Monthly Archives: August 2004
B2B Publisher Enters Search Ad Market
SAN JOSE, Calif.—A joint venture backed by a century-old directory publisher is adapting one of the newest forms of online advertising to the industrial-products...
Shows Expose Turmoil in Unix, Linux Markets
Change came at a furious clip recently for both the Unix and open-source communities at August trade shows.
Customers of The SCO Group Inc.s Unix...
Seagate Files Lawsuit over Trade Secrets
Seagate Technology has filed a complaint in a Minnesota court attempting to prevent one of its ex-employees from joining Western Digital, a competitor.
Pete Goglia...
Whats the Real ROI of Self-Checkout?
A recent study by IHL Consulting Group indicates that self-checkout and other self-service systems generated almost $128 billion in sales last year, up about...
Self-Service Need Not Be Self-Delusional
When youre a retail executive in todays razor-thin-margin environment, you do what you can barely afford and then pray it supports your strategy.
Pricing is...
Microsoft Releases Security-Focused Windows XP SP2 Update
They say all good things come to those who wait. For Microsoft Corp. customers, the wait for the major security upgrades in Service Pack...
SCO-IBM Wars Take New Turn
According to a Forbes report, SCO has uncovered IBM e-mail discussions revealing that IBM was improperly using SCO Unix (SVR4) System V Release 4...
Windows XP SP2: Coming to a PC Near You
The next major version of Windows may still be hovering just out of sight, but todays security problems are very much with us, looming...
Trojan Lurking For Pocket PCs
Security experts this week said a backdoor Trojan horse program dubbed Backdoor.Bardor.a is out to infect the Windows CE operating systems of Pocket PCs....
CAN-SPAM Compliance Hits New Low
Compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act fell to just 0.54 percent in July, according to a study by MX Logic Inc., an email security company....