Monthly Archives: December 2005
AOL Releases Stand-Alone Security App
In an effort to better protect its members from the ever-increasing tide of worms, viruses, spyware and other security risks, America Online Inc.s AOL...
Microsoft Names New Shared Source Initiative Chief
Jason Matusow, who has headed up Microsoft Corp.s Shared Source Initiative, is moving to a new position—that of director of Corporate Standards Affairs for...
IE Design Flaw Lets Hacker Crack Google Desktop
An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the Google Desktop application to...
Supply Chain Software Vendor eBots Becomes Ultriva
eBots, a leading maker of supply chain software for "lean manufacturing," has changed its name to Ultriva Inc., after receiving $4 million in a...
Linux Desktop Needs Major Vendor Support
I have all the respect in the world for the top Linux developers who are gathering the first weekend in December in Oregon to...
Cingular to Offer Enhanced Push-to-Talk Service
Cingular Wireless is set to announce the rollout of a push-to-talk service that goes beyond the capabilities of a traditional walkie-talkie.
Launching Monday, the service...
Google Gets Enterprising
Google Inc.s enterprise business may be just a small piece of its expanding empire, but the search giant is aggressively courting corporate customers with...
North Carolina Certifies Voting Machine Vendors
The same week that a North Carolina judge refused to shield Diebold Inc. from criminal liability if it fails to comply with a new...
Blog Away. RSS Worms Are A Phony Threat
Trend Micros David Sancho paints a scary picture of a future with ubiquitous RSS capability that will come with the deployment of Internet Explorer...
EDS Chief Discusses Turnaround, Globalization
BOSTON—Electronic Data Systems is about halfway toward completing its turnaround, said EDS CEO Michael Jordan in a speech here. Jordan offered a summary of...