Monthly Archives: December 2005
Del Monte Cuts Help Desk Calls by 90%
When two major food companies—select H.J. Heinz food operations and Del Monte—merged a few years ago under the Del Monte umbrella, it forced Del...
Is OpenXML for Real?
I was pretty impressed when, just before Thanksgiving, I came across a Financial Times article reporting that Microsoft was pledging to open up the...
Search Terms Are a Witness for the Prosecution
Robert James Petrick, 51, didnt exactly point a Web browser to the Internet search engine Google and type in "how do you kill your...
Firefox 1.5 Is a Small Step Up
Calling Firefox 1.5 a major new release is probably overstating things a bit, but the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser does...
States Scramble to Test Ballot Machines
Gearing up for next years midterm elections and looming federal compliance deadlines, state election officials are racing to test electronic ballot machines and implement...
IBM Ships New Autonomic Computing Tools
IBM Corp. will reach another milestone in its autonomic computing drive on Friday when it makes three automated management offerings generally available.
The new Tivoli...
AmberPoints SOA Management Looks Outside SOAP
AmberPoint Inc. on Monday will launch the latest release of its namesake SOA application-management software that addresses the growing complexity and increasing maturity of...
Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IEs Multimedia Handling
The browser patent spat between Microsoft Corp. and Eolas Technologies took another twist Friday with an announcement from Redmond that it will change the...
Browser Success Cant Be Measured in Market Share
The latest release of the Firefox browser has once again raised the question of what the Mozilla Foundation or any other browser developer can...
Critical RealPlayer Flaw Flagged
Researchers at eEye Digital Security have flagged another critical vulnerability in RealPlayer, the digital media software released by RealNetworks Inc.
The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based eEye...