Monthly Archives: August 2005
Analysts: Googles Talk Move May Shake the Market
Google Wednesday launched Google Talk, the companys open standard-based instant messaging and VOIP server and client package. Analysts and vendors were upbeat about its...
Industry Survey Shows SMBs Lack Minimal Security
Sean Stenovich often sees his small and midsize business clients pick and choose their security solutions based on what they think they need and...
A Decade Later: Windows 95 Keeps Going … and Going
Microsoft Corp. officials have admitted one of their biggest challenges in continuing to grow the companys Windows business is the impression among some of...
Google, Skype Race Toward Next IM Frontier
This week may well be the pivotal point in the emergence of instant messaging as a tool for the enterprise, as well as for...
Intel Prescribes Health IT
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. became the latest giant IT company to step boldly into health care. At the Tuesday afternoon keynote here, gloomy music played...
Sun, Oracle Team Up on Database Packs
Sun Microsystems and Oracle on Wednesday announced a set of pre-configured infrastructure bundles for SMBs.
Called Database Packs, they incorporate Oracle Database 10g with Sun...
Intel Preps Mac OS X Developer Tools
Intel Corp. will port its software developer tools to Mac OS X and will ship its first beta later this year, the chip maker...
Bluetooth Ads Discover Listeners
A UK advertising firm says it has carried out the biggest Bluetooth advertising campaign to date, reaching 15,000 Londoners directly via their cell phones.
The...
IBM, Others Follow Intels Dual-Core Lead
Systems and software makers are following Intel Corp.s lead down the road to dual-core computing.
The giant chip maker, at its Intel Developer Forum this...
The Windows Roller Coaster: 10 Years of Highs and Lows
Step aside, Six Flags. Move over, Magic Mountain.
For sheer, gut-wrenching highs and lows, even the worlds tallest, fastest, most technologically advanced fly-by-wire roller coaster...