Monthly Archives: September 2003
Sun Shakes Up Software Strategy
Sun Microsystems Inc. may have launched bold new software and pricing strategies to take on Windows and Linux, but its still keeping close ties...
PlaceWare Gets Make-Over
Microsoft Corp. is moving to make its PlaceWare Web conferencing service a part of its integrated software stack with the release of an update,...
IBM Eyes Notebook Novelty
IBM is drafting designs for new notebook PCs that take innovative approaches to easing space constraints while expanding the form factor.The company showed nonworking...
AMD Boosts the Desktop
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is looking to boost the computing power of desktop and notebook PCs with a new chip that mirrors the companys...
Simplify for Security
Its been a bad month. weve learned of critical loopholes in recent versions of Windows and in even more versions of Microsoft Word. A...
Are We Safe Yet?
Two years after Sept. 11, 2001, is the U.S. IT infrastructure a safer place to do business? If you ask the average home computer...
Freedom From Fear
When a major worm or virus strikes, a wave of anxiety sweeps over most of us.But there are some who, I imagine, become quite...
Copyright Only Creativity
Bad ideas never die; they just return in proposed legislation.The latest bad idea to reappear is a plan in Congress to extend copyright protection...
Wanted: Common Security
Netegrity Inc. and startup Layer 7 Technologies Inc. are each seeking to simplify the process of securing and managing Web services deployments.Netegrity, which has...
DHS Revs Cyber Initiatives
Six months after its creation, the Department of Homeland Security gained a dedicated cyber-security leader last week and unveiled its first network security initiatives,...