7th May 2007 Archive

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Nivio betas hosted Windows

A virtual PC plus apps for £8 a month

Nivio has started beta tests of a Windows XP hosted desktop service, which it claims can stream a desktop to any compatible browser so you can remotely access Windows apps on Linux, a Mac, or even a handheld device. The company hopes to follow the access-anywhere success of GoogleMail, Yahoo! and the like - but with access to …

Software & Security 7 May 2007, 06:02
Mirapoint adds directory to email gateway

Local anti-spam checks mean less network load

Mirapoint has developed what it says is the first secure email gateway with a built-in directory and policy engine. According to the company, this increases security and lightens the load on the gateway because it no longer has to query the corporate directory server through the firewall for every incoming message. The …

Software & Security 7 May 2007, 16:37
Microsoft vs. Teradata

Column Data Warehousing – there really isn't just one answer

Microsoft and Teradata are both significant players in the BI market but they have wildly different approaches to the challenges of extracting information from data. The reason lies in the fact that the two companies elected to solve two very different, but equally intractable, computational problems in order to get their BI …

Software & Security 7 May 2007, 16:38
Student detained following attacks on Estonian websites

Allegedly offered DDoS how-to

A 19-year-old university student has been detained on suspicion of participating in a wave of computer attacks protesting the Estonian government's removal of a Soviet-era memorial from the center of that country's capital. It was the first arrest in the attacks, which last week shut down many Estonian government websites. …

Software & Security 7 May 2007, 17:51
HP faces lawsuit by three News.com reporters

Demands for several million dollars per reporter denied

Three CNET News.com reporters who were spied on in Hewlett-Packard's methodical investigation to reveal the source of media leaks plan to sue the company for invasion of privacy. The decision by Dawn Kawamoto, Tom Krazit and Stephen Shankland comes after several months of negotiations with HP to discuss settling the sordid …

IT Channel 7 May 2007, 21:13
Microsoft-Novell partnership hooks Dell

Open source and filed IP / live together in perfect har-mo-ny

Dell has become the first major player to show up to Microsoft and Novell's compatibility love-in. The PC vendor joins a landmark alliance between the patent-protected and open source OS developers inked last November. The agreement will address what all three companies say is customer demand for greater interoperability and …

Software & Security 7 May 2007, 21:19
TSA: We're not saying our hard drive is gone but...

It's just not here anymore

The universe has an odd tendency to absorb certain objects into the oblivion of un-existence. Television remotes, single socks, car keys, lighters, external hard drives containing 100,000 employee records, pen caps; they all come and go like tiny dimensional travelers. And such is the order of things that missing socks and …

Software & Security 7 May 2007, 23:58