419453
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index.cfm?newsid=6600
418227
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/applications/news-analysis/index.cfm?articleid=877
418137
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
The latest version of web application framework Ruby on Rails has just been releaseed. Version 2 of the framework is built on REST (Representational State Transfer) web services instead of SOAP web services. There is also a new set of security enhancements.
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=10879
415073
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the USA's most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS
413635
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
There's a scene in the 2004 movie Mean Girls in which the most popular girl in the film's fictional high school finds out that a friend who now is a fast-rising social rival plans to throw a party without inviting her.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/kernel-systems/in-depth/index.cfm?articleid=856
409299
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
A top Red Hat executive has accused arch-rival Novell of reselling a beta version of the company's open source code.
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=10828
401447
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Novell has released SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, its open source operating system tuned for high-performance applications.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=6435
395967
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? That is the question.
392443
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
A Taiwanese government-backed consortium has developed a powerful handheld PC that uses a WiMax wireless broadband connection to access the web.
http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?newsid=10742
392291
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows XP contains the same encryption flaws that Israeli researchers recently disclosed in Windows 2000.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/windows/news/index.cfm?newsid=6334
392261
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
An expert has released a proof-of-concept program to show how easy it would be for criminals to eavesdrop on the VoIP-based phone calls of any company using the technology.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=10736
389333
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
Microsoft's effort to get its Office Open XML document format certified as an ISO standard attracted 3,522 comments from the national standards bodies.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/development/software/news/index.cfm?newsid=6307
387489
submission
Kurtz'sKompund writes:
IBM has signed an agreement to resell Mainsoft's new .Net Extensions for WebSphere Portal product that will allow companies to use .Net to create Java applications for IBM's WebSphere portal.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/development/software/news/index.cfm?RSS
