$5 billion spent on bounced emails!- April 21, 2006 IronPort says bounced email costs US companies $5 billion a year. Scary statistic or vendor FUDhttp://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/006035.html U.S. retains spam crown- April 21, 2006 The United States has retained its title for top spam offender, according to the security firm Sophos' latest spam-relaying figures. While its share of the deluge has declined from 2004, when almost half of all spam came from the US,...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/006025.html Borland completes Segue buy- April 20, 2006 Borland Software on Thursday said it has completed its acquisition of Segue Software, a maker of software quality and testing products. The $100 million transaction was announced in February. Borland is integrating its application lifecycle management products with Segue's Silk...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/006022.html Unpatched holes in OS X- April 20, 2006 Tom Ferris, aka "badpack3t" has been spending time looking for security holes in OS X applications. Surprise. Surprise. He found some.http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/006014.html Skype censors for China- April 19, 2006 Text messages over Skype are the latest to join the censored list in China. EBay's Skype joint-venture partner in mainland China, Tom.com, said it edited messages containing words considered politically sensitive by China's government. Among them were "Falun Gong" and...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/006000.html Boot Camp does Linux- April 19, 2006 The open-source project OnMac, which first claimed the ability to boot OS X and Windows in the same machine, has now added Linux to the Boot Camp camp, reports say. Dubbed Triple Boot, the tweak for Macs on Intel hardware...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005996.html RFID travel cards' privacy threat- April 19, 2006 Homeland Security is promoting the use of travel documents embedded with an RFID chip that is readable at distances of up to 30 feet. As reported by cNet, Jim Williams, director of the Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT program, said...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005993.html MySpace for the enterprise- April 19, 2006 Social networking (SN) is not just for tweens any more, as evidenced by the $17 million in second round funding for enterprise SN firm Visible Path. BW online reports it is not the first SN play, in "How LinkedIn broke...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005984.html Mercury: AJAX has its drawbacks- April 19, 2006 AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) may be all the rage as a scripting technology for Web applications, but it is not without its drawbacks, according to an executive at Mercury Interactive. "AJAX is incredible where people are starting to adopt...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005983.html Mobile Internet age nears- April 18, 2006 More than one in four mobile phone owners worldwide have browsed the Internet on their wireless handset, the research firm Ipsos Insight said Tuesday. The move marks the shift away from the personal computer as the dominant platform to access...http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005982.html |