Monthly Archives: January 2012
Centralized Standards
Centralized Standards
One of the biggest issues with netbooks was that there was a hodgepodge of netbook designs on store shelves without any clear indication...
Oracle Beefs Up Database Firewall With SQL Injection Defenses, MySQL
Oracle has updated its Oracle Database Firewall product to improve enterprise database security and help enterprises block both malicious insiders and SQL injection attacks...
Google, Apple Lead Internet Big Five
John Battelle offered this great chart above summarizing by strengths and weaknesses in the areas where Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon compete. He...
Barnes and Noble Considering Nook Business Spin-Off
Is Barnes & Noble's Nook losing the e-reader wars to Amazon's Kindle franchise?In a holiday sales statement issued Jan. 5, the bookseller suggested it...
Windows 8 Features, IE6 Doom, CES Prep Dominated Microsoft’s Week
Microsoft's week was relatively quiet as the company ramps up for the Consumer Electronics Show, slated to kick off with CEO Steve Ballmer's Jan....
Stratfor, Facebook Worm, Fujitsu Virus Lead Week’s Security News
This past week, the Tech Herald published a detailed analysis of the password hashes that had been dumped shortly after Christmas in the wake...
Google Chrome 17 Sports Preloaded Pages, Safer Browsing
Fresh off of the release of Chrome 16 Web browser to the stable channel, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Jan. 5 made Chrome 17 available to the...
Ultrabooks to Usurp Tablets at 2012 CES
If one of themes of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was the rise of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android tablets, this year's CES event will be...
McAfee Predicts More Hacktivism in 2012
The hacktivist collective Anonymous will either reorgranize into a cohesive body or disband completely, McAfee researchers said in their security predictions for 2012.Anonymous is...
Windows 8, Windows Phone Likely Focus of Ballmer CES Keynote
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes the stage for his Jan. 9 keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, he'll almost certainly whip the...