Monthly Archives: January 2006
Blacklist Me!
According to his employment contract, Eric Schmidt is now sitting on stock options valued at $1.5 billion.Although his company offers Gmail brand e-mail, for...
Oracle Claims Its Halfway to Producing Fusion Apps
SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Larry Ellison called in sick with the flu to the Oracle Fusion Event Wednesday evening at City Hall here, leaving company...
Coming Soon: The Linux Macintel
Its kind of funny. Everyone is excited about the new Intel-powered Macs, but perhaps the most excited of them all are the Windows users...
Sunbelt Tracks DIY Trojan Builder Program
Researchers at Sunbelt Software Inc. have uncovered a special program they said they believe is being used to create keylogging and Trojan horse programs...
Google, Feds Battle over Customer Info
Internet search giant Google Inc. confirmed Thursday that it is resisting a Bush administration request to review Google customer search habits.
The administration, via the...
Cisco Reaches For Bigger Network Slice
SAN JOSE—Cisco Systems Inc. wants to be more of a systems provider and less of a parts shop.
To that end, the networking vendor of...
Google Talk Opens Up to GAIM, Other IM Services
Google has announced it has opened up its new instant messaging service, Google Talk, to all other IM networks that utilize the XMPP protocol,...
UWB Standards Group Calls It Quits
Unable to resolve a deadlock between two competing proposals, the IEEE working group responsible for the ultrawideband technology threw in the towel Thursday.
The Institute...
Microsoft Delivers Updated Beta of Core Programming Components
Microsoft is making development progress with its next-generation Windows programming technologies, and is encouraging developers to kick the tires on some of its core...
Whens a Rootkit Not a Rootkit? In Search of Definitions
A vendor-neutral push to find an unambiguous way to describe rootkits has received backing from anti-virus specialist Symantec Corp., but security experts are suspicious...