Unauthorised drilling in a protected area A top manager at a US software developer has avoided jail after pleading guilty to lifting password-protected files from the website of a business rival.… Full published article at: Read More »

Exploit code for 0day fails to ping on Redmond's radar Microsoft came clean and admitted its SQL Server database software is vulnerable to code injection attacks. It's not a new flaw but the same bug in the database software that emerged around the time of Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday update earlier this month.… Full published article at: Read More »

Lots of new code coming in 2009 While VMware still has the lion's share of the money and installed base in the server virtualization software racket on x64 platforms, 2009 is shaping up to be a year when various contenders ratchet up the pressure on the company and try to steal away some business. But VMware has plenty of its own smart techies, and a marketing machine that can - and will - compete against the likes of Microsoft, Citrix Systems, Red Hat, and others.… Full published article at: Read More »

Pop storage idol Livedrive's Andrew Michael is not your average storage CEO.… Full published article at: Read More »

Microsoft Live Mess? Web bling tone The BBC recently released a new cross-platform version of its desktop iPlayer, for downloading programmes and watching them offline. It may the most prominent example yet of an Adobe Systems' AIR application - a runtime that includes the Flash player and the WebKit HTML rendering engine.… Full published article at: Read More »

Apple suggests fix for Mail suicides Apple is hoping that its latest support bulletin will calm down some of the uproar over problems caused by its latest Mac OS X upgrade - in this case, the propensity of Apple's email client to unexpectedly quit.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 23 December 2008 at 12:25:00 CIOs will be investing more in tools that aid automation, says research European and US businesses expect to cut technology spending by two per cent in 2009. But software maker SAP is one of the few vendors where spending could increase, according to a UBS study. Some 75 per cent of 100 chief information officers (CIOs) polled claimed they did not anticipate terminating maintenance contracts, but 70 per cent said they would renegotiate the terms of their supplier agreements in the coming year. Around 12 per cent...Read More »

Accuse Redmond of spewing out river of filth Microsoft's Seadragon graphics viewing application has come under fire for allegedly distributing pornography to unsuspecting iPhone users, presumably those unfamiliar with the way the internet works these days.… Full published article at: Read More »

ICANN gets the call on .whatever The US government has criticised an ICANN plan to allow many more top level domain extensions, raising questions once again over the organization's independence from political interests in Washington.… Full published article at: Read More »

Extra £10 per month for better streams Analysis The executive in charge of the BBC iPlayer has suggested that internet users could be charged £10 per month extra on their broadband bill for higher quality streaming.… Full published article at: Read More »