Monthly Archives: August 2005
Intel Launches Plan to Bring Wi-Fi to Cities
Intel Corp. has joined forces with several computer giants to persuade cities around the world to take advantage of Wi-Fi for various government services...
Oracle 10G Collaboration Suite Finding Its Niche
As Oracle Corp. prepares to launch the long-delayed update to its Collaboration Suite, early testers of the 10g version say that the package could...
Web Conferencing Made Easy
As virtual meetings become increasingly popular in the enterprise, collaboration vendors are working hard to improve the usability of their Web conferencing offerings.
Web conferencing...
Microsoft Reaches Out to OSDL for Open-Source Project
Microsoft Corp. has stirred up a controversy in the open-source community by proposing a joint research project with Open Source Development Labs Inc. to...
IBMs Message Queue Server Gets New Look
While IBMs WebSphere MQ is quite possibly the ultimate under-the-hood application, companies interested in the newest version will find that almost all the changes...
Identity Standards Rely on Trust Among Companies
The Liberty Alliance Project, a consortium that advocates for federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, last week announced the results of the first...
Collections Giant Finds Safe Haven
In his job as IT manager at Credit Protection Association Inc., Jerome Quiroga has two relentless worries these days: hackers and public opinion.
Hackers he...
MetaLincs Debuts Discovery Software
MetaLincs this week will unveil its new Web-services-based MetaLincs E-Discovery application.
The software presents customers with a visual representation of the relationships between people, time,...
PacketHop Is Ready to Mesh
Startup PacketHop this week will introduce its first commercial product, designed for customers that need to deploy wireless mesh networks on the fly.
The PacketHop...
Qualcomm Acquires British Company Elata
Wireless technology giant Qualcomm last week announced it had acquired Elata, a British mobile content delivery software company, for $57 million in cash.Officials at...