Ryan Naraine

The test code for Microsoft’s ‘Titanium’ has been released for general download under a brand-new name — Exchange Server 2003, the company announced Monday. Microsoft said the test code for Exchange 2003, which is on schedule for release in the middle of this year, can be downloaded for evaluation as part of the Exchange Joint […]

Sun Microsystems plans to pull the plug on its free MySun e-mail service on March 24, 2003, claiming it can no longer support such a service. Sun sent a note to existing subscribers, warning that the service will be shut down this year. “We are notifying you of this change now in order to give […]

E-mail security firms are warning that a variant of the Yaha.M mass-mailing virus is again circulating, urging administrators to block attachments ending with “.scr,” “.exe” and “.com” at the firewall level to keep the worm at bay. MessageLabs slapped a “High Risk” rating on the new Yaha.M-mm worm, which was discovered over the holidays and […]

Exploit code for potentially serious vulnerabilities in multiple implementations of SSH has been posted on the Web, prompting another round of debate over the way security disclosures are handled by research firms. The security research division of Spanish firm I-Proyectos posted the code to exploit the SSH flaws in the freeware Putty SSH and Telnet […]

Online mortgage lender Quicken Loans has settled government charges it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by failing to provide “adverse action” notices when pre-approvals are denied because of bad credit reports. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the settlement Tuesday that mandates Quicken Loans to provide “a clear and conspicuous disclosure in close […]

A potentially-dangerous security bug has been detected in Bugzilla, a popular open-source bug-tracking software run by the Mozilla Foundation. Researchers warned of the cross site scripting vulnerability within Bugzilla that lets a remote attacker create a malicious link containing script code which could be executed in the browser of a legitimate user, in the context […]

Liberate Technologies, an interactive TV software firm based in San Carlos, Calif., announced the firing of chief operating officer Donald Fitzpatrick after an investigation into various accounting transactions. Fitzpatrick’s firing comes just days after Charter Communications dismissed CFO Kent Kalkwarf and COO David Barford in the midst of a federal grand jury probe of its […]

Online marketing consultant e-agency Friday painted a rosy outlook for the Internet sector in 2003, insisting the Internet-related phenomena will continue to have increasingly critical impacts on business and society. The Oakland, Calif.-based concern is predicting the coming year will be good for the Internet economy — — both users and providers, buyers and sellers […]

Former high-flying dot-com incubator Idealab got some good news and some bad news late Thursday when a California judge dismissed portions of a lawsuit by investors but ruled that the litigation can proceed on some counts. The investor group filed suit in March, alleging Idealab’s management abused its authority and diverted corporate assets to the […]

Plans by AT&T Wireless and NTT DoCoMo to launch third-generation (3G) wireless services in major U.S. markets by next July have been dramatically scaled back, the companies announced Thursday. Instead of launching WCDMA services in 13 major U.S. cities next June, the rollout will now be limited to four cities — San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas […]

Consumer electronic giants Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric on Thursday finalized plans to merge semiconductor sales into a separate company: Renesas Technology Corp. The two Japanese firms formally inked a deal to establish a joint venture — Hitachi will assume a 55 percent stake and Mitsubishi takes the remaining 45 percent — aimed at merging their […]

B2B software firm Sybase on Friday zeroed in on the wireless sector, announcing a $38 million all-cash deal to purchase Hayward, California-based AvantGo and fold it into the iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary. As part of Sybase’s iAnywhere, AvantGo will target wireless middleware for mobilizing Web content. More importantly, it lets Sybase expand in the B2B mobile […]