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It's not exactly a happy new year for millions of PC users exposed to a Microsoft Windows flaw that leaves the door wide open for hackers, Trojans, worms, spyware and other malicious attacks. F-Secure first reported the vulnerability on Dec. 27. Microsoft does not plan to issue a patch until Jan. 10...
There are lots of software heavyweights in the digital imaging editing field -- sluggers such as Microsoft, Adobe and Ulead -- so it's a wonder that a fine program like Paint Shop Pro has continued to chug along over the years without being derailed as has been the case with so many worthwhile indep...
Although blogging has gained a certain amount of notoriety in the media, its tool base remains relatively immature. There are some viable tools available to bloggers offered by hosting services like Blogger and Typepad, but a truly integrated approach has been lacking. But, as any savvy technologist...
What do you get when you mix information science with Hollywood's film industry? Computer-based predictions of the next blockbuster hit. Professor Ramesh Sharda, an information systems specialist at Oklahoma State University, has developed a computer program to help Hollywood predict the potential s...
IBM announced its latest "self-healing" software, touting a sidestep to IT staff-stealing glitches and other outages through managed monitoring, application manager, and multi-platform system automation software. Big Blue said by freeing IT teams from finding and fixing glitches in typical, sophisti...
Microsoft Research released today a program that can help sort through e-mail so that correspondence that you're most likely to want to see ends up where you're most likely to see it. SNARF (Social Network and Relationship Finder) is a free, add-on program that works with Outlook 2003 and up. It "kn...
Microsoft is testing its new comprehensive security software and service, dubbed OneCare Live, promising a simpler solution to anti-virus, firewall and backup, but has not released pricing for the new product due out in final form next year. The software giant said the comprehensive PC security serv...
Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items. In the analog world, some folks keep tabs on their important data bits by scribbling them on post-it notes and sticking them to any available surface in sight, creating a fes...
The software universe is teeming with programs for creating slideshows from digital images. Many of these applications fulfill their appointed task very well. But one snag for me when creating slideshows has been their file size. Although some programs claim they'll create slideshows suitable for po...
In an apparent move to cater to governments, Microsoft today said it is taking steps to offer the file format technology behind Word and Excel to customers and the industry as an international standard. A large group of co-sponsors, including Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor...
In a move that underscores the growing importance of flash memory chips as consumer electronics devices continue to shrink in size, Intel and Micron Technology announced a joint venture that will create flash chips for the likes of Apple and others. The two chip makers will contribute up to US$5.2 b...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today shared his vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation during his keynote speech at Supercomputing 2005. Of course, part of his vision includes the software giant's Windows Compute Cluster Serve...
Microsoft is getting down to business with an enterprise version of its Windows Desktop search, which provides corporate intranet searches through other Microsoft software including Office, SharePoint Portal Server and third-party enterprise applications. The free software, available for download wi...
Amid much public debate and reports that it could leave consumers wide open for malicious attacks, Sony has decided to halt the insertion of anti-piracy software into its CDs. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) system limits the number of times a CD can be copied. The software installs itself on Wi...
Podcasting changed the face of audio on the Web and now it's altering the face of hosting, too. The technology that moved blogging from eye to ear has hosting services revising their pricing to attract the growing ranks of podcasters to their servers and has increased pressure on niche players to re...
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