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Talkback One of the fixes involves a 8-month-old privilege escalation vulnerability in XP, Vista, 2003 and 2008 that has exploit code reportedly available in the wild. When used in combination with a...
Sun updates OpenSolaris
News The second release of OpenSolaris incorporates improvements aimed at making it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Ubuntu
Novell reports leap in Linux revenues
News The company saw a 33 percent growth in its Linux business over the fourth quarter of last year, while its services business plunged by 26 percent
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0
Review Despite taking a completely different approach to virtualisation, Virtuozzo Containers can match the best hypervisors on performance while at the same time making virtual workloads quick and easy...
The Swedish datacentre with a bunker mentality
Photo Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof has converted a nuclear bunker 100 feet below the centre of Stockholm into a futuristic datacentre
Head in the Cloud
Blog Hello again ! October brought me the chance to sit alongside DELL, Intel & VMWare for ZDNet’s Breakfast Briefing on virtualisation, and also brought me a virus infection that totally floored me...
SanDisk offers secure USB storage for Macs
News The company has introduced a Mac-friendly version of its Cruzer Enterprise USB storage device, with encryption and other security protection
Google Earth browser plug-in arrives for Mac
Photo A new plug-in for Mac OS X lets people use the Google Earth software as a browser plug-in
DNA database found to breach rights
Blog The UK police practice of holding DNA profiles of people who are innocent of crimes has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights. In a ruling on Thursday, the ECHR found that two...
if you want speed
Talkback you should try the Opera 10 alpha, it is the new speed demon!
IBM announces ID and access management service
News The company says the service will help companies counter the effects of rising cybercrime and falling security budgets
Ex-Yahoo exec to head Microsoft online business
News Microsoft has officially appointed former Yahoo search executive Qi Lu to run the company's online-services business
Microsoft targets Office 'Blue Edition' counterfeiters
News Microsoft has filed lawsuits across the world against counterfeiters selling a so-called 'Blue Edition' of the company's Office software
Quick, looks nice, terrible bookmark management
Talkback Bookmarks become more and more important - certainly for me, and I suspect for many people - and yet browsers get worse and worse at handling them. Do developers live on another planet, where there...
Koobface virus lures Facebook users
News An email message to Facebook users followed by a fake Adobe Flash update request could load a nasty virus onto a PC
The real time web?
Blog Over on John Battelle's Searchblog, there's an interesting post on what might happen when search catches up with the realtime web - when you can ask not just what's on the Web in the static pages,...
Nokia further reduces forecast
News For the second time in a month, Nokia has revised its forecast and told investors that a slumping economy will hurt sales in the fourth quarter
Study: Laser printers don't emit harmful toner dust
News Contrary to earlier reports, a new study indicates laser printers don't emit toner dust into the air, although they may still pose health hazards
IBM launches 'Microsoft-free' virtual desktop
News The company is taking aim at enterprise desktops with a Linux-based desktop virtualisation bundle designed to cut costs and displace corporate Windows installations
Microsoft, RSA team up on data-loss prevention
News New DLP solution is to be baked into the Microsoft IT platform, allowing transparent application of digital rights management for sensitive data
I do wonder...
Talkback ... who in government has the responsibility for monitoring the international threat landscape. I'm sure the security services do, but there should be a more public, open level with...
Microsoft to fix six critical flaws on Patch Tuesday
News The company will patch 'critical' flaws in Windows, Word, Excel, Visual Basic and IE; and 'important' flaws in SharePoint and Windows Media Center
One million iPlayer requests per day in November
News The BBC's online, on-demand TV service received 35 million programme requests during November
Symbian's mission to woo North America
Analysis Symbian phones such as Nokia's N95 haven't sold well in North America, but the Symbian Foundation wants to change that
UK model of T-Mobile G1 not set to roam
Blog You really couldn't make this up. Following reports that the T-Mobile G1 Android phone could not operate at all without constantly using its internet capability - at least, not for US customers...
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 due 'very shortly'
News A Mozilla blog indicates that the beta will be released in 'the first week of December'
Mac OS X sails past Windows in the smartphone race
News Gartner has revealed that the iPhone maker is cruising past Microsoft's Window Mobile when it comes to global smartphone OS shipments
AMD lowers Q4 revenue expectations
News Faced with a significant revenue decline across all geographies and businesses, the chipmaker has warned its fourth-quarter performance will be lower than expected
Up periscope: Adobe's GUI updates for US Navy's green screens
Blog I could comfortably blog for the next two weeks on stories emanating from Adobe's MAX developer conference which I attended in Milan at the start of this week. There are new “project” releases...
RE:Is Your Head (And Data) In The Clouds?
Blog Comment Hi Christian, Great article, you hit a number of issues that should be considered by anyone looking at clouds and cloud storage. Scale is a challenge. Outages at Amazon have shown that. Don’t get...
