Database and Network Journal articles from August 2006

Database and Network Journal archives from August 2006

Networking in China ... boundless opportunity: constrained by a tough regulatory environment and limited carrier choice.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)(Industry overview)
August 1, 2006... Amajor international economy with a GDP (as measured by Purchasing Power Parity) of $8.1 trillion (2005 estimate; Source: The World Factbook), The People's Republic of China is the world's second largest economy after the U.S. China is a...

Sophos security threat management report: update July 2006.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
August 1, 2006... In this update to our December 2005 annual security threat management report, we look at how the threat landscape has changed in the first six months of 2006 and what the likely trends are for the rest of the year. Once again we have seen those...

MySQL V5--ready for prime time business intelligence.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE: White Paper)
August 1, 2006... Business intelligence (BI) creates competitive advantage for organizations of all sizes and in all industries. It is an important business tool, a means of exploiting data previously locked in operational databases. With the fall 2005...

Friendster scales-out with MySQL network: social networking site handles' over one billion database queries per day.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE: MySQL CASE STUDY)
August 1, 2006... Behind the Scenes with MySQL Friendster's engineering team decided to continue to base their site's infrastructure upon a foundation of open source software popularly known as the LAMP stack, an integrated combination of LINUX operating system,...

London's square mile makes the Intelligent network choice with iTRACS.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... iTRACS, has secured seventeen new contract wins for its Intelligent Physical Layer Manager software solution. In total, iTRACS will deliver an additional 427,935 ports across the City, representing the largest numbers of new ports deployed by...

BMC platform-neutral solutions to cut IT infrastructure costs and complexity.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... BMC Software recently delivered what is claimed to be the industry's first data center optimization solution that integrates and automates the entire planning- to-implementation lifecycle for data center consolidation and virtualisation...

Chinese government drops hint on 3G rollout.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... Commercial use of 3G will begin this year in China, according to a report by the Development Research Center of the State Council, China's Cabinet, the English-language China Daily reported. "Commercial use" was not defined, and the report made...

Actinic ecommerce version 8 now available.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... Actinic have announced the availability of version 8 of its desk-top ecommerce range for small and medium businesses. Actinic v8 has been re-coded with an object-based architecture and is effectively a brand new product. The product-line up has...

Computer passwords 'up for grabs'.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Half of IT managers employed by large-sized companies believe it would be relatively easy to gain the core passwords for their computer systems. That is the warning of a survey by IT security firm Cyber-Ark. It said that 10% of firms never...

Worry-free security meets the needs of businesses.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Trend Micro Incorporated have announced that West Coast Labs has published an independent evaluation of competing small and medium business (SMB) client-server security suites and determined that Trend Micro's Worry-Free Security...

Europe and America learn only from their own most recent experiences.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... Despite their country's close association with the 'war on terror', just 1 per cent of American businesses have documented terrorism as source of IT downtime, research shows. This tiny proportion is in contrast to the European response, where...

SMEs to benefit from new SAS integrated BI offering.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... SAS have announced that it has launched a quick to install, integrated approach to BI for small and mid-sized enterprises (SME) in the UK. SAS now provides a package for integrating, managing and analysing data, and then deploying that...

CINDAS databases now available through CSA.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... Two databases from the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS) at Purdue University have been newly integrated into the CSA Illumina platform, providing a software solution allowing users to visualize the...

dns achieves Cisco SMB Select Partner Status.(IT News and Products)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Building on its successful relationship with Cisco dns has been awarded Small to Medium Business (SMB) Select Partner Status in the UK. A key factor in achieving the new partner status was the level of Cisco technology expertise that dns holds...

Dell sued over Chinese chip error.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... Consumers are up in arms in China after they bought Dell laptops that promised to support virtualisation, only to find they contained an inferior chip. Dell is facing legal battles in China after shipping laptops that contained a less...

Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.(IT News and Products)
August 1, 2006... Nuance Communications has introduced Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 9, a new release of the world's best selling speech recognition solution for Microsoft Windows. The new version promises to transform the way people use their PCs, moving...

Building China's communications and information future technologies, markets, policies and global prospects.(Conference News)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... London, 23rd-24th October 2006 Technology is at the heart of the Chinese boom. Electronic goods count for over 25% of Chinese exports. China is now the world's largest market for mobile phone handsets, and number two for personal...

Data management and information quality conferences.(Conference news)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... 30th October-2nd November 2006 Victoria PlazaHotel, London This eighth edition will again be co-located with the DAMA International European Conference and Information Quality Conferences. This has proved, over the past years, an extremely...

Database and network journal and software world at European show.(Conference News)
August 1, 2006... Latest issues of AP Publication's magazines were available at ISIP's latest exhibition in Zagreb. The 3rd international conference on economics- An Enterprise Odyssey: Integration or Disintergration was held on June 15th-17th with...

Sophos unearth new AIDS e-mail scam.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Sophos have stopped thousands of messages related to an email scam that attempts to fool people into believing that the sender has found a cure to AIDS. The emails, which come from a Yahoo email address, claim that the 19-year-old correspondent...

Firms wait for Microsoft fix for day zero PowerPoint flaw.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Experts at Sophos have advised companies to exercise care over which PowerPoint presentations their users open, as businesses wait for Microsoft to fix an unpatched PowerPoint vulnerability. Microsoft has confirmed that a critical vulnerability...

Kaspersky Lab presents malware evolution: April-June 2006.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Kaspersky Lab, have announced the publication of its latest quarterly report on malware evolution. The report, written by Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab, provides an overview of the development of malicious code between...

