Kathleen Lau

The software vendor wants to change the industry

As the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant announced the Windows 7 release candidate for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, it said it doesn

The revenue agency has only now completed an analysis of disk-erasing tools in response to an October 2007 warning from the RCMP to obtain better software that will wipe sensitive taxpayer data from hard drives. One security expert said the CRA is hindered by its own bureaucracy

At FITC 2009 in Toronto, a panel of Web designers noted that while Flash has gained great notoriety as an enabler of immersive user experience, some companies have not been so quick to adopt it

The security vendor has released a Web security tool as a software-as-a-service option, designed to bypass the need to deploy and maintain on-premise software. One analyst said the SaaS option was a way for McAfee to differentiate itself in a crowded market

North American companies are beginning to replace their aging help desk operations with ones with a modern ITIL touch, according to an Enterprise Management Associates study. One vendor of IT service management tools said the evolution reflects IT

New security features in Microsoft Corp.

A recent report by McAfee Inc. says the act of deleting spam and searching for legitimate e-mail has a negative impact on the environment, equivalent to 3.1 million passenger cars using 2 billion gallons of gasoline annually. One analyst said the end user is the wrong target