Ryan Naraine

Just weeks after scoring valuable licensing deals with the likes of Nokia, Palm and Handspring, Canada-based Research in Motion was body-slammed with a $23 million judgment for infringing patents owned by NTP. The Blackberry e-mail device maker halted trading in its shares late Thursday after a U.S. jury in the District of Virginia ruled in […]

Dell officially announced its entry into the handheld PDA market, lifting the wraps off a pair of Axim X5 devices running on Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2002 software. Dell’s PDA plans, leaked in the press in recent weeks, puts the PC maker right in the Pocket PC thick of things, forcing market leader Hewlett Packard to […]

Palm Inc.’s PalmSource software unit on Monday announced plans to develop a wristwatch/PDA in partnership with wristwatch manufacturer Fossil . The licensing deal with Fossil comes on the same day Palm clinched a strategic alliance with RealNetworks to turn its Tungsten PDA device into an MP3 player. The deal with Texas-based Fossil calls for PalmSource […]

Competition in the enterprise handheld PDA space got a little more heated Tuesday with Sharp Electronics Corp. introducing two new Linux-based models for the U.S and Japanese markets. The rollout of Sharp’s new Zaurus handhelds, specifically built for enterprise users and professional consumers, comes just a week before Dell announces its entry into the PDA […]

A low-impact e-mail worm targeting a known vulnerability in Microsoft Windows has been detected in the wild and online security firms are warning that the worm is capable of spreading a variant of the active Funlove virus. Software consultants F-Secure said the Bridex (Braid, W32/Braid@mm, W32/Braid.A-mm, I- Worm.Bridex) worm arrives in e-mails without a subject […]

Microsoft late Wednesday issued patches for three security holes affecting its Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), Windows 2000 platform and versions of the Internet Information Server (IIS). The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant warned that the most critical of the three bugs was an unchecked buffer in PPTP implementation that could enable denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Two other […]

Security consultants @stake has detected a potential vulnerability in the Oracle9i Application Server that could lead to Denial of Service (DoS) scenarios. In a security alert, @stake said the potential bug was discovered in the Oracle9iAS Web Cache admin module running on Windows. It said two different denial of service situations could be triggered by […]

Looking to develop a presence in the lucrative low-end computer storage market, Mass.-based EMC Corp. on Monday unveiled the CLARiiON CX200 network storage system, a new device co-designed and built in partnership with Dell Computer . An announcement from EMC made no mention of Dell’s involvement in the CX200 system which touts the “entry-level price […]

A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unknown origin briefly interrupted Web traffic on nine of the 13 DNS “root” servers that control the Internet but experts on Wednesday dismissed the overall threat as “minimal.” Sources say the one-hour attack, which was hardly noticeable to the average end-user, was done via ICMP requests (ping-flooding) to […]

Microsoft has issued a patch for a buffer overflow flaw in the Outlook Express S/MIME parsing functions that compromises the security of the e-mail software. A security bulletin from Microsoft said the S/MIME code used to verify the authenticity of e-mails sent with Outlook Express contains a flaw that allows an attacker to create a […]