Monthly Archives: February 2005
Browser Bugs Spare Internet Explorer for a Change
A vulnerability that allows the URL in the browser address bar to be spoofed appears to affect all Web browsers apart from Internet Explorer.
The...
Financial Industry Floats Open-Source Messaging Standard for Web Services, SOA
A coalition of financial institutions is working to develop an open-source alternative to proprietary message queuing technology, hoping to make Web services and service-oriented...
Anti-Spyware Consortium Falls Apart
A high-powered coalition of anti-spyware vendors has collapsed amid a rash of acrimony and finger-pointing.The Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology vendors (COAST) was rendered toothless...
Intel Readies Dual-Core Desktop Processors
Intel Corp. announced Monday that it has begun production of its dual-core desktop processors, and that the first will appear on the market next...
Amid Customer Backlash, eBay Reduces Some Fees
Online auction giant eBay Inc. has reduced some of its prices and stepped up support options in response to criticism over a fee hike...
The Dangerous Allure Of Technology
One of the most disheartening things for a technology journalist to learn is that a lot of readers look at magazines to see the...
Anti-Spyware Vendor Webroot Raises $108 Million
Enterprise anti-spyware software vendor Webroot Software has raised $108 million in a first round of funding.The Boulder, Colo.-based Webroot Software Inc. said the round...
Sox Hurting Small Business?
After a deluge of complaints by such organizations as the American Bankers Association and the American Electronics Association that Sarbanes-Oxley is wreaking havoc on...
Photoshop Cloning Tool Automatically Corrects for 3-D Perspective
Mok3, a provider of solutions for creating and editing photo-realistic 3-D scenes from 2-D images, has introduced a Perspective Clone Brush plug-in for Adobe...
Acartus Utility Converts XML Data to PDFs
Acartus Inc., a developer of enterprise report management software, this week announced the release of an XML-to-PDF plug-in for its ERM platform, ApertureONE.
The utility...