ports in news
RSS ports in newsSteve Jobs slams Flash - opens door to Silverlight?
News Microsoft chose to work with Nokia because it has the largest market share of mobile phones but it will sign on with other handset makers to create ports of Silverlight, John Case, a general manager in Microsoft's developer division said this week. [06 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia
News Microsoft chose to work with Nokia because it has the largest market share of mobile phones but it will sign on with other handset makers to create ports of Silverlight, Case said. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and... [04 Mar 2008]
Sun breaks through supercomputer haze with Constellation
News Code-named Magnum, the switch comes with 3,456 ports, a larger-than-normal number that frees up data pathways inside these powerful computers. After a slight delay a new, somewhat unusual, supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally... [14 Feb 2008]
Microsoft readies Windows Vista patches
News A second patch deals with the OS' interactions with USB ports, in particular when systems wake from sleep or hibernation, issues that cause one to two per cent of all reported crashes, Microsoft said. [13 Nov 2007]
e-Borders to cost £1bn over next decade
News Brown told parliament: "The way forward is electronic screening of all passengers as they check in and out of our country at ports and airports - so that terrorist suspects can be identified and stopped before they board planes, trains and boats... [02 Aug 2007]
Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears
News The observers also found evidence of weak physical security of the e-voting equipment, such as PCs with open ports and networking devices in openly accessible public areas. Privacy campaigners have called for any further e-voting trials to be... [25 Jun 2007]
US Homeland Security CIO blamed for security "incidents"
News The Government Accountability Office is preparing to release a report based on a yearlong investigation that it says documents "pervasive" security flaws in Homeland Security's US-VISIT program, which is designed to verify the identity of... [21 Jun 2007]
Giant network slashes costs for council
News More than 20,000 people will use the IP network, which will support 30,000 ports across 240 council-related offices, 60 libraries and 450 schools within the Birmingham area. Birmingham City Council is implementing a £10m network to connect the city... [16 Apr 2007]
Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows flaw
News These include disabling remote management over RPC capability for DNS servers, blocking specific data ports using a firewall and enabling advanced filtering. Cyber crooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to... [13 Apr 2007]
£400m 'biometric borders' bidders revealed
News The e-Borders programme will start rolling out core services to all major air, rail and sea ports by the end of 2010, with full coverage expected by the end of 2014. BT and Raytheon will fight it out for the government's £400m e-Borders contract to... [06 Nov 2006]
HP to hack its customers
News Brown said: "We try to exploit vulnerabilities by sending malformed protocol messages to open ports. HP is to launch a penetration-testing service for businesses in October but has denied reports it will unleash worms on its customers. [05 Jul 2006]
World Cup 2006: Making IT happen
News Three million RFID chips in tickets users network connections communications and network devices temporary network ports km of temporary cabling application servers communication servers software applications terabytes of converged voice and... [20 Jun 2006]
Microsoft issues largest patch batch to date
News Bitle said: "These [vulnerabilities] take advantage of two listening services that run on the host and listen for traffic coming in through ports that are frequently utilised. Microsoft has issued patches for 21 flaws in its software, saying all... [14 Jun 2006]
Wipro: India will increase its share of the R&D pie
News Premji predicted that India is about to invest heavily in new roads, airports and ports that will help convince more companies to set up operations there. Fuelled by a steady stream of engineers emerging from its schools, India will continue to... [16 May 2006]
US turns to tech to shore up its ports
News In addition to airports, ports featured heavily in Chertoff's speech. He said he has pushed Congress to approve over $500m in funding, and he noted that President Bush has asked for new technologies to screen cargo coming into US ports for nuclear... [20 Mar 2006]
