Susan Kuchinskas

Every major browser has its partisans, but which browser earns the highest praise from impartial security analysts? Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco yesterday, researchers at Accuvant Labs presented the results of a three-month security evaluation of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The goal of the study was to determine […]

System security experts need to keep up with what the black hatters are doing. Susan Kuchinskas reports on the leading threat. Just as SQL attacks inject malicious code into databases, link farms “inject” malware into search engine results, according to Chris Larsen, malware research team lead for Blue Coat Systems. And the problem isn’t going […]

SAN FRANCISCO — What exactly is the cloud, and why should a company want to go there? That was the question put to four tech executives on a panel here at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday. Cloud computing, the sexy name for Web-based applications, is a hot topic that’s been heating up even more recently […]

SAN FRANCISCO — They used to say there was no money in social media. You wouldn’t know it at f8, the Facebook developer’s conference held earlier this week in San Francisco. It seemed like half the exhibitors at the event, which attracted about 1,000 developers and wannabes, wanted to show app developers how to monetize […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Business has gotten the message: Pay attention to social media, and begin to figure it out. The Social Networking Conference, held Thursday and Friday this week in San Francisco, aims to help them figure out how to do it. As usual, conference speakers emphasized authenticity, empowering users and creating a good experience […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Online media organizations pondered the prospects for Internet advertising growth during a panel discussion. The consensus: cautious optimism. The best-case scenario put forth during the ad:tech conference here this week, was that interactive advertising would continue to suck dollars from traditional media. However, a lack of standards and measurability for newer online […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The culture of participation fostered by Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis and widgets has turned end-users into content creators and developers. But when consumers come to the office, they need to leave their open mindset at the door. A peer-to-peer discussion led by Charles Renert, senior director of advanced content research […]

SANTA CLARA — When Google announced Docs & Spreadsheets in 2006, the conventional wisdom was that startups offering similar online applications for business were dead meat. Google had already snapped up Upstartle, maker of the Writely only word processor, as well as Jot, maker of online spreadsheet and wiki apps. In fact, some said the […]

A new research study warns that the Internet could stagger under the weight of the digital media clogging its pipes. The study, conducted by Nemertes Research and distributed by the not-for-profit Internet Innovation Alliance, suggests that consumer and corporate Internet usage could outstrip network capacity both in North America and worldwide in a little more […]

SAN FRANCISCO — “Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you. You can also reach me on my mobile phone, at …. ” How many hours of corporate productivity are wasted each year hunting people down for a business call? The solution could be fixed/mobile convergence, according to a panel at the CTIA […]