Monthly Archives: November 2004
Microsoft Moves Closer to Wiping Its Antitrust Slate Clean
By reaching antitrust settlements with two additional litigants—Novell Inc. and the Computer & Communications Industry Association—Microsoft Corp. has brought its cost of persuading rivals...
Purr-Ponderance of Evidence
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Crack Program Released for Wireless Nets
One year after a vulnerability in the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption algorithm was reported, a proof-of-concept program for the attack has been released.The attack...
Microsoft Has Its Eye on Small Retailers
In one corner of Microsoft Corp., the smaller the better is the order of the day for new customers. Microsofts latest retail push is...
Microsoft to Ship New Office Small-Biz Release in 2005
The gloves are off. Microsoft Corp. is ready to take on Intuit for the dollars of small-business managers.
Microsoft confirmed on Friday—a few days earlier...
SBC, BellSouth Expand Local-Search Plans
Local search is drawing the interest of more than just the Googles and Yahoos of the world. Traditional directory publishers also are digging deeper...
Necessity Drives Corporate Utility Computing Pioneers
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Necessity, practicality and hard-nosed business principles are defining utility computing for the pioneering organizations that are actually delivering computing capacity on demand...
Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internets basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for...
Microsoft Readies New Office Update for Small Biz Owners
Microsoft Corp. is set to launch on Nov. 8 its small-business solutions strategy, one element of which will be a new version of Microsoft...
IBM Helps Untangle Supply-Chain Communications
Toothpaste.
Up until recently, it took a hodgepodge of faxes, phone calls, e-mails and EDI to figure out the simple substances product pricing, specifications, availability...