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  • Adobe Enables Security Fixes for Reader, Acrobat

    Adobe Systems is enabling a silent updating feature in two products in an effort to ensure that users are running the most secure versions of the company’s software. With the new updater, Windows users can configure Adobe Reader and Acrobat to automatically download updates without user interaction. Right now, users have the choice of handling…

  • Microsoft Gets Ready for Patch Tuesday

    Microsoft is planning a significant Patch Tuesday update April 13 to address 25 vulnerabilities across Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange. In its pre-patch advisory April 8, Microsoft said there would be a total of 11 security bulletins issued. Five of the 11 are rated critical and affect Windows. Of the remaining six, all but…

  • What’s Inside: A Look at the Components that Make Up Apple’s iPad

    Sure the Apple iPad looks unique, but viewed from the inside out, it represents a more “radical departure” from traditional electronics design  than might be expected, said iSuppli in an April 7 report. During a recent teardown of the iPad, iSuppli not only discovered that the device likely costs more to make than iSuppli originally…

  • Telepresence Use on the Rise, says ABI Research

    Even a tough economy failed to stop the growth of telepresence in 2009, according to a study from ABI Research. Sales of telepresence hardware, software and services reached $567 million last year, and annual revenue is expected to top $2.7 billion by 2015. According to ABI, almost every size of company has access to some…

  • Microsoft to Release Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Soon

    Microsoft plans on releasing the beta of its Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 in June, bringing a number of changes to user interface, integrated archiving and other areas. >> Click here to read the rest of the story at eWEEK.com

  • Qwest Joins Hosted UC Platform Purveyors

    Qwest Communications is the latest company to offer a hosted UC (unified communications) platform. Qwest on April 7 unveiled its iQ HUCS (Hosted Unified Communications Service) to help businesses bring together the various pieces of their communications infrastructure—from voice and video to email, instant messaging and presence—under a single, hosted umbrella. UC offers businesses the…

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