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Microsoft plans to provide eight patches, some of them critical, when it delivers its monthly batch of security updates next Tuesday. In a notice posted to its Web site, Microsoft said critical fixes for Windows, Office, MSN Messenger and Exchange would be released. Five of the eight patches are for...
MTV this week announced the launch of "MTV Overdrive," an Web-based channel designed for broadband users who want their MTV -- online. Overdrive will launch on April 25, 2005 with exclusive, MTV-style content, including music videos, live music performances, short-form programming and artist intervi...
Virus encounters, virus disasters, malicious code -- and the recovery time and costs associated with these events -- are on the rise, according to a new survey. Cybertrust division ICSA Labs' 10th Labs Virus Prevalence Survey shows that viruses in 2004 increased nearly 50 percent over the previous y...
As if phishing isn't bad enough, network security firms report pharmers are now emerging in larger numbers on the Internet to steal your identity. To top it off, new research has found that the volume of IM-borne security threats have also increased dramatically since the beginning of the year. The...
Microsoft has confirmed that it is delaying the launch of its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition. The software giant initially expected to release a beta version this summer, but has postponed the launch until the first half of 2006 in order to respond to early customer feedback. Microsoft ...
Business users have been slow to make the upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, according to AssetMetrix Research Labs, a vendor that helps companies analyze their computing infrastructures. But analysts said the survey may not tell the entire story. Of the 251 surveyed North American corp...
Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment is vying to become the iTunes of the downloadable movie industry. So said Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, at the Digital Hollywood conference earlier this week. "We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like [App...
In a competitive move that extends beyond aggregating general-audience blogs and RSS news feeds, Bloglines this week added package tracking to its free Web-based services. Bloglines users can now track the shipping progress of package deliveries from FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service ...
Microsoft yesterday released its Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, providing system customers with security enhancements as well as reliability and performance improvements. Analysts said service pack releases are significant events for consumers under typical circumstances, but this Microsoft rel...
Toshiba and Elpida Memory both announced today high-performance DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips they claim achieve the fastest data transfer rate yet attained by any memory device. The second generation 512-megabit XDR (extreme data rate) DRAMs each have a peak operating speed of 3.2 Ghz, ...
Microsoft made two major advances this week including the launch of its MSN Video Downloads service and announcing plans to offer a new ID system designed to give users more control over personal information. Microsoft said MSN Video Downloads will provide daily television programming, including vid...
The recently formed Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) announced this week that it has created a new committee to define security requirements for Internet telephony networks. Analysts said the outcome could be a significant boon for the industry. "This is a significant step toward improving V...
"Beta release." These two words are attached to more and more software releases these days -- and not open-source products, either. It seems almost everything Google releases, for example, is first introduced in beta version. Analysts said even Microsoft has now officially jumped on the beta bandwag...
Fabless semiconductor company Luxtera announced today that it has solved the longstanding problem of building advanced photonic interfaces into mass-produced silicon chips. The company claimed that, for the first time, it is possible to integrate high-speed optical fiber interfaces in silicon device...
Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following injury. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Science...
Motorola this week unveiled an all-new lineup of music-capable handsets -- but the long-awaited iTunes-compatible phone was nowhere to be found. The Motorola E680i, with over 2 gigabytes of memory, allows users to transfer, store, catalog and enjoy their favorite tracks. The E725 model lets users wi...
In a marriage between two hot server technologies, IBM announced at the Server Blade Summit yesterday that it will bundle evaluation copies of VMWare's virtual infrastructure into its eServer BladeCenter shipments. Customers purchasing Big Blue's BladeCenter will receive six-month evaluation copies ...
Intrusion detection and prevention systems provider Internet Security Systems (ISS) issued a "protection advisory" targeting older versions of McAfee's anti-virus software engine last Thursday. Attackers are able to trigger a stack overflow within the process importing the McAfee AntiVirus Library,...
Opera Software this week released a beta version of the next Opera browser for the desktop. The new version includes scalable vector graphics (SVG), which automatically scales any Web page to fit a user's screen. "We believe SVG will enter mainstream Web design in the future and we are very pleased ...
After more than doubling last year, portable digital music player sales are set for 57 percent growth in 2005, according to results of a global survey released today. Market research group iSuppli said shipments of MP3 music players rose by 116 percent in 2004 and will expand to 132 million units in...
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