Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘windows’
REDMOND, Wash.–Acknowledging Apple’s early success with the iPad , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted Thursday that the software maker is hard at work on Windows-based tablets . The Apple iPad: can Microsoft match it?
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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The Asus Eee PC 1015PD has finally received its product page on the Internet to confirm a report late last month that pointed towards the existence of such a model.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft kicked off a daylong meeting with analysts on Thursday as the company looks to reassure investors that its future is as bright as its past.
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Jonathan Pollet, founder of Red Tiger Security, tells Black Hat attendees on Wednesday that security issues arising from modernizing critical infrastructure systems are creating a “ticking time bomb.” (Credit: Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) LAS VEGAS–While computer users fret about online identity theft and corporate executives worry about digital espionage, security issues in critical infrastructure affecting every single person present even more cause for alarm, an expert said at the Black Hat conference here on Wednesday. “SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems are a lot less secure than IT (information technology) systems,” Jonathan Pollet, founder of Red Tiger Security, said in his session, titled “Electricity for Free?
July 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Security researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrates how he bypassed the security of two ATMs.
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While it’s easy slinging arrows at Apple for its closed and tightly-controlled iPhone App Store, there’s something to be said for its security. Google’s Android operating system has long faced more complicated concerns with its much freer application approval process, it’s openness to side-loaded apps (installing apps via APK files that you receive through some source other than the Android Market,) plus having users root the platform to take control over certain internal system processes
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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When Apple released Safari 5 earlier this summer, one of the new features included the ability to (finally!) install third-party extensions ; today the company has released Safari 5.0.1 and, with it, an official extension gallery. The Safari extensions gallery includes extensions built by Twitter , MLB.com, Bing, eBay , Amazon and more. Developers have also submitted their own creations to Apple over the last few weeks and the best and brightest are now available for one-click installs
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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After adding conversation view to the latest PC version of Office, Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it is adding the feature to the next version of Mac Office, which is coming later this year. As part of a series of videos previewing Office for Mac 2011 that Microsoft is releasing on Wednesday, the company showed the new e-mail threading view as well as the Ribbon-style interface and a new template gallery that will be part of the new Office.
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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We grabbed these pictures of Lenovo’s new flagship all-in-one at an event in London this morning.
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LAS VEGAS–Adobe will soon be adopting Microsoft’s model of sharing information about vulnerabilities in its software with security vendors before the companies release security updates, the companies were set to announce at the Black Hat conference here on Wednesday. Microsoft launched its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) in 2008 and since then has been sharing vulnerability information with vendors before updates are made public so the companies have time to offer more timely protection to their customers before the updates are deployed
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