Alex Goldman

China’s Xinhua news agency reported today that the government will delay requiring its controversial Green Dam software to be installed on PCs being sold to the public. The news comes just one day before the rule was due to go into effect. Although it did not acknowledge numerous objections to Green Dam from governments and […]

NEW YORK — Jeff Jarvis, blogger and author of the book “What Would Google Do?” took the stage to answer a question from the organizers of the Personal Democracy Forum 2009: How should government take advantage of the lessons of Google? Jarvis said that the Web has taught us a few simple rules. First, either […]

Spammers continue to innovate, grow and become more sophisticated, with their networks of spam-spewing compromised PCs now accounting for an overwhelming majority of all spam on the Internet. In a new report, Symantec’s MessageLabs unit reported that botnets now account for 83.2 percent of all spam, and that a recent crackdown still shows that bot […]

Malware writers, always eager to take advantage of breaking news to get victims to click on bad links and download Trojans, have already jumped on the largest recent Internet message stream — the flood of grief and commentary surrounding the death of singer Michael Jackson. The volume of Web traffic surrounding Jackson’s death became so […]

Security company Perimeter, a company that has been selling under the motto “Security in the Cloud” for at least five years, today released a new security product called Viewpoint 2.0 and a new e-mail product called Commercial Messaging Service 2.0, or CMS 2.0. Viewpoint 2.0 is the flagship product. The latest version offers over 50 […]

The flaws in China’s Green Dam filtering software, soon to be mandatory on every PC in China, have been known for some time — and the software still has holes. This past week, officials in the U.S. State and Treasury Departments raised concerns about the software. The incident comes as tech firms are working to […]

View image Two cloud companies announced a partnership today, continuing a flood of new product releases that is proving that the new cloud companies are enabling innovation in every enterprise software niche. Adaptive Planning 6.0 screen shotSource: Adaptive Planning Adaptive Planning announced that version 6.0 of its eponymous business process management (BPM) software is now […]

NEW YORK — “Change without innovation and agility is no change at all,” said Stanley Young, CEO of NYSE Technologies and co-CIO of NYSE Euronext at the technology management conference of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). He said that the company’s power datacenters (the company is building one each near London and […]

It started with the public opening of a cyber security team at the British government’s “secret” listening post in Cheltenham, a photograph of which was published on the BBC Web site in 2003. During the announcement on Thursday, the UK’s cyber security minister Lord West said that the government is hiring former “naughty boys.” “You […]

NEW YORK — Corporations building the next generation of user experience will have four attributes, and companies will need five skills to meet the challenge, according to Moira Dorsey, Forrester Research vice president and research director, who spoke at Forrester’s Customer Experience Forum 2009. She said that the ideal Web experience of the future will […]

It’s not the first time a military institution has lost a hard drive. Earlier this year, the RAF lost a disk containing data about retired officers. Today, the CBC is reporting that Canadian journalists purchased several disks, including one containing military contracts between Northrop Grumman and the U.S. government from a market in Accra, Ghana, […]

IBM researcher Craig Gentry has proposed a method for manipulating data while leaving it encrypted. That could be big news for cloud computing, for antispam solutions, and for health care providers, according to an IBM (NYSE: IBM) statement — if it works. The news comes as regulators are monitoring the handling of personal data. The […]