Adobe updates Dreamweaver

Adobe has updated the Dreamweaver website development application that it acquired with the purchase of Macromedia last year. The update improves code generated by Dreamweaver for server behaviours and for active content such as Flash. It also includes all the bug fixes from the previous update. ...more

Conferencing, the Microsoft way

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Evaluation Editions have been made available. Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server and Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server represent Microsoft's next generation of messaging and collaboration software. Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server builds on the current Exchange Server through integration with Microsoft Office 2000 and the Internet. ...more

Californians set Internet speed record

Californian scientists have set a new record for data transfer speed over a standard TCP Internet connection, achieving a speed of 8,609Mbps. The scientists from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, achieved the record speeds using a new data transfer protocol, Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol, or FAST. They succeeded not only in setting a new speed record but also managed to sustain it over an extended period on shared networks in the presence of background traffic, making it adaptable for deployment on the world's high-speed production networks In recent years Internet speeds have doubled each year, but the improvements have been based on an algorithm designed in 1988. ...more

Business fails to keep up with IM spyware threat - study

Instant Messaging (IM) software in the workplace is running under the radar of IT and most security measures, a new study shows. It suggests many businesses are leaving themselves open to a flood of spyware by failing to manage their employees' use of IM. Many businesses are leaving themselves open to a flood of spyware by failing to manage their employees' use of instant messaging (IM). ...more

Microsoft moves north to continue Lindows battle

Microsoft has turned its legal guns on Lindows in Canada. It has issued a lawsuit in Ottawa which attempts to prevent the use of the trademarks 'Lindows', 'Lindows.com' and 'Lindows OS' north of the US border. ...more