Monthly Archives: October 2003
The Death of the Handheld Computer
Whatever happened to the handheld computer market? A segment that seemed to have limitless potential just a few years ago now seems to be...
Cisco Targets Small Offices With New IP Telephone Packages
Cisco Systems Inc. Thursday launched a pair of new IP telephony offerings designed to reduce the cost and complexity of deployment in small offices.Cisco...
VeriSign Now Faces Class Action Suit Over Redirection
The furor over VeriSign Inc.s redirect service for mistyped or unregistered Web domains isnt about to die down as the body overseeing Web addressing...
DB2 Security Dinged Again
IBMs DB2 UDB enterprise relational database has two more holes, adding up to a total of six reported within the past three weeks.The two...
Lawsuit Takes on Microsoft Security Flaws
Has the worm finally turned for Microsoft Corp.?
The company on Thursday confirmed that it had received a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting Windows vulnerability to...
Faulty Patch Leaves IE Open to Attack
An incomplete patch has opened the door to the widespread exploitation of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and security experts say that there are...
QVC: The Bottomline Per CIO Rob Cochran
Sixteen years ago, Rob Cochran joined the then-fledgling retailer hawking jewelry, apparel, electronics and other merchandise on television. The company, recently acquired by Liberty...
Security Class Action Suit: Can They Do That?
Just when you thought Microsoft was impermeable to security lawsuits, as a result of careful wording in its licensing terms and conditions, a group...
Has Sun Shot Itself in the Foot Once Too Often?
Let me say up front that I have a love-hate relationship with Sun. I love its operating system. I really like Java. And, I...
Storage Education Still on Hold
The current state of storage education can only be described as "not in attendance," with only a few courses offered by colleges and universities...