Monthly Archives: February 2003
The Slammer Blame Game
In my previous column, I voiced concern that fallout from last weekends SQL Slammer worm assault—only the latest in an increasingly severe string of...
NYCE Taps Stratus ftServer Platform
Electronic payment company NYCE Corp., citing increasing membership and demand for real-time information, is migrating its InfoManager workstation application from Hewlett-Packard Co.s ProLiant servers...
Proxim Enters Wireless Switch Business
Wireless LAN equipment maker Proxim Corp. on Monday announced its entry into the wireless switch business.The Sunnyvale, Calif., company later this year will start...
Could We Be Winning the Spam Wars?
We were getting spammed to death! We hadnt practiced good e-mail address practices in the past and now some users were getting blasted with...
TI Unveils New Wireless Chips
Texas Instruments Inc. on Monday announced plans for several new chipsets designed to run applications on wireless phones and PDAs as much as eight...
Tying Up Loose Ends
Since I spent two columns bemoaning the absence of "Knight Rider" from the small screen, first in criticism of broadcast TVs use of free...
Lotus, AOL Working on IM Client Integration
IBMs Lotus Software division and America Online Inc. announced Monday an agreement to conduct pilot testing of more extensive interoperability between the companies respective...
Microsoft Moves on Ruling in Sun Case
Microsoft Corp. has started to comply with last months preliminary injunction ordering it to include Sun Microsystems latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in certain...
BEA Homes In on Departmental Computing
BEA Systems Inc. on Tuesday will announce two new versions of its application server to focus on the departmental computing market.Frazier Miller, BEAs director...
Brain-Dump Site Owner Sentenced to Prison Time
A federal court on Friday sentenced former brain-dump site owner Robert Keppel to 12 months and one day in prison, as well as ordering...