Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share
In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.
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19.4.2007 Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share
Microsoft has positioned itself at the top, a top that is targeted by hundreds if not thousands of companies.
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21.11.2008 Microsoft Eyes 40 Percent of Smartphone Market by 2012
Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday.
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13.5.2008 Can Dell change the Linux market?
After a lot of hemming-and-hawing, Dell has decided to accept the verdict of its IdeaStorm users and sell pre-installed Linux.
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26.2.2007 Google to launch Android Market
Google is set to offer Android Market - its own App Store-like content distribution system for the Android mobile phone platform which will allow users to buy, download and install content for the upcoming Android devices.
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29.8.2008 Ballmer: Enterprise Tools Market Ours For the Taking
It's not often that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks development tools. But Ballmer is all fired up about the pending Visual Studio Team System and future potential enterprise tool revenues.
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20.11.2005 Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform
Intel will next year launch its third branded PC platform, after Centrino and Viiv, this time pitched at corporate desktops.
As yet there's no word on the platform's go-to-market brandname, but it will almost certainly be based on Intel's 'Averill' platform. Averill was announced at the chip giant's Developer Forum in March this year for availability in 2006.
Averill is based on Intel's upcoming 'Broadwater' chipset, which will ship primarily as the 965 family, but also as the 946 and 963 product lines, it is believed. The platform also takes in Intel's next-generation Gigabit Ethernet controller, 'Nineveh', and its 65nm dual- and single-core Pentium D and Pentium 4 6xx processors.
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1.12.2005 Windows XP going off market in June: What it means
Well it looks like XP is about to disappear from stores coming this June. Oh what shall I do If I still don't want to migrate to Vista? Well actually it will probably still be for sale in stores and such but Microsoft itself will no longer sell it. Read on.
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18.4.2008 Zune has chance to take iPod market share: survey
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. may have a chance to take market share from the iPod as a Reuters survey showed 35 percent of those interested in its Zune device would be replacing an existing digital music player.
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30.11.2006 The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead
If anyone needed evidence that the standalone anti-spyware market is official dead (if it ever existed), along comes Webroot Software with Exhibit A, B and C:
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29.10.2007 Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1%
No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in terms of its install base.
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2.7.2008 Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday.
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18.9.2009 Windows Embedded grew more than 200% in 2006 retail market
Windows XP Embedded shipments to North American retailers grew by 242 percent in 2006, while WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service) shipments grew 80 by percent, according to a new report from IHL Consulting Group. Last year's Windows Embedded growth trends are expected to increase even further this year.
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7.3.2007 Windows market share drops to 15-year low
Earlier today, we reported that Microsofts Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% for the first time nearly nine years.
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7.12.2008 Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet
At almost six months since it was initially introduced to the public in Beta stage, Windows 7 has gathered an audience almost half the size of all distributions of Linux available on the market, according to statistics from Net Applications.
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2.6.2009 Samsung Announced Worlds First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Microsoft: Vista! Vista! Vista!
Microsoft has a single generalized answer to all life's problems, but especially end user protection, and that answer is of course Windows Vista.
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14.8.2007 Microsoft isn't done with Vista yet
There is still more work to be done on Windows Vista, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on the day the company's highly-anticipated operating system is officially released to enterprise customers.
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2.12.2006 Microsoft boxes up Vista
Although it is still working to finish the code for Windows Vista, Microsoft has reached a decision on which versions of the operating system to offer.
Microsoft has settled on six versions, including an Ultimate edition that will combine the best of the company's corporate and consumer features. The company is aiming to have all of the versions ready for launch in the second half of this year.
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27.2.2006 Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor
Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed.
In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication to gain access to a computer without to the PC user knowing.
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5.3.2006 Vista Might be too Complex for Microsoft
It will not have escaped your attention that Microsoft is laboring to finish the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. A version aimed at the corporate market is supposed to be ready for Christmas, with the consumer edition following some time later (missing the Christmas market, which has irritated computer manufacturers and retailers more than somewhat). Last week, Gartner, a leading IT consultancy, predicted that Microsoft would miss those shipping dates.
