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The Mozilla Foundation yesterday released a security update to the Firefox Web browser. The patch includes several fixes to guard against spoofing and arbitrary code execution Firefox 1.0.1 patches several bugs, including a vulnerability in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), Web addresses represented by local language characters that enable ...
Customers frequently ask us, "What tools do I need for effective application performance management?" The right set of tools can be a catalyst to increase your staff's productivity and reduce the time required for problem identification and resolution. The wrong tools can waste your time and money and potentially lead you down an unproductive path....
The allure of automating the most common tasks involving channel partners, manufacturers and distributors is so sexy that this corner of the CRM market erupted with growth during the dot-com bubble. Today it's collapsing faster than a souffle pulled from the oven too fast When the number of firms offering Partner Relationship Management, or PRM, g...
French Linux distributor Mandrakesoft will acquire its Brazilian counterpart, Conectiva, the two companies announced yesterday Mandrakesoft will buy all of Conectiva's stock for US$2.3 million to take over the 60-employee company, which had $2.2 million in revenue and reached the break-even point in the last six months of its fiscal year....
This week, the California Telephone Association met in Monterey, Calif., to think about the future of advanced communications. The topics that these small telecom companies discussed will affect consumers across the country Predictions are difficult, but as musician Webb Wilder once said, it's easy to "take a hint." The hints in communications fal...
Looking to round out its database offerings for smaller and entry-level customers and also to fill in the time before the arrival of its next-generation of Windows, Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its SQL Server 2005 database this week Microsoft unveiled an updated line of SQL Server. Offerings include a free entry-level version designed f...
Leading mobile phone maker Nokia said it expects China to surpass the United States as the largest market for wireless phones and mobile subscriptions within three years, just the latest evidence that the rise of the Chinese economy is tilting the worldwide balance of power As it marked its 20th anniversary of first establishing a presence in China...
In another attempt to slow the spread of computer viruses, the British government has set up a Web site that offers to alert citizens when serious Internet security problems are making the rounds The IT Security Awareness for Everyone site (www.itsafe.gov.uk) will offer the alerts via e-mail or text message and will also give advice on data protect...
In a move that underscores the rise of the smartphone and the shrinking relevance of the personal digital assistant (PDA), Sony has said it will stop making its Clie line of portable organizers for sale in Japan later this year, a move that will mark the end of the electronics maker's five-year run in PDAs Sony said it will stop shipping existing C...
Leveraging the buzz around this weekend's 77th Annual Academy Awards, yesterday Google launched its new movie search feature. The offering can be accessed through the main Google search page via personal computers, mobile phones and wireless devices that use short-message service Analysts said making movie showtimes available is yet another advanta...
As a judicial panel heard arguments this week on a scheme to fight thepiracy of digital television broadcasts, a civil libertarian group in SanFrancisco launched a guerrilla program to undermine the plan The scheme is the so-called "broadcast flag," a digital rights management(DRM) system for controlling what consumers can do with digital televisio...
CNET Networks plans to announce a partnership between its Download.com property and e-commerce solutions provider Protexis in the coming days that will launch Upload.com Merchant services, a self-trial product promotion and e-commerce solution for software publishers Upload.com will complement Download.com, a digital download site that boasts tens ...
When it comes to developing a presence on the Internet, it takes far more than a catchy or easy-to-remember domain name. While it claims to be the first and largest registrar of domain names on the Internet, Network Solutions is expanding its range of services to meet the demands of both enterprise and small-business customers Recently, the Herndon...
Since the end of the U.S. presidential campaign, the issue of outsourcing has ceased to be daily fodder for television news outlets. But it remains an issue that many American corporations struggle with on a daily basis Aside from controversy surrounding the loss of American jobs, companies must decide what processes to outsource and which countri...
A recent vulnerability found in the popular open-source database MySQL revealed a persistent problem for IT managers: password management among administrators Most talk about password security traditionally centers around end users and the use of weak, easy-to-guess passwords. In companies where administrators have policies dictating more difficul...
A characteristic that HIV shares with spam has led Microsoft and AIDS researchers to team up on developing a vaccine to kill the deadly disease Just as spam merchants make tiny changes in the words that are blocked by filters, so, too, HIV mutates rapidly and in tiny ways that keep it one step ahead of the body's immune system....
Federal Reserve policy-makers suggested that interest rates were lower than needed to keep inflation under control and that the pace of any future increases would depend on economic conditions, according to minutes of the Fed's February meeting released today Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues boosted a key short-term interest rate by o...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned the public to avoid falling victim to an ongoing mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users receive unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI "These e-mails did not come from the FBI. Recipients of this or similar solicitations should know that the FBI does not engage in the practice of sen...
Less than 24 hours after Intel erased Advanced Micro Devices' status as the sole provider of 64-bit chips by announcing its own, AMD demonstrated a dual-core Athlon 64 processor, touting multiple core capability in its chips for servers, workstations and desktops and claiming it is the only company with an x86 architecture dual-core server The comp...
Microsoft has said it has forged a partnership to work with France-based telecom gear maker Alcatel in a bid to advance the adoption of Internet-based television by targeting telecommunications companies eager to ward off competition from cable companies by offering a broader menu of services The two companies hope to convince broadband service pro...
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