Monthly Archives: February 2004
Supply & Demand: Software Pricing
ATA Holdings Corp. navigated the new rules of engagement with software vendors for the first time nearly two-and-a-half years ago. The Indianapolis-based parent company...
Microsoft to Accelerate Solution Accelerator Rollouts
Microsoft Corp.s information worker team is stepping up its plans to roll out blueprints and methodologies designed to help sell more Office System products.Microsoft...
Fingerprint Sensors Press Their Way Into Notebooks
IBM, Gateway Inc. and at least one other notebook maker will roll out systems with integrated fingerprint recognition sensors this year. Sensors that spanned...
Companies Form Computer Security Lobby
Eleven of the nations top computer security companies this week announced the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), a new organization that will lobby on...
Symantec to go Beyond Anti-Virus
Symantec Corp. executives this week laid out a broad strategy to expand the company beyond its core business of selling anti-virus software. The company...
Homeland Security Chair Likens Cyber Terrorists to Al Qaeda
President Bushs Homeland Security Assistant Wednesday stopped just short of referring to hackers as Al Qaeda terrorists in a keynote at the RSA Conference...
Spare Us From All Windows Interim Releases
You heard it here first: Windows Longhorn, the follow-on to Windows XP, wont be on store shelves until 2008—some three years later than the...
Sun Goes After HP-UX Customers
Not satisfied with its assault on HPs Tru64 customer base, Sun Microsystems has made a move to go after HP-UX customers as well, offering...
Eric Raymond: Let Java Go
IBM is not the only one encouraging Sun Microsystems Inc. to open up Java. Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative and one...
PostX Is Poised to Foil Phishing Attacks
SAN FRANCISCO—PostX Corp. plans to expand its secure e-mail delivery technology into a system for verifying e-mail and preventing so-called "phishing" attacks.The Cupertino, Calif.,...