Recent articles by Sylvie Barak

Symantec snaps up online storage firm

Symantec snaps up online storage firm

Symantec has snapped up private online storage firm Swapdrive for an estimated $123 million.
Sylvie Barak Jun 12 2008 2:13PM Security
French Government decides to censor the Internet

French Government decides to censor the Internet

The French government has decided that it would like to censor the Internet.
Sylvie Barak Jun 11 2008 10:16AM Security
VMware buys B-hive Networks

VMware buys B-hive Networks

VMware has announced its acquisition of B-hive networks, a privately-held application performance management software company.
Sylvie Barak May 29 2008 7:55AM Networking
Vista selling really well, says Ballmer

Vista selling really well, says Ballmer

Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling “incredibly well”, he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today.
Sylvie Barak May 22 2008 7:55AM Software
Greenpeace says game consoles just aren't green

Greenpeace says game consoles just aren't green

Greenpeace's latest report, on the "green-ness" of game consoles, reckons that all three major gaming units, Nintendo’s Wii, Sony’s PlayStation 3 Elite, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 still have a way to go before being eco-friendly.
Sylvie Barak May 21 2008 2:46PM Hardware
How IT security could go green?

How IT security could go green?

THE CHAIRMAN OF Wick Hill Group in the UK, which sells security infrastructure for ebusiness, has written a whitepaper outlining his views on how IT security could become more environmentally friendly.
Sylvie Barak May 16 2008 10:15AM Security
Google testing Intel SSDs

Google testing Intel SSDs

Google could be toying with the idea of moving over to Solid State Disk (SSD) technology, according to Digitimes which says the company has just bought a load of them from Intel.
Sylvie Barak May 13 2008 3:15PM Storage
Hacker exposes six million Chilean's data to make a point

Hacker exposes six million Chilean's data to make a point

A Chilean hacker posted sensitive information about six million of his compatriots on the Internet, apparently in an act of protest against the government’s lax data security.
Sylvie Barak May 13 2008 9:35AM Security
US soldiers pick up viruses from pirated porn

US soldiers pick up viruses from pirated porn

Sexually transmitted diseases are not a new phenomenon for soldiers stranded for months in foreign countries but one type of STD is definitely a recent development, and is becoming a virtual epidemic on US soldiers' laptops.
Sylvie Barak May 13 2008 9:35AM Security
Sun open sources Mac OS X virtualisation tool

Sun open sources Mac OS X virtualisation tool

Sun Microsystems has unveiled a useful update to its xVM VirtualBox, open source desktop virtualisation, which now has support for both Solaris and Mac OS X.
Sylvie Barak May 12 2008 7:45AM Software
US government increases wiretraps by 20 per cent

US government increases wiretraps by 20 per cent

A US court report on wiretapping shows that the phenomenon is up by 20 per cent on last year, reaching its highest ever level, with not even a single surveillance application turned down in the whole of 2007.
Sylvie Barak May 6 2008 2:09PM Security
DMCA complaint prompts Google to take down open source project

DMCA complaint prompts Google to take down open source project

Google has yet again succumbed to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and has taken down an open source project which allowed a high-definition video decoder called CoreAVC to run on Linux systems.
Sylvie Barak May 6 2008 7:47AM Software
Google to team up with IBM again

Google to team up with IBM again

Not content with its plans to corner the Small and Medium Business market (SMB), IBM is now apparently looking to strike a deal with Google which would help it flog desktop applications to big businesses.
Sylvie Barak May 5 2008 7:44AM Hardware
Industry suddenly realises multi-cored chips are useless unless used

Industry suddenly realises multi-cored chips are useless unless used

Stanford University has joined forces with IBM, AMD, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel to create innovative software that will let chips better process several simultaneously.
Sylvie Barak May 1 2008 7:53AM Hardware

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