Monthly Archives: February 2006
SAP Dips Toe in On-Demand CRM Ocean
SAP,one of the last major holdouts from the on-demand applications market, on Feb. 2 finally announced an online customer relationship management service called the...
Mozilla Plugs Firefox 1.5 Security Gaps
The Mozilla Foundation has shipped the first patch for its flagship Firefox 1.5 browser to plug a series of security vulnerabilities and memory leaks.
The...
GM Awards IT Outsourcing Contracts
EDS, Hewlett-Packard and Capgemini emerged as the biggest winners as General Motors handed out some 7.5 billion dollars worth of IT contracts for the...
You Say You Want a Storage Revolution?
An open-source initiative called StorageRevolution.com has been created to build a common framework for application-aware storage management.
The initiative addresses the age-old dilemma of squeezing...
Free Removal Tools Released as Blackworm Approaches
With the clock ticking on a Feb. 3 D-Day for the activation of the destructive Blackworm worm payload, anti-virus vendors are rushing to release...
To GPL 3 or Not to GPL 3: That Is the Linux Question
Linus Torvalds made it clear on Jan. 25 in a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List that, as far as he was concerned,...
NYC Mayor Calls for Citywide Electronic Health Records
In last years budget proposal, President George Bush called for $100 million to fund new projects in health information technology.
This week, New York City...
3Com Takes Controlling Interest in Chinese Joint Venture
3Com Corp. on Feb. 2 announced it has bought controlling interest of its joint Chinese venture with Huawei Technologies.
3Com bought the 2 percent it...
RIM Cites Difficulty in Excluding Some from Shutdown
The U.S. Justice Department on Feb. 1 asked a federal judge to refrain from an injunction shutting down BlackBerry e-mail service until government workers...
AMD Hack Points to Widespread Web Forum Flaws, Attacks
Malicious hackers are increasingly targeting security vulnerabilities in open-source software that runs bulletin boards and online forums, according to Internet monitoring firm Netcraft.
The unpatched...