A zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer 7 reported last week has sparked increased hacker activity, and now the attacks involve most versions of Microsoft's Internet browser.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 15, 2008
Microsoft Live Labs announced on Saturday that its Seadragon Mobile graphical user interface (GUI) is now available for the Apple iPhone as a technical preview release, but Windows Mobile users will have to wait to get it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 15, 2008
DataDirect Technologies this week upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which provide connectivity between .NET-based applications and DBMSes from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- December 12, 2008
Google is exploring a way to run code fast and natively in a Web browser without worrying about security issues.
- By Jim Barthold
- December 11, 2008
Digital identity pioneer and open source entrepreneur Dick Hardt will join Microsoft as partner architect, according to his "Identity 2.0" blog on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- December 11, 2008
VMware will expand its strategic relationship with Hewlett-Packard to include the joint development of software that manages datacenter resources.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- December 11, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 -- Microsoft's latest release, currently at the Beta 2 stage -- was declared to be the safest but the least popular browser, according to a browser security survey.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 11, 2008
The United States has the dubious distinction of hosting the most infected sites and having the most compromised computers relaying spam.
- By William Jackson
- December 10, 2008
Microsoft once again has to contend with "Exploit Wednesday." This time, the problem is a zero-day IE 7 flaw discovered soon after the Patch Tuesday release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 10, 2008
Microsoft server and tools exec Bob Kelly told an investment banker audience how Microsoft plans to take advantage of opportunities in the enterprise IT market.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 10, 2008
December's Patch Tuesday will be a historic security update release. But it won't be because of the size and scope of the eight patches.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- December 09, 2008
The silicon industry's plans to use multiple processor cores on the same chip to improve computer processing performance may have hit a bump on supercomputing highway.
- By Jim Barthold
- December 09, 2008
Enterprise architecture must be a key part of the strategy used to protect computers and networks from cyberattacks, said Ron Ross, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior computer scientist.
- By Doug Beizer
- December 09, 2008
As IT managers develop strategies and deploy technologies to reduce power consumption in their facilities, they recognize virtualization does not only reduce server sprawl, it can also save energy.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- December 08, 2008
If you use open source software (OSS), Gartner recommends you have an official OSS policy. But a surprising number of open source adopters are operating without one.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 08, 2008