Monthly Archives: January 2005
CA Plows Ahead with Business-Unit Restructuring
Computer Associates International Inc. last week acknowledged its plans to reorganize around a business unit structure and move two top executives into new roles,...
Adobe Looks Ahead to Video, Devices
Adobe Systems Inc. helped to shape the Desktop Publishing revolution of the 90s through its PostScript and PDF technology and such products as Adobe...
Winamp Squashes Critical Security Bug
America Online Inc.s Nullsoft unit has quietly rolled out a new version of the popular Winamp media player to plug multiple critical flaws that...
Microsoft to Reshuffle Its ERP Deck?
Microsoft Corp.s ERP strategy is morphing.
Axapta, one of Microsofts four enterprise resource planning products, has fallen victim to Microsofts slip-date curse. Meanwhile, it sounds...
A Genuine Pain in the Neck
Its funny to read how Microsoft is apparently going ahead with plans to let hackers help the company battle pirates. What else can you...
CIO Tests Embedded RFID Chip
As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. John D. Halamka immediately saw the life-saving potential of embedding tiny wireless RFID (radio-frequency identification) devices in people....
SBC in Merger Talks with AT&T?
Rumors have surfaced that SBC Communications Inc. has begun serious, preliminary negotiations to buy AT&T Corp., a move that would further consolidate the rapidly...
Tech Playing Larger Role in Politics
Theres a funny thing going on in Democratic Party politics. Tech is getting important. The industry and its innovations are breaking out of their...
Adlink Releases SBC with Embedded Linux Support
Adlink has released an ETX form-factor single-board computer (SBC) that supports embedded Linux on Celeron and Pentium processors. Target markets for the ETX-IM333 include...
Google Launches API for Online Ads
Google Inc. on Thursday launched a program that gives developers greater access to its search-based advertising system.
Google, of Mountain View, Calif., introduced a beta...