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Clearing potential Olympics network hurdle

News Deluge of online content streamed during the Games may affect corporate networks, but firms should not practise "draconian filtering practices", says Fortinet.

Monday, August 04 2008 06:55 PM

Tags: Network security, Security Management, Fortinet Inc., Security, Hour, Symantec Corp., Internet usage, network, NBC, Internet

Amazon to boost Asia's cloud assurance

News update Cloud provider's push into Asia-Pacific is expected to provide a boost of assurance to companies of cloud computing's viability, says analyst.

Tuesday, November 17 2009 12:07 PM

Tags: Cloud computing, Web services, SingTel, software, Amazon.com Inc., Asia, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Storage, Web Service

Photoshop.com adds video hosting, group albums

News Somewhat behind the competition, Adobe finally adds video and group album capabilities to Photoshop.com.

Monday, August 24 2009 10:53 AM

Tags: Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., RSS, Video, Terms Of Service, photograph, e-mail, online photo, Facebook, Flickr

Google wins over more Net users in June

News The Net leader gains on Yahoo and Microsoft when it comes to share of U.S. Internet users, but still lags in terms of time spent on the site.

Tuesday, July 15 2008 07:47 AM

Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Web services, Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Minute, Google Inc., Hour, Yahoo! Inc., Internet User

New filters in Google search for speed, news

News Google adds several new filters to its search options panel unveiled in May, letting searchers find results from just the last hour, or results from within Google News and Books.

Friday, October 02 2009 10:08 AM

Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., advertisement, Web sites, Web Page, search engine company, product manager, Search Result

Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option

News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.

Wednesday, October 28 2009 11:12 AM

Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server

The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation

Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...

Tuesday, August 18 2009 08:36 PM

Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro

Blogs As a registered Microsoft developer, I had early access to the final release version of Windows 7, which I installed on ...

Tuesday, September 01 2009 01:04 AM

Facebook: We're going after scammy ads, too

News The social network reinforced in its developer blog that it's taking an active stance against the companies that have been getting bad press recently for deceptive advertising.

Monday, November 09 2009 11:18 AM

Tags: Internet advertising, Facebook, Social Networking, Ad Network, compliance, application company, Burger King Corp., Internet advertising, advertisement, network

PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage

News eBay's online payment system suffered outages for about two hours Monday, but the company says it's working for most people again.

Tuesday, August 04 2009 09:13 AM

Tags: Service level management, Web sites, E-commerce, E-business, PayPal, Web Page, eBay Inc., Online Payment, API, Outage

Another attack hits Twitter

News Less than a week after a denial-of-service attack knocked it offline, Twitter's servers went down again.

Wednesday, August 12 2009 10:47 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Data security, Security Management, Hacking, LiveJournal, Twitter, Attack, Server, denial of service, Facebook

HSBC home banking Web site trojan 'false report', says bank

News Report on the U.K. Crypto security mailing list claims HSBC's Personal Banking Web site had been infected by malware.

Monday, August 17 2009 11:14 AM

Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, IT Management, Security, Portal, bank, trojan horse, Web Site, Web, Data security

Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle

News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief.

Tuesday, October 06 2009 09:57 AM

Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, Amazon EC2, British Telecommunications, Savvis Communications

Apple's new data center foreshadows a cloudy future

Techguide Apple's new data center project is so big that it begs the question of whether Apple is simply planning for the growth of its current services or if it has more ambitious plans in the works.

Thursday, September 10 2009 10:51 AM

Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Apple Inc., Tablet, Video, Storage, Apple Macintosh, Cloud computing, Apple iPhone, data center