Monthly Archives: October 2005
Intel Is Checking Up Digital Health
NEW YORK—Intel Corp. has a prescription for enhancing health care in the future: increasing the dose of computer technology.
The chip maker, which established a...
Wikipedia Tests Limits of User-Generated Content
Not surprisingly, I managed to kick up a bit of a tempest in the blogosphere last week when I wrote that Weblogs (and Podcasting...
VMWare Player Showcases New Virtual Realities
VMWare Inc. just released a new product, VMWare Player, which enables users to run VMWare instances. Also, its free. Thats free as in beer—VMWare...
Microsoft Ditches Media Player Licensing Strategy
Microsoft Corp. reported in a quarterly antitrust update to the U.S. government that it recently scrapped an exclusive licensing proposal for its Windows Media...
ObjectWeb ESB Petals About to Bloom
The ObjectWeb Consortium is preparing to release a new open-source Enterprise Service Bus initiative that targets the Java Business Integration specification.
According to sources, the...
Siebel Rolls Out Component Assembly
At its annual user conference in Boston last week Siebel announced the fruits of its labor around Project Nexus, a four-year development plan initially...
OpenOffice.org Releases Long-Awaited Version 2.0
OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first office application suite to feature native support for the OASIS-approved OpenDocument file format, was released Thursday morning, one week following...
AOL Ships Netscape Security Patch
America Online Inc. late Wednesday shipped a new version of its Netscape browser to correct multiple critical code execution vulnerabilities inherited from the Firefox...
Storage Digest: News from Promise Technology, Coraid, Arkeia, Accusys, iStor, Quantum, Iomega, Maxto
Promise Technology introduces three new SATA RAID storage systems aimed at SMBs; Coraid introduces a Linux-based NAS appliance; Arkeia introduces Smart Backup; iStor and...
Apples PowerPC-to-x86 Transition in Question
With its Wednesday release of new dual-core Power Macs, ranging from 2.0GHz to 2.5GHz, Apple Computer seems happy enough with the PowerPC architecture for...