Microsoft is placing Microsoft Stores within about half the U.S. Best Buy locations and creating a parallel online store on the Best Buy site in an effort to drum up more consumer business, it seems, for Windows 8.
Cisco says it is not releasing its NAC client software code to the open source community, nor does the company have plans to exit the endpoint security client business, despite a Cisco executive telling the contrary to the media earlier this month.
Microsoft released its February set of security updates Tuesday, including critical fixes for bugs in Office and the scanning engine used by the company's security products.
Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors.
Microsoft had big plans for an exclusive party in New York City to celebrate the availability of its Surface Windows 8 Pro ultrabook, but the ongoing snowstorm named Nemo nixed the event.
Linux users who applied Ubuntu's most recent software upgrade were given a reminder of the early days of Linux; a flaw in the code rendered the graphical user interfaces on the machines useless, forcing users to navigate directories and run programs through - gulp! - the command line interface (CLI) of Linux.
Sony's gaming division pulled its latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 Wednesday, after widespread reports that installing it could render the console useless.
When nCipher announced last fall that it was acquiring provisioning pioneer Abridean, some of us privately speculated about how long it would be until an update of Abridean's Provisor software would be available. That wait is over.
The corner has officially been turned, notes David Foote, CEO and Chief Research Officer of Foote Partners, the research firm that has for the past eight years been reporting of the closing gap in skills pay between certified and non-certified folks. Its latest quarterly update has found that average pay for non-certified IT skills tops that of certified professionals.
Microsoft Tuesday released its first four patches of 2007 as part of its monthly security update cycle including three rated critical that effect Office and Windows.
Microsoft is authorizing a $150 discount off its Surface RT tablet for a week, which represents a 30% discount off the list price of $499, according to an ad on the upcoming-sales page of Staples Web site.
On-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Workday announced an update to its software Monday as it rides a wave of publicity from a recent high-profile customer win.
"Virtualization is a how, not a what," says Jerry Chen, VMware's senior director, enterprise desktop. The truth of this statement-and the extent to which some people in the virtualization community forget this truth- struck me Tuesday, after I got an update from Chen on VMware's strategy and plans for desktop PC virtualization.
The latest round of Mac advertisements tickles me. Despite not having used an Apple since my dearly departed and much beloved IIe, I must confess I laughed as the company's "Hi, I'm a Mac" character poked fun at Windows by comparing the Mac's device compatibility and "straight-out-of-the-box" functions to Windows' cumbersome driver and update requirements. I was amused not least because, while compatibility is a big part of Mac's consumer success, it has never been a strong suit for Apple in the enterprise
Windows Vista customers can now receive the first service pack for the operating system via the Microsoft Automatic Update service, Microsoft said Wednesday.
Last October, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued an update to its 2001 report entitled “Authentication in an Electronic Banking Environment.” The 2005 report recognizes the rapid technological changes and the increasing opportunities for fraud that affect today’s online transactions.
Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty, CIOs are reporting that their original 2008 IT budget plans remain largely intact. Where economic conditions are changing, the IT response can generally be described as cost conscious rather than cost cutting, according to a worldwide IT budget update survey of more than 1,000 CIOs conducted by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) in the first quarter of this year. The projected global IT budget growth originally forecast for 2008 remains at 3.3 percent, which is in
It's been nearly a year since Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) came out. The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT service delivery, was intended to sharpen its focus and, not incidentally, to attract a new group of followers.