A quiet week it wasn’t, thanks largely to the long-anticipated consummation of a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo. There were also yet more juicy rumors of an Apple tablet, rumblings of discontent over the iPhone Store’s decision to boot Google Voice apps, and even larger rumblings when one of the world’s biggest ISPs took on [...]
Less than five years after its initial release, Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser has hit its one billionth download.
Microsoft on Friday let users who want to upgrade from one version of Windows 7 to another know how they can do so.
People can create an online store in “a matter of minutes” with a new gadget application that uses Google’s Checkout electronic payment service and its Docs spreadsheet application, Google announced Friday.
Think of the annual Pwnie Awards delivered at the Black Hat conference as a geek version of the Oscars – if they were combined with the tongue-in-cheek Razzies that celebrate the worst of Hollywood.
A Google service that helps protect Internet surfers from malicious sites also gathers data about browsing activities that users are trying to keep secret, a researcher told Black Hat attendees.
Traditional productivity suites will continue to be a core part of content creation in the enterprise, but newer Web 2.0 and social networking tools will add unique options, says Craig Roth, Burton Group vice president and services director.
A talk at Black Hat had to be scaled back because it contained information about Conficker that might tip investigators’ hand and send the perpetrators further underground, says F-Secure’s chief research officer.
An Internet tool to shield Chinese dissidents from their government seems to do just the opposite and also probes military, financial and academic networks in the U.S., Canada and Taiwan, according to research presented at Black Hat.
When your e-mail works today or the application you depend upon responds quickly, don’t forget to thank your company’s system administrator – who probably played some part in ensuring you could remain productive and get your job done.
Darknets – private networks carved out of the Internet to allow peer-to-peer sharing – can be quickly and easily created among Web browsers making it possible for people to participate anonymously and for the darknet itself to vanish with barely a trace when all the participants close their browsers, researchers told Black Hat yesterday.
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Directory and identity start-up UnboundID completed its directory lineup with the release of a proxy server that provides users with load balancing, failover and extra security controls.
Cloud-based identity services are starting to gain a foothold among corporate users, but the evolving architecture looks nothing like the platforms companies have been building internally, according to Bob Blakley, vice president and research director at the Burton Group.
France Télécom’s revenue for the first half fell 0.5 percent year on year, even though customer numbers grew by 6.6 percent, it reported Thursday.
A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet’s addressing system less vulnerable to hackers.
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