Monthly Archives: April 2008
Rock Phish Gang Adds Crimeware Trojan to Arsenal
The notorious Rock Phish gang is pushing the envelope again, adding a sophisticated crimeware Trojan to its identity theft arsenal.The Russian group, which is...
Where Coach Cal and SMRs Get It Wrong
I attended the University of Massachusetts during the ascent of the basketball program headed by John Calipari, now coach of the University of Memphis...
Chinese Hackers Knock SportsNetwork Offline; CNN.com Survives
A planned cyber-attack against CNN.com fizzled over the weekend, but The Sports Network did not survive the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) assault by Chinese hackers.At...
Kapow Fires OnDemand Shot in Mashup Wars
Not to be outdone in the mashup wars that have flared up among Web 2.0 platform providers, Kapow Technologies is preparing to roll out...
Serena to Launch Mashup Exchange
Serena Software will announce the launch of its Serena Mashup Exchange at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco April 22. The Serena Mashup...
Sun Asserts MySQL Will Remain Open Source
After several days of blog posts and headlines, the dust that kicked up over Sun Microsystems' commitment to keeping MySQL open source seems to...
JackBe Upgrades Presto Mashup Tool
JackBe is looking to bring enterprise mashups to the business user with widgets called "Mashlets."The company is expected to announce Presto 2.0, the new...
Etelos’ Apps on a Plane
One of the most frequently requested features in software-as-a-service computing these days is the ability to work offline. Just ask Google, which is regularly...
Symphoniq Monitors RIA Performance
Symphoniq is expected to announce TrueView 2.0, the latest version of its user monitoring system optimized for Web 2.0 and rich Internet applications, at...
Yahoo BrowserPlus Shapes Up as Answer to Google Gears
While the financial experts wait on tenterhooks to learn how the Yahoo-Microsoft bid will shake out and how the Internet company will fare in...