Monthly Archives: February 2006
A Minute With Alec Muffett
Muffett found a rather easy way around the censorship software Google's using on its newest search engine in China.EWEEK'S GOOGLE WATCH: How did you...
BMC Attempts to Smooth Transactions
BMC Software on Feb. 13 will introduce a new end-to-end transaction management initiative intended to make managing transactions across a company easier.
The new offerings...
The Cell Phone Effect
Perhaps Google's Billionaire Boys Club ought to seek out advice from Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia.He's also running a company that's spoiled...
A Slow Death for ActiveX?
The Microsoft of recent decades has been much more willing than in the past to cast its own bright ideas aside and do what...
Symantec Names Former Oracle Leader as CIO
Symantec has revealed the latest change in its executive ranks, naming former Oracle executive David Thompson as its new CIO.
On a conference call with...
Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000
Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian...
Symantec Warns of Serious Hole in Sygate SMS Product
Symantec said Feb. 1 that a high-risk hole could allow a remote attacker to take over vulnerable Sygate Management Servers.
The company issued a patch...
Google Doesn’t Go To Congress
Google sent a letter rather than make a personal appearance at today's Congressional Human Rights Caucus.It seems Google, Yahoo and others support industry guidelines...
A Capital Idea In China
With the postscript "Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens," the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google Inc.'s censorship of...
More Cell Phone Use, Less Medical Error, Study Shows
A new study suggests that despite a small risk of cell phones interfering with medical equipment, their use by medical personnel actually lowered the...