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12.5.2006 Microsoft Vista is still a mess
We've had the pleasure of using Vista since its very early builds. The first release candidate is now upon us, and was made available to download by TechBeta and Technology Adoption Program program subscribers last week.
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13.9.2006 Windows Vista at Microsoft
Last Friday I took the plunge and upgraded my main work laptop (Sony VGN-TX3XP 11" Ultra-Portable) to Windows Vista RTM.
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10.11.2006 Microsoft to Testers: After Vista, What Next?
Windows Vista isn't even quite out the door, but Microsoft is already soliciting testers to tell them what should be in the next versions of Windows.
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21.12.2006 Microsoft Vista slow to take off
Windows Vista has been on the market for nearly a month now, but enterprise users and industry experts agree that Microsoft's latest and greatest OS still isn't yet ready to replace XP.
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3.1.2007 Microsoft: Vista upgrades for everybody
Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores which are always having a 'closing down' sale. 'Full' prices are set laughably high only to make you think you're getting an amazing discount, because no-one pays the marked price.
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27.4.2007 So Where is Microsoft Vista SP1?
The April 25 release of a feature-complete Windows Server "Longhorn" beta is a monumental milestone for Microsoft, perhaps more important than the launch of Windows Vista.
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1.5.2007Report: FireWire Headed for Slow Decline
A new
report from In-Stat says
that IEEE 1394, known to Mac
users as FireWire, is heading
for a slow decline in the face
of major challenges from other
interfaces and a stagnating
market share.
FireWire, long a staple of
Macintosh computers, is a
high-speed serial interface
that's been used to connect
digital camcorders, hard disk
drives and other devices.
Although the FireWire standard
has seen evolution with IEEE
1394b, also known as FireWire
800, In-Stat analyst Brian
O'Rourke said FireWire
"suffers from being the
second-choice technology in
many market segments."
O'Rourke said that
1394's historic penetration
in the PC market didn't
exceed one-third of the
market, and it's now dwarfed
by USB 2.0's 100 percent
penetration...
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27.06.2007European Countries Beat U.S. on Broadband, Study Says
Eight European countries have broadband penetration higher than 22 percent, putting them ahead of the U.S., according to the European Commission's
13th Progress Report on the Single Telecoms Market. Denmark tops the list with 35.6 percent of households having access to broadband services. In
Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden it exceeds 30 percent.
The U.K., Belgium, France and Luxembourg are also ahead of the U.S., according
to the Commission. Bulgaria has the lowest broadband penetration of the E.U. member states, with 7.6 percent. 19 million broadband lines were added
during last year, landing overall penetration at 20 percent.
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20.03.2008McAfee: Businesses will dodge Vista in 2008
Vista uptake is unlikely to increase dramatically during 2008, according to security vendor McAfee, who said that businesses are "leery" of
upgrading from current Microsoft operating systems.
One reason businesses have not been keen to upgrade to Vista is the hardware
that is needed to handle the resource-hungry operating system, David Marcus, security research manager for McAfee Avert Labs, told ZDNet Australia
sister site ZDNet.co.uk.
"In 2007 there has been less than 10 percent market penetration for Vista," said Marcus. "There
hasn't been a huge adoption. Most people haven't upgraded because of the hardware upgrade needed."
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20.11.2007Windows Vista Hits 60 Million Sold Copies
I predicted Microsoft would
hit the 60-million-copies-sold
mark with Windows Vista around
July 1. On July 26, at its
annual Financial Analyst
Meeting (FAM), Microsoft
officials acknowledged the
company has hit that
milestone.
At the end of the fist 100
days of sales, at the start of
May, Microsoft said it had
sold 40 million copies of its
client operating system.
With
Vista, "We've eclipsed the
entire Apple installed base in
the first five months of
sales," Kevin Turner,
Microsoft's Chief Operating
Officer, told attendees of
FAM.
