From The Editor
By Jeff Caruso, Site Editor
- Army cracks down on desktop software
- The U.S. Army has put software on about 11,000 desktop machines to guard against unauthorized software installations.
If unauthorized software is installed, it can be easily removed...
- CAN-SPAM's utter failure
- To be fair, even when the CAN-SPAM Act was passed five years ago, there was much skepticism over whether it would actually work. But I guess I always hoped that it would do something to stem the...
- Vendors scramble to deny denial-of-service attacks
- Earlier this week, security researchers revealed that they have discovered a way to take down Internet-connected servers with denial-of-service attacks.
The IDG News Service quotes a researcher...
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- Court orders spammers to pay $236M to Iowa ISP
- A federal judge has ordered an Arizona couple to pay more than US$236 million for sending millions of spam messages to a small Iowa ISP (Internet service provider).
- Mega-church steps up criticism of white spaces plan
- Joel Osteen, senior pastor of the huge Lakewood Church in Texas, has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject a request by several tech companies to allow proposed wireless broadband devices to operate on spectrum now occupied by wireless microphones and television stations.
- Japanese telecom partners with EnterpriseDB
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan's largest telecommunications company, has formed a "wide-ranging strategic partnership" with EnterpriseDB that includes an undisclosed financial investment in the open-source database maker.
- Goldman Sachs leads $12 million investment in Nimsoft
- Goldman Sachs contributes to systems management software maker Nimsoft's second round of investor funding.
- Six essential Apple iPhone security tips
- If you're an Apple iPhone user and security's not on your mind, you're at risk; at risk of having a Web mail account hacked; at risk of having your online identity stolen; and at risk of losing valuable personal information, such as wireless service account data, that could result in financial losses, among other disasters.
- Q&A: WiMAX’s potential to deliver rural broadband
- Jonathan Jaeger, the director of business development at wireless broadband access company SOMA Networks, thinks that mobile WiMAX services provide the perfect solution for any business looking to give broadband access to employees in rural areas.
- Dell's new backup system includes both hardware and software
- Dell is putting together hardware and software for backup and recovery in one system, with integrated software, for small and medium-size businesses.
- Analysts: AMD's foundry spin-off may save company
- Advanced Micro Devices' decision to spin off its chip-manufacturing business into a separate company just may save the floundering firm, analysts said.
- Flick Bowling for iPhone
- Freeverse Software is launching a new line of sports titles for the iPhone, and the first out of the gate is Flick Bowling.
- What's Keeping Me? 1.3
- One of the most frustrating issues many OS X users experience is trying to unmount a disk image, hard drive, or network volume, only to have the Finder claim that it can't be done because the volume is "in use"--which really means that one of the files on the volume is being used by some OS X process. Similarly, we've all tried emptying the Trash, only to be told that one of the files in the Trash is in use.
- HP Deskjet D2545
- In a market where competition is fierce to create an affordable yet functional printer that can appeal to even the most casual user, HP has upped the ante by introducing the Deskjet D2545, an inexpensive ink-jet printer that's also environmentally friendly.
- U.S. Army gets tough with desktop software policy
- The U.S Army gets tougher on enforcing desktop security policy by adding compliance-management software to about 11,000 desktops used at the Pentagon and other facilities in order to monitor for unauthorized applications.
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- Aster Data updates 'frontline' analytic database
- Start-up Aster Data Systems released the 3.0 version of its nCluster analytic database on Tuesday, framing it as ideal for "frontline" data warehousing.
- US online ad growth slows in 2008's first half
- U.S. online advertising, the motor that fuels most Internet companies large and small, including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace, has seen its growth lose significant speed in the first half of this year.
- F5 adds support for iPhones over its SSL VPN tunnels
- F5 Networks has issued a new version of its FirePass software so it can apply group access policies to mobile devices as the log-in to SSL VPNs.
- AMD break-up: two voices from Europe
- The financial world seems to be falling apart, but Advanced Micro Devices has just landed several billion dollars from two Abu Dhabi investment groups to fund "Asset Smart," a plan to spin off its chip manufacturing operations into a new company, tentatively called "The Foundry Co."
- HP, Tandberg team for soup-to-nuts telepresence
- HP and Tandberg are uniting to provide a single source for telepresence gear as well as installation and monitoring.
- BT offers mega-Ethernet with new WAN
- The latest benefit of BT's hugely-hyped 21CN communications system has arrived in the form of 'Etherflow,' a way for businesses to hitch their WANs to an Ethernet-based network.
