Monthly Archives: September 2004
MSN Instant-Messaging Client Nears Beta
MSN is preparing to release to testers the first beta of its MSN Messenger 7 instant-messaging client next week.Testers in the United States, the...
Revoking Microsofts FAT Patent Would Stir Innovation
Today must mark some sort of milestone in online news. Feeding the single word "fat" to news.google.com on Thursday produced a top-ranked list of...
Microsofts FAT Patent Rejected for Now
In a heavy blow to Microsofts intellectual property rights, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has initially rejected Microsofts patent claims on the universally...
Microsoft Guards Its Protocols in European Court
Microsoft argued in a Luxembourg court on Thursday that the European Competition Commissions antitrust decision against it would infringe on its intellectual property and...
App Developers Need to Redouble Security Efforts
PHOENIX—Most enterprise developers can recite various software architecture layers as though its the easy question on the computer science final exam: operating system, application...
QuickBooks SimpleStart Takes a Ground-Level Approach
Full ReviewWord processors and spreadsheet applications have grown incredibly complex, but theyre still easy to use because much of the bloat is hidden. With...
System Lets Nurses Bid for Shifts
Nurse managers traditionally have used agencies to find qualified nurses and other hourly staff to fill in on their wards. But with the nursing...
Security Watch Letter: Inside the JPEG Virus
The WatchThe end of summer lull for viruses and worms continues. Were still seeing new versions of RBots, and a new Bagle, but nothing...
Jan Baan Takes On Software Giants
Earlier this month Jan Baan, a name synonymous with one of the great ERP success stories in the 1990s—Baan Co.—launched a new venture. In...
Easy SIP-ing
The beauty of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is that its a real standard. Unlike earlier IP telephony standards such as H.323 that were more...