Monthly Archives: May 2007
NXPowerLite Puts the Squeeze on Office Docs
The productivity applications that anchor Microsoft Office—Excel, PowerPoint and Word—are chock-full of features for embedding images and objects into companies office documents.
While media-rich documents...
Google Gone Anti-phishing
Google has quietly acquired GreenBorder Technologies, which makes an anti-malware desktop app that prevents Web downloads from associating themselves with the internal components of...
Java Proxy Server Crack Can Let in Superuser Attackers
Sun Microsystems says two buffer overflows in the SOCKS module of its Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0 can give a remote attacker...
Novell/Microsoft Patent Deal Secrets
Most of the Novell/Microsoft patent deal is now out in the public. With this, the veil has been lifted in part from this controversial...
Windows Firewall Squeezes into USB Key
Yoggie Security Systems has squeezed a complete hardware firewall for Windows systems into a USB key sized form-factor. The "Yoggie Pico" runs Linux 2.6...
Mac Users Face Hurdles with New Office Versions
With the introduction of the new Office 2008 productivity suite for Mac OS X, planned for late 2007, companies that rely on Visual Basic...
HP Printer Chief: We Could Ink Jet Anything
Printing and imaging drive the lions share of revenue and profit at Hewlett-Packard, and the technology has kept HP in the forefront of computing....
CDW on the Sales Block
Catalog and Web solution provider CDW, a giant in the technology reseller space, is reportedly in talks to be acquired by a private equity...
Are Big AV Vendors Falling Behind?
Not too long ago, a friend told me that she had been having trouble concentrating on her work because of the incredibly bad pan...
FTC to Investigate Google/DoubleClick Deal
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary investigation into Google's proposed $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, according to The New York Times. The...