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Most security products flunk quality tests
News Nearly 80 percent of security tools fail to perform during initial certification tests, requiring two or more cycles of further testing, reports product testing firm.
Tags: Security applications/tools, ICSA Labs, Security Product, Verizon Communications Inc., Security, performance, Security Update, accounting, Security applications/tools
Cisco 891 Integrated Services Router
Reviews Small businesses or branch/remote offices seeking an easily managed unified security, routing, switching and wireless network system should short-list the Cisco 890 family of Integrated Services Routers.
Tags: Security, Access Point, Cisco Systems Inc., Security System, Wireless, IEEE 802.11n, WAN, performance, network, router
Bing 2.0 could be around the corner
News Microsoft apparently has shown off new improvements to its Bing search engine, according to some employees' Twitter feeds.
Tags: Web servers, Web sites, Search, Search, Web servers
Visualize data with new Microsoft controls
Techguide Tony Patton explains how to get and use the Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET 3.5.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, .NET, Series, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Data, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, 3D, .NET, Microsoft Chart Controls
Opera Mobile 10 beta now browsing Windows phones
News Opera releases most recent mobile browser--complete with Speed Dial and new tabbed browsing design--for Windows Mobile phones.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Applications and tools, Browser, Windows Mobile, Opera Software ASA, Java Phone, Symbian Inc., Phone, mobile, Web Browser
Intel moves Nehalem chips into new niches
News Company is bolstering its Nehalem lineup with Core i7 CPUs for high-performance PCs and Xeons for small business.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Intel Xeon, Chip, Storage, Small Business, Server, processor, HyperThreading, consumer PC
Another US$100 million for Twitter?
News Private equity firm T. Rowe Price and VC group Insight Venture Partners are leading the round, which will value the company at around US$1 billion, says report.
Tags: Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Dashboard, analytics, TechCrunch, founder, valuation, Wall Street Journal, mutual fund, Web 2.0
Microsoft moves MSN Video under Bing umbrella
News Software maker said on Tuesday it is combining its video search and MSN content under the Bing brand as part of fall refresh.
Tags: Video, Web sites, MySpace, CBS Corp., Microsoft Corp., CBS Interactive Inc., Web sites, TV, Mouse, YouTube Inc.
Zero-day flaw found in Web encryption
News Security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business security, Authentication, Security, Business security, SSL, Authentication and encryption, Web Browser, Zero-day Bug, Encryption
Mozilla patches holes in Firefox 3.5, 3.0
News Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 fix three critical vulnerabilities that could make a computer insecure.
Tags: Web browsers, Security, Web Page, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, patch management, JavaScript, Web, Web browsers
Using Bing from .NET
Techguide Justin James shares his recent Bing experience and provides a code snippet that will put you well on your way to writing a Bing-enabled application.
Tags: Business applications, .NET, Software engineering/development, Namespace, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, Microsoft Corp., WSDL, AppID, Business applications
SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal
News An appeals court rules that a judge was hasty in deciding Novell didn't sell Unix copyrights to SCO Group.
Tags: Business applications, SCO Group Inc., Unix, Novell Inc., Bankruptcy, payment, CEO, Linux, asset, agreement
Adobe to cut 9 percent of workforce
News Elimination of 680 full-time jobs comes as the software maker tries to align costs in the face of lagging sales. They follow a 9 percent reduction within the Omniture unit
Tags: Business development/management, Business structures, Adobe Systems Inc., Omniture Inc., Web analytics company, restructuring, software, job, Workforce, Sales
ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip
News World's most popular processor architecture continues to push its performance while aiming for mobile Internet dominance over Intel.
Tags: Processors, ARM, Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, software, Insight 64, Chip, Video, performance, processor
What do we mean by 'outsourcing'?
Blogs Reading all the statistics that come out regarding outsourcing has made me wonder if there is any consistency in the usa...
