Ryan Naraine

Internet telephony provider Skype Technologies has released a final version of its peer-to-peer VoIP software for Wi-Fi enabled Pocket PC devices. Skype for Pocket PC Version 1.0 is styled as a stripped down version of the Skype desktop service, which allows users to make free phone calls to other Skype users or purchase minutes to […]

Security researchers have issued a warning of a flaw in the Trillian cross-platform instant messaging (IM) client that puts users at risk of malicious hacker attacks. The vulnerability has been reported in Trillian 0.74i, which is a free version of the product distributed by Cerulean Studios. An advisory from Secunia attached a “moderately critical” rating […]

Online auction giant eBay plans to shell out approximately $41 million in cash to buyout the remaining shares in Korea’s Internet Auction Co. (IAC) that it does not already own. EBay announced the filing of a cash tender offer in Korea to acquire the remaining publicly held shares from a group of institutional investors. The […]

Microsoft has pushed back the deadline for the complete delivery of its Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to April 2005. The software giant had originally planned to automatically install the service pack to all Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems by mid-December, but this schedule has been modified to give businesses […]

Computer maker Apple has released a security update to fix more than a dozen flaws in the Jaguar and Panther versions of its flagship Mac operating system. According to an advisory from Apple, the most serious flaw could permit remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and potentially take over a user’s system. The mega patch […]

The Silicon Valley veteran who created the iMovie and iPhoto applications and helped drive Apple’s successful digital hub strategy wants to prove there’s money to be made in the business instant messaging (IM) market. With Five Across, a venture-funded IM start-up, former Apple director of engineering Glenn Reid is looking for dollars where America Online […]

IBM has released a pair of “FixPaks” to plug security holes in its DB2 Universal Database product after researchers discovered multiple code execution vulnerabilities. Big Blue’s patches, available here and here, were issued after security research outfit NGS Software found buffer overflows that could allow malicious hackers to execute arbitrary code. Affected products include the […]

America Online’s desktop messaging division has navigated a series of twists and turns in recent months, none more significant than the company’s decision to exit the high-end business IM space and pursue an interconnectivity deal with rival Microsoft. Though AOL will connect its AIM text chat network to Microsoft’s Live Communications Server (LCS), full interoperability […]

A pair of security holes in the popular WinZip file compression program could put users at risk of buffer overflow attacks, the company warned Thursday. WinZip Computing, which markets the Windows utility used to zip and unzip files for storage and archiving, released version 9.0 Service Release 1 (SR-1) to correct the flaws and warned […]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has sounded a warning for a pair of potentially dangerous flaws in its Kerberos network authentication system. In separate advisories, the MIT Kerberos team warned of security holes in the Kerberos 5 implementation’s Key Distribution Center (KDC) program and a Denial of Service bug in the ASN.1 decoder library. […]

Microsoft showed up at the music download party on Wednesday with a music store wrapped around a new version of the Windows Media Player (WMP). The company’s preview release of MSN Music has 500,000 tracks, with plans to reach the industry standard 1 million tracks in coming weeks. Songs will cost users 99 cents each, […]

Database software giant Oracle has issued its first monthly security bulletin with patches for multiple “high risk” product flaws. Facing a barrage of criticism from security experts for long delays in releasing fixes for security product flaws, the company issued an advisory (PDF file) to warn of potentially serious bugs in the Oracle Database Server, […]