Monthly Archives: July 2009
Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Pays Family of iPhone Suicide
Apple iPhone and iPod manufacturer Foxconn will pay compensation to the family of an employee who died after an iPhone prototype went missing.On July...
Nvidia, AMD, Intel All Show Graphics Gains, Report Finds
In a July 27 report, Jon Peddie Research predicts that, after a slow first half of the year, the graphics market is gearing up...
Sprint Grabs Virgin Mobile to Bolster Prepaid Market Share
The consolidation pace in the prepaid wireless market stepped up July 28 with Sprint Nextel announcing a $483 million deal to acquire Virgin Mobile...
IBM to Buy Analytics Software Maker SPSS for $1.2 Billion
IBM is looking to add greater predictive analysis capabilities to its Information on Demand software through the $1.2 billion acquisition of longtime partner SPSS.IBM...
Palm Pre Arriving on Verizon Wireless’ Network in 2010
During a July 27 Verizon Wireless conference call with analysts and media, intended for the carrier to share its revenue results for the second...
Panda Security Debuts Line of Business Security Solutions
Cloud-based security solutions firm Panda Security has announced the availability of its line-of-business security solutions, which includes Panda Security for Business, Panda Managed Office...
Baltimore, New Orleans, San Francisco Lead in Twitter Tourism
Destination marketing firm Development Counsellors International, which specializes in tourism and economic development marketing, announced the results of a report on how destination organizations...
A Day in the Life of the Rustock Botnet
A Day in the Life of the Rustock Botnet
by Brian Prince
Evolution of Rustock
This is a picture of the early evolution of the Rustock backdoor...
Will Google Chrome OS Security Be Tough Enough?
Will Google Chrome OS Security Be Tough Enough?
by Brian Prince
Locking Down the OS
Given that the focus is on supporting cloud applications, this should come...
Yahoo Video Dumbs Down Home Page Innovation for Non-Geeks
Say what you want about some of Yahoo's business incompetencies (Buy Maven, then squash it? Pay programmers lots of money to work on projects,...