Monthly Archives: August 2008
VMware Releases New ESX and ESXi 3.5 Update
VMware is re-issuing the updates for its ESX and ESXi Server products, which fixes the software time element flaws that led to the virtualization...
Georgia Under Cyber Assault, but U.S. Air Force Considers Delaying Cyber Command
U.S. Air Force officials are denying reports that it plans to suspend the operations of its Cyber Command program that aims to specialize in...
Gold-Medal Device Security Measures
In a move that highlights the level of suspicion that still exists between Americans and our Chinese counterparts, or at least between our respective...
VMware Update Shows No Infrastructure Is Immune to Outage
Our own Scott Ferguson is reporting today on the licensing snafu stemming from the ESX Server 3.5 Update 2 that VMware began shipping on...
Station on Staycation This Week
We've been getting a lot of phone calls and emails lately, more so than usual for summertime, and methinks the automatic out-of-office email response...
U.S. Broadband Connection Speeds a Slow 2.3 Mbps
While the cell phone business-with the notable exception of Motorola--seems to be booming in the United States, the broadband business is not. Two new...
Yahoo Fire Eagle Lands as Location-Aware Platform
For those of us who can accept that some software knows where we are, Yahoo Aug. 12 trumpeted the launch of Fire Eagle, a...
VMware ESX Update Causing Disruptions
Updated: VMware customers and partners are experiencing disruptions after trying to download an update for the company's ESX and ESXi 3.5 products. The update...
Big Questions About OpenID After Recent Vulnerabilities
In light of some recent vulnerability announcements, research has shown OpenID to be an untrustworthy system. This is disappointing; I really liked OpenID. But...
Yahoo Ready to Name Board Members
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is in the process of approving the appointments of former Viacom Inc. CEO Frank Biondi and former Nextel...