Monthly Archives: March 2004
Wireless USB—the Next Video Data Channel?
Following the formation of a consortium to develop wireless USB technology, Intel Corp. is providing more details about when a specification and the first...
Lindows.com Exits Benelux in Face of Fine
Lindows.com Inc. on Friday stopped selling its products in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg after Microsoft Corp. asked a Dutch court to fine it...
Cisco Buys VPN Software Vendor
Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. will pay $5 million in cash for Twingo Systems, a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of desktop security tools for...
Widespread MSN Outage Hits
Microsoft is acknowledging that a substantial number of its MSN services customers experienced a major service outage on Friday, but is still saying little...
Kattoon: March 15, 2004
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Shareholder Advisory Firm Backs PeopleSoft Board Candidates
Institutional Shareholders Services, a proxy advisory firm, on Friday advised its clients to back PeopleSoft Inc.s slate of nominees for the companys board of...
Siebel Facing Shareholder Suit
Market-leading CRM software developer Siebel Systems Inc. this week has been hit with a class-action shareholder lawsuit that accuses the company of exaggerating its...
Users Willing to Wait for Yukon, Whidbey
Microsoft Corp. users, developers and partners are tired of product delays but said they are willing to wait for the companys newest database and...
Laguna SQL Server for CE Release on Tap
Microsoft Corp. will use its Mobile DevCon later this month to talk up its next release of its SQL Server CE platform, Version 3.0,...
Fixing the E-Mail Mess
In our February 17 issue we published a cover story on the e-mail mess, in which we examined the problems people are having with...