Monthly Archives: December 2008
Martin Revises Free Internet Proposal
Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin hopes to force a vote on his controversial proposal to impose a free wireless broadband mandate on...
Serco Completes SI International Deal
Serco Group, a British-based international service firm, has completed its $524 million purchase of SI International, a provider of information services, technology and network...
Rogue Digital Certificates Require CAs, Browser Vendors Work to Tighten Internet Security
When news hit that a team of security researchers and cryptographers had discovered a way to create a rogue certificate authority, the oft-repeated rule...
Do Smartphones Really Need Stronger Anti-Malware?
After several years of experts commenting publicly that the mobile malware epidemic predicted by some security vendors a few years back had likely been...
LG Puts a 3G Wi-Fi Phone on Your Wrist
Those James Bond films from the 1970s are looking sillier and sillier, and not only because the plot of "Moonraker" makes less sense with...
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1
by Cameron Sturdevant
Hardware Virtualization on Mac
VirtualBox 2.1 now fully supports hardware virtualization on Mac OS X hosts (shown...
Survey: SMBs Looking to Hire in 2009
For the second time in as many months, a survey of small to medium-size business owners suggests that, despite woeful economic conditions, midmarket companies...
HP Launches MediaSmart Home Server for Mac and PC
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard is looking to take a bigger bite out of Apple's ever-expanding market share by offering Mac users home server compatibility. With...
If Google Buys Facebook, I’ll Be a Monkey’s Uncle
TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld rekindled discussion of an interesting but dubious idea Dec. 28: a combination of search king Google and social network king Facebook.Google...
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Bandspeed AirMaestro
eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Bandspeed AirMaestro
by Andrew Garcia
AirMaestro 3100AG
Bandspeed's access point has three radios, allowing businesses to utilize the 2.4GHz and 5GHz band simultaneously and...