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Microsoft’s Live Search team has officially announced the integration of warnings for potentially malware infected sites within Live Search, following last week’s introduction of a malware warning service aimed at webmasters. According to a post by Christian Seifert, Software Design Engineer at Live Search Anti-Spam & Anti-Malware Team, as of toda
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Microsoft plans to make VeriChip's VeriMed Health Link system accessible through Microsoft's HealthVault platform, a secure, online repository that consumers can use for free to manage their health records. The VeriMed Health Link system includes implantable passive RFID tags used for human patient identification and medical records tracking, as
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Microsoft said that the anti-malware tool it pushes to Windows users as part of Patch Tuesday removed fake security software from nearly a million PCs during nine days this month.
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Two years after trying to build a consumer antivirus business, Microsoft has decide to throw in the towel. The software vendor said Tuesday that it will discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare product at the end of June next year, and instead offer Windows users free antivirus software, code-named Morro.
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Vendors at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008 pushed a message that unified communications can cut operational costs and help businesses get more out of the people they have. Both Microsoft and IBM executives highlighted cost savings and productivity enhancement during their keynotes with demonstrations of their UC products. Separately, Avaya announced 0
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Chinese computer users are the major targets of online attackers, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report released last week.
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The email has a subject line that reads, “Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows” and supposedly came from the "Microsoft Official Update Center" at a domain named securityassurance[at]microsof[dot]com.
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On Thursday, Microsoft announced four security bulletins for next week. The announcement is intended as a heads-up for IT departments before Patch Tuesday. Four fixes are considered critical, six important, and one is moderate as ranked by the software giant.
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Sometimes a patent gets granted that sounds bogus, but the bank account behind it makes it "real". Page Down key? Come'on guys. Your take-away: 1) Consider keeping your Intellectual Property (IP) under wraps before you release or test your product and 2) Seek Qualified IP-related Legal Counsel.
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After much speculation on the subject, Google and Digg, the user generated site, look like they’re finally gonna tie the knot.
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Apple's announcement of a $199 iPhone that supports critical enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange indicates a windshift away from Apple's traditional market skimming price strategy towards a market penetration price strategy.
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From the page: "There's a small but growing trend in which companies are choosing to give employees money toward their personal laptop, rather than providing a company-issued portable. British Petroleum is among the companies that is trying the approach."
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A rebooting problem related to the release of the Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 is continuing to cause problems with certain Hewlett-Packard desktops that use AMD processors, although a new patch is expected in a few days.
The problem with SP3 first began appearing a few days after Microsoft released SP3 for its XP operating system. In a
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What is wrong with Microsoft that they received such scorn from the internet community when they announced a bid for Yahoo. Yahoo walked away from the opportunity to make whole their shareholders instead they were indigniant - why?
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Whether you're running the Home or Professional version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, keep these dates in mind.
June 30, 2008: If your mind's set on using XP (like 60-plus percent of these poll-takers), this is the last day Microsoft will let hardware vendors and retailers install it on new computers, other than on budget-minde
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