Monthly Archives: October 2010
Windows Phone 7 Launch Scheduled for Oct. 11
Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 at a high-profile event in New York City Oct. 11. An invite sent to media confirms AT&T's involvement...
Seagate Debuts Two BlackArmor Network Storage Servers
Storage specialist Seagate introduced the BlackArmor NAS 220 and NAS 440 network storage server, 2-bay and 4-bay, respectively, desktop network attached storage solutions aimed...
Google Buys BlindType to Keep it from Apple’s iPhone, iPad
Google Oct. 1 purchased BlindType, whose software may be used on Apple's iPhone, iPad and Google Android devices to make typing easier, for an...
Verizon: PCI-Compliant Businesses See Fewer Data Breaches
Compliance regulations may not be a perfect gauge for security, but a new report from Verizon Business underscores how important they can be.In the...
Aastra Connector Offers Telephony Call Control
Voice over IP (VoIP) communications specialist Aastra announced the release of Connector, a PC-based search-and-dial application. Connector unifies telephony call control with Microsoft and...
Hitachi, LG, Micron Combine for New Hybrid Storage Drive
Hitachi, which partners with South Korea's LG Data Storage to make storage devices, on Oct. 4 introduced what it called the world's first hybrid...
Adobe Updates Facebook Developer Platform
Adobe Systems has updated its developer platform to allow developers to more easily create applications that "combine the social connectivity of Facebook with the...
Is Trust Dead in Enterprise Security?
Between insider threats and malware attacks, the idea of trust-but-verify is dead as a security model, according to a new report by Forrester Research.In...
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace Plug Security Holes
A security researcher recently uncovered numerous cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.The social networking sites have patched all the bugs, which were...
Zeus, Koobface and Zero-Day Exploits Dominate First Half of 2010
Zero-day attacks on Internet Explorer, the Zeus Trojan and Koobface malware were some of the most significant cyber-crime threats during the first half of...