Monthly Archives: March 2004
Jury Sees Gates Letter to Intel Chief
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—In June 1990, Bill Gates wrote a letter that began "Dear Andy" and ended with the Microsoft co-founder imploring Intel Corp. chief executive...
Pingtel Goes Open Source with IP Telephony Platform
IP telephony veterans on Monday will launch what is perhaps the first serious initiative to create a large open-source community around Voice over IP.As...
Memo to Steve Ballmer
Dear Steve,I know this comes at a busy time, with you most likely distracted by the European situation. But I know that youre always...
FlashMob Networks PCs for Ad-Hoc Supercomputer
University of San Francisco researchers are attempting to create a poor mans supercomputer cluster by linking desktop PCs and notebooks together through a conventional...
Speech Making Enterprise Inroads, Top Vendors Say
SAN FRANCISCO—A day after Microsoft Corp. entered the speech technology market, the two leading speech vendors on Thursday echoed the message that speech is...
New Worms Stretching Across Web
Two new low-threat worms are making the rounds on the Internet Thursday, continuing the plague of malware that began in January and has shown...
Oracle Compliance App Aims to Trim Risk, Cost
Oracle Corp. on Wednesday released the second version of its Internal Controls Manager product, a software application introduced last summer to help publicly held...
Lotus Founder: Open Source is Route Worth Taking
Will open source become the predominant development model for software? "Its just a matter of time," Lotus founder Mitch Kapor told an audience of...
Sun Offers UltraSPARC Payment Plans
Sun Microsystems Inc. has sweetened the pot for customers who buy its UltraSPARC III processor-based servers or are planning to upgrade to its forthcoming...
Shareholders Re-elect PeopleSofts Board
At an annual shareholders meeting surprisingly lacking in any real backlash, PeopleSoft Inc. investors showed they approve of the current board of directors and...