Monthly Archives: September 2005
Small Businesses Wary of Telecommunications Bill
After talking about it since January, lawmakers who oversee telecommunications finally floated a draft bill to overhaul the nations telecom rules, primarily by preventing...
Qwest, Microsoft Partner on VOIP
Qwest Communications International Inc. plans to be the first telephone carrier to integrate Microsoft Corp.s software for enhancing voice over IP, aiming to make...
PestPatrol Helps AOL Stomp Spyware
America Online Inc. is deploying anti-spyware technology from Computer Associates International Inc. in a new version of its client software.AOL last week announced ASP...
Microsoft Gives Ozzie New Groove
Ray Ozzie, one of the more well-respected technologists in the industry and the brains behind both Lotus Notes and the Groove peer-to-peer software, is...
AMD, Intel to Ramp Up Performance, Cut Power
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. continue making moves to increase the performance of their processors while controlling the amount of power they...
Agencies Under Fire for Disaster Recovery Plans
Comparing the potential effect of a cyber-disaster to the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, lawmakers have called on the Department of Homeland Security and commercial...
Reinventing Enterprise Techology
Enterprise and academic systems are equally challenged by thickening jungles of system complexity and massive flows of data. Research communities in both worlds are...
More Fusion May Be on Tap for Oracle, IBM
Oracle Corp. last week announced a partnership with IBM that could, depending on the outcome, prove to be a groundbreaker in the IT industry.During...
Behind Visual Studio and SQL Server
S. "Soma" Somasegar, Microsoft Corp.s corporate vice president of the developer division, and Paul Flessner, the companys senior vice president of server applications, are...
Oracle Defines Future of Fusion
At its OpenWorld user conference in San Francisco last week, Oracle Corp. sought to explain how its Fusion Middleware will form the foundation for...