Monthly Archives: August 2009
Snow Leopard Reveals Cracks in Apple’s Mac OS X Security Reputation
Mac OS X is viewed by many as the most secure operating system on the market. It's certainly considered far more secure than Microsoft's...
Microsoft Delivers Open-Source Bing SDK for iPhone, Mac
Microsoft has delivered a Bing iPhone and Mac software development kit for download on its CodePlex community development site.In an Aug. 27 blog post,...
Times and Journal Weigh In on Apple’s Snow Leopard
The New York Times' David Pogue and the Wall Street Journal's Walter S. Mossberg have officially weighed in on Snow Leopard, Apple's software upgrade...
REVIEW: OpenGoo Removes Some of the Liabilities of Web-Based Productivity Apps
Web-based office productivity applications such as Zoho Office and Google Apps enjoy significant deployment and collaboration advantages over their older, desktop-bound cousins. These Web-based...
IBM Report Examines Online Threats for First Half of 2009
IBM X-Force released its 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report Aug. 26 with a mix of good news and bad news.The good news is...
NASA Powers Up Climate Change Modeling Capability
Scientists got their first glimpse Aug. 24 of NASA's expanded high-end computing system that will serve as the modeling centerpiece of a new climate...
Apple Arms Snow Leopard with Mac Malware Detection, Reports Say
It appears Apple has bolstered Snow Leopard with some new spots to enhance security.In this case, Apple has apparently added a new malware scanner...
Sign into Zoho with Google Apps Domain Credentials
Zoho continues to hew closely to sometime ally, sometime rival Google. More than a year after Zoho began letting users log in to Zoho...
Amazon’s Head Start in the Cloud Pays Off
SEATTLE-Amazon Web Services has leveraged its head start in the cloud space to address a nagging barrier to greater cloud adoption in the enterprise-the...
Discovery Finds No Launch Luck
NASA scrubbed the second launch attempt of the space shuttle Discovery Aug. 26 when a liquid hydrogen valve developed problems during tanking operations. An...