The PCI Security Standards Council this week announced plans to issue new guidelines that it hopes will give transaction application developers and security specialists a clear direction to the path of least resistance when it comes to assessing risks surrounding customer and vendor data -- most notably, credit card and payment information.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 18, 2008
Microsoft today described its new platform to help developers more easily create mobile applications that make use of radiofrequency identification technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 17, 2008
Avnet Inc., the large Phoenix-based technology distributor, warned this week that earnings for its third quarter of 2008 would fall below management expectations.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 16, 2008
Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was "a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack."
- By John K. Waters
- April 16, 2008
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley reported Monday that William Poole, one of the Windows executives who oversaw the development of Vista, has left the company.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 15, 2008
Windows Vista might be getting dinged in the press lately, but it's not stopping anyone from seeking the MCTS: Vista -- Configuration certification. In fact, the title appear to be one of the hottest of the new-generation MCP exams.
- By Michael Domingo
- April 15, 2008
In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 15, 2008
Mark Logic Corp. has submitted its Extensible Markup Language (XML) database server for Common Criteria certification.
- By Joab Jackson
- April 15, 2008
Citrix Systems announced Monday that its new enterprise desktop virtualization product, XenDesktop, will debut next month.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 15, 2008
In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 14, 2008
Microsoft's acquisition bid for Yahoo, initiated at the end of January, today unleashed media reports suggesting that shifting coalitions are forming that could decide Yahoo's fate.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2008
Yahoo issued an announcement today that it plans to conduct a limited test of Google's ad search solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 09, 2008
Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2008, his company's namesake information security conference, yesterday (April 8) in San Francisco with a warning.
- By John K. Waters
- April 09, 2008
Microsoft today released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 at the RoboBusiness conference in Pittsburgh.
- By Michael Desmond
- April 09, 2008
Federal mandates for issuing interoperable electronic IDs to employees and contractors soon could spur the adoption of digital certificates and the use of public-key infrastructure (PKI) throughout the country, one industry observer predicts.
- By William Jackson
- April 08, 2008
Microsoft and its partners are discovering that environmentally responsible computing isn't just a nice thing to do -- it's potentially lucrative, too.
- By Fred Bayles
- April 07, 2008
This week, Microsoft offered its first public glimpse of the next release of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), Redmond's next-generation integrated application lifecycle management suite, though the company is still not committing to any deliverables.
- By John K. Waters
- April 04, 2008
Nearly a year and a half after striking their improbable alliance to provide better interoperability between open source and Windows-based platforms, Microsoft and Novell told developers this week that the pact has yielded technical benefits but there's still work to be completed, particularly on the interoperability between the two companies' enterprise directory platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 04, 2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2008
Bots and spyware top the list of security worries for federal technologies, according to a survey of 200 federal information technology employees from Cisco Systems.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- April 02, 2008