Apple yesterday patched 46 security vulnerabilities, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine, for the …
Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization
Successful server virtualization deployments lead many IT managers to believe desktop virtualization would provide the same benefits. While that is …
Search attracts innovation from established firms, startups
The search business has quickly become a hotbed of activity among a variety of companies in recent weeks. The new …
What is a router?
Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs? More and more …
Nvidia: Ion will outperform next-gen Intel Pineview Atoms
Intel Corp. may not have officially released the specs of its upcoming Pineview family of Atom CPUs, but that hasn't …
Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps
After promising that people can use Outlook “seamlessly” with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down …
Dell diversifies with fixed server offerings
Dell said it would offer pre-configured systems for enterprise customers looking to get server environments up and running quickly. The …
GAPCorp to deploy distributed IP contact centre solutions across GCC
GAPCorp has signed up EMW — the convergence experts, to install Avaya Distributed IP Contact Centre technology in five of …
Sharepoint gets Notes 8.5 integration from Mainsoft
Mainsoft added support for Notes 8.5 to its software that integrates the collaboration platform with Microsoft’s increasingly popular SharePoint Server. …
Google urged to beef up Gmail security
Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent …
Apple finally patches six-month-old Java bugs
Apple patched 32 vulnerabilities in its implementation of Java, more than six months after Sun fixed the same flaws for …
Xerox DocuMate 700
Xerox launched today the Xerox DocuMate 700, an 11” x 17” flatbed scanner with a built-in USB hub. The hub …
Data center derby heats up
Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM …
Economy forces IT to cope with dumped products
Gregg Davis, CIO at Webcor Builders Inc., became concerned last fall when Oracle Corp. bought Primavera Systems Inc., because Webcor …
Bing gets porn domain to filter out explicit images and videos
Microsoft has added a separate domain to its Bing search service just for pornographic images and video. No, Microsoft isn't …
Apple touts Safari downloads, but loses browser share
At the same time Apple bragged that users had downloaded 11 million copies of its Safari 4 browser in just …
Rivals level guns at IE in enterprise browser war
While Microsoft's Internet Explorer faces healthy competition with other browsers among consumers, in the enterprise it has long remained the …
Identity gets lost in the cloud
With everyone seemingly caught up in cloud computing, I was struck by this quote from a CNN story: Microsoft's “newest …
Why Dell should buy Palm
Palm needs money to survive. Dell needs a handset business to compete. I think Dell should acquire Palm immediately. The …
Windows 7 upgrade programs will start soon, vary by vendor
Some PC vendors and sellers will begin a coupon program on June 26 to entitle people who buy premium versions …