Despite disturbing reports about consumer spending and lower margins on key technology products, IT industry insiders continue to have faith in longer-term prospects for bellwether companies like Intel, Apple and Cisco.
While it's hard to top reports on Linux vs. Windows studies as fodder for debate, last week's other newsletter on the resignation of the CIO for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts drew numerous comments as well.
Last week's newsletter about Linux/Unix vs. Windows vulnerability statistics generated plenty of reader feedback - as such reports often do. The newsletter reported on a year-end vulnerability summary from the quasi-governmental United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (U.S. CERT), which said that there were significantly fewer vulnerabilities reported for Windows than the number of warnings issued for the combined category of Linux/Unix operating systems.
SAP reported strong revenue growth in its HANA in-memory database and cloud businesses, but also saw revenue from software decline in the third quarter.
Lately I've been seeing the usual rash of reports that appear around this time of year indicating how many people continue to have reservations about shopping online. This is not entirely reactionary, in light of the increased visibility given to issues such as spyware and risks to personal information privacy.
Reports on the Mississippi River flooding of recent weeks got me thinking about an issue that should concern organizations which have fallen behind industry standards of improved security in recent times.
An apparent attempt to recycle discarded internal reports has ended up in the compromise of credit card and bank number information belonging to more than 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Harvard University and Oxford University are teaming with Consumer Reports to launch a Web site called StopBadware.org, which will be an online hall of shame for those trafficking in spyware or questionable forms of adware.
A crowd of about 5,000 people, chanting "stop spying, stop lying" and "hey, ho, mass surveillance has got to go," marched through Washington, D.C., Saturday to protest the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs unveiled in press reports this year.
Government reports and projects may sometimes seem to be abstruse and expensive uses of taxpayer resources with limited relevance for the private sector. However, much of the work published for free access by state and federal authorities actually has value for any organization, especially larger ones facing problems similar to those of the government services. Luckily, documents created for governments are generally in the public domain, meaning that anyone can use them for constructive purposes.
Earnings reports from IBM, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices and acquisition news from Oracle and Sun did nothing to calm IT investor fears about an uncertain U.S. economy this week.
U.S. lawmakers questioned the security of HealthCare.gov, the U.S. government's troubled insurance-shopping website, after reports that one applicant's personal information was shared with another applicant.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ignored multiple auditor reports warning them of potential problems at insurance-shopping website HealthCare.gov before the site's launch Oct. 1, one Republican senator said Wednesday.
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ignored multiple auditor reports warning them of potential problems at insurance-shopping website HealthCare.gov before the site's launch Oct. 1, one Republican senator said Wednesday.
Apple has gotten off the sidelines and patched its version of DNS, nearly a month after a researcher disclosed major issues with the naming system. The DNS update for Mac OS X is part of a broader security update from Apple. There are some reports from another researcher that the patch does not work, so be on the lookout for a potential follow-up patch from Apple.
Apple has gotten off the sidelines and patched its version of DNS, nearly a month after a researcher disclosed major issues with the naming system. The DNS update for Mac OS X is part of a broader security update from Apple. There are some reports from another researcher that the patch does not work, so be on the lookout for a potential follow-up patch from Apple.
In the last full trading week of the year, the NetSuite IPO, acquisition news and earnings reports from Oracle, Palm and RIM highlighted technology sector gains, but also concerns for 2008.
Linux developers seem to be letting bug reports slip throught the cracks. With 1500 open kernel bugs in the tracking system, and 50 going unanswered on the mailing list, do developers need a better process or just new priorities?
I've been doing facilities security assessments and reports for over two decades and still occasionally get requests for that kind of work. Recently, one of my local clients reported a problem with the two doors on its small Vermont office building. Seems the police found one of the doors unlocked in the middle of the night and called the security firm to get them locked. The manager of this 50-employee medical billing firm sent out a plea to all her employees asking them to please remember to lock the doo
Comcast continues to slow down customers' connections to some peer-to-peer applications, using hacker-like techniques against its own subscribers, according to a report released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
A fresh round of quarterly results and market research this week show some shadows over the networking and component markets while smartphones, as usual, were the stars of the tech arena.
The Internet is constantly growing and changing - but can the IETF adapt? The Internet’s top standards body finds itself struggling with declining attendance, financial difficulties and a kind of competition from the ITU and the W3C. This week Network World reports from the IETF’s latest meeting, where a new leader has taken over to deal with these challenges.
IETF leaders urge detente with rivals
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/031405-ietf.html?net
As many of you know, the IT industry hasn't made many inroads in embracing diversity. The Information Technology Association of America reports that the percentages of women and African Americans in the IT workforce have declined.
Following reports about U.S. surveillance worldwide, a United Nations panel adopted Tuesday a resolution on potential threats to human rights such as the right to privacy in the digital age.
Yikes. Newly discovered (but yet to be disclosed) flaws in the TCP/IP protocol - the backbone of the Internet - could be exploited to launch denial-of-service attacks against virtually any device running any operating system, including firewalls and other security measures. According to reports, the researchers that discovered the flaws are working with vendors to repair the issue before releasing their findings to the general public. iPhone users weren't so lucky: A frustrated security researcher detailed