Monthly Archives: December 2004
Cities Should Control Their Wi-Fi Fates
The holidays, it seems, cant pass without a Scrooge story.
This years comes from the state of Pennsylvania where early this month Gov. Edward Rendell...
Wireline Works as Fallback When Disaster Strikes
When the tsunami hit southeast Asia this week, it was instantly a disaster of historic proportions, and nothing could have prevented that. Likewise, when...
Adobe Targets Enterprise with Acrobat 7
Adobe Systems Inc.s Acrobat 7 is expected to ship this week, and Pam Deziel, director of Acrobat product marketing, spoke with PDFzone.coms Don Fluckinger...
Tsunami Warning Systems Need Major Work
Could a computerized system for monitoring and predicting tsunamis really have saved thousands of lives following the earthquake Sunday beneath the Indian Ocean? Id...
Source Code for Cabir Cell Phone Worm Released
Anti-virus vendors are bracing for a deluge of new and potentially dangerous mutants of the Cabir worm on smart phones running the Symbian Series...
Wi-Fi Range Wars on the Way?
Prepare for a range war. If theres been any significant movement in the mobile and wireless industry in the past year—and there has been...
Systems Must Be Designed to Doubt
My son looked at the minuscule trunk of the rental car, then at our stack of luggage—made larger than usual by an extra suitcase...
Novell Finally Finds the Linux Way Back to Success
I remember well when Novell NetWare was the network operating system for PC users. Over in my neck of the woods—mainframes, minis and workstations,...
Microsoft Investigates Windows Bug Warnings
Microsoft Corp. on Monday chided a private research outfit for releasing proof-of-concept code for three potentially serious flaws in the Windows operating system, warning...
Novell Combines SuSE Linux, Netware in Server Public Beta
Novell Inc. gave its NetWare and Linux users a Christmas present by releasing the first public beta of Novell Open Enterprise Server over the...