Monthly Archives: October 2005
Sprint Mixes In Mobile Download Service
Sprint Nextel Corp. launched the United States first mobile audio download service on Monday, introducing Music Store, which allows the companys subscribers to buy...
Cutting-Edge Performance Drives Chip Makers
Chip makers are making clear that they intend to continue to explore advanced technologies such as virtualization and multicore processors to help solve thermal...
AOLs AIMPro Revamps Business IM
Hoping to catch a ride on the software-as-a-service wave, America Online Inc. is working to integrate its popular instant messaging client with WebEx Communications...
Licensing Gets with the Open-Source Program
Among the most unloved quirks of the enterprise IT market is that software is licensed, not sold. Its a business model that dates back...
Oracle Cracks the Whip with Enterprise Manager 10g R2
Oracle on Monday plans to release an update to Enterprise Manager that slaps at two pain points in grid computing: getting IT services available...
PowerCenter Update Zeus Delivers Control
Informatica Corp. this week will introduce its PowerCenter 8 upgrade, code-named Zeus, designed to help IT managers increase productivity through optimization and better federation.
PowerCenter...
Microsofts Blue Hat Shows Its Serious About Security
For critics of Microsoft Corp.s software, 2003 was a very good year. The appearance of the Slammer and Blaster worms was evidence—if any were...
SOAs Gather Steam with Proposed Specs
With the adoption of SOAs moving beyond pilot stages, underlying Web services standards are also maturing.
The e-business standards consortium Organization for the Advancement of...
Blogging Is Indeed Here to Stay
It was nearly a year and a half ago in this very space that my colleague Scot Petersen declared blogs "simultaneously mainstream and subversive"...
Experts Fear Weak National Data Theft Law
Federal lawmakers are eager to take action against the growing problem of data theft, but some security and privacy experts fear that the zeal...