Monthly Archives: April 2008
MS08-021: A Must-Patch Vulnerability
Less than a week after the release of patches for a pair of code execution flaws in Microsoft's Windows graphics device interface, malicious hackers...
DoubleClick Employees Feel DoubleCrossed by Noncompete
Did Google--famed for its corporate mantra, "Don't Be Evil"--handle its DoubleClick layoffs in a particularly shady way? According to at least one former employee,...
Salesforce.com Tried to Buy Zoho Before Google Deal
Would today's enhanced integration between Salesforce.com and Google have happened if Salesforce.com had bought Zoho?That's the multimillion-dollar question raised in my mind by AdventNet...
IBM, Partners Preparing 32-nm Chips
IBM and a group of six other technology companies are inching closer to developing 32-nanometer microprocessors for the commercial market that will use a...
How to Understand and Use Benchmarking
By Jennifer Sutherland and James YapleIt's 3 a.m. and you just can't go to sleep. Your recommended server configuration is not providing the service...
Google’s Datacenters Come to Light
A couple of sites have put together some interesting information on Google's clandestine data centers.Data Center Knowledge has logged an incredible amount of data...
Silverlight Adoption Expected to Triple
Despite Adobe Flash's dominance in the world of rich Internet applications, Microsoft's competing offering, Silverlight, is expected to triple its market share, according to...
Census Plan Doesn’t Add Up
With much fanfare, the U.S. Census Bureau announced about two years ago that it was modernizing.The bureau said it would issue a state-of-the-art handheld...
The Chinese e-Wars: Reports from the Front
Reports continue about the sort of espionage I discussed recently in "The Secret China-US Hacking War." This Wired Report mentions how pro-Tibet groups have...
WLAN Branches Out
Eager to catch the wave of 802.11n wireless network upgrades and rollouts presumably on the way, wireless LAN tools vendors are tuning up their...