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03/10/2010 10:28 PM
News Analysis: As much as Microsoft would like security problems to just go away, they won't. The chances of Microsoft eliminating most of the software flaws that invite new attacks are slim to nil. But there are many things that Microsoft should do to improve the situation. We take a look at why security issues continue to haunt the software giant and what Microsoft can do about it.
- Microsoft sent out a patch March 9 for security
holes in Office Excel and Windows Movie Maker. Recent reports also suggest
that a zero-day vulnerability is currently being used to attack Internet
Explorer 6 and 7, allowing
malicious hackers to run remote code.
The software giant said it's awar...
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03/10/2010 07:36 PM
Cisco's powerful CRS-3 router is a significant step in meeting the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth driven by video, cloud computing and mobility, according to analysts. However, Cisco's closest rival, Juniper Networks, is less impressed.
- Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers for more
than a year has been preaching that the seemingly insatiable demand for network
bandwidth will only grow as video, mobile devices and cloud computing become
more prominent.
Chambers reiterated that message March 9 when unveiling Cisco's
massive CRS-3 rou...
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03/10/2010 05:59 PM
CA is continuing its aggressive push to build up its cloud computing capabilities through acquisitions with the announcement that it plans to buy Nimsoft for $350 million. Nimsoft joins Cassatt, NetQoS, Oblicore and 3Tera in CA's series of cloud-related acquisitions.
- CA is continuing to buy companies to build up its cloud computing
capabilities, the latest acquisition being Nimsoft.
CA officials announced the $350 million, all-cash acquisition
of Nimsoft March 10, and said the deal is expected to close by the end of
March. Nimsoft is the fifth
cloud-centric...
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03/10/2010 04:17 PM
The 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report offers insider knowledge based on forensic investigations of 90 confirmed breaches in 2008. Now anyone with an hour to spare can look over a beta version of the framework used to collect the data. IT managers and business executives alike can use the newly released Verizon Incident Sharing Framework to begin a security review with the goal of avoiding being one of the statistics in 2010.
- A document was just released
that could help IT managers avoid being a security statistic in 2010.
This week (March 9), Verizon Business released a beta version of the Verizon
Incident Sharing Framework (VerIS), a version of the assessment document used
by Verizon forensic investigators to sys...
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03/10/2010 03:30 PM
Google's Gesture Search feature for Android smartphones reignited the complaint about fragmentation and inconsistency among Google's mobile operating system platform because it only works on devices running Android 2.0 or greater, such as the Motorola Droid and Google Nexus One. Laptop Magazine's Mark Spoonauer said this means Google is favoring newer versions of its OS, punishing owners of devices running older flavors of Android, as well as Google's partners. Kevin Tofel tried to diffuse the situation by arguing that Google isn't the only mobile platform maker that faces this quandary.
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News Analysis: When Google
released its Google Gesture Search feature for Android smartphones March 3, it
fanned the flames of a long-standing complaint about fragmentation and
inconsistency among Google's mobile operating system platform.
Google Gesture Search, which lets users su...
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03/10/2010 02:58 PM
The No. 1 most talked-about product genre at Data Center World 2010 is data center management software. Avocent, Aperture, AccessIT, BMC, EMC, Dell, Methode, nLyte, Aptare, Modius, Rackwise those are just some of the companies coming to the fore with interesting products and services.
- NASHVILLE, Tenn. At Data Center World 2010 here in Music City, it's all about control.
We're talking control of data center footprints, carbon emissions,
power consumption, equipment cooling, budgets, personnel, and myriad
other things. Oh, yes: Control of the data itself also comes into th...
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03/10/2010 02:53 PM
Little-known SmartPhone Technologies files lawsuits against Apple, AT T, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sanyo, LG Electronics and Motorola accusing them of violating patents owned by the company.
- The smartphone patent lawsuit derby continues with a company named
SmartPhone Technologies suing Apple, AT amp;T, Research In Motion, Samsung,
Sanyo, LG Electronics and Motorola, accusing them of violating patents owned by
the company. Filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of T...
