A top Microsoft Windows exec spoke to ZDNet UK about the new operating system's potential appeal for enterprise users. Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on Wednesday. ...
Microsoft server worm can spread via USB

(Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:57:55 -0800)

A Windows Server worm that is attacking business systems also propagates via USB, says F-Secure. A Microsoft worm that is currently attacking business systems is also a USB worm, security vendor F-Secure has warned. The worm, which F-Secure calls Downadup, attacks the vulnerability outlined in...
Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability

(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:21:18 -0800)

Both US-CERT and security organization F-Secure have issued warnings, urging IT professionals to apply a Microsoft patch. Business systems are being attacked by a worm exploiting a known Microsoft vulnerability, IT security experts have warned. Both US-CERT and security organization F-Secure have issued warnings, urging...
AOL Australia suffers email failure

(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:03:18 -0800)

Australian AOL users suffered an email holiday last month as a billing glitch locked them out of their AOL.com email accounts. Australian AOL users suffered an email holiday last month as a Primus billing glitch locked them out of their AOL.com email accounts. The problem...
Satyam chairman resigns amid accounting scandal

(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:30:26 -0800)

Indian outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services announced Wednesday its founder and chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju, has resigned, following an admission that he inflated its financial performance. Satyam Computer Services announced Wednesday its founder and chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju, has resigned, following an admission that he inflated its financial performance....
HP says latest netbook is business-ready

(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:20:24 -0800)

HP's latest low-cost Mini 2140 subnotebook has a few extra features that mark it out as suitable for business use, the manufacturer has claimed. HP on Monday launched the Mini 2140, a netbook the company says is suitable for use in business. ...
MacHeads: The movie

(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:11:40 -0800)

Review: MacHeads is a superb film that will give Apple haters a few cheap laughs, and Apple fans a few cheap thrills. But it'll entertain both equally, while educating everybody else. Prominent sex blogger and renowned Apple fangirl Violet Blue declares passionately that she'd never sleep with a Windows...
China gives jail time to Windows counterfeiters

(Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:11:25 -0800)

China has cracked down on a global software-counterfeiting syndicate, with 11 'ringleaders' each facing up to six-and-a-half years in jail. Eleven counterfeiters have been given jail sentences of between one-and-a-half and six-and-a-half years by a Chinese court after being found guilty of producing fake Microsoft software. ...
Freescale and ARM promise $200 netbooks

(Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:12:09 -0800)

Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled an ARM-based blueprint for cheap, low-cost subnotebooks. At the heart of the reference design is the i.MX515 processor,...
Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel

(Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:43:26 -0800)

According to most accounts, Cox was second only to Linus Torvalds in the early Linux days, working on the kernel from version 0.11, and sorting out the networking. Just as we were all closing down before Christmas, Linux kernel developer Alan Cox announced he is moving from Red Hat...