Monthly Archives: May 2004
Piecemeal Security Solutions Cost Firms Dearly
The piecemeal approach to information security has lead many companies to unwittingly purchasing and managing overlapping security solutions, according to security vendor Aladdin Knowledge...
P2P Firms Join Child-Porn Fight
Officials of two trade associations representing several companies doing peer-to-peer file sharing this week said that they are cooperating with the FBI to crack...
Network Associates, Check Point Simplify Small-Business Security
Network Associates Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. this week announced an Internet gateway and desktop security product that allows small businesses to...
When to Stuff Voices Into Packets
/zimages/1/17485.gifYour company may not be making calls using Internet standards now, but it will—eventually. So far, though, the cost to switch from conventional phone...
The Cost of Phishing Hits $1.2 Billion
The cost of "phishing" for U.S. Banks and credit card issuers last year was $1.2 billion, according to a new Gartner Research study.Gartner said...
Linux Offers Better Windows Apps Without the Wait
Now heres a thought: In all the debate over Longhorn versus Linux 2.6—or, as I like to pose it, vaporware vs. "Red Hat Fedora...
Intels Dual-Core Chips Bump Next-Gen Pentium 4, Xeon
Intel Corp. is canceling the next generation of its desktop and server chips as it moves up its schedule for releasing processors with two...
Data-Mining Standard Is a Good Start, But It Still Needs Tweaking
The Predictive Model Markup Language ultimately will provide applications with a method of defining statistical and data-mining models and the ability to share them...
Lots of BI to Love in IBMs Stinger Update
Besides all the autonomic computing features featured in IBMs next-generation database, code-named "Stinger," theres plenty to keep business-intelligence fans happy. One major feature is...
Date Defends Relational Model at DAMA Symposium Keynote
Chris Date, long a staunch supporter of the relational model, tackled SQL, XML and other object-oriented matters in his spirited keynote address at the...