Monthly Archives: July 2006
Block E-Mail Bounces with BATV
Imagine your incoming e-mail volume suddenly leaping 360 times above normal. Its not spam, not strictly speaking. Its a misdirected bounce attack.
Bounces used to...
Microsoft Shares Its Recipe for Zunes Secret Sauce
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft is planning to invest "hundreds of millions" and lose money through 2008 to make its recently announced Zune portable media player a...
Microsoft Ships Python on .Net
Microsoft has shipped the release candidate for IronPython 1.0 on its CodePlex community source site.
In a July 25 blog post, S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate...
Microsoft: .Net Beat Java, Whos Next?
Microsoft is leaving Java in the dust, but the company still has room to grow in the developer arena, a key executive said.
Speaking at...
GPLv3 Draft Moves Forward, Torvalds Unimpressed
On July 27, the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) released the next discussion draft of the GNU GPL...
Microsofts Health IT Venture Stirs Up Interest
Microsofts purchase of a little-known health solutions software company that makes an application based on its own technology framework is a bit like a...
Lenovo Thinks AMD for Business Desktops
For Lenovo Group customers, choosing a processor for a business desktop is about to become a two-horse race.
The PC maker in the second week...
Study: eBay, PayPal Remain Top Phishing Targets
A new study confirms that users of the popular eBay auction site and the online payment company PayPal remain the most popular targets of...
Symantec Q1 Performance Rekindles Veritas Debate
When security software maker Symantec acquired data storage vendor Veritas in July 2005 for $10.3 billion to diversify its products in the face of...
Creative Aims for Your Ear Canal
Creatives new Zen Aurvana noise-isolating earphones ($99.99 direct) fit nicely into a category inhabited by products such as the Etymotic ER6i, the Shure E2c,...