Archive for April, 2008
Research into the political leanings of leading UK bloggers and internet forum posters shows an opinion poll-defying sub-trend among the net-savvy.
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Zango’s adware fox desperate to guard net henhouse
'Kaspersky's got nothin' on us'
Comment Zango, creator of Hotbar, Seekmo Search Assistant and other adware programs of dubious value to end users, just can't seem to come to grips with reality. It's coughed up a $3m fine to the FTC and abandoned two lawsuits claiming anti-malware providers illegally interfered with its business after being laughed out of just about every court where it's pursued such actions.…
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Dubya archives White House email by hand
When a system is not a system
How does the George W. Bush administration archive its email? It asks someone to manually copy the contents of an Exchange folder.…
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Citrix boss wants data center ‘dinosaurs’ to evolve
Service-oriented mammalians to survive IT recession
Interop 2008 Day two of Interop Las Vegas 2008 opened with a modest IT proposal from Mark Templeton, President and CEO of Citrix.…
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KVM funder takes a swing at desktop virtualization
Qumranet wants you hooked on SolidICE
Qumranet, a rather small software company, wants to make a very large play in the virtualization market with a new product. It's looking for Solid ICE to go up against the desktop virtulization wares from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and a host of start-ups.…
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Nigerian duped gullible NASA employee
Looking for love in all the wrong places
A Nigerian man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after tricking a NASA employee into clicking on an email attachment that installed malware on her government-issued computer.…
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Parallels looks to shake up virtual server market
Virtualisation company reveals strategy to enter crowded server hypervisor market, with more flexible approach and lower cost structure.
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Toffs’ phone maker goes loco over Rococo
A monetary masterpiece?
Vertu has used an 18th Century French art movement as the inspiration for its latest range of exclusive, overpriced handsets.…
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Sun extends open source storage
Sun Microsystems has extended its open source storage platform with new developer tools and services.
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Sony Ericsson puts a Flash into Java
Why have only one development platform?
Sony Ericsson is planning to offer developers the opportunity to embed Flash Lite applications inside J2ME midlets, in the hope that two mobile phone application platforms will prove better than one.…
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