Monthly Archives: February 2011
U.S. Senators Say Cyber-Security Bill Different From Egypt’s Web -Kill Switch’
U.S. senators who want to give the president power to shut down the Internet denounced Egypt's president for essentially doing the same thing."The steps...
Researchers Find Cache of Credentials Stolen by Waledac Botnet
Last year, Microsoft made a splash when it led a legal charge against Waledac's operators and gained control of 276 domains belonging to the...
U.S. Tests E-Mail System That Bypasses Egypt-Style Internet Shutdown
The United States government has a special e-mail system that will allow information to be transmitted even if a foreign government cuts off the...
Siemens Intros Packaged OpenScape UC Solutions
Siemens Enterprise Communications is offering new integrated unified communications packages based on its OpenScape platform and aimed at enterprises and midmarket businesses.The new IP-based...
Facebook Malware Preys on User Fears of Losing Site Access
Security researchers have identified several new malware strains claiming to take away users' access to Facebook over the past few days.Users receive messages, either...
Mobile VOIP to Reach 139 Million Users by 2014: In-Stat
Mobile voice over IP use is expected to rise to nearly 139 million users by 2014, according to a new report from In-Stat.Thanks to...
Telehealth Growing as a New Way to Practice Medicine
When a president touts face-to-face video chats between doctors and patients in a State of the Union address, as President Obama did Jan. 25,...
Apple, News Corp Launch iPad-Only Daily Newspaper
Apple and News Corp launched The Daily, an iPad-only newspaper, Feb. 2 in New York City. Priced at 99 cents per week (and $39.99...
Google: Yes, Microsoft Copies Our Search Results
Google Feb. 1 capped a public smear campaign that backfired by claiming that Microsoft's Bing team is indeed cheating by copying its results for...
Linux Distro Releases I’m Watching This Year
Back around the turn of the millennium, I had the great fortune of watching the Windows XP, aka Whistler, development cycle unfold. I had...