Monthly Archives: April 2004
China Delays Proprietary Wireless Encryption Protocol
China agreed Wednesday to indefinitely delay implementation of its proprietary wireless encryption protocol. Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi announced the delay of Wireless LAN...
Forum Systems Teams with Oracle for Web Services Security
Forum Systems Inc. last week announced a partnership with Oracle Corp. to provide additional security for production Web services.The partnership enables customers of Forum...
Phishing Skyrockets
Phishing has increased about 1,200 percent in the past six months, according to MessageLabs Inc.In September of 2003, the companys system logged 279 different...
CA Board to Select Interim CEO
Computer Associates International Inc. is expected early next week to name board member Kenneth Cron as interim CEO, according to sources close to CA.
Although...
Report Lists Programs to Spur Health IT Adoption
Community health care providers will need to find their own best paths to implementing HIT, according to a joint report by a health care...
The Secret of Adobes Success
PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael J. Miller recently had the opportunity to talk with Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen about open-source software, the Macintosh and the...
JPEG Hits New Patent-Infringement Snag
Patent infringement issues surrounding the JPEG image standard resurfaced on Thursday after a small software vendor filed lawsuits against 31 companies ranging from Adobe...
Report Takes Software Processes to Task
I feel as if I could get an entire years worth of columns, or perhaps even build my next career, out of the material...
Cisco Woos SMBs with Intelligent Networking Bundles
Cisco Systems Inc. on Thursday reiterated its commitment to serving small and midsized businesses (SMBs) by bundling products, services, blueprints, special pricing and financing...
Microsoft Exec Hopes for Closure on Lawsuits
Microsoft has squirreled away a cash and investment stockpile of tens of billions of dollars. But shareholders hoping for word about dividends as well...