Monthly Archives: June 2007
Innovation: 5 Tech CIOs Speak Out
Over the next few years, CIOs say they will focus more than ever on helping set corporate strategy and developing innovative information technologies that...
Yahoo Messenger Gets V for Vulnerabilities
Researchers at eEye Digital Security are reporting multiple vulnerabilities in Yahoo Messenger they say hackers can use to remotely execute code.
Yahoo spokesperson Terrell Karlsten...
Google: Percentagewise, IIS Serves Up Most Malware
In surveying some 80 million domain names, Google has found that nearly half (49 percent) of the worlds malware is coming from only 23...
Challenges Abound in the Quest to Connect Africa
OAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, West Africa—A veritable whos who of West and Central African governments are starting to arrive in this small West African country...
NASA Selects IBM Supercomputer
NASA is preparing to take off with a new IBM supercomputer.
IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., has entered into a four-year contract with National Aeronautics and...
Analyst: Vistas UAC Will Reform Developers
WASHINGTON—When it comes to the new security functions in Windows Vista, User Account Control is the one people tend to scratch their heads over,...
MS: Africa Needs Best Practices Forum
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Microsoft has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the government of this West African nation to invest in building its Information and...
Gates Champions Creative Capitalism to End Inequity
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and one of the worlds wealthiest individuals, introduced Harvard graduates June 7 to a new "Creative Capitalism," and encouraged...
Big Players Again Top World Storage Disk Markets
Three days after IDC crowned IBM as king of the world disk and tape storage hardware market, the same research firm on June 7...
Denial-of-Service Attack Targets Windows XP
A vulnerability was uncovered in the way Windows Graphics Device Interface handles icon image files that leaves systems open to denial-of-service attacks.
GDI+ is an...