Monthly Archives: September 2007
Microsoft Patches Tackle Evil Clippy
Microsoft is throttling a potentially evil paperclip this Patch Tuesday: Namely, a critical vulnerability in its Microsoft Agent—aka "Clippy"—that can open a system up...
Chip Makers Aim to Expand Virtualizations Reach
SAN FRANCISCO—As virtualization continues to grow, the role of the microprocessor, especially the potential found in new multicore technology, will help bring virtualization into...
Infor: The $2B Company No One Has Ever Heard Of
Infor: The $2B Company No One Has Ever Heard Of">Infor is like the Rodney Dangerfield of the software world.For a company that has amassed...
Microsoft Office Has Pull
"Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in."It would be wrong to compare Microsoft to the family Michael Corleone was...
Silicon Alley, 6 Years Later
Originally coined as a riff on Silicon Valley, the name Silicon Alley was given to the large concentration of Internet and new media companies...
Corner(ed) Office?
For an office productivity application space thats been awfully staid since Microsoft smote its early office suite rivals, 2007 has been a year of...
ToR Used to Snatch Embassy Passwords
A Swedish security researcher who publicly posted 100 embassy, government and Fortune 500 e-mail passwords in late August has revealed that he used The...
Greene: How Virtualization Became Its Own Industry
SAN FRANCISCO-VMware President and CEO Diane Greene put the virtualization phenomenon into keen perspective when she kicked off the fourth annual VMworld conference Sept....
What Is Device Identification and Digital Watermarking?
Q: Is there a reliable way for banks or other sites to recognize you by the specific PC you are using?A: This is called...
Skype Worm Attacks Security Software
Yet another worm is sticking it to Skype.The VOIP (voice over IP) companys security team as of Sept. 11 was working with domain owners...