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Apple Vulnerability Project Launches with QuickTime Exploit
An easy-to-exploit security vulnerability in Apple Computer’s QuickTime media player could put millions of Macintosh and Windows users at risk of code execution attacks. The QuickTime flaw kicked off the Month of Apple Bugs project, which promises to expose unpatched Mac OS X and Apple application vulnerabilities on a daily basis throughout the month of…
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Google Project Targets Program Crashes
Program crashes are an unfortunate fact of life for software developers. But to protect against crashes, developers need to know which programs are crashing and how often. Enter Google, which for the past several months has been working on an open-source project called “Airbag” that is aimed at handling all the dirty work when it…
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Arrow Extends EU Reach with U.K. Acquisition
Distributor Arrow Electronics extended its reach into Europe, completing Dec. 29 the $80 million acquisition of InTechnology’s distribution arm in the United Kingdom, Arrow announced. The pick-up gives Melville, N.Y.-based Arrow a presence in the United Kingdom, Europe’s second largest IT market, where Arrow had previously been unrepresented and boosts it’s position as a security…
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Gentag Patent Adds RFID Sensor Network Feature to Mobile Devices
Gentag, which bills itself as an IP development company, announced Dec. 28 that it has been issued a patent for a way to add sensor networks to RFID readers in wireless devices such as cell phones, PDAs and laptops. The RFID Based Sensor Networks patent, numbered 7148804, provides the basis for the creation of RFID…
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Kaspersky Ships Vista AV Support
Software maker Kaspersky Lab has released its initial anti-virus products that support Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. Shipped on Dec. 28, the software is a beta version of a maintenance update for Kaspersky’s Anti-Virus 6.0 and Internet Security products that includes the new support for Vista, which was introduced by Microsoft in mid-November 2006. While…
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10 Years Gone: IBM Reappears at CES
It has been a decade since IBM showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show. That 10-year absence will come to an end in a few weeks, after Big Blue opens its booth on the showroom floor at the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas. Since last showing up at the CES in 1997, a lot…
