Monthly Archives: October 2007
What Is It Like Migrating Mission Critical Servers from Paid Linux (RHEL) to Free...
Q: When we spoke several months ago you were considering a move from Red Hat to a free binary clone of RHEL (Red Hat...
RIM Sets BlackBerry China Entry
Research In Motion expects to begin distributing its popular BlackBerry handheld devices in China by the end of the year under a partnership with...
TJX Waging Legal Battle To Keep Security Details Secret
The TJX data breach has been a veritable data dynamo of details that, if carefully pieced together, say virtually nothing.But those details have typically...
Quantum Mechanics and IBMs Power6
Quantum mechanics and the activities of subatomic particles play a significant role in the design and operation of processors. When those processors are scaled...
Russian Crooks Spreading Gozi Trojan with PDFs
A malicious PDF attack launched earlier this week is downloading a variant of the Gozi Trojan—the same malware thats been used to steal personal...
Intel, Transmeta Settle Lawsuit
Intel will pay Transmeta Corporation $150 million and $20 million annually during the next five years to settle a patent dispute and use various...
IBMs p570 Server Gets Big Boost from Power6
AUSTIN, Texas–IBMs p570 is the first in a new line of servers designed specifically to take advantage of the companys new Power6 dual-core processor....
Scammers Exploit San Diego Fire
Websense, a security company headquartered in fire-savaged San Diego, is warning that scammers are milking the tragic situation by masquerading as charity organizations.Websense posted...
Facebook Snubs Google for Microsoft
Microsofts $240 million investment for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook locks out Google as a suitor for the social networking site and will...
Avnet Q1 Revenues Grow on Acquisitions
Distribution giant Avnet saw sales from its Technology Solutions group sales grow in its first fiscal quarter by 32.5 percent over the same period...