Monthly Archives: January 2006
Microsoft Live Lab Pursues Net Research Trend
Watch out, academics, the Internets mighty portals are after your brain power.
The latest of these one-stop shops of free Internet services on campus is...
Oracle Advises Users: Patch Critical Hole—Now
Oracle is advising its customers to quickly apply a critical database patch the company issued last week. Security experts warn the hole could allow...
Google Fights for Your Rights
If youve been paying even a little bit of attention to the various machinations in Washington during the last few months, the recent revelation...
ID Theft Tops Fraud Complaints
Among the many ways Americans see themselves getting swindled these days, identity theft ranks first.Of nearly 700,000 grievances lodged with the Federal Trade Commission...
Level 3 Buys Progress Telecom
Level 3 Communications announced that it has acquired Progress Telecom, a provider of wireless and land-line phone services in the Southeastern United States, for...
Torvalds: No GPL 3 for Linux
In a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Jan. 25, Linus Torvalds made it plain that the Linux operating system is going...
Pixar Promises Change for Disneys Media
Is it just me does the idea of Steve Jobs being the largest shareholder in Walt Disney seem a little odd? Do you suppose...
EMC Boosts ILM with Storage Rollouts
At a media and analyst event in London Thursday, EMC unveiled a number of new storage and virtualization products designed to enhance information lifecycle...
Alliance Pledges Billions to Promote Itanium
Itanium supporters have pledged to put up $10 billion in an effort to make the server chip tops for mission critical servers.
The funding will...
OAUG Opens Its Doors to Siebel Users
Jumping the gun on Oracles imminent acquisition of Seibel Systems next week, the official Oracle users group announced Jan. 26 that the club is...