Airline investment in IT is set to reach a new low this year as aircraft operators cope with unprecedented financial …
Greenpeace pans PC makers for toxic products
Greenpeace International on Wednesday criticized some major PC makers for backtracking on commitments to reduce hazardous substances in hardware. Hewlett-Packard, …
Firefox 3.5 makes browsing faster, easier and more fun
The just-released version 3.5 of Firefox is a winner, offering significantly faster Web browsing, better tab handling, a host of …
First look: Microsoft Office 2010
Call it serendipity. As I was working through my review of OpenOffice.org 3.1 and SoftMaker Office 2008, an early version …
Google: Spammers regroup after ISP takedowns
Spammers are pumping out an increasing number of garbage messages as they regain their capacity to send spam through hacked …
Orascom Telecom fights spam with Fortinet
Fortinet announced that Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (“OTH”), a leading player in the international telecommunications market, has deployed Fortinet’s FortiMai …
Security should be prime concern with cloud-based e-mail recovery
Cloud-based disaster recovery has become a viable option for safeguarding e-mail, but IT shops need to ask tough questions about …
Cloud is Internet's next generation: HP's Russ Daniels
“Cloud” has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because “everyone can draw one,” according to Russ Daniels, the …
Heightened DLP needs fuel arms race between vendors
Data-loss prevention is rapidly becoming the next big battlefield in IT security. Innovative start-ups in DLP, such as Reconnex, Orchestria, …
Win7 upgrade option could mean extra cost
Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Option Upgrade Program isn’t much of an option for corporate users and could end up adding …
StarOffice 9 Arabic edition now available
Sun Microsystems reinforced its commitment to the region with the recent announcemnet of the availability of its Arabic version of StarOffice 9. …
Ingres benefits from Oracle-related angst
When the 250-store California supermarket chain Save Mart Supermarket began making plans to roll out a time and attendance tracking …
Windows installs updates without permission, researchers say
Windows is installing “surprise updates” against the wishes of some users, who have expressly set up the operating system not …
Iran's data leakage 'problem'
In the wake of Iran's statistically and historically dubious election results, the world has been glued to screens (both TV …
Facebook lets any site add live comment streams
Any Web site owner can now put up a stream of Facebook status updates, using a feature that the social …
Google's speed push more best practices than revolution
Google's attempt at rallying developers, ISPs and others to increase the speed at which the Internet operates focuses less on …
Nortel's liquidation could cripple UC relationship with Microsoft
Nortel's liquidation of its assets could possibly gut the 3-year-old unified communications partnership the company has with Microsoft. The pair …
Cisco gives IronPort gear a boost with RSA's DLP
Cisco’s IronPort e-mail security appliance will be capable of data-loss prevention monitoring through its integration of RSA’s DLP scanning technology, …
Fortinet maintains market lead in worldwide UTM revenue:IDC
Fortinet announced that new IDC research data confirms that the company has again ranked No. 1 in worldwide UTM factory …
Avaya reportedly offering $500M for Nortel enterprise biz
Nortel is reportedly close to selling its enterprise division to Avaya for $500 million. According to an article in Canada’s …