The European Commission (EC) this week announced plans to encourage its member governments, industry, Internet service providers and the public to adopt IPv6 networking in the next few years.
- By William Jackson
- May 28, 2008
With California facing a $16 billion budget deficit, representatives are looking for new ways to make up for the shortfall.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 28, 2008
Last week, an open source variant of AtMail's commercial Webmail offering was released to the public.
- By Will Kraft
- May 28, 2008
Cisco Systems Inc. last week alerted users to multiple vulnerabilities in the Secure Shell (SSH) server implementation that ships with version 12.4 of its Internetwork Operating System (IOS).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 28, 2008
The organization that oversees administration of the Internet last week reported that it has sent enforcement notices to a handful of domain registrars identified as having registered the names of the majority of illicit Web sites using spam to generate traffic.
- By William Jackson
- May 28, 2008
When it comes to ensuring compliance with information security rules or best practices, a substantial minority of federal agencies still aren't making the cut.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 27, 2008
With billionaire investor Carl Icahn's consortium of investors looking to take over Yahoo's board at its upcoming shareholder meeting, Yahoo has bought itself more time by pushing back the meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July."
- By Becky Nagel
- May 23, 2008
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn continues to push for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo -- whether or not Redmond wants to.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 22, 2008
Microsoft's announcement that it will release SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) this summer raises the question: What's the status of SQL Server 2008?
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- May 22, 2008
Stealing some thunder from Citrix's recent XenDesktop unveiling, VMware has made several announcements aimed at strengthening partnerships with thin client suppliers.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 21, 2008
With a tiered pricing structure designed to undercut VMware's offerings, Citrix has announced the availability of XenDesktop, its much anticipated and discussed product offering in the increasingly important desktop virtualization arena.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 20, 2008
As any IT analyst will tell you, help desk outsourcing has been one of the biggest areas of growth in a red-hot offshore outsourcing segment. But not so fast, Gartner warns: Several help desk outsourcers may be rushing things.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- May 20, 2008
Hewlett-Packard has expanded its role in the desktop virtualization arena with new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- May 20, 2008
Microsoft today published a new release candidate (RC1) of its first enterprise-class hypervisor, Hyper-V. The release marks the next step of what has been a quick march to commercial availability for a critical product in Microsoft's emerging virtualization lineup.
- By Keith Ward
- May 20, 2008
Citrix today announced a new Desktop Appliance Partner Program. Appliances and thin clients are important elements in the emerging value chain for hosted desktop virtualization solutions both in terms of end user expectations for performance and ease of installation.
- By Tom Valovic
- May 20, 2008
As reported last week, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), a group that advises the British government on education technology issues, referred a complaint to the European Commission about the impact of Microsoft's interoperability issues in education.
- By David Nagel
- May 19, 2008
IT auditors examine accounts just like their financial auditing counterparts. Instead of trial balances, they look at system user accounts to determine who signed on when and who did what. But what about who's logging into what account and when? More important, do these people even work here anymore?
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 19, 2008
Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo are back on the table again, but maybe not about the acquisition bid.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 19, 2008
Security software vendor PC Tools on Friday fired the latest salvo in the argument over whether Windows Vista is as secure as Microsoft says it is.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- May 16, 2008
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets along with Linux.
- By David Nagel
- May 16, 2008