Monthly Archives: February 2006
VeriSign to Buy Snapcentric for Fraud Detection
Security and communications company VeriSign is buying Snapcentric, a maker of transaction monitoring software that can spot fraud, phishing attacks and other threats, according...
Microsoft To Better Protect Windows Embedded, Mobile IP
With costly intellectual property lawsuits clogging up court systems and draining corporate litigation accounts around the globe, Microsoft issued an announcement Feb. 9 intended...
Share Across Computers is Just the First Step
By now you've heard the news that Google Desktop 3 beta is available for download. There are plenty of useful new features, most of...
Oracle Outlines Plans for Siebel Integration
Oracle clarified some looming questions during its Feb. 9 conference call with analysts to lay out its integration plans for Siebel Systems.
First, Oracle plans...
BlueArc Titan 2000 Adds Virtualization, Global Namespace Muscle
Doubling the performance of its first-generation Titan network storage system and allowing a single storage pool to swell to 512TB, BlueArc rolled out its...
Gateway CEO Resigns
Wayne Inouye, who took over as head of Gateway in 2004 after eMachines bought the computer maker, is stepping down as CEO.
He will be...
Open-Source Advocates Ask for Patience in GPL 3 Debate
Open-source code advocates are calling for cooler heads to prevail in the often-heated debate about many of the revised terms in the first discussion...
Adjustable Fonts Help Unlock the Small Screen
Does your cell phone speak English and Arabic?If your handset does indeed support such wildly different languages, theres a chance that its manufacturer or...
Microsoft Gives IP Indemnity to Its Embedded System OEMs
Microsoft has moved to strengthen and broaden the intellectual property protections it offers those original equipment manufacturers and distributors across the globe that build...
Microsoft Releases Bevy of Security Betas
Microsoft on Feb. 9 issued preview versions of its Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Client Protection and Antigen products.
The company announced that it is...