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For all the talk about safety and security as a foundational promise of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, released to business users in late November, has already been found to contain several potentially serious vulnerabilities. A programming flaw, thought to be the first identified ...
Microsoft has fixed at least one of the issues with the Zune digital media player: a compatibility problem with Windows Vista, its new operating system scheduled for release on Jan. 30. The patch may not be enough to turn around poor holiday sales of the software giant's so-called iPod-killer, thoug...
What do you think causes almost two-thirds of all problems encountered by Windows-based PCs? Try background tasks. When you start up your computer, dozens of tasks called "processes" are loaded into your system's memory. If you want to take a look at them, press Ctrl-Alt-Del and when Windows Task Ma...
When Hollywood found floating on the Internet copies of "screeners" sent to Oscar voters, they turned to Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands for a solution. Philips' answer: digital watermarking. Digital watermarking has been around for some time, but with the spread of video distribution t...
Shopping is normally good for the economy, but not when the shoppers are net neutrality advocates looking for friendly deals on a regulatory forum. Policy makers in Michigan, their current target, should tell pro-regulatory activists to go home, with good reason. Those who support net neutrality leg...
Back in July, Microsoft released a dynamite Webcam, the LifeCam 6000, for desktop users. Now it's following suit with an equally impressive version of the unit for notebook users. The laptop model of the Webcam, the LifeCam NX-6000 (US$99), is about the size of a Pez dispenser, making it eminently t...
As we roll to the end of the year, events continue to take place that are changing dramatically the technologies and environments we live in. Last week, Microsoft had a coming-out party for Vista -- but only for the business market. While most feel it can't ramp up in business until 2008, there is c...
Microsoft on Thursday launched its Windows Vista operating system for businesses, along with Office 2007 suite and Exchange Server 2007. Microsoft made the introduction at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York City. The software giant is also celebrating 20 years as a publicly traded company. After ...
There are programs for creating to-do lists. There are programs for managing projects. Rarely, however, do the twain meet as they do in Priorganizer. The program, by John Wood at Riaform, is priced at US$29.95 like a simple to-do list application -- which is certainly how it can be used -- but it co...
There are lots of software programs, as well as e-mail add-ons, to fight spam, but none are as clever or will give you the visceral satisfaction of Nyms. Nyms, which is sold on an annual subscription basis of US$19.95, is the cerebral spawn of the folks at Anonymizer, an Internet privacy and securit...
Spam is reaching unprecedented levels according to a survey released earlier this month by Internet security vendor Postini. The firm reported a 59 percent increase in spam from September to November, when it processed nearly 70 billion e-mail connections. Unwanted e-mail has now reached a whopping ...
An emerging trend in the embedded market is the decoupling of software from hardware. This trend has allowed vendors to optimize revenues by pricing and selling software and the features it enables separately from the device on which the software runs. Software is often a critical component of embe...
AOL on Wednesday launched the latest version of its instant messaging service, AIM 6.0, which boasts offline messenging, an improved user interface, and enhanced support for blogging and other social networking activities. AIM 6.0's community-building orientation should be a plus as AOL shifts from ...
Microsoft on Tuesday released six security fixes to address a diversity of bugs in Windows and Office. The security flaws range from important to critical, the company said. Five of the vulnerabilities carry Microsoft's most severe rating: critical. All six allow a hacker to execute code from a remo...
Microsoft on Wednesday released Windows Vista to manufacturing after multiple delays, backlash from security vendors and European Commission wrangling. The release to manufacturing means that Microsoft has finished development work on the new operating system and is preparing for the final product r...
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