Monthly Archives: March 2007
AT&T Wants You to Float Your Security Off into a Cloud
NEW YORK—Edward G. Amoroso, chief security officer for AT&T, says most of us have no business running a network.
Businesses infrastructures have allowed complexity to...
Microsoft Takes On SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com with Dynamics
A couple of key themes emerged from Steve Ballmers March 14 keynote address at Microsofts annual Convergence conference in San Diego: Dynamics, the companys...
Cisco and Webex: It Takes Two to Tango with Microsoft
Cisco Systems planned $2.9 billion acquisition of leading Web conferencing provider Webex sets up a complex and interesting dance between itself and Microsoft as...
Google Anonymizes Search Logs
Google, long a source of concern for privacy advocates worried about the publication of personal search histories, announced yesterday that it would start anonymizing...
Ballmer Talks Business to Stanford Students
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came back to the Stanford Graduate School of Business on March 15 to share his insights into the world of...
Lessig: Rewriting the Rules
The world first learned about Lawrence Lessig when federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson appointed him to the post of special master in the U.S....
Brin, Page Show No Signs of Slowing Down
Googles founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made Ziff Davis Medias Top 100 Most Influential People in IT list for inventing technologies that rewrote...
The End of Software, and a New Way of Doing Business
Most days, at least in public venues, Marc Benioff wears a small white button pinned to his lapel that has the word "software" printed...
VMwares Greene: A Virtual Success Story
If virtualization is the one of the hot technologies to watch for in 2007, then VMware President Diane Greene may have the best seat...
Ross: Firefox Goes Where Few Browsers Have Gone Before
In 2002 the Mozilla Foundation released Mozilla 1.0, finally delivering on the promise of an open-source browser descended from the original Netscape Navigator browser...