Monthly Archives: July 2005
Testers Check Out MSN Shopping Portal Beta 2
MSNs revamped shopping portal is inching closer to its final release.
MSN fully rolled out the second public beta refresh of its new shopping site...
Oracle Multicore Licensing Ignores Market Reality
Oracle is only postponing the inevitable by stubbornly maintaining its policy of licensing its software on a per-core basis, especially as chip vendors prepare...
Longhorn to Be Christened Windows Vista
Microsoft has decided on an official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista.
Thats according to sources close to the company who requested anonymity. They said Microsoft...
Powell Will Improve Techs Leverage
Last week, when Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers announced that former Secretary of State Colin Powell was joining its...
CardSystems to Congress: We Face Imminent Extinction
Despite a steady stream of reported data thefts this year—most recently by CardSystems Solutions Inc.—members of Congress are unable to agree on how to...
Is IBM a Player in the Relational Database Market?
With the recent announced retirement of IBMs Janet Perna, most associated with their DB2 database franchise, it got me thinking about IBMs future in...
Web Tags Gain Backers at AlwaysOn
PALO ALTO, Calif.—The phenomenon of tagging the Web appears to be gaining more converts, as another online startup embraces the metadata annotations and as...
Trouble Rolls into Win2K Town
Some third-party applications are encountering problems introduced by the cumulative Windows 2000 Update Rollup that Microsoft introduced in late June.
There have been reports of...
Open-Source Investment Begins to Pay
Theres more than one way to make money from free software.
In the last couple of weeks, Ive talked about how to make moolah from...
Contradictory Charges Rattle Data-Loss Case
During congressional testimony Thursday, executives from bank and credit card companies involved in the largest credit card data loss ever pointed fingers at a...