Security administrators faced a familiar if uncomfortable position: Just one day after Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to fix vulnerabilities in several versions of Windows, exploit code appeared in the wild.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 11, 2008
Microsoft has developed four demonstration applications that showcase its Live Mesh cloud-based data synchronization service, according to a report issued on Tuesday by veteran Microsoft watcher, Mary-Jo Foley.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 11, 2008
More details about planned features in VS 2010 are coming to light as Microsoft slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.
- By Kathleen Richards
- November 10, 2008
Sun Microsystems is distributing Microsoft's MSN Toolbar browser plug-in, which includes Microsoft Live Search.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2008
Spammers have jumped on the global financial crisis to lure unsuspecting victims into their botnets. And, in the wake of last week's election, President-elect Barack Obama also has emerged as bait for other large spam campaigns.
- By William Jackson
- November 10, 2008
VMware today announced a new market direction involving the mobile telecom market: VMware will target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.
- By Tom Valovic
- November 10, 2008
Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- November 10, 2008
The market for microprocessors is not immune to the economy or the forces of supply and demand, as was evidenced in a third quarter report from IDC this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 06, 2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a rousing endorsement of cloud development in Australia today at a Live Web Rally event entitled Liberation Day.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 06, 2008
Wireless service providers will be able to take advantage of the locally unused television RF spectrum known as white space for high-speed Internet access under widely anticipated rules adopted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
- By William Jackson
- November 06, 2008
Calling it a distraction to its core mission, Google pulled the plug on an advertising agreement with Yahoo, according to statements from both companies Wednesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 06, 2008
Microsoft is leading the move to claims-based access with an announcement this week of a claims-aware application codenamed "Geneva" Framework.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 05, 2008
Adobe Systems on Wednesday said it has released a patch to stave off stack buffer overflow exploits in its free and widely used Adobe Reader software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 05, 2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 04, 2008
Yahoo, the advertising and search-engine giant that's taken a beating lately on the stock market, has hired a former Microsoft exec to help scale revenues.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 04, 2008
Google Inc. has rolled out a security patch for a flaw found last week in its Android operating system for mobile devices.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 04, 2008
AudioCodes, based in Lod, Israel, is developing a product road map next year that company officials believe will help Microsoft's push into the enterprise voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications space.
- By Jim Barthold
- November 04, 2008
Despite issuing a preemptive patch two weeks ago and another warning late last week, Redmond is now investigating a bug exploiting Windows Server Service for Windows 2000 that reportedly originated in China.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- November 04, 2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- November 04, 2008
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has formed a new committee to foster interoperability and conformance with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard, according to an announcement issued on Monday by the not-for-profit consortium.
- By Herb Torrens
- November 03, 2008