Archive for November 14th, 2008
In another move to gain traction in the enterprise, Google on Thursday launched a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service instantly add and update Web pages.Google Site Search serves all Web site content as search results with the aim of offering relevant and comprehensive coverage of a Web site. Google does this by creating special indexes that supplement pages already searched by Google.com.
“Customers today demand speed. Waiting around is so, well, yesterday — as so many of the things we used to have to wait for are now at our fingertips online,” said a blog posting by Google’s Nitin Mangtani and Tom Duerig. “For a business running their own Web site, this means that visitors who turn to search expect to have access to the newest products, pages and announcements a site has to offer.”
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November 14th, 2008
IBM 
on Thursday announced two blade servers that will feature the new quad-core Opteron Shanghai processor from Advanced Micro Devices. The announcement was synchronized with AMD’s release of the 45nm processor.Shanghai delivers up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle than previous AMD processors. AMD promises its new Opteron product will drive data-center efficiencies and spur virtualization performance.
In concert with its OEM and solution-provider partners, AMD is addressing the need for enterprises to focus on the bottom line while giving them the innovations they need to build for the future, according to Randy Allen, senior vice president at AMD’s Computing Solutions Group.
“This enhanced AMD Opteron processor represents the most dramatic performance and performance-per-watt increases for AMD products since the introduction of the world’s first x86 dual-core processors by AMD nearly four years ago,” Allen said.
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November 14th, 2008
Microsoft on Tuesday patched four vulnerabilities in two security updates for Windows and Microsoft Office. Compared to recent Patch Tuesdays, November is a light month and Microsoft did some housecleaning by fixing a critical bug disclosed nearly two years ago.MS08-069 is the most serious of the November updates, fixing three individual flaws in Microsoft XML Core Services. This vulnerability went public more than 22 months ago. The other update, MS-08-068, is rated important and fixes a flaw in the Server Message Block (SMB ) protocol.
The critical vulnerability in XML has been around since January 2007, according to Alfred Huger, vice president of Symantec Security Response.
“Proof of concept code for this issue that causes the browser to crash was publicly released some time ago. However, at present we are not aware of any publicly available exploit code,” Huger said. “An attacker would have to get a user to view a compromised Web page or click on a malicious link to exploit the issue. When the specially crafted XML in the page is processed, remote code execution will occur. The XML code to exploit this is somewhat complex to set up, but it only takes one little click from a user to be effective.”
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November 14th, 2008
Cisco Systems is going out to the ball game — with technology. The company announced Tuesday that the new Yankee Stadium, set to open in April, will give New York baseball fans the most wired, connected and video-enabled stadium in Major League Baseball.Cisco’s StadiumVision will become the centerpiece of the fans’ digital experience. The Yankees will integrate video, voice, data and wireless services into a next-generation network that aims to connect the team to its fans in ways the early sluggers never imagined. For example, fans will be able to view sports news and scores, weather and traffic without missing a pitch.
“We chose Cisco as the network provider for the new Yankee Stadium because they understand our business needs, our future goals, and our vision for creating a unique experience that caters to our fans,” Yankees COO Lonn Trost said. “Cisco will help us capitalize on industry trends and transitions, such as the current migration from standard-definition to high-definition video in venues and at home, to give our fans the most state-of-the-art game-day experience in all of baseball for years to come.”
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November 14th, 2008
Cisco on Tuesday announced a new router that pushes the envelope of networking technology in the “zettabyte era.”The Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series, or ASR 9000, is designed to deliver a massive-scale, nonstop video experience and a reduced carbon footprint. With its latest router, Cisco is promising to increase the speed, longevity, services, richness and efficiency of the network edge. The product seeks to answer the demand spurred by the massive spike in video and data traffic across wired, cable and mobile networks.
“The Cisco ASR 9000 offers service providers tremendous scalability and a services-optimized architecture that truly sets a new benchmark in the industry for carrier Ethernet systems for the zettabyte era,” said Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s service provider technology group. This platform, he continued, will be used as the foundation for video and mobility data growth and has been specifically optimized to deliver video and rich media.
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November 14th, 2008
