Monthly Archives: September 2005
Samsung Invests Billions in Future Chips
Samsung Electronics, already a chip giant, appears to be gearing up to take an even bigger piece of the semiconductor market.
Best known for being...
Mozilla Zaps Thunderbird Security Bugs
The Mozilla Foundation on Friday shipped a new version of its Thunderbird mail client to plug a potentially serious URL parsing security hole affecting...
Industry Group Draws Fire for Cell Phone Vendor Proposals
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties ombudsman, has lashed back at a wireless IT industry standards groups announcement earlier this week...
Rollyo Personalizes Google-Style Web Search
Blogger/entrepreneur Dave Pell has unleashed a way to build your own miniature Google.
Each Rollyo, as the personalized search engines are known, is accessed through...
U.N. Members Look to Loosen U.S. Hold on Web
The United Nations summit drew to a close on Friday with national governments locked in an unresolved dispute over future governance of the Internet.
A...
Trojan Targets Unpatched Windows Flaw
Virus writers are actively exploiting a security vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that remains unpatched more than five months after it was...
Guardians of the Electronic Frontier
Before most people even knew what the Internet was, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was protecting it.
If the you imagine this still-young medium as...
Rethinking Compute Power in the Data Center
Azul Systems Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., wants to do with processing power what others have done in storage and networking—create an environment where...
Storage Digest: News from EMC, Data Protection Solutions, Toshiba, AMCC, McData, LSI Logic
EMC expands support of SAP, Data Protection Solutions introduces a SATA product, iStor will use Toshiba technology in its storage controller solution, Applied Micro...
Post-Reorg Microsoft Readies New Services
As the dust from Microsoft Corp.s latest reorganization continues to settle, one thing is evident: Microsoft is intent on turning its long-term dream of...