Monthly Archives: March 2006
Will Google Shed Light on Data Center?
Googles never-ending search for new features has made its data center a star.The data center—and all the spending that goes with it—could take the...
Content Providers Make Bid for Net Neutrality
Fears that large network operators are planning actions that will undermine the Internets open architecture prompted a diverse coalition of content providers, applications companies...
Google’s New Mini Deals
(UPDATED March 2) Google's introduced a more affordable Mini search appliance for enterprises. The latest hardware has the capacity to search 50,000 documents, and...
ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Deal
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has agreed to a controversial litigation settlement with VeriSign, the operator of the Internets .com registry,...
RSA Lands ETrade for Risk-Based Authentication
RSA Security on March 1 announced a new risk-based authentication product and said that ETrade Financial would use the program to secure log-ins for...
A Memex Machine Emerges From The 1940s
Here come Trexy.com, another new search feature to borrow from Dr. Vannevar Bush's visionary1945 Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think". What Bush proposed,...
IBM Flourishes in India
BANGALORE, India—Dont look now, but one of the fastest growing IT vendors in India isnt even Indian. Its IBM, which is in the midst...
Oracle Whips Google-like Search into Shape for Enterprises
Oracle is domesticating the powerful beast of Google-like search, unveiling a secure enterprise search engine that reaches into every nook and cranny but minds...
Apple Plugs Mac OS X Worm Hole
With the security of its flagship Mac OS X operating system facing intense scrutiny, Apple Computer on March 1 released a software update with...
RIM: Web Services Will Trump Mobile Browsers
When David Heit joined Research In Motion in 2000, the companys wireless e-mail system was only just becoming a favorite in executive circles and...