Looks like VMware is moving for an IPO. As the virtualization market approaches full maturity, things certainly look set to move very quickly indeed in the next few years. Basically, the three major players at the moment are VMware itself, Microsoft’s Virtual Server, and the open-sourced Xen.

Just got a mail 5 minutes ago from Microsoft reiterating the new activation procedures - or should I say anti-piracy measures, built into Windows Vista. Whatever it is, given the prevalence of the Windows platform, being aware of the additional limitations built into Vista would probably be useful.
The salient points are as follows:

An article from Network World just caught my eyes. Much like what I wrote last week about The death of the anti-virus software, New approaches to malware detection coming into view notes that “traditional signature-based method to detecting viruses and other malware is increasing seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd has just announced a software application that will run on Windows Mobile 6.0, allowing it to work like a BlackBerry. Basically, a user would be able to toggle back and forth between the two platforms if they want, for example, to use the Windows Media Player to listen […]

I came across “Jim Rapoza’s 12 Ways to be a Security Idiot” on eWeek. If you have not seen this yet, I recommend that you take a look at this nifty piece.
Basically it contains some very nicely done graphical slides about the various (many) things that your typical “Security Idiot” would do that will […]

I can’t believe I almost missed out on this. The Windows Mobile 6.0 Reference Guide is now out and available for download from Microsoft courtesy of Jason Langridge.
Jason is working in Microsoft as a senior marketing manager of the Mobile And Embedded Devices Division. In short, he’s one of the key person who […]

As of April 18 (Or April 19 where I live in Singapore), BlackBerry users in the u.S. can breath a sigh of relief as their devices start beeping and vibrating again. To learn more about how such a massive failure is even possible, check out my earlier article BlackBerry Suffers Massive Outage where I […]

The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service from RIM (Research In Motion Ltd) seems to have suffered a widespread outage starting from Tuesday evening in the U.S.
According to NewsChannel4, “Officials with RIM said they are trying to reset the system and that their concern was with the backlog of data, which will rush through when it comes […]