Monthly Archives: March 2008
Is There Room for a Security Browser?
Convinced that all modern Web browsers suffer from "fundamental design flaws" that expose users to nonstop hacker attacks, researchers at the University of Illinois...
NAC Attack Fizzling for Smaller Startups
When Lockdown Networks announced March 18 that it would cease operations "due to overall economic trends and slower than predicted adoption of Network Access...
The Hypervisor’s the Thing for VMware’s Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum still straddles two worlds.A professor within Stanford University's Computer Science department, Rosenblum teaches and studies how modern operating systems work. He's also...
MIA: Facebook, Microsoft From OpenSocial
So, here is what we know from today's OpenSocial news: Yahoo has joined OpenSocial and forged the OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. Facebook...
Dell: Call Us to Upgrade to Vista
Upgrading to Vista? Dell wants to hear from you.Starting March 25, Dell is offering a new service designed for large enterprises that are considering...
Yahoo, Tata Deal Empowers Hadoop Developers
Yahoo and Computational Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of India-based Tata Sons, are jointly supporting cloud computing research around the Apache Hadoop open-source distributed computing...
Google, MySpace, Yahoo Form OpenSocial Foundation
Yahoo joined Google and MySpace in launching the OpenSocial Foundation, marking Yahoo's support for the open set of APIs created to fuel interoperability between...
Defining Objectionable Content
Prepare to be stunned: There is offensive material on the Web. Some of it is obscene, some violent, some racist. Oh well, it's a...
Getting Shoppers the Message
Hosted marketing technology provider Concept Shopping is now enabling retailers to offer targeted promotions to customers via personal digital ad channels such as personal...
Sun’s Chip Chief Departs
David Yen, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics Division, is leaving the original equipment manufacturer for a new position at Juniper Networks.Yen's department...