Monthly Archives: October 2005
Not All in Mobile Industry Are Under OATH
CHICAGO—Cyber-criminals are eyeing mobile phones and PDAs as their latest playpen, but the industry is stepping up its collaborative efforts to stop the chaos.
One...
Microsoft, Yahoo to Link IM Networks
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are set to announce on Wednesday a blockbuster interoperability deal that will reshape the landscape of the fragmented instant...
Yahoo Opens Research Facility for UC Berkeley Students
BERKELEY, Calif.—Yahoo Inc. has opened a research facility a few miles north of here to collaborate with professors, graduate students and undergrads from the...
IBM, SuSE Challenge Blade Economics
IBM and Novell Inc.s SuSE Linux have joined forces to offer customers a single subscription option for servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9...
Cisco Forms New Business Unit
Cisco Systems Inc. on Thursday will make its biggest play yet in the application acceleration/WAN optimization space with the launch of new offerings for...
Apple Beams in Video iPod
Apple Computer Inc. introduced its much awaited iPod handheld device with video capabilities on Wednesday, ending months of speculation that the company was readying...
Apple Spins New iMac as Media Hub
Thin is in at Apple Computer Inc. The company has unveiled a slimmer iMac G5, designed to be used in the home as an...
Oracle Finds the Flaw in MySQLs Business Plan
Oh, MySQL. We hardly knew ye.Here you are, perched on the final release of 5.0. Its expected out within mere days; this, the version...
New Search Engine Peers Behind Subscription Walls
A new Internet search engine, dubbed "Congoo," gives people a free look at news articles that normally need a subscription to view. But when...
Nokia, Ericsson Interested in GSM 450
Nokia and Ericsson both committed on Tuesday to help the spread of GSM in the 450 megahertz band, which would offer operators of the...