- Massive Welsh data center to fire up early next year
- An ambitious project is under way in Wales to build one of the most advanced and secure data centers in Europe.
- AMD to spin off chip fabs to raise funds
- Advanced Micro Devices plans to split into two companies, one to design chips and one to make them, while two investment funds owned by the government of Abu Dhabi will contribute new capital, it said Tuesday. AMD hopes the move will give it the resources it needs to compete effectively with Intel, which dominates the microprocessor industry.
- Pramati developing enterprise collaboration widgets
- Pramati Technologies will release new software widgets for the enterprise by January that will allow users to collaborate from within the business applications that they are using.
- Bull focuses on high-performance computing with acquisition
- Bull is acquiring German high-performance computing company science + computing, and at the same time selling its Medicaid solutions business, it announced on Tuesday. The deals continue Bull's transformation into a high-end server company.
- Japan game market shrank 21% in first half
- Japan's computer gaming market shrank by 21% in the first six months of the current financial year, due mainly to sharply lower sales of game consoles and handhelds, according to data released on Tuesday.
- Famitsu publisher's Tokyo Game Show picks
- The Tokyo Game Show is a big event in the calendar for anyone in the gaming industry and for Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Enterbrain, the company that publishes Japan's leading game magazine 'Famitsu', it represents a chance to gauge development at each company and gather clues to future market developments.
- Report: AMD to spin-off manufacturing
- Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a to spin off its manufacturing operations to a joint venture in an attempt to cut costs, according to an online report from The Wall Street Journal.
- Oracle and SAP fail to settle TomorrowNow lawsuit
- Oracle and SAP held settlement talks Monday in their TomorrowNow lawsuit but failed to reach an agreement that would end the case, an SAP spokeswoman said.
- Symantec updates DLP endpoint, antispam gateway
- Symantec plans to release updated versions of its antispam gateway and data-loss-prevention agent.
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- Toshiba's first fuel cell coming in a few months
- Toshiba is close to launching its first commercial direct-methanol fuel-cell device, which promises a faster way to recharge portable electronics products.
- T-Mobile says Android presales stronger than expected
- T-Mobile on Monday said preorders for the first Android phone have been three times greater than it expected and that it won't promise to ship any more phones in time for the Oct. 22 launch.
- O.J. Simpson guilty verdict could lead to malicious spam
- Users should be on guard for spam touting the guilty verdict of former professional football star O.J. Simpson, a security company warned Monday.
- Video game execs prefer Obama to McCain
- This has completely nothing to do with games, but it's relevant nonetheless.
- Creating better vision
- As Sankara Nethralaya took on more applications to meet patient needs, its network went on a blink, leaving the hospital blind for hours. When the problem moved from being an irritant to life-threatening, it knew only a network management system could save it.
- Right on track
- Bound by complex labor laws, the largest employer in the world was desperate to automate the process of monitoring and assigning duties to millions of staffers.
- Higher education goes back to school on communication technologies
- Changes in communication technologies are forcing higher education to make big, expensive, and potentially risky decisions, according to two campus CIOs speaking at this week's fall seminar for ACUTA, an association of higher education IT professionals.
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- Will the bailout have any impact on executive pay?
- The proposed $700 billion federal bailout of the financial services industry that the House and Senate passed and President Bush signed this week has shined a spotlight on executive pay.
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- Ford's chip-in-a-key puts brakes on teen drivers
- Ford Motor Co. Monday unveiled a new car key that holds a computer chip that can help parents keep tabs and a restraining virtual hand on their teen drivers.
- Cisco unveils surveillance camera for SMBs
- Cisco's Linksys unit this week unveiled a wireless Internet surveillance camera for small and midsize businesses.
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- Mac security focus: Firewalls
- Firewalls monitor and regulate the data moving on and off your computer or network. They can keep criminals out while allowing legitimate network traffic in. Mac OS X comes with not one but two firewalls of its own. However, those two aren't always enough.
- Acceptable risk in changing economic times
- You know the game "chicken"? That describes what it feels like as companies push for more growth and innovation in a time of increasing economic uncertainty. Today's business landscape is like a volcanic field, with eruptions taking place left and right. Rising fuel and commodities costs have changed the equation for many businesses. The effects ripple from suppliers through layers of the value chain to businesses that might not initially have thought they were at risk.
- Shell blames IT contractor for benefits fraud
- Shell Oil is warning employees that a contractor used their personal information to run an unemployment-insurance-claim scam in Texas.
