Monthly Archives: June 2005
Apple Opens Safari Browsers WebKit
Apples efforts to woo the open-source software community have taken another step forward with the announcement of the WebKit Open Source Project, which forms...
Do Google Ads Help Fund Spyware?
Googles sponsored-link ads may have helped turn the worlds best-known search engine into a financial powerhouse, but they also are coming under attack for...
IBM Sees Open Source as Road to Bolstering Chip Biz
IBM, having thrown open its Power chip architecture, is becoming the new pied piper for open-source chips.
The companys chip group is now looking to...
Oracle Snaps Up Data Management Vendor TimesTen
Oracle Corp.s buying spree continued on Thursday as it announced plans to acquire TimesTen Inc., a maker of real-time data management software that takes...
Developers Improve Skills, One Tech Ed Session at a Time
Tech Ed isnt about collecting tschokes, bouncing a blow-up ball over heads in the keynote audience or winning an Xbox because you were spotted...
Hotbar in Hot Water with Online Privacy Group
Adware vendor Hotbar.com Inc. is feeling the heat this week over its pesky adware programs and spotty adherence to online privacy rules, eWEEK has...
Mac Retailers Reactions to Intel Move Are Mixed
Apples announcement that it will migrate its Macintosh line of computers away from the PowerPC architecture in favor of CPUs from Intel came as...
Thriving by Dis-Automation
One particular segment of the IT population is driven by exuberance and other irrational motivations to automate everything; and they have reaped a lot...
MSN Brings Tabbed Browsing Early to IE
Microsoft late Wednesday rolled out an updated version of its MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, complete with tabbed browsing, designed to add...
Symantec Strikes Back at Adware Vendor
Internet security specialist Symantec Corp. has turned the tables on browser toolbar startup Hotbar.com Inc., filing a lawsuit to retain the right to flag...