Monthly Archives: January 2009
Google Axes Unpopular Applications
While it may be hard to dispute Google's ubiquity in daily online life, not everything the Mountain View, Calif.-based company touches turns to gold....
Weak Passwords Make for Weak Networks
It's an old rule and a common-sense one: Passwords should not be simple, easy-to-guess words. It goes beyond the old TV trick of guessing...
Intel Atom Processor Brings Good News amid Dismal Q4 Results
Intel, the world's largest supplier of microprocessors for PCs and servers, watched its 2008 fourth-quarter revenue and profits drop dramatically as the U.S. recession...
Microsoft Delivers Windows Azure SDK, Tools Refresh
Microsoft has released an updated software development kit for its Windows Azure cloud offering and has delivered some advice on how to run the...
House Bill Seeks $6B in Broadband Grants
The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Jan. 15 revealed the first details of a massive $825 billion economic stimulus plan that would include $6...
Symantec Looks to Enhance Management with Encryption Product
Symantec has enhanced its Endpoint Encryption product to improve management and provide protection against cold-boot attacks.The product has always been aimed at the needs...
Cloud Computing, Customer Wins, Microsoft Bashing Will Be Key at IBM Lotusphere
IBM Lotusphere will kick off in earnest Jan. 18, with thousands of high-tech customers, partners, press and analysts flocking to Orlando to discuss the...
FCC Chief Kevin Martin Resigns Post
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Jan. 14 he would resign as chief of the agency effective Jan. 20, the same day President-elect...
Cisco Offers 802.11n Access Point for Enterprises
Cisco Systems is looking to bring 802.11 Draft-n WLAN standards into the enterprise with a new wireless access point that it says can deliver...
IE 8: How to Target a Moving Web Standard
I always wondered how vendors go about making decisions when they're working on a product and the core standards defining the technology behind that...