|
|
TOP MICROSOFT .NET LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON !
Security News Desk
|
SYS-CON's Security News desk trawls the world of security for news of software, hardware, products, and services that seems likely to be of interest to infosec professionals and summarizes them for easy assimilation by busy IT managers and staff.
|
Google Launches New
Message Security Services By Security News Desk 'Organizations of all
shapes and sizes can get
access to Google's
industry leading security
and compliance
technologies,? said Scott
Petry, Google's director
of product management, as
Google this week
announced a series of
security products Powered
by Postini that... Feb. 7, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 2,443 | Dell Finds 'Evidence of
Financial Misconduct' By Security News Desk Dell won't be getting its
10-K out any time soon.
It's gonna blow through
April 3, the day the 10-K
is due, and April 18, the
extension date. It's
gonna add the annual
report for the year ended
February 2 to the pile of
paperwork it already owes
the SEC, It says it... Apr. 3, 2007 08:00 AM Reads: 10,710 Replies: 1 | Carly Headhunter Charged
with Drug-related
Homicide By Security News Desk Jeff Christian, the guy
who started Christian &
Timbers and the
headhunter who got Carly
Fiorina the CEO job at
HP, is going to be tried
for reckless homicide and
involuntary manslaughter
in the drug overdose
death of another
executive recruiter,
31-year-old Thoma... Apr. 2, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 23,825 Replies: 1 | Intel To Copy Some More
of AMD's Moves By Security News Desk There are times when it
looks like AMD is running
Intel's design
department. This is
definitely one of them.
Intel disclosed Wednesday
that it'll be following
AMD down the path of
squeezing its previously
separate memory
controller onto the
processor die.
Integr... Mar. 31, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 9,762 Replies: 4 | Does That Dark Cloud
Hanging Over Moto Extend
to Dell? By Security News Desk  Remember Ron Garriques,
the guy that Michael Dell
hired a month ago to run
his new consumer unit,
the guy who used to run
Motorola's mobile devices
business? Well, Wednesday
Motorola up and
reorganized, warning of
unexpected Q1 losses and
complaining about the
unp... Mar. 28, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 10,702 Replies: 1 | AMD's Pyrrhic Victory By Security News Desk AMD may be teetering on
the brink of financial
disaster but if it does
go down for the count it
can comfort itself with
the knowledge that it
made it to eight-largest
semiconductor house in
the world last year, up
from 15th on the back of
a 91.6% increase in
reven... Mar. 28, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 9,418 Replies: 1 | Start-up Claims It's Got
the World's Only Secure
OS By Security News Desk Secure64, which as you
might expect is best
friends with Intel and HP
- but not to the point
either of them has put
money in the joint -
claims that it's got the
first and only DNS server
software that's immune to
rootkits and malware and
resistant to denial of
se... Mar. 27, 2007 11:15 PM Reads: 8,819 Replies: 1 | Bring Me the Head of Sam
Palmisano: Cramer By Security News Desk CNBC's inimitable Jim
Cramer told his investor
following last night to
stay away from IBM until
they heard that IBM CEO
Sam Palmisano was gone.
Since taking over the
company five years ago,
Palmisano has returned 1%
to stockholders, Cramer
said, 'you might as well
... Feb. 23, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 11,988 | EMC To Monetize VMware By Security News Desk EMC is going to IPO 10%
of VMware this summer.
It'll give VMware a
recruiting and retention
incentive and money
that's not EMC's to grow
on. It's also supposed
to increase the
visibility into VMware's
performance and signal
that the company is
committed to its op... Feb. 21, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 10,218 Replies: 1 | Emergent OnLine Awarded
$1.5 Million
Virtualization Solution By Security News Desk Emergent OnLine, an IT
Solutions Provider and
one of the most trusted
IT integrators in the
Washington metropolitan
area, announced that it
received a $1.5 Million
award to modernize the
desktop computing
infrastructure of a US
Department of Defense
agency, transf... Feb. 20, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 11,563 | Wyse Announces First Thin
Computing Reference
Platform for Enterprise
Desktop Virtualization By Security News Desk Wyse Technology, the
global leader in thin
computing, today
announced the
availability of the first
in a series of Thin
Computing Reference
Platforms designed for
major industry players
looking to incorporate
thin-computing technology
into their product
portfoli... Feb. 19, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 11,842 | VMworld Confidential:
DataCore iSCSI SAN
Software and VMware
Virtualization Make
Virtual Infrastructures
Practical for Everyone By Security News Desk Today at VMworld,
DataCore Software is
showcasing the
versatility of its
SANmelody(TM) SAN
software, which supports
both Fibre Channel (FC)
and iSCSI connectivity.
