| Complex in-house software costing companies dearly |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:29:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Early investment is better than fixing bugs later, says IDC. The growing risk of defects from increasingly complex in-house software is costing companies dearly, according to new research from IDC.
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| VMware offers free software to battle Microsoft |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:52:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
New CEO gets retaliation in first. VMware is to offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualisation software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's market lead.
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| Mobile network builder looks to IKEA for inspiration |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:08:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
The curse of the flatpack. Mobile company VNL has taken a leaf out of Ikea's book and has developed a mobile base station that can be constructed by the customers. That way, claimed the company, it becomes more economic to offer service in rural areas in developing countries.
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| PGP's endpoint system gets encryption kick |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:07:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
If it moves, encrypt it. Encryption specialist PGP Corporation has come up with an intriguing twist on the old theme of endpoint security - don't just control mobile devices but force them, where appropriate, to use encryption on the data they carry.
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| Stock spammer escapes from jail |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:06:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Unwanted spam, wanted mastermind. Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson disappeared from a federal minimum-security prison camp in Colorado on Sunday, the US Department of Justice has said.
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| Mozilla 3.1 preview due this week |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Features that missed the 3.0 boat. Mozilla is aiming to ship the first preview edition of Firefox 3.1 this Friday. The company hopes that fast-track update will be released late this year or early in 2009.
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| Hackers preparing to exploit DNS flaw |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:16:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
It's only a matter of time, warn experts. Security experts are warning that a DNS attack is now imminent, following the accidental publication of the details of a DNS flaw.
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| Sybase offers enterprise email to iPhone users |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:32:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Access to Notes and Exchange available. Sybase has introduced enterprise email support for the iPhone 3G, enabling wireless access to Lotus Notes and Exchange.
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| Documentum revamped for Web 2.0 users |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
EMC gets into social networking. EMC has upgraded its Documentum enterprise content management platform with several Web 2.0 tools and a software server. Version 6.5 release of EMC Documentum features four new add-ons, including a web page builder; a rich media interface for reviewing, annotating and sharing rich media files; a personalised client giving users quick access to frequently used content; and new team workspaces.
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| Open source could learn from Microsoft |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:49:00 GMT
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Developers fail to take security into account says Fortify Companies who opt for an open source software within their organisations could be leaving themselves open to security breaches.
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| Japanese company looks to take on Microsoft and Mozilla. |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:25:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Company hopes that browser customisation will appeal to English language users. A Japanese software company is stepping up international promotion of its web browser.
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| IBM and Oracle sued on server software |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:16:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Implicit strikes again IBM, SAP and Adobe Systems are the latest targets of patent lawsuits filed by serial litigant, Implicit Networks.
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| Details of DNS bug posted by accident |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:53:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Oops...I dropped the ball. A computer security company inadvertently published details of a major DNS flaw several weeks before they were due to be disclosed.
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| Brocade buys Foundry to extend range |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:37:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
$3 billion deal to help LAN and WAN convergence Brocade is to buy enterprise LAN vendor Foundry Networks in a deal that the company said would allow it to offer a full line of products from the Internet to the data centre.
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| 10in Eee PCs available in the UK |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:36:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
XP version cheaper than Linux. The latest version of Asus's Eee PC is now available in the UK, with two models in the Eee PC 1000 series priced at £349 and £369.
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| TomorrowNow is yesterday's news |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:19:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
SAP closes ill-fated subsidiary SAP has bowed to the inevitable and is winding down operations at its TomorrowNow subsidiary, set up to third-party maintenance for Oracle's full-house of enterprise applications.
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| Start-up offers new way to access websites |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:53:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
RoamAbout offers new experience claims founder A California startup company, Vysr, is trying to improve on the web browser with a free add-on tool that lets you access services from sites without having to actually visit them.
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| Nexsan gets beastly with business data |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:35:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Storage box offers Tier 1 features on Tier 2 capacity. Nexsan has introduced a storage subsystem which it said could enable users to consolidate their long-term business-critical data stores into a single consolidated platform.
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| Dell offers new Ubuntu PCs |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:50:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Inspiron 1520 and XPS M1330 available now Dell has announced a new range of Linux machines, supporting Ubuntu 8.04.
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| Another ex-Soviet state under fire in web attack |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:26:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Georgia joins Estonia and Lithuania as cyber victims. Hackers took down the website for the president of Georgia in yet another attack on the governments of former Soviet states. The website was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attacks against countries experiencing political friction with Russia.
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| RIM fixes critical BlackBerry bug |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:20:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
PDF flaw now patched. RIM has patched a critical bug in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to stymie hackers hoping to break into company networks by tricking users of the popular smart phone into opening rigged PDFs.
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| Atom for notebooks costs 52% more than desktop version |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:25:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Users will pay for popular chip. Notebook users looking to use Atom-based machines might end up paying heavily for it. According to Intel's latest price list, the popular Intel Atom microprocessors made for netbooks, or mini-laptops, costs 52 percent more per chip than the desktop version of the same processor.
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| AMD says it's still in low-power chip game |
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:11:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Bobcat still being developed but no plans for release just yet. AMD has quashed rumours that it has shelved its low-power processor for mobile devices and sub-notebooks.
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| Judge prevents chipmaker's flaws staying secret |
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:13:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Security researchers can publish their findings. A Dutch court has denied a request from chipmaker NXP to prevent the publication of a scientific study of the security of the firm's Mifare Classic RFID technology. Researchers will continue to pursue presenting their findings in October.
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| New worm aimed to music sharers |
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:48:00 GMT
Source: Techworld.com News |
Danger lurking in ASF files. A new kind of malicious software is aimed at music-loving Windows users. The new malware, hits those who download music files on peer-to-peer networks, and inserts links to dangerous web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files.
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