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Can Magneto Repel Microsoft's Mobile Rivals?
News Microsoft's approach to the mobile device market is a lot like the "Survivor" ethos. On the popular reality TV show, contestants are advised to "outwit," "outplay" and "outlast" their opponents. Microsoft is aiming to do all three, though it may...
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
IBM Systems And Technology Group And SAS: Collaborating To Deliver Complete Business Intelligence Solutions Worldwide
White Papers Remaining competitive means focusing on strategies that enable companies to take advantage of opportunities and repel threats in real time. Defining and implementing those strategies, however, often requires organizations to quickly access and...
[September 24, 2004, 0:00]
Fighting Computer Viruses
White Papers Furthermore, we have also drawn inspiration for defenses against pathological software from the vertebrate immune system and its astounding ability to repel or destroy pathogens. Computer viruses have pervaded popular culture at least as...
[November 30, 2003, 23:00]
BP Declares War On The LAN
News Energy group BP has shifted thousands of its employees off its LAN in an attempt to repel organised cybercriminals. Rather than rely on a strong network perimeter to secure its systems, BP has decided that these laptops have to be capable of coping...
[February 20, 2006, 12:45]
The Future Of IT Security Is Fewer Walls, Not More
News Firewalls supposedly repel invaders - apart from those that get through the necessary holes and into the constantly compromised software behind. IT security doesn't work very well. The inconvenience of shoring up security infrastructures is...
[April 7, 2005, 17:35]
Bronze Age Clues To 21st Century Security
Leader Firewalls ferociously repel invaders -- apart from those that get through the necessary holes and into the constantly compromised software behind. You may have noticed that IT security doesn't work. Meanwhile, the costly inconvenience of shoring up...
[November 16, 2004, 12:15]
Deconstructing Denial Of Service Attacks
News Most firewalls know how to repel them, and most IT managers know how to track down the perpetrators with relative ease. The recent Denial of Service (D.O.S.attack against Yahoo! may have only lasted a few hours, but its impact may reverberate...
[February 9, 2000, 9:18]
Hack Attack Leaves ISP's Future In Doubt
News The company had attempted to repel the onslaught, which included attacks on its email and DNS servers, but on Tuesday it announced that it was closing down, and invited other ISPs to bid for its assets.
[January 23, 2002, 11:13]
Countdown To Vista Is Nearly Over
News Is Vista enough of a leap forward to repel the advances of OS X and Linux? This is one of the most important weeks in Microsoft's history, as it finally brings its Vista operating system to the consumer market.
[January 29, 2007, 13:55]
Ordnance Survey: Putting GIS On The Map
News The one place on the Earth that has been well mapped is Great Britain, thanks mainly to the paranoia of an 18th century government that wanted to plan adequate defences to repel invasions. The surface of the Earth is, with one exception, one of the...
[October 23, 2003, 17:30]
Worms Still Hitting Businesses Hard
News Despite those efforts, only 14 percent of respondents said they were "very confident" that their networks would repel all threats this year. Almost half of businesses have had a worm outbreak in the last year, despite increases in security spending...
[March 22, 2005, 8:50]
European Commission Threatens Microsoft With Daily Fines
Talkback Of course, I had to take time(sometimes weeks) to repel the attacks of hackers but what a delight when the Victory is won. Microsoft faces complete injustice because the Court which ruled his appeal was biased.the decision was taken as soon as...
[December 22, 2005, 13:33]
Microsoft Tries To Calm Nerves Over RSS
Talkback I think MS will find plenty stand ready to repel boarders and stick with RSS. Doug is right - it could be named something better, something more catchy. But it's not. It's named RSS. Just like www, or GTi or AC/DC or any one of a hundred acronyms I...
[August 17, 2005, 23:52]
Java Allies Brew Wireless Riposte To MS
News The effort is guaranteed to repel Microsoft, which shuns Java and would prefer companies to write software that works directly with Windows. Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and several other companies have joined a software plan that uses Java...
[December 19, 2001, 10:19]
Army To Invest In Cyberuniform Centre
News The Army believes that many technology-transfer fruits will be borne from the research into materials that will make the uniforms nearly impenetrable by ballistics, yet lightweight, and able to repel biological and chemical agents while absorbing...
[June 26, 2001, 12:11]
Offshoring: Why The US Still Needs Engineers
News If the US were to repel it in some way, it would create its future competitor. Vivek Paul occupies a unique vantage point in the controversy roiling the technology industry over offshore outsourcing. An American citizen, Paul also is a native of...
[June 30, 2004, 15:10]
Windows XP Slammed As Gift To 'zombie' Hackers
News A system administrator can try to repel a DDoS attack by identifying the IP address of the computers involved in the attack and block all data requests from those addresses. A row has broken out between a top security expert and Microsoft over...
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
Dumaru Worm Comes Sniffing Again
News Because the virus includes a zipped attachment, rather than an executable one, it is more likely to penetrate a network security system that has been set up to repel viruses. IT managers and computer users have been warned to watch out for a new...
[January 26, 2004, 15:50]
IBM Brings Vacuum Technique To Chips
News A diblock copolymer consists of two types of molecules that, in ordinary circumstances, would repel each other. IBM is putting nothing into its chips, and that's a big deal. Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to create vacuum spaces between...
[May 3, 2007, 9:10]
Are Nanoparticles Going To Attack Your Feet?
News Stain-free pants include nanoparticles that repel most substances. Researchers believe nanotechnology could someday help build tiny supercomputers or solve many of the world's energy problems. More immediately, a company in Pennsylvania hopes to...
[September 28, 2004, 9:30]
