Monthly Archives: August 2003
States to Launch Probe Against Oracle
The California Attorney Generals office on Friday confirmed that it has signed an agreement to cooperate with 29 other U.S. states in launching an...
Crackers Tuning Up for Massive Net Attack
The warnings about an imminent wave of attacks on the RPC vulnerability in Windows continued on Thursday as the CERT Coordination Center issued an...
DoS Attack Rattles MS Site
When the entire set of Microsoft.com properties went down for an hour and 40 minutes Friday afternoon, many—including many at Microsoft—initially feared the worst.Could...
ITAA Urges L-1 Visa Reform
At a Capitol Hill hearing this week, the Information Technology Association of America released a paper that urges reform of the controversial L-1 visa...
Mobile 3D Smackdown: Radeon vs. GeForceFX
Recently, we got our first look at the Mobility Radeon 9600 (formerly code-named M10), and were impressed by the early test results. At that...
Microsoft Heralds Improved Licensing Program
Microsoft Corp. said Friday that it has improved its communications protocol licensing program, which was the focus of sharp criticism early last month from...
New Worm Spreading Via E-Mail
Security researchers are continuing to analyze a new worm that began spreading rapidly through e-mail systems worldwide earlier today.Known as W32.Mimail.A, the worm attempts...
Overland to Launch Pair of Disk Backup Appliances
Tape library supplier Overland Storage Inc. will launch two new disk backup appliances next week, which are a result of its recent acquisition of...
Geac Acquires 83% of Comshare
Enterprise resource management software maker Geac Computer Corp Ltd. and Comshare Inc. announced today that Geac has acquired about 83 percent of Comshares 9...
Revenues Up, Profit Flat at Business Objects
Led by a surge in consulting revenue, Business Objects SA enjoyed a revenue increase in the second quarter of 2003, though its profits were...