Major vendors of domain name system (DNS) servers are making an unprecedented coordinated release of patches for what is being called a fundamental flaw in DNS, a core element of the Internet.
- By William Jackson
- July 08, 2008
ISVs look to fill in some of the pieces of Microsoft's unified communications vision.
- By Peter Varhol
- July 07, 2008
The International Organization for Standardization has approved the PDF as a standard format for electronic documents.
- By Joab Jackson
- July 07, 2008
Microsoft used the occasion of its 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference today to announce that November 12 will be the official launch date of Windows Essential Server Solutions, which are all-in-one software solutions for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) based on Windows Server 2008 and other Microsoft server technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2008
On Monday, a day ahead of its monthly patch release, Microsoft issued a security advisory specific to its database program in Microsoft Office.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 07, 2008
Microsoft's executives have been talking with investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn about renewed plans for Microsoft to acquire part or all of Yahoo, provided that Yahoo's board is replaced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2008
IT pros will come back from the holiday weekend to face a possible four patches in Microsoft's July patch rollout, according to an advance announcement.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 03, 2008
Just two days after the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council announced the deadline for application security compliance and said it would be issuing guidelines for PIN entry devices, court documents have emerged detailing an elaborate plot to hack Citibank's ATM network architecture.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 02, 2008
In the wake of a report suggesting that IE was the least secure Web browser, Redmond on Wednesday touted the security features expected to appear in IE 8.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 02, 2008
Microsoft unveiled a new subscription-based consumer offering that combines an office productivity suite with security and hosted services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 02, 2008
Reported data breaches increased sharply in the first six months of 2008, jumping 69 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
- By William Jackson
- July 02, 2008
Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.
- By Joab Jackson
- July 02, 2008
At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions.
- By David Nagel
- July 02, 2008
Apple brings buzz to the market that could translate into sales of other types of smartphones in the short run.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2008
Redmond's new pricing scheme for Small Business Server 2008 reflects improvements in the product and changes to licensing policies.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- July 01, 2008