Monthly Archives: February 2005
Linspire Chief Defies DRM Wave with New Music Service
Challenging the trend toward digital rights management, former MP3.com chief and Linspire CEO Michael Robertson will re-enter the music world next week with MP3tunes,...
Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws
Security researchers have found a way to combine two unrelated—and unpatched—vulnerabilities in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer to launch malicious hacker attacks on PCs.According to...
HP Targets Mobile Workers with New Notebooks, iPaqs
Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday launched a series of products, services and partnerships aimed at the mobile workforce.
The announcements ranged from new hardware to various...
Hacker Mudge Returns to BBN
Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist.Better known in...
Microsoft Launches EuroScience Initiative
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a major program to invest in research centers in Europe, touching on traditional scientific research as well as aspects of...
Skype Releases VOIP Software for Mac, Linux
VOIP provider Skype released final versions of its software for the Macintosh and Linux on Tuesday morning.Skype originally released both versions of its software...
PHP Consortium Tackles Third-Party Application Security
Worried that the credibility of the PHP scripting language is being hurt by high-profile security flaws in third-party applications, an international group of coding...
Microsoft Launches Web Search Engine
Microsoft has reached its first major milestone in Web search with the release of its algorithmic search engine, which will compete against Google and...
Java Enterprise System 3 Attacks Business Woes
Sun Microsystems Inc. is rolling out its newest Java Enterprise System release, along with five market-driven subsets aimed at solving specific business problems.
Sun officials...
Center Offers Open Source License Defense, Legal Services
The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) has raised $4 million to seed a non-profit, independent legal center that will provide free services to eligible...