Microsoft has warned users of a vulnerability in the 64-bit versions of Wndows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be used to hijack systems. The bug is in Windows' Canonical Display Driver, which blends the operating system's primary graphics interface, dubbed Graphics Device Interface (GDI), and DirectX to compose the desktop.

Facebook is fixing a Web programming bug that could have allowed hackers to alter profile pages or make restricted information public. The flaw was discovered last week and reported to Facebook by M.J. Keith, a senior security analyst with security firm Alert Logic.

Security vendor Symantec is reported to be close to buying Internet infrastructure services vendor VeriSign's security business for $1.3 billion.

Symantec will pay $1.28 billion to acquire VeriSign's authentication business. The two companies confirmed the rumored acquisition Wednesday, saying it would give VeriSign the opportunity to focus on its more-profitable domain name business, while allowing Symantec to broaden its growing portfolio of enterprise security products.

Oracle will acquire Secerno, which makes firewall products for databases that protect against hackers and data breaches, the companies said Thursday.The purchase price was not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close at the end of next month, according to Oracle.

Google's secret Wi-Fi sniffing has prompted a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for each time it snatched data from unprotected hotspots, court documents show. The lawsuit, which was filed by an Oregon woman and a Washington man in a Portland, Ore., federal court on Monday, accused Google of violating federal privacy and data acquisition laws.

Google's being slapped with a class-action lawsuit in a Portland, Ore., federal court for unlawfully collecting data off of unsecured Wi-Fi networks.

Google is facing scrutiny and investigation around the world following revelations that it has been capturing and archiving Wi-Fi data collected by its Google Street View vehicles that drive around capturing the image data used by the Street View service.

Lately, social networking sites have been bending over backwards to assure their users that user privacy is of utmost importance -- but

For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing security updates.

The mobile carriers need to clarify their stance on enterprise use of their wireless WANs as primary or backup WAN access links.

Aruba Networks is buying a China-based wireless LAN company for its line of outdoor Wi-Fi mesh products. The deal will extend Aruba's Wi-Fi networking into a range of demanding, large-scale industrial uses.

A group called the Wireless Gigabit Alliance has published its initial technology specification, formed a certification partnership with the well-known Wi-Fi Alliance and has added Cisco to its membership roster.

Wireless LAN vendor Meru Networks reported Tuesday its initial first-quarter results as a publicly traded company. It posted strong revenue growth, but not enough to overcome a net loss.

Almost any mobile device you buy today either has a Wi-Fi radio chip in it, or can be fitted with one. But the still annoying and baffling part of Wi-Fi is that while it lets you move around, you still have to move around from one place to another, each having a Wi-Fi hotspot or network.

Today, company executives at Walls Industries live on their cell phones. But five years ago, they couldn't get a signal indoors at the concrete-and-steel Dallas-area site where the work and specialty apparel maker is headquartered. So the IT group installed an in-building wireless repeater system that satisfied users just fine -- but eventually sent AT&T on the warpath.

WiMAX isn't taking the challenge from LTE lying down.

Enterprise Wi-Fi networks are often mysteries, because it's difficult for IT to get a user perspective on how applications such as voice and video are performing over 802.11. VeriWave's new WaveDeploy system shows the quality of the user's Wi-Fi experience.

Wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks reported another quarterly loss, slightly smaller than a year ago, but its third-quarter adjusted earnings were slightly better than analysts expected, and it set a record for revenues.

LQ Management L.L.C., owner and operator of La Quinta Inns & Suites, has signed an $11 million agreement with Verizon Business for communications services that includes VoIP for LQ Management's operations and wireless access for guests at its nearly 800 corporate-owned and franchise hotels located in 46 states. The service will run over Verizon's global Private IP network, which offers six classes of service for prioritizing business applications.

A Sybase shareholder has filed suit to block the sale of the company to applications vendor SAP, saying the $5.8 billion sale price isn't fair, according to documents filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit was brought by shareholder Stephen Alberti of New York and seeks class-action status.

Earlier this month, Microsoft issued its second developer-oriented preview release of Internet Explorer 9.0. You can take it out for a test-drive or see the demos on the test site, which displays performance enhancements, HTML5 interoperability (causing a bit of a stir), and graphical demonstrations.

More details emerged Wednesday about SAP's plans to build new in-memory database appliances for high-speed analytics, which could set the vendor up against platforms like Oracle's Exadata.

Google will make its Wave collaboration and communication tool available to anyone who wants to try it out on Wednesday at its I/O developer conference.

Open source doesn't innovate -- so goes the old saw. Proprietary software vendors, including Microsoft, would have you believe the open source movement has produced nothing but knockoffs of existing products and cast-off code that couldn't cut it in the free market.

Maybe Redmond should hurry up with IE 9, before it loses the rest of its users.

Google's valuation now stands at $124 billion. How big is that? For reference, IBM is worth $173 billion. Once the big, friendly St.

SharePoint, the fastest growing product in Microsoft's history, is used to store reams of documents, so application performance is a key component for successful SharePoint deployment and adoption. Here are 10 steps to improve the performance of your SharePoint servers. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]

Oracle boasts an extensive list of free and open source software, now more than ever with its recent acquis

Google has removed the beta label from the latest version of its Chrome browser, marking the first time a "stable release" is available for the Linux and Mac OS platforms, not just Windows.

