Month: August 2010

Like EMC HP pushes around smaller rival in bidding war

Like EMC HP pushes around smaller rival in bidding war The HP/Dell bidding war over storage vendor 3Par is shaping up to be a repeat of last year’s high-profile battle between EMC and NetApp. In May 2009 NetApp triumphantly announced a $1.5 billion deal to purchase Data Domain, but was quickly outbid by EMC. Although […]

Registry operator Afilias embraces DNS security

Registry operator Afilias embraces DNS security which operates .info and more than a dozen other Web site extensions, will announce on Monday plans to deploy an emerging standard known as DNSSEC that adds a layer of encryption to the Internet’s Domain Name System. Will security worries propel DNS into the cloud? Osterman Research : Minimizing […]

Microsoft Issues New Windows Security Advisories

Microsoft Issues New Windows Security Advisories Microsoft issued even more details about Windows security concerns, even after releasing its August security update on Tuesday. Late yesterday, Microsoft MCTS Training announced two security advisories. One is new, while the other updates a previously issued advisory. Meanwhile, IT pros already are tying to cope with this month’s […]

Microsoft Extends UTD Discount for Windows and Office

Microsoft Extends UTD Discount for Windows and Office Microsoft has extended its “up-to-date” (UTD) discount upgrade offer for Windows and Office licensees through next month. The extension of the UTD upgrade offer “through September 30, 2010” was announced on Tuesday by Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group. He provided […]

HTML5 raises new security issues

HTML5 raises new security issues When it comes to new security issues, the security team for the Firefox browser have the new version of the Web HyperText Markup Language, HTML5, foremost on the mind. “Web apps are becoming incredibly rich with HTML5. The browser is starting to manage full-bore applications and not just Web pages,” […]

Surviving And Staying Ahead

Surviving And Staying Ahead To survive and thrive in today’s brutally competitive business environment, tech firms must find ways to continuously move ahead– and to stay ahead– of their competition. Here’s an insight on the factors that differentiate the best from the rest, and the leaders from the also-rans. Joe Tiller, a famous football coach, […]

What New With Operating Systems

What’s New With Operating Systems? In the light of fast-paced changes on the browser front, are users finding that innovation at the desktop has stagnated? Has it? Or is there a lot brewing ‘under the hood’ that we’re just not aware of, yet take for granted as our user experience improves incrementally? For most computer […]

Intel grabs server market share from AMD, says IDC

Intel grabs server market share from AMD, says IDC Intel has expanded its share of the server microprocessor market, taking advantage of a slow product transition at perennial rival Advanced Micro Devices, according to figures released late Wednesday by IDC. Intel supplied 93.5 percent of the server processor units shipped in the second quarter, up […]

Microsoft aims to stop drive-by downloads on Patch Tuesday

Microsoft aims to stop drive-by downloads on Patch Tuesday and third-party security experts warned that users could be subjected to drive-by downloads because of flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer that received fixes on Patch Tuesday this week. Hackers are likely to use social engineering tricks to lure users to infected Web sites and media […]

Microsoft offers Windows 7, Office 2010 via download stores

Microsoft offers Windows 7, Office 2010 via download stores Microsoft has for the first time allowed selected partners to sell its flagship software products as downloads. The move sees Microsoft selling Windows 7, Microsoft MCTS Training Office 2010 and other flagship titles via ESD (Electronic Software Delivery) at online stores including the PC Advisor Software […]

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