Microsoft stuffs up six patches
Red-faced Microsoft has admitted that there were problems with KB 2876063, KB 2859537, KB 2873872, KB 2843638, KB 2843639, and KB 2868846, all released on Tuesday. The MS13-061/KB 2876063 patch was...
View ArticleChina to conduct security audits on US tech companies
Xenophobic US senators are aching to ban Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE because they think their gear could be used to spy on US citizens. Now, China is auditing American goods for the same...
View ArticleJudge Alsup kicks troll in the patents
Luckless patent troll Network Protection Sciences is really regretting the day it tried to sue security vendor Fortinet in Texas. The case was booted from Texas to the United States District Court for...
View ArticleFrench police switch to desktop Linux
The French National Gendarmerie has switched on a project running 37,000 desktop PCs with a custom version of Linux. Stage one of the plan is already online and by summer 2014 the agency plans to move...
View ArticleOracle becomes open source's Dr Evil
Oracle has practically declared war on the open source movement and become public enemy number one amongst the weirdie beardy penguin fans. When Larry Ellison wrote a cheque for Sun Microsystems, he...
View ArticleGoogle spends the most on lobbying
According to figures just in, the search engine Google is spending the most on scmoozing US politicans. Consumer Watchdog added up the efforts of tech-companies to lobby politicans and used data from...
View ArticleTechbubble fud is ready to burst
While we have not noticed it, Business Insider claims that the tech industry is booming and is waiting with its fingers in its ears waiting for a bubble to burst. To be fair to Business Insider there...
View ArticleOracle to release a mega patch tomorrow
Oracle will be releasing its January 2014 quarterly patches with 47 vulnerability fixes, 85 of them for bugs which are remotely exploitable. According to Oracle, this group of updates affects 47...
View ArticleJames Gosling slams Oracle’s over Solaris
Four years after Oracle bought Sun, Java founder James Gosling has waded into the outfit’s handling of his former workplace’s key assets. Writing in Infoworld, Gosling scolded Oracle on its handling of...
View ArticleOracle cracks down on third party software support
Oracle has widened its war against third-party software support providers it claims are violating its intellectual property. Last week, Larry Ellison set his legal hounds onto StratisCom, a Georgia...
View ArticleEllison gives blessing to government snooping
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison did his best to play down concerns about NSA hacking into his business customers' private data. At an industry conference in San Francisco, an audience member asked the Oracle...
View ArticleChina claims Red Flag sinks due to miss-management (sic)
The world's second largest Linux distributor, Red Flag Software has been shut down due to mismanagement. Employees are owed months in unpaid wages as Communist China reveals that companies shafting the...
View ArticleIntel's Itanium is about to sink
Yesterday's launch of the 15-core Xeon E7 v2 chip may be the incentive that Chipzilla needs to pull the plug on its high-end Itanium chip. Itanium is found mostly in Hewlett-Packard servers running...
View ArticleOregon calls Oracle out on Obamacare project
Oracle appears to have miffed the government of Oregan over some work the outfit did on the state's troubled health care exchange website. Oregon is holding back $25.6 million because the Obama Care...
View ArticleOracle in hot water with Wall Street
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are furious that Oracle did not do as well as they thought. In its latest third quarter results, Oracle produced revenue and profit which were not bad but failed to...
View ArticleIntel could be next target for pro-gay marriage campaigners
Campaigners cheering at the forced resignation of Mozilla CEO over his donation to a fund which fought gay marriages might have missed an even larger target. Last week Brendan Eich, was forced to step...
View ArticleMicrosoft is still cheaper than open sauce
Everytime UK local government people look at open sauce, Microsoft products are always cheaper, claims a local government CIO - Jos Creese. Speaking to Computing, Hampshire council's Creese said part...
View ArticleOracle wins new method of trolling
Oracle's obsession with suing first and thinking about the implications later might have opened a can of worms for the company. On Friday Oracle had a big win, when a federal appeals overturned a...
View ArticleOracle about to buy Micros Systems
Database maker Oracle is in talks to buy Micros Systems, the outfit which makes software and point-of-sale hardware for retailers and hotel chains. The deal is expected to be worth around $5 billion...
View ArticleHP breaks from the Hurd
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP can finally put the embarrassing antics of its former CEO Mark Hurd firmly in the past. Hurd was dismissed for being creative with his expenses claims while...
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