Andy Patrizio

Finjan, a developer of Web security products, has found what has to be the nastiest of malware yet because it inserts itself into a legitimate online banking transaction that’s supposed to be protected by SSL encryption. The company is calling this new form of thievery “crimeware,” as if we needed another term to keep straight, […]

Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it’s ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)  security platform for businesses. SecureCloud is a trio of services, one of which is already available, designed to battle spam. The main service is an e-mail filtering service for business, where mail to the customer is […]

Adobe today released ColdFusion 8, completing its string of upgrades to the Macromedia software line, which it acquired when Adobe acquired the company in 2005 for $3.4 billion. Adobe  has been hard at work integrating the Macromedia and its own product lines to offer a more comprehensive portfolio. The software maker sees ColdFusion as the […]

One of the elements that has helped preserve the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray has been that no one in retail has taken a side. Until now. Target, the second-largest retailer in the nation, has decided to carry only Blu-ray players, although it will continue to sell HD DVD movies along with Blu-ray […]

Intel  and its OEM partners are preparing new four-socket server machines for release this fall, filling in a big gap in the No. 1 chipmaker’s product line, but they might face stiff competition from another Intel offering. The new platform, developed under the code-name Caneland, features the first multiprocessor systems featuring the Core 2 architecture. […]

Sun Microsystems has offered its first public update to the JavaFX technology it introduced last May in advance of the JavaOne conference. The company has released a compiler for the JavaFX Script language used to create online content, which will make application code considerably faster. Sun  also announced a plug-in for its NetBeans IDE  for […]

When a new product ships, the first thing hackers — good and bad — do is poke around in the product’s internals to see what they can accomplish. Pretty much every videogame console has had Linux installed on it within days of being released. In the case of the iPhone, hackers have been trying to […]

It was another bang-up quarter for Apple, as the company reported its best sales ever, record profits and tremendous sales of both Macintosh computers and iPod MP3 players. The company reported revenue of $5.41 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, a 23 percent rise in revenue over the $4.37 billion reported in the […]

With the change of seasons comes a change in Salesforce.com. The company today released Salesforce Summer ’07, which marks the availability of its Apex development language and a new buzzword to learn. Software as a service (SAAS) is now passé. Say hello to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which is Salesforce.com’s on-demand applications combined with Apex, a Java-like […]

The latest fruits of the Sun/Intel alliance are in a potentially lucrative vertical market. The two companies today announced the availability of Sun’ Solaris operating system on Intel-based telecommunications rack and blade servers. Last month, Sun announced a new line of blade servers available with choice of AMD, Intel or Sun’s own Sparc processors. The […]

The never-ending game of whack-a-spammer-mole continues, with spammers now adopting PDF files as the new mechanism for delivering their junk mail. It seems like only yesterday we were talking about image-based spam, where the junk mail message was written in a GIF or JPEG file embedded in the letter. Now the junk mailers have been […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Four months after he joined Sun Microsystems, Debian Linux distribution creator Ian Murdock discussed his plans to bring Linux-like distribution sensibilities to Sun’s OpenSolaris operating system. OpenSolaris is an open source project with more than 60,000 participants who get to dig into the code base that makes up Solaris. The problem, […]