Monthly Archives: February 2005
SuSE Fixes Bugs, Defends New Update Policy
Novell Inc. released to its SuSE Linux line on Friday numerous fixes to bugs that could enable a number of types of attacks, including...
Microsoft Points Out High-Priority Patches
Microsoft on Tuesday released 12 advisories to cover 17 security flaws in a range of products, including high-priority patches for Internet Explorer, Windows Media...
GlobusWorld Promises New Horizons in Grid
BOSTON—As the April launch of Globus Toolkit 4.0 fast approaches, GlobusWorld opened here on Tuesday with the promise of bringing open-source, standards-based grid computing...
Google Launches Maps with Local Ties
In another expansion of its online services, Google Inc. Tuesday launched a mapping feature that combines local search results with maps and driving directions.
The...
Security Exploit Could Affect Mac OS X Finder
The Calgary-based Web site SecurityFocus, which is owned by Symantec, has released a warning about a possible exploit that could affect computers running Apple...
Microsoft to Preview Another Piece of Longhorn
SAN FRANCISCO —Microsoft will deliver in March early developer releases of two of the three key pillars of its next major version of Windows,...
WANSyncCD Advances Content Distribution
In an effort to expand its products capabilities while satisfying requests from current customers, XOsoft has added a host of content distribution and consolidation...
Why Is Symantec So Slow with Updates?
Every now and then I get a brand-spanking new virus before protection is out for it. This happened last week when a colleague sent...
Egenera Fine-Tunes Blade Servers
Egenera is expanding the capabilities of its blade servers, giving its BladeFrame systems greater virtualization and management functionality and adding blades running AMDs Opteron...
Gateway Ramps Up Two-Way Scalability in Servers
Gateway Inc. is refreshing its line of two-way servers, consolidating four systems into three and making the new servers more scalable.The Irvine, Calif., company...