Monthly Archives: October 2009
McKinnon Loses Latest Battle Against Extradition for Hacking NASA, Pentagon
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon may finally be heading to the United Statesto stand trial on charges of breaking into U.S.military and NASA computers.McKinnon, who...
New Adobe Reader, Acrobat Vulnerability Comes Under Attack
Adobe is warning users about a critical vulnerability in versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat that is being exploited in targeted attacks.While little information...
N.C. Wants Dell to Repay Incentives for Closing Plant
North Carolina leaders want Dell to pay for shutting down a 4-year-old PC manufacturing plant in their state.Dell officials announced Oct. 7 that they...
Netbooks Help PC Market Grow, but Prices Hurt Revenue, Says Report
Netbooks are once again a boon to a hurting portable PC market, states DisplaySearch in an Oct. 8 report on quarterly notebook PC shipments,...
Employers, Workers Reflect on Realities of Sick Day Usage
Companies understand that you need a day or two off every now and then-but be careful what you say and how you handle it."Longer...
Cisco Systems Rolls Out New Rack-Mount Servers for UCS
Cisco Systems went into the data center systems business full time on March 16, 2009, and has been ramping up its R&D and product...
How Google Coddles Consumers, Rips Microsoft, Rivals
The "Is Google Evil?" debate is one big Christmas gift that keeps on giving for bloggers, pundits and aficionados.The latest offering comes from Google...
Study Reveals Technology Adoption Is Off at Work
The headline for a recent Forrester report should be: "If you build it, they won't come."Forrester's "Workforce Technographics US Benchmark Survey" from the second...
Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Fires Back at Google Book Search Critics
Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google's Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization...
Twitter Crowdsourcing Language Support for French, Italian, German, Spanish
Twitter is preparing for international expansion into French, Italian, German and Spanish languages.What's interesting is how Twitter, currently available only in English and Japanese,...