Monthly Archives: February 2009
FAA Hack Prompts Search for Sensitive Data
In the aftermath of a Feb. 10 hack at the Federal Aviation Administration that exposed more than 45,000 current and former FAA employees to...
Elastra Looks to Bridge Public, Private Clouds
Elastra is taking the next step in building up its cloud computing businesses by putting the next generation of its platform into beta.Company officials,...
Debian 5.0 Continues Strong Linux Tradition
Debian GNU/Linux, the open-source operating system that's proven more influential than any Linux flavor this side of Red Hat, recently hit the Internet's FTP...
AMD CEO Dirk Meyer: Smart Men Have Foundries
When Jerry Sander helped found Advanced Micro Devices, he used the now well-known maxim-"real men have fabs"-to describe how AMD planned to survive in...
Google Challenges Hackers to Native Client Security Contest
Google is hosting a contest to get its hands on security flaws affecting its Native Client technology.Native Client is an open-source research technology for...
Intel, AMD, Samsung Affected as Chip Sales Dive Globally: IDC
Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Samsung and other chip providers have been hit by the economic downturn in a hard way, as research firm IDC...
Salesforce.com Sees Record Revenues
Bucking the trend of falling revenues from many in the technology sector, cloud computing powerhouse Salesforce.com saw a 34 percent jump in revenue to...
LightEdge Forms SMB Consulting Subsidiary
Hosted services provider LightEdge, based in Des Moines, Iowa, announced the formation of LightEdge Consulting Servcies, or LCS, a subsidiary that will focus on...
Why Entuity Is a Network Management Company on the Rise
LONDON-Any company that both IBM and Intel use to handle the network monitoring of their internal systems is a company that warrants a closer...
D-Link Offers SMBs WLAN Solution
Communications company D-Link announced it is now shipping its latest 802.11n wireless LAN product geared specifically to small and midsize businesses. The Selectable Dual-Band...