Monthly Archives: November 2004
Yahoo Mail Adds DomainKeys Authentication
Yahoo Inc. is putting its e-mail authentication method into action.
On Monday, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company will begin to support its DomainKeys cryptographic approach for...
Vintela: Microsofts Secret Unix/Linux Weapon?
Microsoft made a minority investment Monday in Unix/Linux management vendor Vintela.
Neither Microsoft nor Lindon, Utah-based Vintela would comment on the size of the investment....
McAfee Adds Real-Time Scanning to Zap Spyware
Security software specialist McAfee Inc. has added a new module to its virus scan engine to help businesses combat the growing spyware scourge.The Santa...
Can Adobe Get the World to Standardize on PDF?
Among the documents Adobe Systems provided the media supporting Mondays release of Acrobat 7 was a fact sheet outlining the pervasiveness of PDF (Portable...
Amazon.com as an Infrastructure Platform?
Amazon.com has quietly started testing a back-end message queuing interface for distributed applications, a move that suggests a bold push into the middleware services...
MSN Desktop Search Images Surface
Screen shots of an early version of MSNs desktop search application began circulating on the Web on Monday, indicating that Microsoft Corp.s Internet division...
BellSouth to Sell Nortels Multimedia SIP Server
BellSouth has begun selling Nortel Networks Multimedia Communication Server 5100, an SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)-based platform that ties dispersed enterprise workers together over broadband...
Software Enables Two-Factor Authentication for Apache
A Canadian cryptographic software vendor on Monday announced a new two-factor authentication solution designed specifically for the popular Apache Web server.
CryptoCard Corp.s Crypto-Server 6.2...
Skype Update Fixes Security Issue
A new release of the Windows version of the Skype VOIP program fixes a bug that could allow a remote attacker to compromise a...
Bringing Eclipse into the Open
Dave Bernstein is a former senior vice president of product development at Rational Software Corp., who was tasked with leading the effort to transition...