Monthly Archives: August 2005
Worms Exploit Plug and Play Vulnerabilities
In 2003, the blaster worm infected as many as 10 million computers just three weeks after Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for the hole...
WiMax Must Take the Stage or Miss Its Cue
The HIPERMAN standard, despite what it sounds like, isnt Intel talking about WiMax. The standard is defined by ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute,...
Free Java: Sun Struggles to Come to Terms with Open Source
Earlier this month, I attended the OReilly Open Source Convention in Portland, where I discovered a great fast-food place called Burgerville and was absolutely...
Lightweight Version of RSS Released
Shouldering past the community fear and loathing over Microsofts supposed plans to co-opt and rename its first implementation of the Web publishing technology, RSS...
Microsoft: Clash of the Software Previews
They dont call it the "bleeding edge" for nothing.
Developers who have been working with the growing number of Community Technology Preview (CTP) builds of...
Microsoft Readies Release Candidate, RTM of Visual Studio 2005
As both its PDC and the launch of its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products loom in the next few months, Microsoft...
IBM Revitalizes Mainframe
A month after introducing the latest generation of its mainframe systems, the Z9, IBM is looking to grow the software support and expertise around...
Lenovo and HP: You Just Cant Compare
Recent good news at Lenovo and bad news at Hewlett-Packard have caused some to start comparing the Communist Chinese companys purchase of IBMs PC...
E-Mail Wiretapping Prosecutions Could Increase in the Future
A federal appeals court ruling in Boston last week on e-mail wiretapping is reverberating throughout the Internet community—and legal world—with a consensus emerging that...
ERP Package Smoothes Manufacturers Growth Path
"Inventory is king," said Andy Hrasky, controller of Victor Manufacturing, a midrange enterprise that has doubled in size over the past few years with...