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03/10/2010 02:27 PM
Twitter has announced it will begin scanning links posted by users to thwart phishing attacks and the spread of malware on the site.
- Twitter has announced plans to route all links through a scanner in a bid to boost security and weed out malicious activity.
The move follows a partnership announced in November between URL shortening service Bit.ly and security companies VeriSign, Websense and Sophos.
By routing all ...
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03/10/2010 01:57 PM
There will be an uptick in IT spending in 2010, but those budgets that do grow will increase by only 1 to 5 percent, according to Ovum. The bulk of CIOs in an Ovum survey said they expect their budgets to remain flat after the recession-ravaged 2009.
- Dont expect IT spending to increase too much in 2010, according to research firm Ovum.
There will be some uptick in IT budgets for the year,
but only in the 1 to 5 percent range, Ovum analysts said in a report
March 9.
In fact, most enterprises will see no change in their
IT spending, a survey ...
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03/10/2010 01:51 PM
LGs intention to be a top-two smartphone contender by 2012 appears to largely involve Google. Reportedly, half the phones it plans to release this year will run Android, and LG could benefit, too, from Googles new enterprise-geared Apps Marketplace.
- LG Electronics plan to gain double-digit market share in the global mobile handset market by 2012 appears to figure largely on hitching its cart to the Google Android mobile operating system.
On March 10, LG officials introduced the Android-running LG-KH5200 in
South Korea, and after being vag...
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03/10/2010 12:45 PM
Microsoft and Adobe are working to port Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on the Windows Phone 7 Series, according to an Adobe executive, which would allow devices running Microsofts upcoming smartphone operating system to play rich content on a variety of Websites. Reports from February had suggested that Flash would not be supported on the first generation of Windows Phone 7 Series devices. Microsoft's hardware partners, including Hewlett-Packard, have been emphasizing their Adobe Flash support as a differentiator between their mobile products and those produced by Apple, such as the iPad and iPhone.
- Microsoft and Adobe are apparently working together to ensure
that Windows Phone 7 Series supports Flash Player 10.1, according to a blog
posting by an Adobe executive. Enabling that support could possibly counter
February reports that the first generation of Microsofts new smartphone
operating ...
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03/10/2010 11:56 AM
In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock and its principals will be barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information they collect from customers.
- LifeLock, which has extensively advertised its identity theft
protection services on television, agreed to pay $11 million Feb. 10 as
part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over
claims that LifeLock used false claims to promote its services.
LifeLock also agreed to pay another $1...
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03/10/2010 11:54 AM
The RSA conference seeks to use lessons from single-tenant data centers to build security into cloud computing infrastructures.
- The RSA conference, held in San Francisco during the week of March 1,
sought to catch the cloud computing wave, while the expo show floor was packed
to the gills with vendors wheeling and dealing primarily in products that
relate to the well-known problems of today.
Art Coviello, executive vice
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03/10/2010 11:48 AM
Acer may have lost the 2009 No. 2 worldwide PC market share position to Dell, according to a new report from iSuppli, but it grew faster than Dell, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. Meanwhile, Dell was the only top-five PC maker to show a loss.
- PC makers Dell and Acer were neck-and-neck through 2009, fighting for the No. 2 market share position, according to research firm iSuppli.
And though in the end the title went to Dell, which nudged past Acer by
only a hairs breadth, or 0.2 percentage points, Acer was nonetheless
the years big...
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03/10/2010 11:26 AM
Dell introduced new PCs on March 9 that target the extremes of the workforce spectrum. The Dell Vostro 3000 series of laptops offers small business customers new performance options that are secure, affordable and present a professional appearance to complement their brand images. On the other end, Dell also plans to update its T7500, T4400 and T3500 tower workstations with Intel Xeon 5600 processors. In addition, Dell introduced the 15.6-inch Precision M4500 Mobile Workstation, which combines Intel Core i7 technology with Nvidia Quadro FX 1800M graphics. There is also an option for a 64GB SSD MiniCard. The Vostro line is available in the United States as of March 9, while Precision M4500 is arriving later.
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