Want to stop cybercrime? Follow the money
Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.
View ArticleThe data center needs an operating system?
Personal computers have operating systems. Even phones have operating systems. So why doesn't the data center have one?
View ArticleResearch tackles powering the virtual data center
Data center managers are well versed in distributing power efficiently to physical servers. But the proliferation of virtualization, with multiple virtual machines and applications running on a single...
View ArticleMicrosoft, Google and Twitter debate whether HTML5 is "Holy Grail"
Is HTML5 the Holy Grail for building next-generation Web applications?
View ArticleMicrosoft: Cloud computing won't hurt us
Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of Windows and Microsoft Office earns the lion's share of its money selling licenses for packaged software.
View ArticleMicrosoft previews Windows 8, Skype/Lync; bashes competition
Microsoft's annual partner conference last week featured previews of the Windows 8 server and desktop operating systems, talk of integration between Skype and Lync, and a barrage of insults aimed at...
View ArticleMicrosoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel
Microsoft isn't exactly dumping Windows for Linux, but it has become one of the busiest contributors to the Linux kernel. Microsoft's attempt to get Hyper-V drivers into the Linux kernel has taken...
View ArticleGoogle founders were talked out of ignoring user email
In Google's early days, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin argued that answering email complaints would be a waste of time, and that Googlers should fix problems behind the scenes without interacting...
View ArticleInternet Explorer gains among Windows 7 users, despite Microsoft's overall...
Microsoft's long and steady decline in browser market share continued in July, but there is one bright spot for Redmond: Among Windows 7 PC owners, Internet Explorer is gaining, albeit only slightly.
View ArticleAndroid Trojan records phone calls
A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher.
View ArticleApple to have one OS for Macs and iPads by 2016, analyst predicts
With Microsoft trumpeting the idea that PCs and tablets should run the same operating system and have all the same capabilities, will Apple go down the same road?
View ArticleGoogle accuses Microsoft, Oracle, Apple of "hostile" patent campaign
Google's chief legal officer today accused rivals Microsoft, Oracle and Apple of "a hostile, organized campaign against Android ... waged through bogus patents."
View ArticleThe epic unpopularity of Windows smartphones
Pop quiz: Can you name every smartphone platform that's more popular than Windows Phone 7? Go on. We dare you.
View ArticleOn Linux's 20th anniversary, recounting past slights from Microsoft
The mythical "year of the Linux desktop" still hasn't come, and may never, but on the 20th anniversary of Linux the free operating system's proponents threw a party to celebrate its success and scoff...
View ArticleIBM: The PC is the new mainframe
"The PC is dead!" We've heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple's iPad, but when one of the creators of IBM's first PC added his voice to the chorus, people took notice.
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