SANmelody software, with
its auto fail-over,
enterprise-level iSCSI
capabilities and
state-of-the-... Feb. 19, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 13,542 | EMC Rainfinity Extends
File Virtualization
Leadership with New
Enterprise Archiving
Support for Content
Addressed Storage By Security News Desk EMC Corporation, the
world leader in
information management
and storage, today
announced version 7.0 of
the Rainfinity(R) Global
File Virtualization(TM)
solution, extending EMC's
market-leading
capabilities in file
virtualization and
management to support
enterp... Feb. 19, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 9,870 | Beam Me Up, Scotty,
There's a Teraflop
Monster Here! By Security News Desk Well, if it can make it
x86-compatible, get
somebody to write a
workable operating system
for it, teach the world a
new way of parallel
computing-style
programming, and produce
it in volume, Intel is
going to have itself a
general-purpose
'Teraflops' chip in a few... Feb. 16, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 8,956 | It Works!! It Works!!! By Security News Desk Start-up semiconductor
house P.A. Semi Inc. has
confounded the doubters
and naysayers who claimed
it could never develop a
freaking complicated 2GHz
Power chip - with every
feature currently known
to man - that typically
consumes just 5W-13W - or
worse case 25W with... Feb. 9, 2007 11:15 AM Reads: 9,265 | Intel & IBM Claim To Have
Hit on a Modern Day
Philosopher's Stone By Security News Desk Intel has figured out a
way to make its 45nm
chips more threatening to
AMD - at least this year
and adding to its current
momentum - while at the
same time reinforcing
Moore's Law, which says
transistor counts double
every two years. It
claims it's made one of
the... Feb. 2, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 18,274 | Dell Dumps Rollins By Security News Desk Michael Dell has come
back to clean up the mess
left by CEO Kevin
Rollins, whose immediate
resignation was accepted
late Wednesday after the
market closed. Rollins is
gone from the Dell board
as well as its executive
suite. His departure has
been widely expected,
... Feb. 2, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 10,309 | Microsoft Seeks Patent on
Build-It-Yourself 'Lego'
Operating System By Security News Desk Imagine a completely
deconstructed operating
system that the user, or
service provider, glues
together out of just the
pieces he needs and pays
for it à la carte. Okay,
now imagine Microsoft -
which has repeatedly told
antitrust authorities the
world over for years... Feb. 2, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 9,425 | Apple Chief Grilled By Security News Desk Federal prosecutors and
SEC lawyers interviewed
Apple CEO Steve Jobs last
week about Apple's
backdating practices.
Nobody's talking about
what transpired but
doubtless the ground they
covered included how an
options award that went
to him happened to be
explained ... Jan. 30, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 7,580 | Sun To Use Intel Chips By Security News Desk In a move akin to the
Peace of Westphalia that
brought an end to that
nasty little European
episode known as the
Thirty Years War, Sun and
Intel this week formally
ceased hostilities.
Laying religious
differences aside like
the Protestants and
Catholics in 1648, S... Jan. 28, 2007 04:00 PM Reads: 6,968 | IBM Hit with Mega-Buck
Antitrust Tying Charges By Security News Desk Platform Solutions Inc.
(PSI), the mainframe
wannabe whose
Itanium-based servers can
run IBM's z/OS mainframe
operating system as well
as Windows, Unix and
Linux, has sued IBM for
antitrust, charging Big
Blue with, among other
things, tying the sale of
z/OS to the... Jan. 28, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 9,085 Replies: 2 | Good Lord, Sun Returns a
Profit! By Security News Desk On a roll after its
détente with Intel, Sun
Tuesday came in with
respectable numbers for a
change and announced that
- for some illusive
reason - Guernsey-based
KKR Private Equity
Investors LP had put $700
million in the company in
the form of convertible
notes. S... Jan. 26, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 8,026 Replies: 1 | HP Operative Pleads
Guilty By Security News Desk One of HP's low-level
operatives, Bryan Wagner,
'a/k/a mike@yahoo.com,'
apparently HP's chief
pretexter, has pleaded
guilty to federal charges
of conspiracy and
aggravated identity
theft. It could mean
seven years in the
calaboose and a fine of
$500,000. His plea... Jan. 22, 2007 08:15 AM Reads: 9,176 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Discovers
E-Commerce By Security News Desk With only 12 day left to
go before the Great Vista
Rollout to consumers on
January 30 and missing no
trick, Microsoft said
late Wednesday that it
would break with its
tradition of boxed or
pre-loaded software and
supply the thing online.
It's come up with three
w... Jan. 21, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 12,829 Replies: 1 | Intel Feels the Pinch Too By Security News Desk Cutting AMD off at the
knees in Q4 left Intel
limping a bit too.
