Monthly Archives: December 2004
Wall Street Smiles on Oracle-PeopleSoft Deal
Following Mondays announcement that Oracle and PeopleSoft will merge, Wall Street gave the deal a thumbs-up.
PeopleSoft Inc. stock is now trading close to Oracle...
MSN Delivers Toolbars for Desktop Search
Microsoft on Monday released its promised desktop search application, focusing on adding local e-mail and file search into MSNs browser toolbar, Outlook and the...
Atlanta to Provide Municipal Wi-Fi Service
Atlanta City Hall unwires this month. Public areas of the citys Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport will go wireless by March. Apartments, hotels, office buildings, and...
AOL Fixes IM Glitch
Four days after an internal error caused the accidental purging of legitimate IM accounts, America Online Inc. began recovering Monday to restore access to...
SAP Sees Opportunity in Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger
SAP AG has benefited from the market uncertainty created by the long battle between Oracle Corp. and Peoplesoft Inc. Now that the battle is...
AMD, IBM Announce New Power-Saving Tech
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and IBM said Monday that they had developed a new strained-silicon process that offers more performance at the same power...
IBM Forms Server Joint Venture with Chinas Great Wall Computer
IBM has formed a joint venture with Great Wall Computer Shenzhen Co Ltd. to manufacture servers for the Asia-Pacific region, settling uncertainty over how...
TLS Is a No-Brainer For Mail Servers
Encryption has been an important feature of many Internet protocols for some time now. Transfers between mail servers havent historically been protected, but there...
Teeny Module Runs New .NET Embedded Software Stack
A small startup in Microsoft Corp.s backyard is poised to begin shipping a tiny, 32-pin chip-like computer module that runs ".NET Embedded," a new...
Search for New Cyber-Security Chief Hits Bump
NEW YORK—The uncertainty surrounding the change in leadership at the Department of Homeland Security has thrown the search for a permanent director of the...