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Oracle targets SMEs for future growth
News Oracle is taking a two-prong approach to battling the competition, focusing on its Fusion Middleware and growing its presence in the niche applications arena that targets specific industries, said Charles
[October 25, 2005, 15:15]
Adware program targets Mac OS X
News Malicious software that targets Mac OS X systems is rare and has been limited largely to proof-of-concept code, instead of actual attacks. A new adware program silently installs on Mac OS X systems and opens web browser windows, according to F-Secure.
[November 28, 2006, 9:15]
Banks still top targets for phishing scams
News Financial services companies remain the most frequent targets of online phishing schemes, according to the latest figures released by an organisation working to fight the scams. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of businesses and...
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Inland Revenue may miss online targets
News The Inland Revenue is likely to fail to achieve its targets for the take-up of its online services, MPs warned on Thursday. Fresh from lambasting the government for its faults in its approach to the Internet, the Public Accounts Committee has...
[August 29, 2002, 12:05]
Virus targets programs built with Delphi
News Researchers said on Tuesday that they are seeing something unusual in the malware world: a virus that targets a development environment. The virus, dubbed Win32.Induc, was written to infect applications built with Delphi, according to Nick...
[August 19, 2009, 12:23]
First virus targets Windows CE
News Several analysts have speculated that handhelds and even VoIP phones could become major targets for virus writers, but so far, massive outages have not occurred. A virus that infects Windows CE has been developed -- the first such bug discovered...
[July 19, 2004, 8:35]
Trojan attack targets top executives
News The C-level nature of the targets clearly indicates that the attackers are after information, the MessageLabs spokesperson said, but the greater concern is the social-engineering technique used to spread the Trojan-harbouring email.
[September 25, 2007, 9:23]
System availability targets
News Quantifying availability targets Table A shows availability targets versus hours of outage allowed for a continuous availability level requirement. I have seen many availability targets missed simply because a system supplier could not give due...
[February 6, 2003, 12:54]
Microsoft targets IBM midrange server customers
News In an interview on Friday, Windows server chief Bob Muglia told CNET News.com that mainframe, AS/400 and Unix customers are prime targets. Muglia said on Friday that Microsoft has some work to do as it targets IBM customers, particularly those...
[December 14, 2004, 12:40]
Broadband unbundler targets public sector
News Under targets announced by the prime minister, Tony Blair, in November 2002, all primary schools must have a 2Mbps symmetrical connection and all secondary schools an 8Mbps one by 2006. Updata, which cut its teeth in the Danish telecoms market...
[July 30, 2004, 12:40]
Microsoft targets undergraduate developers
News Michael Bronsdon, Microsoft's lead product manager for academic developer marketing, said that Visual Studio.Net Academic is the company's first offering that specifically targets students and teachers.
[February 28, 2002, 15:50]
Yahoo! lowers 2001 earnings, sales targets
News In November, Meeker suggested there was a 30 percent chance Yahoo would miss analysts' profit targets this quarter. Yahoo! met earnings expectations, but fourth quarter sales fell short of estimates and the company cut its outlook for 2001.
[January 11, 2001, 8:06]
VBS worm targets Gnutella users
News The worm targets Gnutella by changing the gnutella.ini file to accept Visual Basic Script files and places the 23 Trojan files in the Gnutella download directory so that others on the network may find them.
[June 5, 2000, 8:49]
IBM misses targets
News IBM's first-quarter revenue and profit rose 3 percent but fell short of its financial targets, the company reported on Thursday. In a surprise statement, CEO Samuel Palmisano said the company had not been able to close a number of transactions in...
[April 15, 2005, 9:20]
Dell fudged numbers to meet quarterly targets
News The company felt so pressured to meet Wall Street expectations that its finance department bent accounting rules to make up for shortfalls in certain quarters and under-reported earnings results in others, each time ensuring that Dell did in fact...
[August 17, 2007, 10:33]
UK councils use open source to hit e-targets
News A growing number of local authorities across the UK are using an open source content management system to help them achieve their e-government targets. He said "almost all" local authorities will need a content management system to put their...
[March 15, 2005, 15:20]
Anti-spyware software targets Gator
News InterMute's SpySubtract targets Gator with a feature called "Gator Slayer", which lets PC users choose to automatically delete the software anytime it's downloaded. Just days after a federal judge ruled that software makers are within their rights...
[September 10, 2003, 10:10]
ICT causing gov't to miss green targets
News Information and communications technology is a key factor in the government's failure to meet its own targets for reducing carbon emissions from public sector buildings, a report from the Environmental Audit Committee suggests.
[August 7, 2009, 17:42]
Standardizing on Veritas Data Center Management Software From Symantec to Hit Service Levels and Cost Targets
White Papers It also optimizes these data centers to meet cost and service-level targets, using data center management tools from Symantec Corporation. It's challenging to manage one data center - EDS manages over 100.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Proof-of-concept malware targets Windows PowerShell
News Virus writers in Austria have reportedly developed malicious code that targets Windows PowerShell, the command line interface (CLI) shell and scripting language product being developed by Microsoft. Security firm McAfee warned this week that it had...
[August 1, 2006, 17:40]
