Friday, July 30, 2010
PRODUCT GUIDE: Security suites: big protection, little fuss Read about the pros and cons of BitDefender Internet Security 2010, Kaspersky Internet Security, McAfee Internet Security, Norman Internet Security Suite, Norton Internet Security 2010, Panda Internet Security Security Shield 2010, Trend Micro Internet Security Pro and ZoneAlarm Internet Security.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Google, China Play Game of Cat and Mouse Google's end run around censorship rules draws a subdued response from China.
Friday, September 11, 2009
ImHalal.com reaches out to Muslim Web users Users get a warning but can still continue their search when they type in words like beer, pork, porn or rape on the new Muslim-centric search engine that filters for content that is “haram” or forbidden by the faith...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
REVIEW: Cisco IPS 7.0 raises the bar with reputation filtering New global threat correlation feature boosts effectiveness of intrusion prevention devices but could use a more detailed reports. Find out about Cisco’s risk rating system
Monday, June 29, 2009
China delays Net filtering mandate for PC makers Questions of piracy, security and free speech still hang as China suddenly postpones its own deadline for computer makers to install Internet filtering software on all devices they ship to the country
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Obama could impact Canadian net neutrality laws The first U.S. president to carry a BlackBerry made it a campaign promise to enact net neutrality legislation. Will he go through with it? And why should Canadians care?
Thursday, November 22, 2007
'60s cheque forger turned security consultant, during his interview at Computerworld's Storage Networking World conference. Is it really possible to develop anti-spam solutions for every spam trick? Almost certainly not. But, without the research that is being carried out today, spam might be a whole lot worse. Here is a list of a dozen research projects that focus on new technology and techniques to stop spam of all kinds. This list contains select papers made public at the Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2007). The President of CEAS is Gordon V. Cormack, Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. 
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Loose architecture lost without maps, finds study New research on how IT resources are being managed in the emerging world of dynamic computing has revealed a more direct correlation between advanced relational mapping tools and IT’s success at serving business.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Microsoft joins e-mail managed services fray Microsoft Corp. has fully subsumed services it acquired from FrontBridge Technologies last year, rebranding and pricing the company's e-mail managed services and setting out a road map for them.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
ServGate makes net security less expensive ServGate last week streamlined the pricing of its multi-service security platforms so customers pay a lower flat price for the hardware and security software no matter how many users they support on it.
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Slamming spam the Industry Canada way Less than a year ago, spam used to be facetiously referred to as the "killer app" at Industry Canada (IC). The reality, though, wasn't that funny. Spam eroded employee productivity, sucked up server and storage bandwidth and inflated infrastructure costs. Seventy per cent of all of the Department's incoming e-mail was spam – which at the time was ranked as the "number one irritant" by IC staff. All that, however, is no more than an unpleasant memory.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
UK businesses shrug off spam As the European Union (EU) pushes member states to implement laws to control spam, it seems that many businesses in the U.K., where the laws have been put in place, don't see it as a big problem.
Monday, February 23, 2004
Microsoft offers preview version for InfoPath Microsoft Corp. on Monday provided a preview version of updates that will be added to its InfoPath 2003 — a forms application product that is part of the Office suite. 
Monday, November 17, 2003
COMDEX: Gates sets seamless computing vision Twenty years on from his first address at Comdex, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates this year used his keynote speech to reminisce and found that some software challenges from the 1980s still exist. He also announced new technologies to solve some of today's problems.
Friday, October 31, 2003
Algonquin College bites back at reams of spam Rod Martin knew he had a problem on his hands but didn't realize the extent of it.
Monday, October 06, 2003
Sophos buys ActiveState, vendors and customers should benefit The acquisition of anti-spam vendor ActiveState gives Sophos, a U.K. antivirus vendor, a suite to secure firms' e-mail boundary. Sophos will increase its presence in the U.S. market. ActiveState can expand in Europe.
Friday, July 25, 2003
Spam price tag estimated at $874 But it's just not the per-user costs employers should be worried about.
Sunday, March 16, 2003
Defining KM In defense of the wacky misinformation pundits spew about KM (knowledge management), it really is challenging for technologists and business people to get their minds around KM technology.
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
SurfControl announces Project Blackbeard A new offering from Scotts Valley, Calif.-based SurfControl will give IT managers power over unauthorized use of instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) communications at the office.
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
LOTUSPHERE: Vendors bolster IM, e-mail management ORLANDO, FLA. - At the annual Lotusphere conference here this week, third-party vendors unwrapped a bevy of tools designed to bolster management and performance of messaging products from IBM Corp.'s Lotus Software.
Sunday, January 05, 2003
Network Associates bags Deersoft Network Associates Inc. (NAI) started 2003 by putting spam between the crosshairs. On Monday the company announced the acquisition of Deersoft Inc., a maker of antispam software, for an undisclosed sum.
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Web services slip through on SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based protocol that is designed to exchange structured and typed information on the Web.
Sunday, August 18, 2002
CipherTrust filters spam with IronMail Network administrators and security staff now have additional tools with which to fight unwanted e-mail following the recent announcement of new anti-spam features in CipherTrust Inc.'s IronMail e-mail security appliance.
Sunday, July 14, 2002
Standard may bring order to e-mail chaos Relief may be in sight for corporate users who are struggling to manage overflowing e-mail in-boxes. A promising filtering technology called Sieve is gathering support among messaging software vendors, including Sun Microsystems Inc., Rockliffe, Critical Path Inc. and Sendmail Inc.
Wednesday, December 05, 2001
Bare Bones Software BBEdit Multi-purpose application does it all