Monthly Archives: October 2003
AMD Results Dip Into the Red
Advanced Micro Devices was unable to turn a profit for the third quarter, as its flash business dragged the company down into the red.Although...
SCO Wins $50 Million Investment
The SCO Group Inc., which has sued IBM for more than $3 billion and claims that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, on...
SAP Reports Upbeat Results
E-business software developer SAP AG announced today an upbeat end to its third quarter, with a particularly good showing in the United States.Possibly benefiting...
Linux and the GPL: Together Forever
Forbes Magazine Senior Editor Daniel Lyons was shocked—shocked!—to find that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) actually enforces the GNU Public License (GPL). And he...
Survey: Windows Developers Say Linux More Secure
Is Linux built more securely than Windows? According to a new survey, Windows and Linux developers both say yes—and for the first time, ranked...
VeriSign Sells Network Solutions Business
VeriSign Inc. on Thursday divested itself of its Network Solutions business unit. However, the company will retain the Internet registry service for the .com...
A Tech Veterans Security Warning
Critical-infrastructure security was the main topic at the recent annual meeting of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, known as (ISC)². The consortium...
AMDs Weber: Dump Everything but X86
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s chief technologist Fred Weber argued Wednesday that all of the different microarchitectures in the industry should be given...
The IBM ThinkPad: No. 1 Product, No. 3 Vendor
Reminding us a bit of the hit song in the "Chorus Line," IBM is a case study in contradictions. Its new T41 laptop is...
Top Tip: VPN behind Linksys BEFSR41?
Question from psaltz"Help. I have a Linksys BEFSR41 Router (updated to latest 1.45.7 firmware) - Wan is cable with fixed (not static but effectively...