Turner shared other new
Vista statistics on July 26,
including:
▪
2.1 million devices now work
with Vista
▪
More than 11,000 Vista-logo'd
devices are now on the market
▪ 2,000
applications now have earned
the Windows Vista logos
▪ More than 70
business-focused enterprise
applications have been made
Vista-compatible since the
product launched in late
January
▪ More
than 42 million Vista seats
are now covered under volume
licensing deals. (However,
"Windows Volume Licensing
annuity penetration" is only
at 19 percent currently,
Turner admitted. Microsoft is
pushing hard to grow this
number, he said.)
▪ Over the next three
years, Microsoft expects more
than half of Windows PC unit
growth to come from emerging
markets.
There's been a lot of
negative press around Vista in
mainstream media and blogs, as
of late. Microsoft is well
aware it needs to pull out the
stops to counter perceptions
that the product has been a
flop.
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28.07.2007Market Share 2007: Mac OS gains 3.15%, Vista grabs 10.48%
Throughout 2007, according to reports by Net Applications, Mac OS increased its market share by 3.15% while Vista managed to grab 10.48% market share.
Windows XP lost 8.39% of the OS market share in the same time period, quite unsurprising considering Vista is its successor, while Linux increased by
0.26%. Nothing too mind-boggling, but definitely interesting, to say the least. At the end of December 2007, the (incomplete) standings are as
follows:
Windows XP - 76.91%
Windows Vista - 10.48%
Mac OS - 7.30%
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09.01.2008Toshiba to Install HD DVD Drive into All Its Laptops
In a bid to push its HD DVD
format, Toshiba would install
appropriate optical drives
into all of its notebooks, the
company said at a press
conference. The move will
allow the company to increase
penetration of HD DVD, but it
is questionable whether with
hybrid drives on the market
and relatively low market
share of Toshiba in the
notebook universe it will
catalyze a substantial
success.
Toshibas
senior vice president
Hisatsugu Nonaka said that the
company would integrate HD DVD
optical drives into all of
its laptops next year, as the
demand towards high definition
movie playback is strong.
The demand is there:
people want to watch their
favorite movies in
high-definition on the road,
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08.06.2007XP or Vista - Which is more at risk from Windows 7?
Its been around 30 months since Windows Vista hit the General Availability milestone, and in that time the OS has only managed to claw some 18% of the
OS market share. Compare that weak market share to the aging Windows XP, which even today commands an impressive 73% market share. With Windows 7 now
only a few weeks away from the General Availability milestone, its interesting to wonder what effect 7 will have on XP and Vista market share.
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11.08.2009Windows 7 Grabs 4% of PC Market
Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7
after Vista was poorly adopted by enterprise users and consumers.
Windows 7 so far has been doing much
better than Vista and is growing
rapidly in marketshare in the computer market.
Early reports
showed that retail box
sales of
Windows
7 were up a whopping 234% compared to sales of Vista over the
same time period. A new report has now been published by Net
Applications that shows Windows 7 has significantly increased its
share of the overall PC market since its launch. As of November 9
Windows
7 has 4% of the OS market.
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12.11.2009Microsoft sabotaging desktop virtualisation
Microsoft's last minute
decision last week not to ease
virtualisation restrictions
for Windows Vista are designed
to "delay market adoption of
competitive virtualisation
software" and are
"unjustified", analyst firm
Gartner charged in a news
analysis.
The
software vendor last week was
planning to change the
licensing terms for Windows
Vista Home Basic and Windows
Vista Home Premium, allowing
users to run the software in a
virtual compartment. The
changes would also further
ease virtualisation
restrictions for Vista
Ultimate and Vista Business,
which currently lack support
for the Bitlocker data
encryption technology and have
restrictions on digital rights
management (DRM).
Microsoft however pulled
the planned changes at the
last minute and without
explanation.
