Monthly Archives: September 2009
House Panel Approves Cyber-Security RandD Bill
A U.S. House subcommittee Sept. 23 approved legislation requiring federal agencies to develop, update and implement strategic plans for cyber-security R&D. The Cybersecurity Research...
Aruba Fires First Shot in 802.11n Price War
With the long-awaited 802.11n standard finally ratified earlier this month, I had expected to see an outpouring of marketing from all the enterprise wireless...
Live at DEMOfall 2009: Getting Secure and Getting Paid
The second half of Day One at DEMOfall 2009 saw a weird mix of security products (for both business and consumers), products designed around...
Ellison Reiterates Importance of Storage in Sun Deal
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, speaking at a large Churchill Club gathering in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 21, emphasized several times the importance of Sun...
Search Engine Manipulation Grows Up
Cyber-attackers have long employed the tactic of attempting to insert their nefarious URLs and related schemes into popular search engine results to lure potential...
Live at DEMOfall 2009
DEMOfall, which launched the morning of Sept. 22 in San Diego, is the final Demo for longtime Executive Producer Chris Shipley. During Shipley's opening...
Google Chrome Plug-in Paves the Way for Google Wave
Preparing for the general launch of Google Wave to 100,000 users next week, Google's Chrome Web browser team today releasedGoogle Chrome Frame, an open-source...
McAfee, BMC Software Push Integration for Security Policy Management
McAfee and BMCSoftware have agreed to work together to integrate BMC's BladeLogic Client Automation with McAfee's policy and security management products.The idea behind the...
CEO Carol Bartz Kicks Off Yahoo Branding Campaign
NEW YORK - Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a global branding campaign for the company, in a high-profile Sept. 22 presentation the Nasdaq MarketSite...
Fuze Meeting Lets Users Push Meetings to Facebook, Twitter
Fuze Box, the Web meeting software provider formerly known as CallWave, boosted its Fuze Meeting Web conferencing application with the ability to invite contacts...