Monthly Archives: June 2004
FAT Patent Review May Threaten Linux Foundation
Worries over intellectual property can make for strange bedfellows. In the case of Microsoft Corp.s nearly ubiquitous FAT (file allocation table) file system, its...
Oracles President Downplays Oligopoly Comment
Wrapping up the second week of a trial that has the U.S. Department of Justice seeking a federal injunction to block Oracle Corp.s proposed...
This Time, Cell Phone Virus Is for Real
It had to happen: A computer virus has spread to cell phone networks. Kaspersky Labs issued an advisory Thursday on a network worm called...
Oracle Challenges DOJ Case with PeopleSofts Own Documents
Oracle Corp. attorneys cross examined PeopleSoft senior sales executive Phil Wilmington for more than four hours Thursday to try get him to back off...
Get Me Someone With a Pulse . . .
Change your address for your Sports Illustrated subscription via phone, and you will "converse" with a robotic voice that cant understand how two towns...
Small Business Buyers Guide: Storage
Just about every small business can benefit from having its own servers and dedicated storage for those servers. But deciding what to buy can...
Yahoo Yanks Price Tag from Enterprise IM
Yahoo has canned sales of the enterprise version of its free instant-messaging client, officials said Friday.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., company will now turn its focus...
Drug Makers Support Clinical Trial Disclosure
Responding to pressure from physicians groups and editors of medical journals, two of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies said Friday that they support making...
Visible Path Raises $2 Million, Readies Release
Social networking startup Visible Path Corp. is enriching its financial war chest as it nears the launch of its enterprise software aimed at improving...
Oracle Buyout of PeopleSoft: Illegal or Just Predatory?
Its become painfully apparent over the past two weeks of trial testimony that the Department of Justices case against Oracles attempted hostile takeover of...