Asia has overtaken North America to become the top spam-relaying region in the world, according to a report released on Thursday by Internet security firm Sophos. Nearly one-half the spam Sophos captured on its global spam-monitoring network originated in Asia, with North America coming in a distant second as the source of just over
A version of Adobe Systems' flagship Photoshop software that will run on Mac computers based on either the legacy PowerPC or new Intel platform will be available in the first half of next year, the company's CEO said Friday.
The software is one of the highest profile titles that has not yet been
Apple extended its recycling program on Friday offering consumers a way to dispose of their old systems for free. Beginning in June, Apple will offer all US customers who buy a computer through the online Apple Store or an Apple retail location free shipping and environmentally friendly disposal of their old computer. Read More...
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Rootkits that hide malicious software from anti-virus and anti-spyware tools are growing in number and sophistication, and will pose an unprecedented risk to users by 2008, security company McAfee said this week.
In the opening quarter of 2006, said McAfee in the first of a trilogy of reports on rootkits, its Avert
Posted by iNext on 2006-04-23
Article Source : CRN
IBM is not taking EMC's incursion into middleware lying down.
Next week, the company will announce what it will call an "industry first" in data storage compression, code-named Venom, to surface in the next release of its DB2 database, aka "Viper."
The technology could reduce customer storage hardware costs and
SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. will deliver the final beta version for Mendocino on April 28, just two months prior to the scheduled final release, the German software maker told TechWeb.
Mendocino, which brings together SAP's business applications and Microsoft's Office desktop productivity applications, will have embedded analytics by the end of
At least six zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X were disclosed earlier this week by an independent researcher, who noted that all can crash applications or the operating system, and some may let attackers hijack systems.
Four of the bugs relate to how the Mac's OS parses various image
Posted by iMark on 2006-04-23
Article Source : Reuters
Software giant Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it hired away Steve Berkowitz, the chief executive of rival Internet company Ask.com, to head Microsoft's own Internet business.
Effective May 8, Berkowitz succeeds David Cole, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, who is set to begin a one-year leave of absence, Microsoft said in
Consumer electronics maker Philips has developed technology that could be used to prevent people from using set-top boxes to skip TV advertising, or to change channels to avoid the annoying pitches.
Developed by the European company's Briarcliff, N.Y., research labs, Philips is seeking a U.S. patent for the technology that would work
