The rumors that Google might purchase Yelp for over half a billion dollars have been replaced by new rumors that …
Opera browser preview features fast JavaScript engine
Opera Software this week is offering a pre-alpha release of its Opera 10.5 browser and upgraded beta releases of its …
Virtualization security remains a work in progress
While adoption of server virtualization is proceeding at a gallop, the effort to refine virtualization security reached only a slow …
Helsinki to recycle excess heat from data center
Helsinki public utility Helsingin Energia next month will open a new data center that will recycle heat from the servers …
Adobe explains PDF patch delay
Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have disrupted …
How to protect your cloud data
The Cloud Security Alliance has taken a second run at creating recommendations for businesses to follow in order to better …
Adobe explains PDF patch delay
Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have disrupted …
Adobe won't patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
Adobe won’t patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software for another four weeks, even though …
AMD's lead with DirectX 11 is 'insignificant,' Nvidia says
Nvidia brushed off the technology lead that rival Advanced Micro Devices built by releasing the first graphics chips to support …
AMD’s lead with DirectX 11 is ‘insignificant,’ Nvidia says
Nvidia brushed off the technology lead that rival Advanced Micro Devices built by releasing the first graphics chips to support …
Nvidia to put new Tegra, Ion chips in production
Nvidia is set to launch its new Tegra chips that should go into devices like netbooks and smartphones early next …
Adobe won’t patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
Adobe won't patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software for another four weeks, even though …
Amazon adds media streaming to content delivery service
Amazon Web Services has added support for audio and video streaming to the beta version of CloudFront, its Web service …
Kill JavaScript in Adobe Reader to ward off zero-day exploit, experts urge
Users should disable JavaScript in Adobe's Reader and Acrobat tools to protect themselves until a patch for a just-disclosed vulnerability …
Oracle’s pledges on MySQL are ‘purely cosmetic’, say critics
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL database …
HP aims at flexible, unified storage
Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and …
HP aims at flexible, unified storage
Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and …
Google, Microsoft’s ‘war of innovation’ changing face of search
Advances in online search have been picking up momentum in recent months, culminating in a burst of announcements this week …
Microsoft buys health-care software company
Microsoft plans to buy health-care software maker Sentillion for an undisclosed sum in order to expand its own health-care offerings …
Repentant Microsoft re-issues Windows 7 tool as open-source
Microsoft re-released a Windows 7 installation tool that it admitted included open-source code, and has posted the utility's source code …