Monthly Archives: October 2004
Intel Cancels 4-GHz Pentium 4
Intel has decided not to bring to market a 4-GHz single-core Pentium 4 after all, following a July decision to push the chip out...
OctoberPatchFest: The Postmortem
I was actually unavailable Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, when Microsofts October patches began to release. It was a bad day to be...
Oracle Warns of Critical Exploits
Critical Oracle Corp. technology vulnerabilities have been publicly exploited, the company advised in a recent security update that urged users to apply the patches...
BellSouth Closes Sale of Some Assets
ATLANTA (AP)—BellSouth Corp. said Thursday it has completed the sale of some if its Latin American assets and will use the proceeds to help...
Pulver to Launch New SIP Client at VON
Jeff Pulver, president and CEO of Pulver.com and a leading spokesman for VOIP (voice over IP), is using his companys Voice on the Net...
IBMs Atlantic Tools Set to Sail
IBM Wednesday announced that it will ship the latest version of its Rational tools suite, the new IBM Software Development Platform code-named Atlantic, by...
At Wal-Mart, Worlds Largest Retail Data Warehouse Gets Even Larger
Its only fitting that the largest retailer should have the worlds largest database, but at more than one-half a petabyte, thats a lot of...
Will Wireless Rewrite the RFID Landscape?
Claiming the wireless ability to read tags that are literally hundreds of meters away, a retired Boeing engineer thinks he can deliver item-level tagging...
ICANN Settles Budget Battle
After months of debate and negotiations, the overseer of the Internets domain-name system has gained approval for a budget that doubles its spending.
The Internet...
Server Versions of Microsoft Apps Speak to Web Services Future
Tell me that Microsoft is building server versions of what until now have been desktop applications, and the first thing that comes to my...