Monthly Archives: June 2003
Oracle Execs Continue Pitch for PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. executives met with shareholders of PeopleSoft Inc. this week to convince them to buy into Oracles $6.3 billion takeover bid for PeopleSoft....
I Spy With My Digital Eye
It looks geeky. It costs plenty. And if you spend about $400 for it this fall, it will capture video reminiscent of early webcams....
Microsoft Refreshes Office Beta 2
Microsoft Corp. on Friday made the Office System Beta 2 Technical Refresh available to its 15,000 technical beta testers via download at betaplace.com.While more...
Buffer-Overflow Attacks: Perimeter Defenses No Panacea
By now youve probably read about, if not experienced, buffer-overflow attacks. In fact, recent CERT statistics indicate that more than 60 percent of advisories...
Conway: PeopleSoft Not Going Anywhere
NEW YORK—In his keynote address this morning at the CeBIT America show here, PeopleSoft Inc. President and CEO Craig Conway made only a passing...
A Wearable PC
With the processor of a PDA but the appearance of a tablet PC, the Xybernaut Atigo-M ($1,895 direct and up, depending on configuration) is...
Top Tip: XP critical updates not responding!
Tips used for Top Tips come from the ExtremeTech forum and are written by our community.Question from haysdad "When I go to Windows Update...
PalmSource Seeks to Fill Enterprises Needs
NEW YORK—Hoping to keep a foothold in the corporate market, Palm Inc. software subsidiary PalmSource Inc. is planning software that focuses specifically on the...
Lawmakers Look To Curb L-1 Visas
A pair of Congresswomen this week raised questions about the L-1 visa and promised to fight abuses of the program, which some say has...
SAS Continues Push for Business Users
SAS Institute Inc. unveiled several new products at its SAS European Users Group International conference in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, most geared to business and...