Microsoft will open source Windows 7 tool that includes GPL code
Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next week will make the source code and binaries for the tool available under terms of the GPL v2 license.
Consumer modems are worsening [...]
Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next week will make the source code and binaries for the tool available under terms of the GPL v2 license.
Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet’s DNS, making it easier for hackers to launch DDoS attacks against their victims.
Microsoft today announced that it would sell Windows 7 desktop real estate to advertisers and launched a pilot program that includes Coke, Infiniti, and Porsche.
Using Windows 7 themes — collections of backgrounds, borders and audio elements — advertisers will be able to brand the desktop, Microsoft said.
WSO2 will launch on Monday WSO2 Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing.
Available as of November 16, the platform features the company’s Cloud Virtual Machines; Cloud Connectors, for secure cloud services; and multi-tenant WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service.
A just-published Apple patent application for hand-writing recognition on pen-based computers has re-ignited speculation the company will soon unveil a tablet device. But if that’s Apple’s plan, the company may be in a furious race with Microsoft, which is leaking and hinting at details of an innovative small tablet device, Courier, now in development.
Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it’s experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.
It wants to improve on the performance of using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) by minimizing latency. For the protocol to work, the browser and the web server have to be upgraded, but changes to Web pages are not needed, according to Google.
A new spam campaign is targeting a financial transfer system that handles trillions of dollars in transactions annually and has proved to be a fertile target of late for online fraudsters.
The spam messages pretend to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), a U.S. nonprofit association that oversees the Automated Clearing House system (ACH).
With VMware Inc.’s release of View 4 last week, the company is promising two things: Full desktop performance at a desktop price tag.
Desktop virtualization requires huge amounts of data to be constantly streamed from server to client. Moreover, the cost of building out a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), including servers, storage, network bandwidth, thin clients and software licenses, has generally outweighed potential savings in IT labor and security costs.
Real-time translation of Cisco Systems TelePresence virtual meetings, which a company executive said late last year would arrive in 2009, has proved much more difficult than the company expected.
The cash portion of Intel’s legal settlement with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) could shave as much as US$800 million off Intel’s net profit in the fourth quarter, according to investment banking firm Credit Suisse.
Credit Suisse lowered its earnings per share estimate for Intel to $0.29 in the fourth quarter from $0.43 previously, in a report issued late Thursday.
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