Monthly Archives: September 2006
Taking a U-Turn to the Future
If I could turn back time," chanted Le Chat, Cher-like, upon hearing that Google is expanding its news search. The search engine company is...
College Taps Open-Source App to Solve Costly Paper Chase
The 160 first-year medical students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine used to receive a boatload of printed course materials...
CAs Unicenter 11.1 Builds on MDB
CA is seeking to lower the barriers to acquiring its Unicenter product by introducing Release 11.1 of its flagship network and systems management software.
Unicenter...
Security Breach Found in Second Life Database
Linden Labs, the San Francisco-based creator of the virtual community Second Life, has told its users that their personal information could have been stolen...
The Problem of Ad-Hoc Storage and Connections
Recently I got an ad for a 2GB USB flash key for $29.99 (after rebate) and saw an announcement of a 16GB key in...
EMC Leads Storage Software Market, but IBM Gains Ground
EMC continues to enjoy a substantial lead in both market share and total revenue in the worldwide storage software market, but third-place IBM is...
McAfee Releases Windows Mobile Security
Security applications maker McAfee on Sept. 11 introduced two new packages of tools designed to help ward off threats for enterprise users of mobile...
Google Safe Browsing: One Phish, Two Phish, Whitelist, Blacklist
The inimitable Phil Lenssen points us to Google's whitelist and blacklist of phishing sites, which ostensibly help Google Toolbar identify sites that try to...
Microsoft Security Response Leader Takes on Vista
Updated: Stephen Toulouse, a program manager on Microsoft's Security Response Center team, has shifted responsibilities to focus on Vista security. Toulouse blogged on September...
Microsoft’s Max Could Become Another Live Service
Microsoft Max, the photo-handling application that the Redmondians built in order to showcase Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), is getting more interesting. The newest Max...