Monthly Archives: November 2005
Sony DRM Uses Rootkit Techniques
New digital rights management technology shipping on music CDs by Sony Corp. of America/Bertelsmann AG artists employs stealthy, rootkit-style techniques to hide from users,...
Black Duck Targets Small Businesses with Software Update
Black Duck Software Inc. Tuesday announced a new release of its protexIP/development system.
Black Duck protexIP/development Version 3.0 features enhanced capabilities for analyzing proprietary, open...
SAP Challenges Oracles Air Force Contract
SAP Public Services Inc., a division of SAP, on Monday filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Government Accountability Office regarding the ECSS contract.
SAP,...
NetSuite Partners With Telephone App Vendor
NetSuite Inc., which develops hosted enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software, is partnering with a little-known company for an interesting capability.
The San...
Dell Warns of Layoffs, Motherboard Replacements
Dell Inc., which on Monday night issued a third quarter earnings warning, has enacted what it characterizes as a small number of layoffs as...
PHP Group Plugs Security Holes
The open-source PHP Group has shipped a new version of the general-purpose scripting language to fix several potentially serious security vulnerabilities.The flaws addressed in...
Intel Unveils Four-Way Processor
Intel Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its dual-core processor for systems running four or more chips, and more than a dozen OEMs rolled out new...
Mac OS X Update Swats Five Security Bugs
Apple Computer Inc. late Monday shipped a security update to patch five Mac OS X security flaws and warned that the most dangerous bug...
Skype Addresses Vulnerabilities
Poor Skype. They started out last week with the best of intentions, releasing what they called an independent security evaluation of their VOIP product,...