David Morgenstern

Following the release Wednesday of an update to Mac OS X 10.3, aka Panther, reports surfaced at Mac specialist sites of installation snafus. The updating problems appeared to come during the optimization phase of the Mac OS X Update 10.3.4 process. Some readers reported that the software presented a restart box before it had completed […]

Microsofts annual Tech Ed 2004 conference opens Monday in San Diego, Calif. The sold-out event includes almost a dozen tracks with hundreds of sessions. Unlike some of the companys recent events that focused on long-term strategic products, such as the Longhorn version of Windows due in 2006, Tech Ed offers practical information for in-house developers, […]

What does Apples reorganization into Macintosh and iPod business units say about the company? It proves “Apple can chew gum and walk at the same time,” one former high-level engineering exec said about this weeks reorganization, which opened a new division for its iPod media player. But whether the Macintosh-based hardware platform is the gum […]

As more details were revealed Monday about the theft of Cisco Systems Inc.s IOS Version 12.3 source code, networking analysts pondered the possible outcomes of the release for individual networks and for the entire Internet. According to Russian security firm SecurityLab, 800MB of source code from Cisco, including a developmental version of the currently released […]

The latest exploit of Windows and Internet Explorer found its way into e-mail boxes in Europe on Wednesday with the arrival of the Wallon.A worm. According to security services, the new worm is considered a midrange threat and is continuing to spread in the wild. Wallon.A, reported by several security services such as F-Secure Corp. […]

Apple keeps confounding naysayers in the computer industry. Against great odds, the company has survived to post another profitable quarter, even after many sounded its death knell more than a decade ago. One such call in the fall of 1994 appeared on the pages of PC Week (eWEEKs predecessor), in an article titled: “A terminal […]

A group of angry dealers on Wednesday launched a protest Web site against Apple Computer Inc. The resellers—currently suing Apple in Superior Court—are asking customers to help “uncover any skeletons that Apple is hiding.” TellOnApple.org is the latest step in a series of lawsuits filed against Apple last year by a number of former authorized […]

A security research and development company on Tuesday reported that a vulnerability in Web-based e-mail services could lead to the theft of password information as well as open a users machine to attack by worms or other threats. According to an alert issued Tuesday by Israel-based developer and security consultancy GreyMagic Software, a flaw in […]

The virus onslaught continued late Tuesday as new versions of Bagle and MyDoom hit the Internet. The latest versions appeared to serve as digital graffiti, with the code delivering secret messages to the anonymous authors of other “competing” worms. According to analysis by security firm F-Secure Corp., the Bagle.J and MyDoom.G worms contain hidden messages […]

Microsoft Corp. is warning the online community to keep its hands off purloined Windows source code. The company on Tuesday confirmed it had sent legal warnings to some persons who it said had downloaded the stolen code from the Internet. Source code from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 was posted on the Internet on […]