Monthly Archives: May 2008
ClearCube Spins Off Software Division
ClearCube, which has specialized in PC blade hardware and management tools, is spinning off its software division into a separate entity with the hope...
Facebook Nets Google Exec to Fix Poor PR
Ben Ling. Gideon Yu. Ethan Beard. Sheryl Sandberg. Now, I give you Elliot Schrage. Facebook is increasingly beginning to look like Googlebook. Have this...
Yahoo Ships Silent Fix for ActiveX Flaw
Yahoo has silently pushed out a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting users of its Yahoo Assistant browser add-on.According to an alert from "Sowhat,"...
Big Vendors Still Very Tardy on Fixing Security Flaws
Some of the biggest names in the IT software business still are very lax when it comes to fixing security holes reported by third-party...
Expanding the Reach of Least User Privilege
For several years, I've been a big proponent of operating Windows-based desktop computers in a Least User Privilege mode, removing Administrator (or Power User)...
From the Beginning, It Was Never Going to Work
Of course it's easy to say it now, and The Station will accept any email guff on this topic in retrospect: There was no...
Fox Hounds Google Watch on Microhoo
During an appearance on Fox Business News this morning (following, rather frighteningly, Fox's score of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet live from Omaha), I...
Sun Delivers OpenSolaris, NetBeans Updates
Sun Microsystems is kicking off this JavaOne week with a host of news regarding its OpenSolaris operating system and NetBeans integrated development environment.Company officials...
Good Worms Are a Bad Idea
Some bad ideas seem to live on forever. One of the big ones in computers is to use hacker tactics to perform white-hat operations...
Tech Products Needed For Hard Times
What are the tech products or services you need to help you through a difficult economy? A food co-op tied to a social network?...