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The Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) hacker group -- which claims to be the world's most attractive hacker group -- has released Goolag Scanner, an open source tool that uses Google's search engines to look for vulnerabilities in Web sites Goolag Scanner is either a Web auditing tool that can be used by security professionals to help make their Web sites...

Adobe Systems on Monday released Adobe Integrated Runtime, a software tool that allows users to seamlessly interact with interactive content even when they aren't connected to the Internet ...

San Jose, Calif., startup MetaRAM has launched new technology it says can quadruple the memory capacity of servers and workstations The DDR2 (double data rate 2) MetaSDRAM technology boosts performance and at the same time decreases the cost of high-performance systems, the company said....

Imagine what you'd get if you crossed Gumby with a smartphone, and you've got some idea of what a new, nanotech handset from Nokia could be like The new Morph, which was jointly developed by the Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge in England, is a bendable, flexible and stretchable device that can be folded into pocket size and us...

Another lawsuit against Microsoft reportedly has received the go-ahead to proceed. This time, a federal judge in Seattle approved a class action suit against the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant over alleged marketing claims that various computers labeled as "Vista Capable" actually were not suited to the new-generation operating system The suit...

For a couple of hours on Sunday, access to YouTube worldwide was cut, the result of the Pakistani government's banning YouTube in the country Access to YouTube elsewhere was restored after two hours or so, but the question on everyone's minds is, can this happen again?...

In a bid to retain its leadership in the gaming space amid growing competition, Electronic Arts has launched a US$2 billion takeover bid against rival Take-Two Interactive, an offer quickly rejected by the smaller company as "inadequate." EA offered $26 per share in cash for Take-Two, a price that represents a 64 percent premium over Take-Two's clo...

There are approximately 20 million small businesses in the United States. Even for a large firm, finding the right person for any given job can be like finding a needle in a haystack. When you're a small business, finding reliable and affordable talent can be even more difficult Filling that niche formed the basis for the business plan of startup c...

Empowering sales forces with tools to work remotely has evolved dramatically since the first wave of smartphones hit the streets. Sales reps have grown adept at basic applications such as e-mail and Web browsing, but often still wait for an end-of-day laptop session to access their CRM system. Still, Best-in-Class organizations generally yield an adoption rate of over 60 percent for mobile CRM, indicating that real value can be linked to a successful deployment of the technology...

Last week, HP turned in a financial report that seemed to provide a strong counterpoint to the view that the world was heading into a recession, or at least that tech was going to be sacrificed to that recession However, this took me back to IBM and what stopped its turnaround in the '90s and whether HP could succeed where IBM failed....

A new survey of European bank customers could prove useful to banks on this side of the pond. The Future of Communications in Retail Banking survey, conducted by Coleman Parkes and sponsored by Xerox, analyzed how retail banks communicate with their customers and presented an argument for more personalized communication with customers to keep banks from losing market share...

Despite the overwhelming success of e-commerce, there are still consumers out there too terrified to click their cart through a virtual checkout Are they just a silly-nilly group, nutty as a bunch of conspiracy theorists? Or are the rest of us just too naive to get it?...

A new study suggests that dynamic memory on computers stores encrypted, secure data longer than originally thought The research project -- conducted by eight researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wind River Systems -- focused on retrieving encrypted data from dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which tempora...

The European Union is looking at Microsoft's vow to commit to openness and interoperability with a jaundiced eye The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, will welcome "any move towards genuine interoperability," it said, while pointing out that Microsoft had made "at least four similar statements" in the past on this topic....

A surge in server shipments during the fourth quarter helped HP gain ground against IBM in server sales revenue and extend its lead in server shipments, according to a report released Thursday by Gartner Overall for the year, worldwide server shipment sales grew in 2007, increasing 7.4 percent from 2006, while server revenue rose by almost 4 percen...

Ten teams from around the world have signed up to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to to the moon with a US$30 million purse The basic rules are simple: Teams will compete to be the first to land a privately funded robotic craft on the moon, have it tool around on the surface for at least 500 meters and send images, video and da...

Businesses have data storage issues -- but so do individuals. The former problem is being addressed; the latter is a relatively untapped market. That is likely the thinking behind EMC's acquisition of Pi EMC, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage vendor, is acquiring privately held Pi, a Seattle-based software and services developer, to service the grow...

Wii enthusiasts across the U.S. -- and I count myself among them -- are rejoicing over Nintendo's latest announcement: Wii Fit is on its way. The new program, which comes with the weight-and-motion-sensing Wii Balance Board, launches May 19. Nintendo officially announced Wii Fit last summer, and it has sold more than 1.4 million units in Japan since the December release there. It's European launch is set for April 25...

Commonly, a publicly held corporation will go to the public markets in order to raise capital. Unfortunately, directors' risk of liability can be substantially increased when a company is raising capital. This is particularly the case if any of the lenders or investors in a particular capital raise are unhappy with what has become of their investment...

There are ways of achieving top rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. that are kept secret In the following article you will learn how to take advantage of these tips and gain more traffic to your site than you could ever imagine. Here's an easy-to-follow guide to achieving top search engine rankings....