Monthly Archives: March 2004
RFID: An Offer You Cant Refuse
/zimages/4/17485.gif Justifying the purchase of new technology is usually a highly individual process: The acquiring company has the final say whether to adopt or...
Review: Western Digital WD740 Raptor
When we reviewed the original WD360 Raptor 10,000RPM hard drive a while back, we lamented its relatively small capacity. Just shy of 37GB, the...
Oracles Phillips Enters the Lions Den
Oracles Co-President Chuck Phillips took it on himself to address PeopleSoft-nee-J.D. Edwards customers at the Quest West conference in San Diego on Monday. Phillips...
Judge Picked in Oracles Fight Against DoJ
Judge Vaughn Walker of U.S. District Court in San Francisco has been chosen to preside over the federal governments antitrust case against Oracles hostile...
Beta 1 Tester Says Yukon Is Slower, Less Stable, But Better
Randy Dyess, founder of the Web site www.database-security.info and a tester of the Beta 1 version of Microsofts Yukon version of the SQL Server...
Spam War
Besides being the year of war, terrorism, corporate fraud, and blackouts, 2003 was also the year of spam. As more users found their legitimate...
Spy Stoppers
Keith Dunlap had never even heard of Cool-search.net. But one day last December, as he opened the browser on his home PC, the site...
Small-Business Security
Security is a process, not a product. Security experts often referred to this mantra, of security technologist and author Bruce Schneier, while we worked...
Norton Internet Security 2004
Spyware blocking, detection, and removal turn out to be weak components of the otherwise excellent Norton Internet Security 2004, which earned an Editors Choice...
Chip Sales Fall Slightly In January
Semiconductor sales fell slightly in January, an industry trade group reported, although the chip industry reported a sharp jump in year-over-year growth.The Semiconductor Industry...