Monthly Archives: September 2004
Albertsons Sued For Privacy Violations
The legal privacy monster of CRM systems has raised its frightening head again, this time with Albertsons accused of selling customer names to major...
RFID to Be Served 7-Eleven Style
A dairy truck driver pulls up to a 7-Eleven convenience store and is preparing to deliver crates of milk when the store manager greets...
IBMs Jones: Stinger Targets Enterprises with Automation, Price Freeze
Jeff Jones, director of strategy for IBMs DB2 Universal Database, says IBM is wielding affordability and automation as it prepares for battle in the...
Microsoft (Deservedly) Takes Its Lumps
Although the Department of Justice vs. Oracle case over Oracles attempted takeover of PeopleSoft was not about Microsoft, the Redmond software vendor cast quite...
New MyDoom Variants Could Forewarn Major Attack
The arrival of four new variants of the MyDoom worm within the last 24 hours has anti-virus experts worried that the virus creator may...
Keynote Buys Web Research Company
Keynote Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Web-based customer research vendor Vividence Corp.
Keynote, which provides services for monitoring the performance of Web sites, announced...
Oracle Likely to Up PeopleSoft Bid, Analysts Say
Following Oracle Corp.s recent legal victory in its fight to engulf PeopleSoft Inc., financial analysts can only agree on two things: that Oracle will...
MARID Dumps Microsoft
Andrew Newton knows an absence of consensus when he sees it, and lately its been all over the MTA Authorization Records in DNS, or...
Sun to Refresh UltraSPARC Servers
SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. this month will roll out two new servers featuring its UltraSPARC IV processors, a Sun executive said Friday.
The new systems...
VeriSign Speeds Domain Name Changes
Changing a Web hosting provider and domain-name information just got easier.VeriSign Inc. on Thursday announced it has sped up its updating of the .com...