Monthly Archives: January 2006
GPL 3: Pre-Release Buzz Centers on Patents, License Compatibility
The first public draft of GNU General Public License 3.0 will be released at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,...
First Office Live Beta Expected Within Days
The Microsoft Office Live beta is expected to go live any day now.
Office Live is not a hosted version of Microsoft Office. Instead, it...
Lucent Cuts Sales Outlook, Names COO
Networking gear manufacturer Lucent Technologies Inc. lowered its financial guidance for 2006 on Friday, reporting that its previous projection of single-digit revenue growth for...
Patch This! Musings on Microsofts Windows Patching
What color is the sky in Microsofts world? Green?
In a recent eWEEK story by Peter Galli, Bill Hilf, who is director of Microsofts Platform...
Gene Mining Strikes Gold
Theres a lot of scientific data going to waste. Much of it has been painstakingly gathered through timely and costly experiments and is freely...
iQstor Targets SMB Apps with New SATA-II Platform
Pumping greater performance into its intelligent RAID controller, iQstor Networks Inc. on Monday will unveil its new iQ2280 4G bps Fibre Channel-serial ATA II...
BMC, XOSoft Bundle for Backup
BMC Software Inc. and XOSoft have struck a deal to integrate XOSofts WANSync replication and continuous data protection technology into BMCs SQL-Backtrack backup product...
Support for IETF Protocol in Question
The International Engineering Task Force is close to adopting a standard way for wireless switches to communicate with wireless access points, but the jury...
Thunderbird 1.5 Goes Gold
The new and improved Thunderbird e-mail client took flight Thursday.
While not as well-loved as the Mozilla Foundations Firefox Web browser, this open-source e-mail client...
TIAA-CREF Pensioners Call for Help
TIAA-CREF pensioners, frustrated with the companys inability to respond to ongoing fund disbursement issues, are seeking relief from oversight organizations.
Several TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and...