The Vaio P Series adds an Intel Atom Z560 processor, 2 GB of memory, and Windows 7 Home Premium, but its starting price of $800 is significantly more than the average netbook.

Steve Jobs and company may be facing a backlash over recent behavior that comes across as mean-spirited and spiteful.

It's a rare quiet month for Microsoft patches. Enjoy the calm while it lasts.

Mozilla has outlined its goals for Firefox 4, which is scheduled for release before the end of the year.

New productivity suite from Redmond includes traditional desktop apps as well as Internet-based versions.

The agency is inviting comment about ways to help mobile phone users understand why they're being charged so much.

Why bother with an expensive, laborious Office upgrade when you could just add Docs, Google says.

New platform is services capable, but it won't be delivered online until 2011.

With mobile carriers and smartphone manufacturers in tow, Microsoft took to the stage at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain to unveil its latest smartphone operating system: Windows Mobile 7. Included in this image gallery are photos of the many devices that were announced simultaneously with the launch of Windows Mobile 7 as well as many images of the operating system's new features in action.

The scammer faces up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at his company's f8 developers conference to detail how the social network giant is expanding its reach.

Twitter's platform director Ryan Sarver April 11 moved to assure programmers who write applications for the Twitter platform that the microblog is not trying cut off their lifelines. The pledge came after Twitter bought Tweetie, which seemed to leave other iPhone apps on the outside. Sarver wrote on the Twitter development Google group that Twitter renamed Tweetie Twitter for iPhone to clear up confusion for iPhone users looking to use Twitter for the first time. Twitter will no longer designate Twitter clients as official, which suggests unofficial Twitter clients are less credible. - Twitter's platform director April 11 moved to assure programmers who write applications for the Twitter platform that the microblog is not trying cut off their lifelines by buying some Twitter tools that would make it impossible for others to compete. Fred Wilson, a Twitter investor from Union ...

Facebook April 19 introduced Community Pages that feature Wikipedia information and a new option to link their profile information to Facebook Pages they endorse. Users who want to add more connections to their profile can click Like, which replaced the Become a Fan option. Facebook, which also offered new privacy features to let users limit which of their friends may see what info they decide to share, is counting on these new Pages options to help strengthen the connective social tissue among its 400 million-plus users. - Facebook April 19 offered a glimpse at its next designs on the social Web with Community Pages that feature Wikipedia information and a new option to let users connect to Facebook Pages they endorse from their profiles. Soon, parts of users' Facebook profiles will offer quot;connections quot; ...

Adobe is still discussing what to do about a design issue affecting its software that is being exploited by attackers, who are infecting users with the Zeus Trojan. According to Websense, the malicious PDFs being spammed out by attackers are leveraging the launch action feature used by PDF viewers such as Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader. - Adobe Systems has not made a decision whether to change its approach to the launch action feature in Adobe Reader now being abused in a malware attack. A spokesperson for Adobe told eWEEK Friday the company is still evaluating if it will do anything to address a design issue that is being roped ...

Ten countries wrote a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt complaining about Google's approach to releasing Web applications such as Google Buzz, which touched off a privacy furor when the company launched it in February. The countries ask that Google incorporate fundamental privacy principles directly into the design of new online services going forward. The letter was sent before Google is expected to launch a new privacy initiative later today. - Privacy watchdogs from 10 countries wrote a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt complaining about Google's approach to releasing Web applications such as Google Buzz, which touched off a privacy furor when the company launched it in February. Data protection leaders in Canada, France, Germany, Isr...

Google is making its local search offering more transparent for local businesses by changing the name of its Local Business Center to Google Places and offering new tools to help connect consumers with local shops. Google Places is also getting several new features for local businesses. For $25 per month, businesses in some cities can buy Tags to make their listings stand out on Google.com and Google Maps. Businesses in some cities can also now request a free photo shoot of their interiors, which Google will offer on Place Pages. - Google April 20 sought to make its local search offering more transparent for local businesses by renaming its Local Business Center Google Places and offering new tools to help connect consumers with nearby shops. Google's Place Pages surface more than 50 million places around the world when...

The U.S. president told an audience at the Kennedy Space Center that he wants the U.S. to send astronauts into orbit around Mars by the mid-2030s, and that despite recent criticism about major budget cuts, no one values the NASA space program more than I. - President Barack Obama is redirecting the U.S. space program from return trips to the moon to locations far, far beyond. Obama said in an address April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Fla., that he wants the United States to send astronauts into orbit around Mars by the mi...

Google April 20 launched Google Places, formerly known as Google Local Business Center, to better reflect its integration with Google Place Pages, Web Pages that users can stumble across on Google Maps when looking for local businesses. While services such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Twitter approach location from a social angle with check-ins and a what's-happening-where mentality, Google's local search is tethered to its search platform. But Google is doing more to appeal to local businesses than any other. See the screenshots of Places features here. - ...

Popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can be great for business but things can get out of control if the proper policies aren't in place and enforced.

The search giant is taken to task over lax privacy in the rollout of its Buzz social networking service as well as other services.