Monthly Archives: November 2004
Turning Phone Into Broadcaster
Enterprise communications systems are no longer used simply as tools of convenience and sound business practice but increasingly as crisis-management programs as well. The...
Carroll College Relies on Appliance to Fight Spam
Carroll College, a private institution in Waukesha, Wis., services 7,000 e-mail accounts that receive approximately 1 million messages per month. The colleges commitment to...
FSF Faces New GPL Challenges
Whats a long time in the technology business? Is it 18 months, as in Moores Law? Is it two years, which is the least...
Torvalds: GPL Needs Minor Work
The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set...
OpenOffice.org Grows Up, Gets Help
OpenOffice.orgs namesake suite turned 4 last month, and in a sign of just how far the open-source productivity suite has come, a commercially supported...
Fedora Core 3 Caps Linux Distribution
Fedora Core 3, the latest release of Red Hat Inc.s free, unsupported, bleeding-edge Linux distribution, is stacked with changes that include the way it...
HP Clears Obstacles; More Ahead
Although Hewlett-Packard Co. appears to have corrected many of the problems that came to light in the third quarter, some of which resulted in...
Web Services Patents for Sale
As a member of eWEEKs editorial board, Ive been one of a group of voices thats jointly encouraged the industry to keep the Internet...
SCO Site Attacked Again
The SCO Group Inc.s Web site has once again been attacked, but this time hackers didnt just target the site for a distributed-denial-of-service attack—they...
Autonomy, Mamma.com Join Desktop Search Ranks
Not to be left out of desktop search, two search vendors on Monday leaped into the growing space for managing e-mail, documents and other...