Latest VeriSign report shows nearly 11 million new registrations worldwide in Q1 2007.

Last night at the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange) Technology Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA, the inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee was awarded the organizations 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award (last year, Nicholas Negroponte was the recipient). Prior to the main event getting underway (many other awards for innovation and leadership were handed out to Massachusetts-based hi-tech companies), knowing that Sir Tim was "in the house," I asked about his whereabouts and was led to a VIP reception where he was holding court with several attendees including Fortune Magazine senior editor David Kirkpatrick (who later moderated a great discussion about the mobile Web). As that reception wrapped up, Sir Tim stuck...

Orlando, Florida -- Jeff Jones has expanded his project to count security flaws (publicly reported and fixed) in the major workstation operating systems and his latest numbers show Windows Vista has by far the best security profile when compared to the major Linux distributions. Jeff Jones, security strategy director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, led a TechEd 2007 discussion on the metrics and techniques used to keep track of vulnerabilities and offered a glimpse at his upcoming report card that compares flaws found/fixed during Vista's first six months on the market against Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 WS (full), Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (full), Novell SUSE Linux Enteprise Desktop 10 (full) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Here's a...

Blog: Online ad sales set record, hitting $4.9 billion in the first quarter of 2007.

Recruiter for search giant calls on Congress to fix the visa shortage "crisis," says H-1B holders helped dream up revolutionary products.

According to research carried out by iSuppli, each AppleTV device costs Apple $237 to manufacture, leaving a gross pre-marketing profit of $62. This is an unusual move for Apple which usually sees a gross profit of products somewhere around the 50% mark.  But there's a subtle differences between the iPod and iPhone markets and the AppleTV market.  The main difference is that the iPod and the iPhone both have/had an established market that they were entering into.  With the AppleTV, it's different.  While it can't be said that AppleTV is a totally unique concept, the market is far more embryonic and Apple feels the need to nurture growth.  The low price helps accomplish this. There are also signs that Apple cut...

Blog: A number of highly critical security flaws have been found in the latest version of Yahoo Messenger, which could allow attackers to gain remote access to users systems.

While IronRuby will make its debut in late July 2007, another Ruby implementation for .NET has been available for a year: the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. The project has an interesting relationship with IronRuby - it provides its parser. Its latest release adds improved interoperability with other .NET languages.

Fedora 7 was released last week, a little bit behind schedule, with a spate of new features, updates, and live CD installable "spins" of Fedora in KDE and GNOME flavors. I found a lot of good in this release, but a bug in the FireWire stack that...