Gartner
alleges that Microsoft is
delaying the licensing changes
because it wants to slow down
the desktop virtualisation
market. The firm currently
lacks a competitive
virtualisation product and
isn't expected to catch up
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26.06.2007Hackers will feed on Vista in 2008, says McAfee
Microsoft Corp. will face more than 40 vulnerabilities in Windows Vista next year, as the operating system climbs past the 10% market-share milestone
and malware authors really start to find flaws, a McAfee Inc. analyst said today.
"Most of the current malware has ignored
Vista," said Craig Schmugar, a threat researcher at McAfee's Avert Lab -- but that's not because the operating system has been frustratingly
secure. In fact, Schmugar argued, Vista has been a worthwhile target in the first year of its release.
"These people make their
living writing malware or attacking users," he said. "They're driven by financial motivation, and only when market share has an impact will they
really work on Vista."
At some point in 2008, Vista will own a tenth of the desktop operating system market, Schmugar predicted.
The milestone should mark the beginning of concerted efforts by attackers to root out vulnerabilities in the newer operating system. "Although the
huge market share that XP has means
will still be profitable there for years to come, Vista at 10% will put it on their radar," he said.
winbeta.org - 27.11.2007
A New Way to Hack Yourself
All too often, IT shops realize their weaknesses only after they've been hacked. Fortunately, Core Security Technologies has a solution: Hack yourself before others do.
The company on Tuesday
introduced Core Impact v7.5, the latest version of its security analysis and testing tool. The update adds new features that let users attempt to
breach themselves to see how far the rabbit hole goes.
The hallmark of the Impact line in past versions has been automated penetration testing. But the latest version goes
after network security penetration by breaking unsecured Web applications to see how far hackers can get once they have broken through your outer
walls.
winbeta.org - 17.10.2007
Windows Vista and Mac OSX see surge in consumer use
While businesses and corporate entities may have little interest in using either Vista or Mac OSX, both are gaining popularity and market share but
only in the area related to home or home office use which is both good and bad.
Its good in the fact that Vista now has a 10%
market share in computers that are connected to the Internet, its bad that corporations are either not going to deploy Vista or have delayed
deployments so much that by the time it comes around again, Windows 7 may be out.
Mac OSX now has something in the area of a 7%
market share, Mac use has seen excellent growth over the past year but has not been without its share of problems. Large corporations would never deploy OSX on a wide scale so that is not a concern there.
winbeta.org - 03.12.2007
Vista: Victim of Enterprise Malaise
Joe Wilcox: Windows Vista probably deserves a break, but it won't be getting one from enterprises.
Majorwhat Microsoft would
callmilestones aren't driving enterprises to radically change their Vista adoption plans. Even I'm surprised. I expected the release of Windows
Vista Service Pack 1 or the end of Windows XP OEM sales to mean something for Vista adoption. Nope.
If Vista were a person, it
might have an insecurity complex from all the rejectionand for good reason. Not since Windows Me has a Microsoft operating system seen such cool
market reception. Based on a recent eWEEK survey of more than 400 IT decision makers, enterprises aren't lessening their resistance, even when there
is good reason.
winbeta.org - 18.07.2008
Netbooks made up 19.5% of laptop shipments last quarter
Netbooks have accounted for nearly a fifth of all laptops shipped for two consecutive quarters now. So says
DisplaySearch, whose preliminary numbers show netbooks represented 19.9% of shipments in the fourth quarter of last year and 19.5% last quarter.
(A year ago, netbooks had a paltry 2.9% market penetration rate.)
winbeta.org - 14.05.2009
Vista Pushes Volume Licensing
During Microsoft's annual
financial analysts conference
today, the company's chief
operating officer boasted
about increases in Windows
volume licensing.
It's the "best rate
we've seen in many, many
years," Kevin Turner said of
annuity licensing contracts.
He acknowledged that Windows
Vista Enterprise and MDOP
(Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack) were major
drivers. Both products can
only be purchased by way of
volume licensing contract. By
contrast, Windows XP
Professional and supporting
tools could be purchased
without a volume licensing
contract.
