Navigation device-maker TomTom has settled its patent dispute with Microsoft, putting an end to the current round of litigation between the two companies. The terms of the settlement, which were announced by Microsoft on Monday, are said to be fully compliant with GNU’s General Public License (GPL).
The conflict between Microsoft and TomTom, which publicly emerged [...]
Beginning tomorrow, the Internet telephony giant Skype should release a mobile client for iPhone and iPod touch. The application will allow users to make free VoIP calls to other mobile and desktop Skype accounts, or to place cheap VoIP calls to landlines and mobile phone numbers, albeit only over the Wi-Fi network. The company also [...]
In its first comprehensive test of web browser protection against socially engineered malware, NSS Labs found that Internet Explorer 8 (RC1) was best among the six browsers tested. More than 154,000 individual tests were run during 12 days of 24×7 testing against Apple Safari v3, Google Chrome 1.0.154, Microsoft Internet Explorer v8 (RC1), Microsoft Internet [...]
A list of more than 8,000 user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months.
Kevin Andreyo, an educational technology specialist in Reading, Pa., and a professor at Wilkes University, came across the list Monday on Scribd, a document-sharing [...]
Recently Microsoft released a blog post addressing MS09-008, after I raised an issue with it. I think it’s clear where my colleagues and I stand on the issue, but here’s a quick summary for those who haven’t been following …
The MS09-008 “patch” provides the functionality to apply a mitigation (Global Query Block List) and the [...]
Rajesh Jha likens complex software projects to building a skyscraper.
That means in the end, the thing might look pretty good. Along the way, though, it tends to be kind of a mess.
“If you walk by the site of a skyscraper under construction, it looks chaotic,” Microsoft corporate VP Rajesh Jha said in an interview last [...]