Monthly Archives: March 2006
Microsoft Smooths Road to Vista with Apptimum Buy
Microsoft announced March 7 that it is has acquired application-transfer specialist Apptimum for an undisclosed sum.
Formerly Eisenworld, Apptimum, based in Sunrise, Fla., began in...
Intel Aims for New Mobile PC Category
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel is unfolding its plan to help create a new class of small and inexpensive mobile computers it calls "ultramobile PCs."
The chip maker...
IBM, Cognos Look to Ease SOA Deployments
Cognos and IBM on March 7 announced a new strategic alliance to jointly develop, market and sell service-oriented architecture products.
Under the agreement, Armonk, N.Y.-based...
Startup Targets Wireless Needs of Vertical Markets
With a set of Wi-Fi modules for "application-specific devices," an Ohio startup is set to step into a business that Cisco Systems is about...
Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux
Michael Dell, chairman of Dell, says he believes in offering Linux on the desktop, server and workstation. What he doesnt believe in, for now,...
Does the GPL Violate Sarbanes-Oxley?
The Software Freedom Law Center on March 8 will publish a white paper that dismisses recent publications that have alleged GNU General Public License...
Intels Gelsinger Talks Shop on Virtualization, Quad-Core
SAN FRANCISCO—As Intel prepares to roll out the next generations of processors based on its new Core Architecture, officials are commenting on what the...
Microsoft to OpenDocument Alliance: Wheres the Choice?
Microsoft is accusing some competitors of exactly the same thing of which they have criticized the software company: pushing an exclusive standard to the...
Microsoft Pins Hopes on Clipboard
Microsofts chief technologist Ray Ozzie on March 7 showed off his next great big idea: a virtual clipboard to "wire-the-Web."
What he proposes he calls...
Give Secure Code a Chance
New services and tools designed to help developers create secure software applications continue to emerge. At the same time, a long-recognized training gap has...