Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Security analysts weigh in on the process of selecting a security information and event management tool and staying above the vendor hype. - Security information and event management (SIEM) tools are on the
spending lists of many companies concerned about security and compliance.
But getting down to the business of choosing and deploying a tool
can be fraught with complications ranging from dealing with hype from
vendors to expec...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Mozilla delivers a new update to the Firefox 4 Beta, which features faster graphics, new audio capabilities and enhanced security. Mozilla continues to hone its browser with new beta updates every few weeks. - Mozilla has delivered a new update
to the Firefox 4 Beta, which features faster graphics, new audio
capabilities and enhanced security.
In a Sept. 7 blog post, Mike
Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox, said the new update to the latest
beta of the company's popular open-source browser takes...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Symantec has fixed a number of security holes in the Website for its "Hack is Wack" contest. - Symantec has cleaned up vulnerabilities in the Website for its quot;Hack
is Wack quot; contest.
The contest is a partnership between
the security vendor and rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg to promote computer
security and Symantec's Norton products. Aspiring rappers are asked to post a
rap video ab...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Replacing paper forms with electronic forms is becoming popular with businesses that are working to increase their green appeal and scale back on costs. Decreasing reliance on paper by converting to electronic forms yields additional benefits such as streamlined business processes and reduced physical storage needs. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Brian Lincoln explains how to transform your business by switching from paper forms to electronic forms. - Paper-intensive industries can transition to capture technologies such as electronic forms (e-forms) to make processes more streamlined and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Pairing e-forms with an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system allows companies to reduce data errors while spee...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
That statement: Oracle is deadly serious about competing with both HP and IBM at the highest levels for enterprise IT systems business. - The addition of Mark Hurd to the top level of Oracle's corporate leadership
is creating a lot of talk in many levels of business: in Silicon
Valley, in Wall Street and even in legal circles.
Only a day after CEO and co-founder Larry
Ellison hired the former Hewlett-Packard CEO to be a co-presi...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft will release a public beta of its Small Business Server 7 by the end of September, as it works toward a more cloud-centric server portfolio. - Microsoft will release a public beta of its Small Business Server quot;7 quot;
by the end of the month, according to the company. That platform is meant to
complement Microsoft's two upcoming servers, code-named Vail and Aurora, which
were released in preview-build form in August.
Like Vail and...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd brings his experience running a large IT company and working with hardware, software and services to Oracle, which is looking to take on IBM and HP. - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been talking
about challenging IBM as a full-service IT
supplier since first broaching the idea of buying Sun Microsystems. Ellison has
taken another step in that direction with the hiring
of ex-HP President and CEO Mark Hurd,
according to industry analysts.
Hurd...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Microsoft said it is investigating reports of a security issue in Internet Explorer. The flaw is due to a CSS cross-origin theft issue that has been fixed in other browsers but remains open in IE, a researcher contends. - Microsoft confirmed it is investigating reports of a flaw in Internet Explorer 8 [IE 8] that could be leveraged to attack users.
A description of the vulnerability was posted Sept. 3 to the posted to the Full Disclosure mailing list by Google security engineer Chris Evans. In a proof-of-concept, E...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Dell and other system vendors will stop shipping Windows XP systems starting Oct. 22, although a loophole exists for qualified customers who dont want to use Windows 7. - Dell and other system vendors will stop shipping systems
preinstalled with Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home, starting Oct.
22. In preparation for that event, Dell customers will no longer have Windows
XP as an option starting in late September, although the manufacturer plans on
conti...
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Posted in E-Week on September 7th, 2010 by E-Week
Verizon Wireless said it will begin selling the Samsung Fascinate based on Google's Android 2.1 operating system for $199.99 Sept. 8. The device will compete with Verizon's Motorola Droid X and Motorola Droid 2. - Verizon Wireless said it will begin selling the
Samsung Fascinate based on Google's Android operating system Sept. 8 for $199.99 after
a $100 mail-in rebate.
The Fascinate is Verizon Wireless' iteration of Samsung's
Galaxy S line. The
Samsung Captivate from AT amp;T and Samsung Vibrant from T-M...
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