Monthly Archives: September 2005
RIMs BlackBerry Gathers Allies, Rivals at CTIA
SAN FRANCISCO—While Nokia and Microsoft intend to compete against BlackBerry maker Research in Motion head-on, Intel and RIM have a new partnership. These were...
AMD Lures Businesses with Promise of PC Stability
AMD is offering businesses a new deal.
The chip maker on Tuesday launched a program under which it has pledged to assist in locking down...
Oracle Portlet Factory to Enable SOA-Based Portlet Development
Oracle, revving up for a Fusion Middleware roadshow that kicks off this week, on Wednesday will announce a development tool that will enable organizations...
Microsoft Includes Phishing Protection in Latest SP2
Microsoft Tuesday released the latest aggregated group of updates, Service Pack 2, for its Office 2003 suite. Included are significant security enhancements, in addition...
Open-Source May Help China Curb Software Piracy
Since Linux doesnt require user licenses, its also a way to combat software piracy, which is an epidemic in China.
Under pressure from the world...
Regulators Give Some VOIP Operators More Time
Federal regulators on Tuesday gave some Internet telephone operators a quasi-reprieve and others a few more weeks time to meet new emergency dialing requirements.
The...
StarOffice 8 Is Offices Toughest Rival Yet
StarOffice 8—the latest version of Sun Microsystems Inc.s inexpensive, cross-platform office productivity suite—stands up better than ever next to Microsoft Corp.s market-leading Office in...
MS Investigates New IE Security Hole
Users of Microsofts flagship Internet Explorer browser are sitting ducks for security bypass attacks, according to a warning from a private researcher.
A spokesperson for...
IBM, Red Hat, TCS Team to Deliver Secure Linux
Security vendor Trusted Computer Solutions, Red Hat and IBM announced Tuesday that the trio of companies would be trying to get the next version...
MySQL Releases Most Ambitious Database Yet
MySQL AB has announced the first release candidate of its most ambitious open-source database version to date.
The version, 5.0.0, has been under development for...