Ryan Naraine

Verisign on Thursday announced the sale of its consumer-facing Network Solutions domain registration unit to Pivotal Private Equity in a deal valued at $100 million. Less than a year after relaunching the Network Solutions TLD registration brand, Verisign is exiting the business to focus on its core Internet and telco infrastructure units. Since acquiring Network […]

Microsoft on Wednesday warned of seven new security holes detected in Windows and Exchange products, five of which carry ‘critical’ ratings. In keeping with a new strategy to release security patches on a predictable schedule, Microsoft bundled the seven fixes into two separate advisories to simplify patch management for IT admins and end users. Of […]

Exactly three months after leaving the Netscape nest, the Mozilla lizard heads have made a bold push to target end-users with a slew of new product releases. After scoring a $2 million pledge from America Online and separating itself from Netscape Communications, the non-profit Mozilla Foundation released Mozilla 1.5, the last version of its Web […]

Looking to beef up sales of the popular Windows XP Plus! Digital Media Edition software, Microsoft has released an upgrade that adds the ability to burn user-created photo stories to recordable CDs (CD-R). The new version of Plus Digital Media Edition, which is a key part of Microsoft’s plan to turn Windows XP into full-fledged […]

Norway-based Opera Software on Tuesday released new versions of its alternative Web browser for the Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris platforms. On the heels on last week’s rollout of the Opera Platform for mobile operators, the company launched final versions of Opera 7.21 browser with new power-browsing features and the reintroduction of the ‘Kiosk’ mode […]

Internet security breaches and fraud attempts have outpaced the “impressive” growth of Internet usage with the U.S. being the biggest target by attackers, according to statistics released by Verisign . Verisign, which markets digital commerce and communication products and services to enterprise clients, reported that the number of security events per device it managed increased […]

As part of its all out offensive to deal with what company officials now describe as a security “crisis,” Microsoft has announced a major revamp of Software Update Services (SUS), a little-known tool that automates the deployment of security patches. Burned by a significant increase in malicious worms targeting its software products, Microsoft chief executive […]

Microsoft on Thursday announced it would no longer issue weekly software patches for security vulnerabilities as part of a major plan to avoid issuing updates on a “very unpredictable schedule.” Instead of software patches issued every Wednesday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company would release monthly security patches except for emergency situations. “We […]

NEW YORK – The legitimate reincarnation of the once-hated Napster digital music service is ready for prime time. Almost a year after shelling out $5.3 million to pick at Napster’s bones in bankruptcy court, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Roxio formally unveiled Napster 2.0 Thursday as a paid-download service hawking downloads at 99 cents per song and […]

NEW YORK – With wireless intrusion threats adding to the nightmares facing enterprise IT administrators, IBM Corp. announced its entry into the Wi-Fi security space, rolling out a subscription-based intrusion detection service (IDS). The new IDS offering, which is part of IBM’s managed Security and Privacy Services portfolio, offers security from man-in-the-middle attacks, denial-of-service scenarios, […]

Looking to cash in on heavy interest in playoff baseball this year, New York-based MLB.com will ease usage rules for paid downloads of full-length games to allow for transfers and burns to CDs or DVDs. MLB.com, which is owned by Major League Baseball, plans to hawk full-length game downloads for the duration of the 2003 […]

Moving swiftly to soften potential penalties from a multi-million dollar patent infringement loss, Microsoft plans to release a new version of Internet Explorer (IE) early next year with “modest changes” to the way the browser handles embedded content on Web pages. The planned IE modifications, which were addressed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), […]