The wholesale cost of a femtocell has dropped below US$100 and that will help give the sector a boost, femtocell vendor Ubiquisys said on Tuesday. Femtocells are small base stations that can improve indoor mobile broadband coverage and increase capacity. When a user is making calls and surfing the Web with a phone or laptop [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs
Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today. Office developers found the bugs by running millions of “fuzzing” tests, said Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group. Fuzzing, a practice employed by both software [...]
Solaris 10 no longer free as in beer, now a 90-day trial
Solaris 10, the official stable version of Sun’s UNIX operating system, is no longer available to users at no cost. Oracle has adjusted the terms of the license, which now requires users to purchase a service contract in order to use the software. Sun’s policy was that anyone could use Solaris 10 for free without [...]