Monthly Archives: August 2004
AOL Acquires Mailblocks Anti-Spam Service
America Online Inc. last week said it acquired anti-spam company Mailblocks Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mailblocks develops technology that blocks...
E-Voting Expert and Critic Urges E-Vote Hacking
Harvard fellow Rebecca Mercuri at the recent Black Hat Security Conference called on hackers to analyze election system code and expose the flaws. There...
Reals Helix Move
RealNetworks Inc.s Helix DRM (Digital Rights Management) software has received FCC approval for secure playback and storage of digital broadcast content over a users...
Beware of Presidential Phishing Expeditions
Web and e-mail filtering company SurfControl Plc. has identified a pair of e-mail messages purporting to be from the John Kerry presidential campaign. The...
Govt, Enterprise Data Sharing Efforts Crumbling
Several years after the beginning of a widespread effort between public and private parties to create an environment that would allow broader dissemination of...
Next Dev Wave: Software Factories
Microsoft Corp. is pursuing a strategy that would make software development easier by enabling developers to create applications in an assembly line fashion.
The Redmond,...
OrderPro Ex-CEO Denies Allegations
Hot on the heels of a court complaint by OrderPro Logistics, former company CEO Richard Windorski has sent out a letter to shareholders, flatly...
PeopleSoft Says Its Spent $70 Million to Dodge Oracle
The fracas with Oracle over its $7.7 billion hostile bid to acquire PeopleSoft has cost the latter company a boatload of cash.
PeopleSoft Inc. said...
SCO Litigation Takes Its Toll on Bottom Line
The SCO Groups ongoing legal battle against IBM and others is having a negative impact on the company, leaving it with few new customers...
AIM Security Hole Opens Users to Remote Attack
Two security research and consulting companies have reported a vulnerability in the AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) program that could allow an attacker to run...