Ryan Naraine

Adobe Systems , known mostly for its Acrobat and Photoshop desktop publishing software, has set its sights on the high-end DVD authoring market. The San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe on Monday unveiled Adobe Encore DVD, a DVD authoring application that extends the company’s digital video product line. While rival firms like Roxio have integrated DVD burning […]

Enterprise IT administrators, bombarded by daily software vulnerability warnings on a daily basis, have not been serious about applying security patches despite the clear danger of worms, viruses and intruder attacks. That’s the word from online security experts who estimate that up to 50 percent of all enterprises could be sitting ducks for hacker attacks […]

Microsoft on Thursday labeled as “important” a vulnerability found in the RPC Endpoint Mapper protocol that could lead to denial-of-service attacks but while patches were issued for Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems, the company said it was unable to provide a fix for Windows NT 4.0. The 10th security alert from Microsoft warned of […]

In a move that extends the market for its digital media software offerings, Macromedia, Inc. on Thursday released a new software environment — Macromedia Central — that allows Flash-based applications to run offline without an Internet connection. Macromedia Central, unveiled at Flashforward 2003 in San Francisco, Calif., allows Web applications built with the company’s Flash […]

The absence of emergency 911 calling capabilities within VoIP telephony has been a huge barrier to large scale adoption of Internet phone services but a small New Jersey-based firm thinks it has found an answer. Vonage, which sells SIP-based VoIP service to broadband users, is testing a new technology that promises 911 calling capabilities, complete […]

The CERT Coordination Center on Wednesday issued an alert confirming several buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes and Domino that could lead to denial-of-service scenarios. The CERT/CC advisory was issued primary to clear up confusion surrounding several security holes detected last month by research firms NGSS and Rapid7. Systems affected by the bugs include Lotus […]

Danish security research firm Secunia has launched a new mailing list to compete directly with entrenched security advisory clearinghouses like the CERT Coordination Center and Symantec-owned SecurityFocus. Secunia’s move to launch its own list of vulnerability alert is in direct retaliation for what it describes as “censorship” and the deliberate delays of warnings while paying […]

NEW YORK – The “free vs. paid” debate surrounding Web content continued to dominate the discussions at the Jupiter Online Media Conference here Tuesday with a growing sentiment that the money lies in providing services instead of standalone content. On a day when Yahoo’s chief solutions officer Tim Sanders hailed the virtue of “selling the […]

NEW YORK — Looking to add another carrot to its premium Web offerings, the Wall Street Journal on Monday announced the soft launch of a new product — Afternoon Report — an add-on that updates with fresh news twice during the day. WSJ Online publisher Scott Schulman told internetnews.com the Afternoon Report would serve as […]

Consumer spending on paid content on the Internet will jump to $2 billion in 2003, up 30 percent from a year, according to a survey published by Jupiter Research. However, despite the growth of the paid content market, the research firm found that online advertising remained the “best opportunity” for most online media businesses. Jupiter […]

IBM’s growth spurt in the market for supercomputers got a boost Friday when the company announced the sale of one of its new p655 Unix servers to the University of Texas at Austin (UT) to help scientists develop environmentally-friendly oil drilling techniques. One week after a similar deal with the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Big […]

Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony upstart Vonage has confirmed an inquiry from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) into alleged unauthorized use of software products. The New Jersey-based Vonage, which sells Internet telephone services to enterprise and consumer clients, said it was conducting an internal investigation but declined to provide details of the BSA inquiry. According […]