Monthly Archives: June 2004
Voice over WLAN Still a Joke Thats Not Funny
Voice over wireless LAN? Not this year. Or so was my experience this week at Jeff Pulvers VON Europe show here in London.It just...
VON Highlights Disruptive Tendencies of VOIP
LONDON—Traditional telecommunications providers, tied to their lucrative fixed voice services, are in danger of being swamped by innovative technology emerging from the fast-paced voice-over-IP...
Ask Jeeves Buys Desktop Search Company
Ask Jeeves Inc., a Web search company competing against Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., continued it expansion with the acquisition on Wednesday of a...
Future TiVos Will Download Content From The Net
TiVo Inc. said Tuesday that it is taking steps toward allowing its PVRs to access content from the Web. The personal-video-recorder company will also...
Critical Flaw Uncovered in Oracle E-Business Suite, Applications
All Oracle Corp. Applications and most E-Business Suite customers are at high risk from multiple, critical SQL injection vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities were uncovered by...
Gotcha! A Surfeit of Terms and Tribulations
For Merck, scientific computing isn't some ivory-tower exercise. Genetics, biology and medicine (an applied science) are all fundamental to Merck's business. But scientific computing...
Campus Brawl: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft at Stanford
It was the 1990s. A boom time, at least in technology. And Stanford University was eager to dump its 20-year-old mainframe software and move...
Why You Will Come to Love Dead Zones
For the first 20 years of cellular communications, mobile handset users complained about dead zones and kept switching services to get reliable connections.
In the...
Microsoft, SAP is a Deal to Watch
Autumn Bayles, chief information officer for Tasty Baking Co., expects the May 11 Web services alliance between SAP and Microsoft to make it easier...
Ready? Secure? Disclose
Are you ready to declare your company secure against attacks from cyberterrorists?If youre not, get moving. The odds are increasing that in the not-so-distant...