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Top ten Windows threats
Insight A look at the SANS Institute-FBI updated list of top ten most exploited security threats in Windows.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, windows alerts
iPod Hi-Fi has big-sounding ambitions
Insight Steve Jobs is a self-confessed audiophile.
Tags: Music devices, MP3 players, IT Management, Music
Closer look at Microsoft's Linux code shocker
News Software giant is contributing codes for three drivers for inclusion in the open source operating system, in bid to make Windows a better host for Linux.
Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, GPL, device driver, Linux Kernel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Linux, CNET Networks Inc.
Configure wireless support in Mandriva Linux with ndiswrapper
Techguide Vincent Danen shows how you can configure wireless networking quickly and with less frustration.
Tags: Open source, Mobile/Wireless
This week in Web threats
Insight A look at the top security headlines during the Chinese New Year week.
Tags: Security
Which VPN for you?
Insight Professionals are asking the question, “VPN appliance or VPN server, which solution provides the greatest cost benefit?” This article takes a look at those options and a third: managed service providers.
U.K. to take tougher line on ultrawideband
Insight A report from British regulator calls for wireless technology to be more strictly controlled than in United States.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology
XP migratory paths
Insight Migrating client PCs to Windows XP this year will likely take longer, and cost more, than you’d expect. Like any major Windows upgrade, XP comes with its own unique set of headaches.
Google establishes Android team in Taiwan
News The technical support staff will help Taiwanese hardware makers fit Google's operating system onto mobile phones.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Mobile, Google Inc., Wind River Systems Inc., Android Mobile-phone Operating System, Android Application, phone, Linux, Taiwan
Toshiba buying out Panasonic's share of joint LCD venture
News Toshiba already held 60 percent, and will pay to take on Panasonic's 40 percent in order to more quickly restructure the company's liquid crystal display business.
Tags: Monitors and displays, Business structures, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Mobile, Mobile Device, LCD panel, Panasonic, light-emitting diode, Wall Street Journal, LCD
Intel's software shift with Wind River
News The US$884 million deal gives Intel a serious software business. But will it light a fire under the Atom chip for embedded computing?
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Components, Consumer Technology, Processors, Intel Corp., Mobile, Atom, Chip, Wind River Systems Inc.
Computer glitch caused Qantas drop
News The sudden drop in altitude of the aircraft over Western Australia last year was due to a computer error.
Tags: Operating systems, computer, aircraft, ADIRU, Airbus, Qantas Airways Ltd., Hardware, software, software development, U.S.
EU, U.S. complete interoperable satellite navigation system
News The European Union and the United States have put the finishing touches to a system designed to enable signals from their respective satellite navigation systems to be picked up on the same receiver device in future.
Tags: GPS
Microsoft: Ask us for driving directions
News Software maker announces that it is working on a custom version of the Windows Embedded operating system, called NavReady 2009, designed for in-car navigation systems.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, GPS, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, software company, operating system, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Bluetooth, software, Microsoft Windows
Study: Cell phones put planes at risk
News The U.K.'s air safety regulator has released research about cell phone use on planes, warning of the serious effects that it can have on a plane's navigational equipment.
