Monthly Archives: April 2007
Vista Leaves Some Out in Cold
With Vista, Microsoft revamped the Windows operating systems ability to natively lock out unapproved USB storage devices through some new policy items in its...
FireScope Uses Web 2.0 to Lessen IT Operations Pain
Bootstrap startup FireScope on April 23 will release a new version of its IT operations management tool, which exploits Web 2.0 capabilities such as...
Poll Shows Developer Support for GPLv3
A recent poll of some open-source developers found that while nearly half of the respondents believe that the upcoming GNU General Public License Version...
Managed Linux Servers for Your Web Hosting Needs
Web hosting company Verio chose a lucky day to introduce its new Linux-based managed private server offering for small businesses. The day before, April...
Former JBoss Insiders Form LoopFuse
Two former JBoss and Red Hat developers have left the fold to form their own startup focused on demand generation.
Roy Russo and Tom Elrod...
Google Continues to Target Office Market
In the same week that Google pre-announced a new slideshow application, the company acquired Sweden-based Marratech, a maker of e-meeting software.Marratech's software is for...
Privacy Groups Object to Google/DoubleClick Deal
Three consumer advocate groups, including The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the federation of state Public Interest...
SAP Brings Good Q1 News to Sapphire
SAP reported its first quarter 2007 earnings April 20, highlighting a jump in profits. Net income for the quarter was $413 million, up from...
Text Messaging Booms at U.S. Colleges
Colleges and universities across the United States are moving quickly to adopt text messaging as their first line of emergency notification, experts said.
The rush...
RIM: Software Upgrade Caused BlackBerry Failure
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced late April 19 that it has determined the apparent cause of the shutdown that stopped e-mail service to...