of both the Weblog search engine IceRocket and the Dallas Mavericks—has warned that those who use Googles free...

RSS Is a Label We Dont Need to See

Regardless of what Dave Winer—or anybody else—thinks, the term "RSS" should never be seen by the average Internet user. I am weighing in on this...

IETF Signs Off on Atom

Rising above the bickering of competing syndication format loyalists, the IETF on Wednesday approved the Atom 1.0 data format as a "proposed standard." Atom is...

Adobe Plugs Code Execution Holes

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the widely used Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader programs could put millions of computer users at risk of code...

Microsoft Inches Closer to Delivering Push E-Mail

Microsoft is set to release an early build of a key enabler of its promised push e-mail solution by the end of this week. On...

Symantec Acquires Endpoint-Security Company Sygate

Security company Symantec is buying Sygate Technologies, a maker of security products that secure mobile and networked computers. Symantec Corp., of Cupertino, Calif., said on...

Small Deals Still Rule

The trend to get away from big, honkin outsourcing deals first cropped up last year—and its still going strong, it appears. From the customers...

End Channel Conflict

Its a story as old as the IT channel itself: a reseller contacts a vendor for product information to prepare a customer bid; next...

IBM Woos SMBs with Open-Source Tools

IBM has announced plans to extend Linux support for its collaboration tools and to release to the open-source community its framework for searching unstructured...

Safari Flaws Fixed in Monster Mac OS X Update

Apple has shipped a monster security patch for Mac OS X to fix 34 flaws in the operating system and bundled third-party utilities. The 17MB...