Microsoft has fixed a critical security flaw in its Hotmail login process that made it possible for hackers to take over accounts on the webmail service. The Microsoft security team said in a tweet on Friday that it had "addressed a reset function incident to help protect Hotmail customers", and…

Microsoft offers a range of services such as email and messaging under the banner of Windows Live, but that is about to end, shifting instead to a tight integration with Windows 8 that will drop the Live name and become an invisible part of Windows 8. In a blog post, Microsoft acknowledges…

AM CTBob Przybylo answers readers’ questions about Oklahoma football and basketball recruiting in his mailbag every week. Got a question for Bob? Send it to his mailbag at bprzybyloespn@gmail.com. Tony in Tulsa, Okla., asks: We had the best wide receiver class in the nation last year. I haven’t…

Actiance has announced the release of Vantage for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, a new addition to the Actiance security and compliance platform. The solution allows companies to create granular policy controls for content inspection, real-time alerts, and role-based workflow for supervisory review, logging and archiving. For organizations in regulated industriesincluding financial services,…

In upgrading their collaboration tools, there are those who would would eliminate e-mail on the grounds it is an unsafe mechanism for sharing sensitive information. Consider the case of federal, state and local law enforcement officers, who need to share vital information. The Homeland Security Department’s intelligence and analysis division…

Every week, Mountain View makes news with technology developments, discoveries and sometimes controversies. In the weekly "Bits and Bytes" column we’ll relay the past week’s news highlights from our backyard giants, start-ups and small businesses alike. On Thursday, LinkedIn announced that it acquired Slidesharea presentation sharing website based in San…

The big news in managed services this week revolved around migrations to Microsoft Office 365. Bringing everyday enterprise office applications into the cloud can be a daunting prospect for businesses of any size, but two managed service providers (MSPs) stepped up to the plate this week with migration solutions geared Procyon…

The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET. The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns Hotmail and Skype), Facebook…

Growing complexity in application integration and software infrastructure is changing themiddleware management space. SearchSOA.com discussed the issue with IBM’s Kathy McGroddy Goetz,vice president of connectivity and integration product management. SearchSOA.com: It seems there is a growing need to manage and monitor messaging middlewareand services. Kathy McGroddy Goetz:…

PM CTOver the summer months, SoonerNation will take a closer look at each scholarship player on Oklahoma’s roster in our Crimson Countdown series. We’ll analyze each player’s impact on the program since they arrived on campus, their potential impact this fall and their long-term impact in the daily series. Starting…