Google opens Web store for business applications
Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Google’s crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing”, the [...]
Google Docs Now Syncing with Outlook
If you use Google Docs and Microsoft Office, you’ll appreciate the new Outlook sidebar from Mainsoft. Called Harmony, and currently in beta, the sidebar lets you share, e-mail, download, upload, and edit your Google Docs right from your desktop using Outlook 2007. Starting on Tuesday, Harmony is available as a free download from Mainsoft’s Website, [...]
Apple drops Wifi scanners from App Store
Apple’s latest move in its big App Store spring clean is to get rid of Wifi scanning applications. It’s already removed porn apps, but now it’s turned its feather duster on ‘stumbler’ applications that seek out available Wifi networks. Users can still search for hotspots using apps which take advantage of the iPhone’s GPS capabilities [...]
McAfee: System Security Is Weak Despite Locked Doors
Evidence from the recent Aurora hack attacks on major American corporations suggest that many may have tightly locked virtual front doors, but no cybersecurity inside their systems, a McAfee expert warned on Wednesday. In a Security Insights blog post, Paul Kurtz, McAfee’s chief technology officer, discussed his study of the December-through-February attacks on Google, Intel, [...]
A new Linux Distribution by North Korea
North Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows. Although the operating system is still considered stable, it was easy to set up, taking around 15 minutes to install, however it comes with a single language option: Korean. The desktop interface shown [...]
100 million Microsoft users to choose browser
Some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal the company struck to settle antitrust action. Microsoft Corp. is starting this month to send updates to Windows computers in Europe so that when computer users log on, they will see a pop-up screen [...]
Frequent, Effective Attacks on Worldwide Business
Symantec Corp. released the findings of its global 2010 State of Enterprise Security study. The study found that 42 percent of organizations rate security their top issue. This isn’t a surprise, considering that 75 percent of organizations experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months. These attacks cost enterprise businesses an average of $2 million [...]
Skype gives up on Microsoft
Popular instant messaging, voice chat, and video conferencing client Skype and Skype Lite are no longer available on Windows Mobile devices. The company says, “We’ve chosen to withdraw Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Mobile because we want to offer our new customers an improved mobile experience — much like the version that has proved [...]
Microsoft is about to cut off 277 unsafe Internet domains
Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, granted a request by Microsoft to deactivate 277 Internet domains, which the software maker said is linked to a “botnet”. A [...]
App Store bans Adult Applications
Trying to get rid of the adult content that could be easily accessed by children, Apple decided to remove more then five thousand adult applications from App Store, that contained either sexual context words in their names, or photos of men and women naked or wearing bikinis. Apple will also pay more attention to the [...]