Year: 2010

Google Verizon in talks on net neutrality deal?

Google Verizon in talks on net neutrality deal? Google and Verizon are reportedly in talks over how to manage network traffic, an agreement that could influence how U.S. regulators view network neutrality, according to a report in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. Verizon confirmed the talks have been ongoing with Google and the U.S. Federal Communications […]

5 Windows 7 security features businesses need to know about Part II

5 Windows 7 security features businesses need to know about Part II Each profile type has its own selection of applications and connections allowed through the firewall. For instance, in a home or small-business network marked Private, you might allow file and printer sharing, while on a network marked Public, you would likely disallow access […]

Microsoft VMware customers are Windows customers first

Microsoft VMware customers are Windows customers first Microsoft rarely finds itself in second place, but Microsoft’s head of server virtualization says he doesn’t mind playing catch-up to VMware in the hypervisor market. For one thing, Microsoft’s Mike Neil notes that Hyper-V’s market share is growing faster than VMware’s, and says “that’s a good position for […]

Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates

Cisco settles antitrust suit over software updates has settled a 2008 lawsuit in which independent network maintenance company Multiven charged that Cisco forced customers to buy its SMARTnet service plan in order to get bug fixes and software updates. Multiven agreed to drop its claims against Cisco, and Cisco dropped countersuits against Multiven, network expertise […]

Microsoft releases Azure cloud platform appliance

Microsoft releases Azure cloud platform appliance With the help of hardware partners, Microsoft MCTS Training has released a version of its Windows Azure cloud platform as an appliance, the company said on Monday during the kickoff of its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) being held this week in Washington D.C. Microsoft has run a version of […]

Video previews Microsoft Office 2011 plans

Video previews Microsoft Office 2011 plans Microsoft has started rolling out more details about Office 2011, the upcoming upgrade of its productivity suite. On Wednesday, the company posted a brief video on its Mac Mojo blog showing off a few of the suite’s new features. The video–which combines images of the software and interviews with […]

IBM snaps up Storwize

IBM snaps up Storwize After much anticipation, IBM on Thursday announced its intent to acquire data compression vendor Storwize. Storwize, based in Marlborough, Mass., provides data compression in real-time that can reduce primary data by as much as 80%, according to company claims. The company has been successful in engaging customers such as Shopzill and […]

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole Microsoft MCTS Training on Tuesday will release a rare out-of-band patch to fix the highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability  that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings earlier this month. The patch will be for all supported versions of Windows and will require a restart. As I […]

Microsoft slates IE9 beta for September

Microsoft slates IE9 beta for September MIcrosoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today. If the timeline is accurate, the IE9 beta release will come a month later than earlier speculation, which had settled on August, a pick based in large part on PowerPoint slides purportedly […]

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole

Microsoft to issue patch for dangerous USB rootkit hole Microsoft on Tuesday will release a rare out-of-band patch to fix the highly dangerous zero-day vulnerability  that has caused multiple researchers to issuing warnings earlier this month. The patch will be for all supported versions of Windows and will require a restart. As I previously wrote […]

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