Citrix targets laptop security with new virtualization software
Citrix's next version of XenDesktop will automatically encrypt corporate data on employee-owned laptops and include a bare-metal client hypervisor.
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3Par entertains HP's offer, begins merger talks
3Par will open discussions with Hewlett-Packard following that company's unsolicited $1.6 billion cash bid for the data storage maker, which exceeded an earlier bid from Dell.
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Startup offers free social media analytics data
Viralheat, a San Jose, Calif.-based startup that mines social networks to help companies gauge public sentiment about their business, this week announced plans to distribute some of its social media analytics data to users without charge.
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New Firefox 4 beta features tab manager, faster page rendering
Mozilla on Tuesday launched the fourth beta of Firefox 4, adding bookmark and password synchronization, and revamping how people wrestle tabs.
The latest build also sported the first attempt at accelerating Firefox 4's page rendering by tapping the graphics processor. The hardware acceleration, available only in Windows Vista and Windows 7, is disabled by default.
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Server sales post biggest jump since 2003
Worldwide server sales posted their biggest jump since 2003 during the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsold rival IBM to take the top spot among server vendors, IDC said Tuesday.
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Apple fixes big security bugs in Mac OS X
Apple has released a security update to its Mac OS X operating system, fixing 13 critical security issues in the software. The update, released early Tuesday afternoon fixes bugs in various Mac OS X components, including core components such as Apple Type Services and CFNetwork. It's Apple's fifth Mac OS X security update this year.
Many open-source Mac OS X components are also patched, including Samba, PHP, and ClamAV software.
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Yahoo transitions to Bing in North America
Bing is now fully fueling Yahoo search results in the United States and Canada, Yahoo and Microsoft said on Tuesday.
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Windows DLL load hijacking exploits show up on hacker sites
Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared Tuesday to exploit the company's software.
Also on Tuesday, a security firm that's been researching the issue for the last nine months said 41 of Microsoft's own programs can be remotely exploited using DLL load hijacking, and named two of them.
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Vyatta routing software ready for IPv6
The Vyatta open source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addresses available under the current version of IP diminishes.
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Embarcadero unveils big plans for Delphi
Delphi, the Object Pascal-based development language and framework that Embarcadero Technologies inherited from former Borland subsidiary CodeGear, is poised to get cross-platform and 64-bit capabilities in 2011.
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ARM's next chip design will support virtualization software
ARM Holdings will soon release a new processor design that can run virtualization software, a development that could help expand the use of ARM-based chips in low-powered servers, the company announced Monday.
The virtualization capabilities will be introduced with the next version of ARM's Cortex A processor, code-named Eagle, which is "very, very close" to being released, said David Brash, a member of ARM's architecture group, in a presentation at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford, Calif.
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Ruby on Rails 3.0 due this week
Ruby on Rails 3.0, a major upgrade to the popular open source Web development framework, is due in a final release this week, the founder of the framework David Heinemeier Hansson said on Tuesday.
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Rustock botnet responsible for 40 percent of spam
More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec's MessageLabs' division.
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