Ryan Naraine

Microsoft late Wednesday issued patches for three security holes affecting its Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), Windows 2000 platform and versions of the Internet Information Server (IIS). The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant warned that the most critical of the three bugs was an unchecked buffer in PPTP implementation that could enable denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Two other […]

Mega portal Yahoo has switched to the PHP scripting language for its back-end programming, a decision that’s sure to bring smiles to the faces of open-source advocates. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo is undergoing a switch from a proprietary system written in C/C++ to PHP for its backend scripting, according to a company engineer in a […]

Scotts Valley, Calif.-based Borland Software on Tuesday made another move on the acquisition front, shelling out $185 million in cash and stock to purchase TogetherSoft Corp. Just two weeks after gobbling up Starbase and the assets of Sweden-based BoldSoft, Borland said the TogetherSoft acquisition would expand its JBUilder suite and Together’s ControlCenter products, which is […]

Exactly three months after a surprising move to open-source parts of its technology, Seattle-based RealNetworks is set to unveil partnerships with big-name electronics and chipset firms using the Helix DNA client. At an 11:00 a.m webcast, Real CEO Rob Glaser will announce deals with several electronics firms including Acer, Hitachi, NEC, Nokia, Philips STMicroelectronics, and […]

Security consultants @stake has detected a potential vulnerability in the Oracle9i Application Server that could lead to Denial of Service (DoS) scenarios. In a security alert, @stake said the potential bug was discovered in the Oracle9iAS Web Cache admin module running on Windows. It said two different denial of service situations could be triggered by […]

Looking to develop a presence in the lucrative low-end computer storage market, Mass.-based EMC Corp. on Monday unveiled the CLARiiON CX200 network storage system, a new device co-designed and built in partnership with Dell Computer . An announcement from EMC made no mention of Dell’s involvement in the CX200 system which touts the “entry-level price […]

That loud, revving sound you hear is most likely RealNetworks pushing the envelope in its high-stakes race with Microsoft for control of the digital media sector. After a surprising shift to allow open-source parts of its technology and digital content to be streamed in a variety of formats, the Seattle-based RealNetworks will get down to […]

Listen.com’s Rhapsody digital music service on Thursday announced deals with several record labels to allow CD-burning of music tracks, another sign the record industry has caved on the issue of download ownership and portability. San Francisco’s Listen.com, which already offers unlimited access music files from its $9.95 per month service, announced licensing deals with AOL […]

A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unknown origin briefly interrupted Web traffic on nine of the 13 DNS “root” servers that control the Internet but experts on Wednesday dismissed the overall threat as “minimal.” Sources say the one-hour attack, which was hardly noticeable to the average end-user, was done via ICMP requests (ping-flooding) to […]

Looking to recover from losing big-name partners to rival Google, Foster City, Calif.-based Inktomi on Tuesday scored an expansion of a deal with Amazon.com to put e-commerce results on its pay-for-inclusion search index. Inktomi released the news at the Jupiter/IAB Advertising Forum, announcing Amazon.com would include its full product catalog on Inktomi’s search index through […]

Finnish cell phone giant Nokia on Tuesday announced a deal with Hewlett Packard to wirelessly connect remote machines using integrated machine-to-machine (M2M) software. The deal would allow corporate clients to wirelessly manage services like utility meter reading, vending machine operation, elevator control, fleet and traffic control and other business processes that deal with remote assets. […]

An eleventh hour reprieve from the recording industry’s royalty collection agency has given new life to “smaller” Internet broadcasters facing an October 20 deadline for the payment of the controversial CARP rate structure. SoundExchange, the RIAA agency mandated to recoup royalty payments from Web broadcasts, granted the last-minute reprieve to the those webcasters that qualified […]