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  • Trial: Sun warns of Microsoft .Net threat

    Sun's chief strategy officer, Jonathan Schwartz, testifies that Microsoft could use its .Net strategy to thwart competition and extend its monopoly power to the Internet.

  • Patch or get PWNED in a flash

    Recently fixed vulnerabilities in Sun's Java Runtime Environment and Adobe's Flash player mean that unpatched systems are vulnerable and could be infected with spyware or recruited into a botnet by simply visiting a Web page with exploit code -- and Google last month warned that 10 percent of Web sites contain this kind of malicious code.

  • Worm targets Solaris telnet bug

    A computer worm is using a recently disclosed flaw in Sun Microsystems' operating system to propagate, experts have warned.

  • Sun to cut jobs in restructure

    Sun Microsystems' new restructuring plan includes job cuts in the second half of the year, according to a regulatory filing it made on Tuesday in the US.

  • Sun's Solaris 10 at risk of zero-day exploit

    update: Solaris 10 is at risk of a zero-day exploit, due to security bugs in its telnet service, Sun Microsystems warned on Tuesday.

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  • Lighting the murky depths of multicore pricing

    Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.

  • People problems at Sun

    Employees present the greatest risk so Sun hopes to have computers monitor themselves and even predict customer problems.

  • Software's 'stack wars'

    To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.

  • Sun faces stiff competition in networking

    The company has officially entered the networking business with the launch of switches from its Nauticus acquisition but competitors and analysts agree that it won't be a slam dunk for the server company.

  • Sun server appliance open to attack: CERT

    Users of Sun's RaQ 4 Server appliance have been warned in the latest CERT advisory of a serious vulnerability affecting the units.

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Reviews (16)

  • Intel reclaims spot in Sun servers

    Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.

  • Technolust: Spot the warning signs early

    COMMENTARY--What good is a particular bit of IT if you can't in fact boast about it to your mates?

  • Apple's patent bending

    Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.

  • Canon PowerShot A80

    The PowerShot A80 features a myriad of options found on prosumer models at an impeccable price point.

  • When brains meet computer brawn

    Who needs cords and keyboards? Just plug your brain into the PC. Welcome to the future.

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