Monthly Archives: January 2006
Consumers Resist Retail Biometrics
As assistant director of information systems for the $700 million Piggly Wiggly grocery chain, Rachel Bolt has been one of the most vocal proponents...
Move to Intel a Security Non-Issue for Apple
I guess Black Hat just gets hackers excited and optimistic for more bad news. This leads them to believe, for example, that Apples move...
Fios Collection Manager Fine-Tunes Electronic Discovery
Fios Inc. on Jan. 30 will unveil its new Fios Collection Manager IT service to help organizations gain control of pertinent documents that are...
Microsoft Merges RTC, Exchange Teams
As Microsoft executives continue to align the company around three distinct business units, they have decided to merge the Exchange and Real-Time Collaboration groups...
SOA Governance Gets Real
Service-oriented architecture development can be successful to a fault if service developers are empowered to create and publish services more quickly than service consumers...
German Court Rules for RIM
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Jan. 30 announced that a German court has ruled in RIMs favor in a lawsuit brought by InPro...
ETrade Goes into the Great Wide Open
ETrade Financial saved $13 million annually, realized a boost in performance and changed the way it thinks about development by moving from a Sun...
E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source
To say that E-Trade Financial has embraced open source is putting it mildly. The financial services firms open-source journey began in 2001, when it...
Big Daddy Casts A Shadow
There are new signs of Google Inc.'s rumored "Big Daddy" infrastructure overhaul.Judging from the recent plethora of evidence cited by Google watchers, it seems...
HP Hires Vignette CEO to Head Software Business
Hewlett-Packard is tapping Thomas Hogan, the CEO of Vignette, to head its software business, the latest move by the computer giant to bolster its...