Monthly Archives: July 2007
Sony Unveils High-End, Ultraportable Vaio
Looking to entice customers with a high-end, lightweight ultraportable notebook, Sony is preparing to release its Vaio TZ notebook in North America starting in...
This Week In Emerging Technology – July 18th
Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of July 16th.SunRocket Shuts Down - As I've mentioned previously, I use Vonage for my...
Explosion Cuts Manhattan Internet Service
NEW YORK—An explosion just south of Grand Central Station interrupted Internet service for Manhattan customers here today.
In the hours following the incident, Verizon had...
Author Claims Mac OS X Worm Ready to Go
The same troll who claimed to have intercepted and reverse-engineered Dino Dai Zovis QuickTime exploit from the Mac Pwn-to-Own contest at CanSecWest said over...
Open XML Suffers a Setback on the Road to ISO Ratification
Microsoft has suffered a setback in the quest to have its Open XML document format approved as an ISO standard.
A vote on July 13...
Software Freedom Law Center to Host Legal Summit
A few years ago, the idea that savvy developers and IT professionals would need to know anything about intellectual property law would have been...
Image Spammers Utilize PDF
Security vendors warn image spammers are increasingly using PDF files to bypass spam filters.
Researchers at BorderWare Technologies, based in Toronto, reported that on any...
Linspire Preps Impending Software Updates
Its a bit later than Linspire had planned, but the companys CEO Kevin Carmony told DesktopLinux that the new commercial version of its Linux...
Dells SilverBack Purchase a Cause for Channel Concern
It was only a matter of time. Sooner or later one of the managed services platform vendors that have gotten so much attention in...
Dell to Acquire MSP Platform Provider SilverBack
Dell plans to acquire SilverBack Technologies, one of a handful of leading managed service platform companies offering IT monitoring and management services through resellers,...