Monthly Archives: February 2006
ActiveState Returns to Open-Source Roots
Just two years after shelling out $23 million to acquire ActiveState, anti-virus vendor Sophos has offloaded the company to Pender Financial Group, a Canadian...
Mobile Browsers Still Closed for Business
As someone who works for a telecommunications company that sells wholesale network services to other communications firms, Dave Buschmeyer considers himself to be a...
IBM, Freescale Consolidate Power
IBM and Freescale Semiconductor aim to boost the Power processors architecture by aligning their chip design efforts.
Senior executives at the two companies announced Feb....
VMware Server Goes Free, but Not Open
As expected, VMware Inc. announced on February 6th that it was releasing a no-cost version of its VMware Server line.
While not open-source, this entry-level...
Opera to Add BitTorrent, Widgets to Next-Gen Browser
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software will release a new preview version of its desktop software this week that will include support for the BitTorrent...
Why Photoshop Tops Most-Wanted Linux App List
Photoshop? The application most people want, at this date, to be ported to Linux from Windows is Photoshop? Color me surprised!
When Novell started its...
Business Objects Demystifies Promotions for Packaged-Goods Players
Business Objects on Feb. 7 will help to unfrazzle consumer packaged-goods execs by delivering analytics that spell out whats going on with all the...
Hard Drive Sales Spiral Upward
A healthy spending environment, with businesses and users snatching up servers and PCs, last year pushed sales of hard disk drive units to grow...
Someones Got to Take Charge
It sure would be easier to keep corporate information assets secure if people didnt actually try to use them. Thats an ancient paradox, of...
Sony Ericsson Brings Push E-Mail to P990 Smart Phone
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications on Feb. 6 announced a slew of options for customers who want their corporate e-mail pushed to their P990 smart...