Turner said that about 42
millions PCs are covered by
volume licensing. Among
midsize businesses and
enterprise, Windows annuity
contract penetration is 19
percent, he said.
"I think it moved a point
of two." Turner said about
Windows volume licensing
increases.
Historically, about 80
percent of Windows client
revenue comes from OEMs.
Microsoft wants to shiftsome
could say forcecustomers to
volume licensing, which would
further smooth out
Microsoft's balance sheet.
winbeta.org - 27.07.2007
Windows 7 surpasses Snow Leopard in under two weeks
In only two weeks since the official commercial launch of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7 has managed to surpass Apple's Snow
Leopard market share. Snow Leopard has been on the market for three months while Windows 7 has only been on the market for two weeks. Microsoft
still stands dominant in the market share, holding strong at 92.52% of all computers in October, compared to Mac OS X with 5.27%, Linux with 0.96% and
1.25% with other operating systems. Windows 7 managed to surpass Snow Leopard's market share (1.17%); Windows 7 managed to grab 2.15% of the
market share, where Vista shows 18.83% and Windows XP with 70.48%.
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neowin.net - 06.11.2009
Vista adoption rate 10 times that of OS X
Apple fans have made much of the fact that the newest figures from Net Applications show that Apple's share of the operating system market has jumped
almost 32% in the past year. But they're ignoring a simple fact: Vista's market share during that same time leaped more than 355%. When you add in
other Windows versions, Microsoft owns more than 90% of the market.
Net Applications reports that the Mac had 7.94% market share in June,
up from 6.03% a year ago. Going from a little more than 6% to just under 8% may be a big gain when measured as a percentage of growth. But when seen
in absolute numbers, it's not particularly impressive.
Vista, by way of contrast, showed far more explosive growth. In June, 2007, it
had 4.54% market share. In June, 2008, it had reached 16.14% --- more than a 355% gain. Those numbers are substantial not just in percentage terms,
but in raw terms as well. Apple would sell the first-born children of most of its employees if it could ever get to a 16% market share.
jcxp.net - 17.07.2008
Europe online '24 hours a month'
Tracking firm comScore has
concluded that more than 122
million Europeans aged 15 and
above use the internet each
day at home, school or in
work. The average European
accesses the Internet 16.5
days in a month, and spends 24
hours viewing 2,662 web pages.
The Netherlands has the
highest net penetration, with
83% of the country online,
while Russia has the lowest,
at 11% of the population. More
than 221 million people across
the 16 countries surveyed are
online each month, comScore
said.
Germany had
the largest online population,
with 32.5 million net users
aged 15 and above, the survey
for net usage in May 2007
found. The UK had the most
active online population,
spending more than 34.4 hours
online each month and a peak
of more than 21.8 million
people online in any given
day. Google was the most
popular online destination in
13 of the 16 countries,
followed by Microsoft in
second place and Yahoo in
third. Internet penetration
across Europe was 40% of the
population aged 15 and above,
with only Spain (39%), Italy
(36%) and Russia (11%) falling
below this level.
" Increased net usage is
tied to broadband roll-out.
The UK is an example of a
country whose net usage has
increased dramatically as
broadband has reached more
people. While the study
reflects average net usage and
penetration, 20% of users
account for 60% of usage, with
some people spending hundreds
of hours online each
month ," said Bob Ivins,
managing director of comScore
Europe.
neowin.net - 05.06.2007
Study: DSL Continues to
Outpace Cable
DSL penetration continues to
increase and close to half of
all broadband users use the
technology in the United
States, the DSL Forum said
Tuesday. From June 2005 to
June 2006, 46 million new DSL
subscribers were added
worldwide...
betanews.com - 20.09.2006
Core Security CTO Finds Major Vulnerability in AIM, IE7
BREAKING NEWS - The chief technology officer of the company that makes Core Impact, a very well-known penetration testing product for
enterprise networks, has gone public with the discovery of a new and significant vulnerability affecting AOL Instant Messenger, on systems where
Internet Explorer 7 is also installed...
betanews.com - 26.09.2007
