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Watson Nudges Microsoft Partners Toward Vertical Vision

MINNEAPOLIS—At Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference here, eWEEK senior editor Peter Galli and senior writer Renee Boucher Ferguson continue their conversation with Allison Watson, vice...

Speakers at E-Mail Summit Push Authentication, Reputation Tools

Representatives from 37 e-mail technology companies used a one-day Summit in New York on Tuesday to exhort private sector administrators and online marketers to...

Exploring the Cellular Frontier

Need a phone in Japan? The Vodafone counter at Tokyo Narita airport will sell you a phone with a prepaid card for around a...

Oracle-on-Microsoft Shops Face Double Patching Delight

Patching systems is always painful, but Tuesdays scenario of two major cumulative patch sets on the same day—from Oracle and Microsoft—is downright sadistic. When will...

Open Door Networks Ships Firewall for Mac OS X

Open Door Networks this week shipped DoorStop X 1.0, a software-based firewall for Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X Server 10.3 and later...

Flash 8 Player Beta Goes Public

On Tuesday, Macromedia quietly published a test version of its new Flash 8 player,code-named "Maelstrom" on its Web site.The download site says that the...

Oracle Simplifies SOA Security

Oracle announced Wednesday an integrated business process platform intended to simplify the security of SOA and Web services. Prakash Ramamurthy, vice president of Server Technologies...

Critical Kerberos Flaws Could Open Networks to Attack

Kerberos, the popular authentication protocol developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is vulnerable to three serious flaws that could allow an attacker to...

Microsofts Core OS Division: A Status Report

Back in December 2003, Microsoft Corp. shuffled its Windows platforms group and created the unified Core Operating Systems Division. COSDs charter: To ensure Windows...

Why Microsoft AntiSpyware Is Untrustworthy

Im still waiting for the explanation that makes it all make sense, but it doesnt look good. I have the nasty feeling Microsoft was...