Monthly Archives: July 2003
Kattoon: July 28, 2003
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Qualcomm Sues TI
Cell phone chip maker Qualcomm Corp. on Friday announced that it has sued competitor Texas Instruments Inc.Filed on Friday in a Delaware state court,...
BMC to Slash Workforce
BMC Software Inc., stung after a fiscal quarter that saw earnings plummet and losses skyrocket, will slash its workforce by 13 percent, close facilities...
Troubled BitBoys Announces Mobile Graphics Core
Bitboys Oy, a Finnish developer of graphics cores, announced its plans to develop the Acceleon, designed for the handheld and PDA market.Bitboys said it...
Sun, Tech Data Expand Partnership
Sun Microsystems Inc. is pushing forward with its low-end and midrange systems strategy via an expanded partnership with Tech Data Corp.Tech Data resellers can...
Gates Foreshadows Longhorn Advances
REDMOND, Wash.—Without calling out its next-generation Windows desktop operating system by name, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates foreshadowed some of the forthcoming advances that the...
Black Hat: Joining Forces to Fight Hacking
The last few months have seen the revelation of a rash of critical vulnerabilities in a wide variety of software, from Oracle Corp.s database...
Inovis Buys IPNet
Business commerce software and services provider Inovis Inc. announced today the acquisition of IPNet Solutions Inc., maker of supply chain connectivity software.The acquisition puts...
The Doomsday Machines of Malicious Software
Every week I write about evil people and the evil software they write. But nothing scares me like rootkits.Ever hear of a rootkit? Its...
Even Antivirus Scanners Make Mistakes
Security fundamentally requires trust. You cant function without trusting some other users and some programs. On the other hand, you cant completely trust everything,...