Monthly Archives: October 2006
IT Managers Cant Afford to Ignore Skype
Voice over IP is here, sort of. In one of the few cases of enterprise and carrier technology being way ahead of consumer IT,...
Vista Upgrade Details Out
Microsoft has revealed the much-anticipated details of its program to let customers upgrade to Windows Vista after buying PCs over the holiday season.Microsoft officials...
Microsoft: Trojan Threat Significant, Rootkits Drop
New statistics from Microsofts anti-malware engineering team have confirmed fears that backdoor Trojans and bots present a "significant" threat to Windows users.However, according to...
Windows Spyware in Spotlight
In the first three months after shipping the Windows Defender Beta 2 anti-spyware application, Microsoft detected 22 million pieces of adware/spyware programs in Windows...
IE 7 Makes Significant Gains
When eWeek labs looked at Internet Explorer 6.0 more than five years ago, we were so disappointed in the browser that we said the...
Dell Signs Up with Opteron
After years of speculation—and five months after confirming what many saw as inevitable—Dell has joined the Opteron fold.The Round Rock, Texas, company, which for...
Microsoft, IBM Target Archiving
Microsoft is hooking up with IBM for the first time to help large companies handle an increasingly worrisome problem: e-mail archiving for e-discovery, legal...
IBM Grows Express Advantage
IBM is introducing a host of hardware, software and services as it continues to fill out its Express Advantage program aimed at the midmarket.The...
The Dynamic Desktop
Citrix systems ceo Mark Templeton drew back the curtain on a new initiative his company is undertaking to simplify the deployment of different types...
Metasploit Adds Wi-Fi Exploits
The Metasploit Project plans to add, sometime during the week of Oct. 30, 802.11 (Wi-Fi) exploits to a new version of its point-and-click attack...