Monthly Archives: March 2003
Microsofts Vegas Message Was Clear—and Unconvincing
Microsoft rolled out the first beta of its Automated Deployment Services for Windows Server 2003 and announced a Dynamic Systems Initiative at the second...
Symantecs New Tack to Fighting Spam
Symantec Corp. on Monday will unveil a new set of anti-spam capabilities that introduce a layered approach to beating back the torrents of junk...
Windows Flaw More Serious Than First Thought
An analysis by security vulnerability research company NGS Software demonstrates that earlier reports and Microsofts Security Bulletin on what was apparently a vulnerability in...
Windows Detour? Not So Fast…
Microsoft is back-pedaling over Senior VP Brian Valentines statements to the press that Microsoft is planning on doing a server version of Longhorn, its...
Gore Joins Apple Board
Former Vice President Al Gore is the newest member of Apple Computer Inc.s board of directors.The members elected Gore to the board on Wednesday.Apple...
Gates Takes Pervasive Computing from DOS to Digital Devices
When Microsoft first started talking about the .NET strategy, the concept of "Web services" was somewhat difficult to grasp. While it was supposed to...
Mozilla Tightens Up
Not surprisingly for an application that is intended mainly as a development platform, the Mozilla Web browser continues its seemingly constant upgrade cycle. Version...
Cisco to Buy Linksys for $500 Million
Officials of Cisco Systems Inc. said today they plan to buy home and small office networking vendor The Linksys Group Inc. of Irvine, Calif....
A Bad Week for Security
Its been a heck of a week for security vulnerabilities. The most attention, deservedly so, went to another buffer overflow in Microsofts IIS Web...
Wireless Web Digest: Its in the Chips
Intersil, Proxim Resolve 802.11b Patent SpatProxim and Intersil said they resolved on Tuesday all pending patent-related litigation between the two companies that pertain to...