Microsoft opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of …
On the offense
Showtime Arabia is the leading Pay TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, with the significant subscriber base …
Intel: Spend money (on new PCs) to save money
Hurt by enterprises putting off PC purchases, Intel Corp. presented research purporting to show that large companies that buy new …
New zero-day exploit targets Adobe Reader
Adobe Systems Inc. today confirmed that it's investigating reports that its popular PDF viewing software, Adobe Reader, contains a critical …
Mozilla re-patches Firefox after regression bug pops up
Mozilla Corp. today rushed out a new version of Firefox to fix a flaw it introduced with the 12-patch security …
Spammers seize on swine flu to pitch bogus meds
Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security …
Group proposes cloud management standard
The Distributed Management Task Force announced it had formed a group to tackle management and interoperability issues that will arise …
Is mobile computing the Achilles’ heel in your organization?
Mobile computing, from laptops to the myriad handheld devices such as smartphones, BlackBerries, iPhones, USB tokens and PDAs, can certainly …
VMware looks to bring data centers under the cloud
VMware Inc. last week launched the long-awaited upgrade of its core virtualization software, which it calls a cloud operating system. …
Microsoft cuts UAC prompts in Windows 7
User Account Control, a Windows Vista security feature that has long been considered intrusive, will appear about one-third less often …
Storage service evolution
Storage as a Service (SaaS) involves transmission of the data over a network, in most cases over the Internet to …
Conficker.E to self-destruct on May 5th?
The evolution of the multi-faceted Conficker worm is expected to take another turn this May 5th when the latest version, …
IT Pros describe the ideal mobile device
Netbook sales will likely grow by 50% in the next two years, according to research firm IDC, but the gadgets …
Worm solves Gmail’s CAPTCHA, creates fake accounts
A Vietnamese security company has detected what it believes is a new worm that thwarts Google's security protections in order …
Windows bugs never really die
Hackers can successfully attack Windows PCs months — even years — after Microsoft Corp. fixes a flaw, a security expert …
VMware vows to overhaul data center with “cloud operating system”
VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual …
Sun adding open source app server to Amazon cloud
Sun Microsystems will make its open-source GlassFish application server available on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform on Wednesday. Sun …
Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical
Mozilla Corp. patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta …
Nexans EMAC devices to help create greener data centres
Nexans has launched a new series of environmental monitoring and access control (EMAC) devices that provide intelligent management of power …
Oracle, entering hardware arena, agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B
Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun for $7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market …