Monthly Archives: October 2006
DRM May Mean Strange Anti-Apple Bedfellows
Digital rights management conflicts could make for some strange bedfellows as hunting season opens on Apple and its iTunes juggernaut.
As eWEEKs Peter Galli reports,...
Reva Announces Funding from SAP, Cisco
A relative startup company with a first round of funding in 2004, Reva Systems is capturing the attention of major partners.
The result: better RFID...
100K+ Jobs Cut in September
Due to auto supplier and telecom cutbacks, U.S. job cuts surged in September, with the economy losing more than 100,000 jobs for the first...
Cingular Completes AT&T Integration
Cingular Wireless completed its integration of the AT&T wireless network it acquired less than two years ago.
Originally the company promised that the network integration...
Nokia Plans Bluetooth Alternative
Nokia is introducing a new short-range wireless data service designed to move beyond Bluetooth and enable wireless communications with devices that are smaller and...
Report: Ill-Prepared Workforce Looms
Young people entering the U.S. workforce lack critical skills essential for success, finds a survey released Oct. 2 by a consortium of business research...
T-Mobile to Announce UMTS, Sources Say
T-Mobile sources have told eWEEK that the company is scheduling a press conference for Oct. 6 in New York for the purposes of making...
Novell Continues to Go for SCOs Throat
On Sept. 25, IBM took its crack at ending its case with SCO by summary judgment.
Now, its Novells turn, and the company appears to...
McAfee Chides Microsoft Over Vista Security Policies
Officials at security specialist McAfee said that Microsoft has flatly rejected a series of proposals meant to help ease integration between third-party software applications...
IBM Launches Initiative of SOA Products, Services
IBM announced a broad-based assault on the service-oriented architecture market, introducing a wide variety of new and enhanced products and services aimed at helping...