Monthly Archives: December 2008
Google Sandboxing Tries to Make Browsing Safer
Google seems to be very interested in the concept of sandboxing. I count three separate efforts the company is involved in. Who knows, they...
Verizon, Green Grid Join Forces to Update International Data Centers
Verizon, as one of the world's 10 largest telecommunications service providers, also ranks as one of the world's largest users of IT and electrical...
Symantec Tells Customers to Stop Buying Storage
Off the top, the way Symantec describes an upgrade to its front-line Veritas storage management software sounds plainly ironic. Symantec, which is big on...
Microsoft: IE 8 Developers, Start Your Engines
Microsoft says a release candidate version of its Internet Explorer 8 Web browser is imminent and developers ought to get ready for it.In an...
Obama Scores 100% on High Tech Test
President-elect Barack Obama hit 100 percent on the Information Technology Industry Council's Congressional Vote Scorecard for the 2007-2008 U.S. House and Senate session released...
Microsoft Details How It Will Support ODF
Microsoft has published documentation on how it plans to implement support of the OASIS Open Document Format Version 1.1 in Microsoft Office 2007 Service...
Examining Microsoft’s Eulogy for Windows Live OneCare
From a business perspective, nothing shook up the security market during 2008 like Microsoft's decision to kill Windows Live OneCare.When the company announced in...
Microsoft to Patch IE Zero-Day Vulnerability
Microsoft will release a patch tomorrow, Dec. 17, for a zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer that has been under attack by hackers.The vulnerability, which...
Enterprise Social Software Headed for Consolidation Cycle During Recession
Startups in the social collaboration software market are facing the combination of a maturing market ripe for consolidation and a bear market, where larger...
How Next-Gen WAN Optimization Can Speed Up Business and Save Energy
Most of the green IT talk the last couple of years has centered on saving power in data center servers, using smart power supplies,...