8/27 The Register

Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. The Register Judge orders cybersquatter to pay Verizon $33m August 26, 2009 at 8:13 pm Massive default damages ruled acceptable A federal court in California has upheld a massive $33.15m penalty against a cybersquatting domain aggregator that registered hundreds of websites mimicking Verizon's name and trademarks.… What is your recession sales strategy? Mass web infection pinned on hardened crime gang August 26, 2009 at 8:07 pm DIY exploit launch pads mushroom A mass compromise that has hit tens of thousands of English-language webpages is probably part of a much larger wave of attacks that's been under way since June by a sophisticated band of criminals, a security researcher said Wednesday.… The power of collaboration within unified communications Japan gets battery swapping electric taxis August 26, 2009 at 8:03 pm Making Tokyo a 'Better Place' You'll soon have a one-in-15,000 chance of hailing an all-electric taxi when in Tokyo.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing Poor porn protection hurt Firefox 3 uptake August 26, 2009 at 7:57 pm "Certain bookmarks" best left unexposed How we yawned as Microsoft churned out dull report after sponsored study to "prove" Internet Explorer 8 beats Firefox on security, performance, and ease of use.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work Tibco snaps up DataSynapse for $28m August 26, 2009 at 7:33 pm Cloudy aspirations Tibco Software has purchased grid/cloud outfit DataSynapse in a deal with worth $28m.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud Storage Fusion lowers prices on intimate searches August 26, 2009 at 7:12 pm Storage resource analytics as a service UK start-up Storage Fusion will offer a storage resource analytics (SRA) service in the cloud, with customers getting an unprecedented level of detail about heterogeneous storage arrays at a far lower cost than they would from enterprise SRA tools.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work Twitter botches patch for nasty account-hijacking bug August 26, 2009 at 6:54 pm All your tweets are belong to us For the past 24 hours, Twitter engineers have been fighting a gaping hole that makes it easy for hackers to hijack the accounts of users who do nothing more than view a booby-trapped message.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing Mechwarrior maker claims Microsoft 'destroyed' studio's culture August 26, 2009 at 6:46 pm And nearly killed Bungie FASA Interactive founder Jordan Weisman blames Microsoft for "destroying" his game studio after it was assimilated into Redmond in 1999.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing Adobe rubberstamps (only) CS4 for Snow Leopard August 26, 2009 at 6:41 pm CS3? It's not 'not supported' Adobe has announced that its Creative Suite 4 (CS4) has been tested and cleared for use on Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system. But it has no plans to test the compatibility of earlier versions.… The power of collaboration within unified communications Dig deep for Microsoft's Windows 7 advice line August 26, 2009 at 6:24 pm Pay to play - and migrate Microsoft has made much of how software and hardware written for Windows Vista will work with Windows 7. And that would he great - if Windows Vista hadn't been such a monumental flop and the majority of Windows applications today weren't still tuned for Windows XP.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud Sun goes over Rainbow Falls August 26, 2009 at 6:19 pm At Hot Chips, not in a barrel Sun Microsystems, muzzled by Oracle's impending $5.6bn takeover, somewhat surprisingly showed up at the 21st annual Hot Chips conference sponsored by the IEEE and hosted at Stanford University - the birthplace of Sun - where Sun's chip techies talked about the future Rainbow Falls Sparc T processors and their integrated encryption engines.… What is your recession sales strategy? US music publishers sue online lyrics sites August 26, 2009 at 5:15 pm Go call you a lawyer Music moguls are opening up another can of web whoop-ass on alleged copyright-infringement miscreants, this time suing online lyrics sites.… What is your recession sales strategy? YouTube to share ad money with viral videos August 26, 2009 at 2:50 pm One-off vids allowed into partnership program YouTube plans to turn more skateboarding dogs into cash by selling ads for the creators of one-off viral videos.… The power of collaboration within unified communications Microsoft apologizes for digital head transplant August 26, 2009 at 2:34 pm It's black. It's white Microsoft has apologized for digitally removing the head of a black man from a website photo and replacing it with the head of a white man.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign August 26, 2009 at 2:28 pm Less is more "sins" The Free Software Foundation is mobilizing against Windows 7 with a campaign to dissuade IT decision makers from installing the operating system.… The power of collaboration within unified communications   This email was sent to excelea@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? 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