Kaspersky Lab in partnership.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Recently Kaspersky Lab has had an increasing interest in the rapidly growing Saudi market--the largest in the Middle East and have now entered into a full partnership agreement with Jeraisy Computer and Communication Services. Both companies...

Top twenty e-mail malware reported to Kaspersky in June.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Top Twenty E-mail Malware Reported To Kaspersky In June 1. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.c 29.01% 2. Email-Worm.Win32Nyxem.e 16.70% 3. Email-Worm.Win32.LovGate.w 8.54% 4. Email-WormWin32.NetSky.b 5.55% 5....

Apple and McAfee patch flaws.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Apple Computer has released a major security, update that patches 26 flaws. Meanwhile McAfee has released an update to patch holes in its own security software. Apple has fixed a slew of security holes, many of which contained remote code...

Security pest found on Blackberry.(Security)
August 1, 2006... One of the first examples of malicious software on BlackBerry. devices has surfaced, but manufacturer Research In Motion does not see it as a serious threat. Researcher Jesse D'Aguanno has claimed to have developed a program called BBProxy...

Third busy patch month for Microsoft.(Security)
August 1, 2006... As part of its monthly security update cycle, Microsoft have released a dozen security bulletins. Nine & them are tagged critical, the company's highest severity rating. The alerts give details of 20 flaws in The infamous MSBlast worm, which...

USB devices unveiled.(Security)(Universal serial bus)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... While several stories about the dangers of USB devices in the workplace are making the rounds in the last few weeks, this is nothing new, at least to hackers and penetration testing experts. Reports of this style of data theft and compromise...

Steganos launches Steganos Secure VPN.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Steganos has launched a new service to enable home and mobile workers to securely connect to their employers' networks, eliminating the risk that hotspot providers, ISPs or hackers could eavesdrop on connections. As a bonus, Steganos Secure VPN...

Steganos launches Internet Anonym VPN.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Steganos has developed and launched a new service to provide any online users, at home and in HotSpots, with a unique way to anonymously surf and exchange data--Steganos Internet Anonym VPN. Steganos Internet Anonym VPN uses a more...

Sunbelt Software announces top ten spyware threats for July.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Sunbelt Software have ,announced the top ten most prevalent spyware threats for the month of July. The results are based on the monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's antispyware product CounterSpy. The Trojan. WinlogonHook.Delf.A threat appears...

Google fights back against click claims.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Google is fighting back against what it says are exaggerations in industry estimates of click fraud in its bread-and-butter pay-per-click advertising system. In a recent report the search giant disputes claims made by third-party companies...

Britain aware of online safety.(Security)
August 1, 2006... The BCS has found that nine in 10 people take online precautions, but 42 percent still claim to have been infected by a virus. People in the UK have become more safety, aware when online, according to the British Computer Society (BCS). ...

Michigan law chief charges companies with spamming children.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Experts at Sophos's have reminded companies of the importance of obeying anti-spam laws following the announcement of legal action being taken against two companies accused of sending unsolicited email about gambling and alcoholic drinks to...

Industry report positions Symantec in the leader quadrant for personal firewalls.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Symantec Corp. has announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Personal Firewalls, 1Q06" report. According to the report, "the personal firewall market in 2006 is transitioning from best-of-breed...

Yahoo! and Symantec join forces to protect consumers online.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Yahoo! Inc. and Symantec Corporation are partnering to offer Internet security, services to hundreds of millions of Yahoo! and Symantec customers worldwide. Launched at the end of August, Norton internet Security provided by Yahoo! is designed...

Client Server Messaging for SMB 3.0.(Security)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Trend Micro Incorporated recently announced that West Coast Labs has published ,an independent evaluation of competing small and medium business (SMB) client-server security suites and determined that Trend Micro's Worry-Free Security...

Image spam dramatically reduced for customers.(Security)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Companies and Interact service providers now can eliminate most of the annoying, persistent, and system-clogging "image spare" often used to hawk penny stocks, pills and remedies. Modus 4.35, the latest version of Vircom Inc. 's email assurance...

NOD32 achieves 39th Virus Bulletin 100% award.(Security)
August 1, 2006... ESET, has announced that its NOD32 Antivirus software earned its 39th Virus Bulletin 100% award for flawless detection of in-the-wild viruses. Tested on the Novell Netware platform with a Windows XP client, NOD32 outperformed competitors...

ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6.5.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Check Point's new ZoneAlarm suite again transforms the idea of "all-in-one" Internet security by adding ID theft protection to its firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware, and anti-span solution; offers new family pack and summer price promotion...

Top ten hoaxes and viruses reported to Sophos.(Security)
August 1, 2006... Top Ten Hoaxes and Viruses Reported To Sophos 1 Hotmail hoax Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:50:46 Z 2 Olympic torch Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:50:46 Z 3 Bonsai kitten Fd, 11 Aug 2006 22:50:46 Z 4 Budweiser frogs screensaver Fri, 11...

O'Reilly where 2.0 conference: the location revolution has only just begun.(O'Reilly Conference Report)
August 1, 2006... At the second annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, over 700 location-aware hackers, entrepreneurs, "neogeographers," and members of the mapping establishment spent two days immersed in the innovations springing up at the intersection of the...

Software World and Database & Network Journal--still current after 36 years.
August 1, 2006... Software World and Database & Network Journal were first published 36 years ago with the intention of providing interpretative analysis of computer software as it emerged in the future. Subscribed to by IT Information Centres and University...