Monthly Archives: October 2002
Palm Eyes Enterprise With New Handhelds
With eyes on the enterprise, Palm Inc. on Monday introduced two new handheld computers aimed at business customers.The Palm Tungsten T is the companys...
Standards Groups Support Web Services
Two key standards organizations have announced efforts to support Web services, in such areas as security, development, modeling and management.The Organization for the Advancement...
Wyse Branching Out of Thin-Client Niche
Wyse Technology Inc., which has made its name selling thin clients, today will announce a strategy to expand its business beyond that niche by...
Qualcomm Names New Wireless Knowledge CEO
Qualcomm Inc. has named Norm Fjeldheim CEO of its Wireless Knowledge subsidiary, officials at the San Diego company announced Friday.Fjeldheim most recently was Qualcomms...
Kerberos Flaw Leaves Code Vulnerable
There is a serious flaw in the widely used Kerberos authentication protocol that enables intruders to gain root privileges on vulnerable machines. This, in...
Dell to Make EMCs Midrange CX200
High-end storage leader EMC Corp. is "not closing any doors" to expanding partner Dell Computer Corp.s manufacturing rights beyond EMCs midrange CX200 product, EMC...
Xandros Desktop Linux OS Ships
The Xandros Desktop Linux operating system is finally shipping, more than a year after the company bought Canadian software firm Corel Corp.s Linux desktop...
HP Still Leads in Server Sales
Despite a nearly 5 percent drop in sales over the past year, Hewlett-Packard Co. remained the worlds largest server vendor, based on units shipped,...
Microsofts Fitzgerald: Web Services Over the Hump
Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft Corp.s general manager of platform strategies, is considered one of the companys top "big picture" thinkers. Fitzgerald, who focuses on Windows...
Java Licensing Changes Will Open Door to Open Source
Open-source efforts will gain equal standing in Java technology development with Tuesdays announcement of significant changes to the Java Community Process agreements."Starting Tuesday, it...