Sequentially Intel did
great - revenues up 11%,
hitting the top of its
projections, income up
15%, operating income up
8% - enough for CFO Andy
Bryant to characterize
Intel's performance as a
'strong... Jan. 21, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 7,349 Replies: 1 | Dell Eats More of HP's
Dust By Security News Desk For the second time in a
row HP beat out Dell in
moving PCs worldwide,
this time increasing its
lead, according to both
Gartner and IDC. Gartner
reckons HP shipments in
Q4 grew 24% in Q4, giving
it 17.4% of the world
market, and it figures
Dell's sales dropped
8.7... Jan. 21, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 9,503 Replies: 1 | Dell To Carve Up its Main
Business Unit By Security News Desk Joe Marengi, the
51-year-old general
manager of Dell's
commercial business
group, which includes
servers, storage and PC
and accounts for 85% of
the company's revenues,
will be leaving at the
end of March, retiring
they say, and then Dell
is going split the unit
... Jan. 14, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 10,109 | Intel Won't Buck
Discovery Decision in AMD
Antitrust Case By Security News Desk Intel has decided not to
contest the special
master's decision handing
AMD certain discovery
rights in its US
antitrust suit against
Intel. The discovery
relates to Intel's
business dealings and
sales transactions with
customers in foreign
countries. AMD is fishin... Jan. 14, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 7,426 | Intel Releases First
Mainstream Quad By Security News Desk Intel came out at the
Consumer Electronics Show
with its first mainstream
quad chip, a part branded
a Core 2 Quad for the
occasion and made
immediately available.
There are also two other
new quads, giving Intel a
total of nine versions of
the widget for the
deskt... Jan. 14, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 7,243 | Backdating Watch By Security News Desk Comverse Technology's
former general counsel
William Sorin is going to
pay $3 million to settle
a criminal SEC
backdating-cum-stock
manipulation suit. He
will also be barred from
ever again serving as a
lawyer, officer or
director of a public
company and faces a
... Jan. 14, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 7,342 | Feds Charge HP Operative By Security News Desk Federal authorities have
moved against one of HP's
operatives, charging
Bryan Wagner, 'a/k/a
mike@yahoo.com,'
apparently HP's chief
pretexter, with
conspiracy and aggravated
identity theft. It could
mean seven years in the
calaboose and a fine of
$500,000. US Att... Jan. 13, 2007 04:00 AM Reads: 7,863 | Intel's Prices Hit AMD's
Fourth Quarter By Security News Desk Late Thursday, very late
in fact, AMD put out a
statement saying that its
Q4 revenues - excluding
anything it might see out
of its ATI acquisition -
would only be up 3% from
the $1.33 billion it
reported in calendar Q3,
a number, roughly $1.37
billion, that is lower... Jan. 13, 2007 03:45 AM Reads: 7,506 Replies: 1 | NCR To Spin Off Teradata
Later This Year By Security News Desk NCR said Monday that it's
going to spin its
Teradata data warehousing
business off into a
publicly traded company.
When exactly depends on
board authorization, an
IRS ruling, SEC filings
and the usual IPO
preparations, but it
won't be for another
six-nine months. ... Jan. 12, 2007 09:15 PM Reads: 9,827 | Might "Prototype
Hijacking" Subvert AJAX? By Security News Desk Does JavaScript, which
was never intended to do
anything resembling what
it does within the
approach now called AJAX,
have a fundamental design
flaw? That's the question
being asked by Stefano Di
Paola and Giorgio Fedon. Jan. 7, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 10,944 Replies: 2 | db4objects Releases Rev
6.0 By Security News Desk db4objects Releases Rev
6.0 db4object has got a
production-ready release
of db4o 6.0 that it says
is 10 times faster and
90% leaner on memory
consumption than version
5. The new open source
object database rev also
supports a new
server-side cursor
technology for ... Dec. 25, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 8,958 | Symantec, McAfee Get
Draft Vista APIs By Security News Desk Microsoft Tuesday gave
security vendors like
Symantec and McAfee, who
two months ago very
publicly complained of
being locked out of Vista
because of Microsoft's
new 'you-can't
get-to-the-64-bit kernel'
PatchGuard widgetry,
draft APIs that are
supposed to let them... Dec. 25, 2006 11:15 AM Reads: 7,738 | Panasonic Promises Better
Battery By Security News Desk Matsushita Electric, also
known as Panasonic,
claims to have come up
with a better
rechargeable lithium-ion
battery that unlike
Sony's infamous
lithium-ion batteries,
which sparked the largest
recall in computer
history, won't start
fires. Dec. 25, 2006 09:45 AM Reads: 6,280 | Opteron & Athlon64
'Aging': Wall Street By Security News Desk Opteron and the Athlon64
are 'aging' architectures
according to Nollenberger
Capital analyst Hans
Mosesmann and Intel's
Core 2 Duo eats its lunch
in 95% of all PC
applications. AMD is
also, as everyone knows,
late in moving to 65nm. Dec. 25, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 6,487 Replies: 1 | AMD Claims an Edge in
Distant 45nm By Security News Desk AMD has only started
making 65nm chips and
Intel has already started
making 45nm ones so AMD
said that it and its
buddy IBM would have 45nm
parts in mid-'08 using
newfangled ultra-low-K
interconnect technology
and immersion
lithography, which should
give AMD a
p... Dec. 25, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 8,477 Replies: 1 | Hey, These IPO Things
Actually Work By Security News Desk Somebody's gonna have a
very merry Christmas -
once they sober up.
Clustered storage
start-up Isilon Systems
Inc went public last
Friday nominally pricing
its shares at $13
although the broad market
never saw that price - it
opened $25 ending up 78%.
It has yet to... Dec. 24, 2006 11:15 PM Reads: 9,319 |
|
SYS-CON FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
|