They call it private browsing. Microsoft recently released a beta version of Internet Explorer 8 that offers it. You'll find it in Mozilla's Firefox and the new Google Chrome. Apple's Safari has offered the feature for some time.
- By William Jackson
- September 30, 2008
What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 29, 2008
AppSense Ltd. announced a desktop virtualization marketing deal with IT services company CSC, based in Falls Church, Va.
- By Tom Valovic
- September 29, 2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- September 29, 2008
Speaking to attendees at the company's annual Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday, CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a three-year-old partnership with Hewlett-Packard to produce a new storage server.
- By John K. Waters
- September 26, 2008
Serena Software acquired Projity on Wednesday and is promoting that company's software as an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 25, 2008
Cisco, a company synonymous with telecommunications networks, is flexing its muscles in yet another arena -- unified communications.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 25, 2008
Senior Program Manager Phil Taylor announced his departure from Microsoft today on his blog.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 25, 2008
Technology executives are turning to virtual systems to lower costs and reduce energy costs, but issues with the technology remain, according to a survey which also found companies struggling with service and power consumption issues.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- September 25, 2008
The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study by security service provider SecureWorks Inc.
- By William Jackson
- September 23, 2008
In an announcement at VMworld last week, VMware unveiled plans to deliver a portfolio of solutions intended to turn virtualized desktops into "universal clients." The initiative, dubbed vClient, begins with a series of products called VMware View.
- By Chris Riedel
- September 22, 2008
One thing you won't find underlying a cloud computing initiative is a relational database. And this is no accident: Relational databases are ill-suited for use within cloud computing environments.
- By Joab Jackson
- September 22, 2008
McAfee Inc. has agreed to purchase Secure Computing Corp. for about $465 million.
- By David Hubler
- September 22, 2008
While global financial markets continue to reel, IT spending trends and reports seem to have missed the mark and we can't be sure who's laying out the right facts on buying and hiring.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 22, 2008
Microsoft released on Monday Windows HPC Server 2008, the datacenter-class operating system that promises to broaden the development and implementation of high-performance computing applications on the Windows platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 22, 2008
In the United States, IT spending in education will reach $47.7 billion by the end of this year and is expected to top $56 billion by 2012, according to a new report from Compass Intelligence.
- By David Nagel
- September 22, 2008
According to international marketing brand firm Interbrand, IBM and Microsoft are No. 2 and No. 3 respectively in its 2008 ranking of the "Best Global Brands."
- By Becky Nagel
- September 22, 2008
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
- By John K. Waters
- September 19, 2008
Microsoft this week released a white paper on identity theft with the aim of starting a "vendor-neutral" discussion on the use of "information cards" as an Internet security solution.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 18, 2008
HP has completed the acquisition of EDS, an outsourcing innovator; now it's restructuring, with plans to cut jobs, the companies announced on Monday.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 18, 2008