Monthly Archives: August 2003
The Next Big Thing: Megaportables
Portable computers are again closing in on and surpassing the 10-pound mark. At a time when almost every feature that road warriors desire can...
The Value of a Good Name
Your reputation precedes you. This is the idea behind a new weapon in the war on spam and e-mail overload from IronPort Systems: reputation...
Batten Down Those Ports
With worms such as Blaster prowling the Net, every user ought to know the ways a computer may be exposing itself to attacks. One...
Storage Web Digest: IBM Introduces Turbo-charged FAStT600 Storage
Enterprise StorageIBM Introduces Turbo-charged FAStT600 StorageIBM next month will offer some new enhancements to its FAStT600 storage server that it said will improve its...
How Intolerable Are False Positives In Spam Blocking?
As I work on a couple of upcoming reviews of anti-spam products for PC Magazine Ive been struggling to define my own standards for...
Symantec To Add Activation To All Consumer Software
Symantec will add digital-rights-management technology to its entire 2004 consumer product line, requiring customers to activate products such as Norton Antivirus 2004.In April, Symantec...
Microsoft MSN 9 Beta to Kick Off Next Week
Microsoft plans to kick off the beta test next week of its MSN 9 Internet service—now officially christened MSN Premium.The final version of the...
D-Link Rolls Out Gateway for SMBs
D-Link Systems Inc. announced Tuesday that it has begun shipping a line of gateway products designed for small and medium businesses.The D-Link Airspot Gateway...
SoBig Encore Not Likely, Say Experts
Anti-virus experts are downplaying recent claims that there is a second hidden cache of data in the SoBig worms code that directs infected computers...
Oracle e-Mails Raise Questions About Motive
The release of uncensored court documents around Oracle Corp.s hostile bid for PeopleSoft Inc. has raised the mudslinging between the two companies to a...