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Hypervisor Breaches: Myths vs. Reality
There has been much speculation about the security posture of virtualized environments. One identified vulnerability is the 'hypervisor' threat in which a hacker can break out of a guest OS and onto the host OS of a server. How great a danger is the hypervisor threat? What security barriers should IT erect before and after they implement their virtual environment? Virtual security expert Hezi ...
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Microsoft webcasts cover Windows Mobile development
— May 29, 2008 — Microsoft has announced a series of five one-hour webcasts devoted to Windows Mobile application development. Four are already available for online viewing or download, and the fifth will be streamed live from the TechEd developer conference in Orlando on Jun. 4. ...
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HostingPanama Adds Offshore Browsing
June 9, 2007 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Offshore web hosting provider HostingPanama announced a new service this week, extending the concept of its offshore services to web browsing.
Web Host Industry Review |
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Tug of war in 60-GHz band
Engineers who want to draft a standard for gigabit-class Wi-Fi are placing their bets on the same 60-GHz spectrum in use by another wireless standard in the works.
Electronics Supply and Manufacturing |
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World's first internal hard drive with disaster protection
New hard drive from ioSafe that withstands disaster.
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Joy Division Sponsors Zune, Twitterati Defects for Plurk, Facebook Seeks Ad Feedback, John McCain Tells War Stories
- Maybe inspired by Apple's limited-edition U2 iPod, Microsoft is releasing a limited-edition Joy Division Zune.
adrants |
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Skype: We can't comply with police wiretap requests
The eBay-owned company says, in response to a News.com survey, that because of its peer-to-peer architecture and encryption, "Skype would not be able to comply" with wiretapping orders from police.
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New Ransomware Making the Rounds
IT security provider Kaspersky Lab has issued a security alert following the detection of a particularly malicious piece of "ransomware." Kaspersky researchers were the first to detect and issue warnings that a new, stronger version of the Gpcode virus was on the loose. Even though it doesn't appear to have spread widely -- to date at least -- the new Gpcode variant poses a particularly nasty ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Icahn Pins $49.5B Price Tag on Yahoo
Antagonistic investor Carl Icahn became a billionaire by bullying already distressed companies, but his harassment of Yahoo could leave him with a black eye -- and a hole in his wallet -- if he's wrong about Microsoft's desire to buy the Internet pioneer. Icahn, 72, has used a combination of guile, gall, grit and gamesmanship to get his way more often than not since he began tormenting ...
E-Commerce Times |
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Conway man accused of using internet to solicit sex from minor
An Anderson city court judge has ordered a $20,000 bond for a 29-year-old man accused of using the internet in an attempt to solicit sex from a 13-year-old girl.
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Workers are wasting company time by browsing
According to the CBI, the Confederation of British Industry, the average UK worker spends ninety minutes a week misusing corporate internet connections.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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T-Mobile roasts Starbucks over AT&T deal
T-Mobile is taking Starbucks to court claiming that the coffee giant violated an exclusive agreement over provision of wireless internet access in its outlets.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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InstallAware First Install Builder to Support Windows Installer 4.5.
Chained, Transactional Software Installers Made Easy with InstallAware 7.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Trustware Releases New Version of Desktop Security Software, Enhancing Consumer Privacy Protection
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----Trustware™, the leader in application virtualization security technologies, today unveiled a new version of its powerful security software application, BufferZone™ Pro 3.0.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Orbital Technologies Introduces Driver Development Services to Connect Smart Health Devices to Microsoft HealthVault
Orbital Technologies Inc., a leading Vancouver-based software development services company, announced today development support for device manufacturers for building Windows Portable Device drivers to connect smart health devices to Microsoft HealthVault.
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Open Patent Alliance Formed to Advance WiMAX 4G Technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----To accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics and Sprint today announced the formation of the Open Patent Alliance .
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Deploys Mirapoint Email System and Reduces Administration Overhead by 50 Percent
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Mirapoint Software, the secure messaging experts, today announced that Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has deployed the Mirapoint Message Server™ email solution to support 65,000 student email accounts.
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Denver Group to Publish New Regional Information Technology Magazine
A local group of technology professionals today announced the launch of a new magazine and Web site focusing on the information technology industry in Colorado.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Google VP Calls For Comments On Favicon Design
Sometimes small changes can grow into big issues. Especially if those changes are made by an online corporation with global spread and hundreds of millions of regular consumers or users. Enter, the Google favicon. Surely you’ve noticed the company’s shift from a big, brawny capital ‘G’ to a more reserved, accentuated and scripted lowercase ‘g’. How [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google VP ...
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5 Ways To Log Into Several Gmail Accounts At The Same Time
If you have more than one Gmail account you regularly use (I have five), one of the most annoying aspects of dealing with it is the fact that you cannot have more than one opened (opening two instances of a web browser doesn’t help either, because the cookie is shared between them) at the same [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "5 Ways To Log Into Several Gmail Accounts At The Same Time", url: ...
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Don't Say No To Knomo
LAPTOP bags are usually anything but chic and sexy; enter Knomo, the brand that plans to change all that with its stylish bags for tech-savvy fashionistas.
British Vogue |
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Web App And Widget Engine Zembly Launches
Developing Web applications to be used within social networks and numerous other cloud-based structures is becoming more and more de rigueur for the entrepreneurial set. Both on the desktop and on the go, Web users in droves seek simple, unique software gadgets through which to access and manipulate data with easy while able to transfer [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Web App And Widget ...
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In Hindsight: HP, Yahoo, a new iPhone and other hot topics
Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports. Monday Why do we love Silicon Valley? It's not just the technology.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Online auction closes Wednesday
Weekly Journal readers have until this Wednesday, June 4, to participate in a $150,000-online auction featuring 300 items from local merchants. Already, dozens of readers have bid on and won various items...
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Hewlett-Packard to assemble 40,000 computers a month in Russia
Hewlett-Packard and Foxconn International Holdings started building a factory near St. Petersburg that will be able to produce half a million personal computers a year for the Russian market.
San Jose Mercury News |
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