Monthly Archives: July 2009
Adobe Vulnerability Targeted in Drive-by Attacks
Adobe Systems is working on a fix for a bug in its Flash Player software that has come under attack. Adobe first warned about...
AMD Ships 500 Millionth Processor
Officials with Advanced Micro Devices are celebrating the shipment of the 500 millionth x86 processor.The announcement is part of AMD's ongoing touting of the...
Google Reader Offers to Show Likes Only For Those We Follow
Last week, I was quite the curmudgeon about the changes to Google Reader, which ostensibly make the RSS reader a more social, friend-friendly place...
PayPal Opens Payment APIs to Developers
PayPal has announced plans to open its payment platform to third-party developers with the release of new APIs that enable developers to embed the...
Yahoo Buys Xoopit to Boost Photo-Sharing Versus Google, AOL
Yahoo confirmed earlier reports July 22 when it said it agreed to buy media file-sharing software specialist Xoopit.Yahoo declined to confirm the purchase price,...
Yahoo Board Meets About Microsoft, Fears Google Treatment
Updated: Yahoo's board of directors plans to meet July 23 for an update about a potential search partnership with Microsoft, but some Yahoo directors...
How UCSB Grad Students Put Cloud Computing Power into Ubuntu
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A National Science Foundation grant project developed largely by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has resulted...
Google, Microsoft E-Mail Synchronizer Cemaphore Acquired
Cemaphore Systems, the company that makes software that migrates and synchronizes e-mail, calendar and contacts between Google Apps, Microsoft Exchange and other messaging products,...
Touting Possible Benefits of Windows 7 Security
Some security researchers are already predicting a noticeable shift in the landscape once Windows 7 is launched by Microsoft later this year and finds...
Microsoft Earnings Fall Sharply Ahead of Windows 7 Launch
Microsoft took a hit to it earnings during its fourth financial quarter of 2009, reporting a 17 percent decline in year-over-year revenue. Overall, Microsoft...