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China Gets a Taste of BlackBerry

Research In Motion is launching its BlackBerry products in China via a new deal it signed with China Mobile Communications, its first effort to...

Labs Tip: Dont Reinvent the Wheel

When I look at many companies Web applications, services and portal implementations, Im often surprised by the amount of unnecessary and unusual work that...

Management: How Much Web Surfing at Work is Too Much?

Is surfing the Web at work the same as reading the paper or chatting on the phone? A New York City judge says it...

Audit Clears MS Phishing Filter as Privacy Risk

A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a...

Big Three Offer Glimpses of New Gaming Platforms

With all three major game console manufacturers—Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft—launching their new platforms within a year of each other, its never been a more...

With Compliance, Knowing Is Better Than Guessing

I was walking around the vendor showcase floor at a recent conference and was amazed at the number of vendors pushing compliance-related themes. Thats...

IBM Tries to Resuscitate Interest in Big Iron

Seventy-five percent of the college participants in IBMs "Master the Mainframe" competition, which ended Dec. 31, 2005, had never logged onto a mainframe before...

W3C Approves Web Services-Addressing Standard

The World Wide Web Consortium has approved the Web Services-Addressing specification as a standard. The standards organization announced on May 9 that Web Services-Addressing 1.0—consisting...

Sophos Details Flaw in Anti-Virus Products

Anti-virus specialist Sophos has reported the details of a vulnerability in its flagship product line that could leave affected computers open to outside attack. The...

PDF Security Compromised in Gmail?

PDF authors go to great lengths to protect their documents. But circumventing PDF security could be as easy as opening the document inside Googles...