Monthly Archives: September 2008
Registrar Bends to Pressure from Researchers
The lesson of this story? If you believe in the quality of your work, don't let anyone try to move you off your spot.Over...
Live from DEMOfall: The Weird, the Web and the World Mind
Day Two of DEMOfall 08 started with a collection of companies that can only be described as nontraditional. Among the collection of products presented...
Malware Campaign Touts Obama Sex Clip
Well, they went straight for the jugular.You knew there was bound to be plenty of election-themed spam and malware generated during the current U.S....
Toss Broadband Hogs into the Sausage Factory
WASHINGTON -- Rob Atkinson, the affable founder and president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, has an interesting notion in these politically charged...
Video: Striking Back at Cell Phone Thieves
In the DEMOfall pavilion I had the chance to speak to the CEO of a company that put on one of the more entertaining...
VMware’s Rosenblum Leaves Virtualization Company for Stanford
The changes within VMware's top management continued as Mendel Rosenblum, the chief scientist and one of the co-founders of the virtualization company, announced he...
Google Reluctantly Halves Search Data Retention to 9 Months
Google Sept. 8 agreed to halve the time it stores IP addresses on its search server logs, decreasing the time period to nine months...
Google to Anonymize Suggest User Data After One Day
Google sure is stitching up its loose privacy ends.Heeding concerns about search data information Google stores in its new Suggest feature, Google today said...
Google Patches Security Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Google has updated its Chrome browser to address some of the security vulnerabilities uncovered in the week-old beta.The update patches a buffer overflow vulnerability...
Serena Launches Mashups on Demand, Agile Platform
Serena Software has delivered on its promise of bringing mashups to the cloud and on Sept. 10 will announce the availability of its Serena...