Monthly Archives: December 2005
Verizon Wireless Gags More Telemarketers
Verizon Wireless reported Friday that it has won court injunctions permanently barring two high-volume telemarketing operations from dialing up any more of its customers.
The...
Microsoft, SAP Weave Apps and Plan for More
As SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. hammer out the 1.0 version of Mendocino, their combined development project to offer mySAP process functionality in Microsoft...
Microsoft Delays Next Internet Explorer Release
Microsoft Corp. postponed the introduction of the next test release of its Internet Explorer 7 Web browser until sometime in 2006, according to comments...
Portable USB Drive Boots PCs into Mandriva
Hard drive vendor LaCie has teamed up with Mandriva on a bus-powered USB 2.0 hard drive preloaded with desktop Linux.
The "GlobeTrotter" boots Mandriva Linux...
Google Travels To Another Market
Internet search giant Google Inc. has unveiled a new feature for planning trips via public transit, which some see as yet another clue of...
A New Chapter For University Presses
The University of Chicago Press recently shut down certain facets of its online book project, seeing no need now that Internet search giants include...
Intel, AMD Believe in the Power of Four
The race is on to produce four-core processors for PCs.
Intel Corp., which is readying a bevy of dual-core chips for release in systems in...
Tibco Expands SOA Strategy
Entering the next phase of its SOA strategy, Tibco Software Inc. released new software and services this week to help users become service-enabled faster.
On...
Mercury Teams with BEA on Diagnostics
BEA Systems Inc. and Mercury Interactive Corp. on Thursday announced that they have inked a partnership that calls for BEA to bundle Mercurys diagnostic...
IEEE Ratifies Mobile WiMax Standard
The standard for the wireless broadband technology called Mobile WiMax has been ratified and is due for publication by the end of 2005. But...