Monthly Archives: April 2007
‘Hi, My Name Is Mary, and I’m Speaking to You Today from Pune, India’
Though it flew largely under the radar, on March 29 Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., introduced a bill that would require employees at a call...
Users React to Debian 4
Now that Debian 4.0, Etch, has finally arrived, what do people make of it?
Out in the blogosphere, some users like it. Over at Jeds...
Harvesting Teenagers
Business is business, but some things are dishonest, and dishonest usually gets away scot-free on the Internet. You can learn a lot about what...
RHEL Server 5 Is Good Work in Progress
Over in San Francisco, my comrades in testing arms, the eWEEK Labs team, have placed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on the testing bench.
They...
ACT, Perens Continue to Spar Over GPLv3
The accusations and counteraccusations continue to fly between ACT legal counsel Richard Wilder and open-source luminary Bruce Perens over whether the third draft of...
MS Word Vulnerabilities Reported on Exploit Sites
Microsoft is investigating public reports of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office.
Reports of several new security holes in Microsoft Office have been made public on known...
BMC Adds Service Request Catalog
BMC Software on April 16 aims to bring a greater level of self-service and automation to the IT help desk when it releases its...
Kodiak and Cellular One Bring Push-to-Talk to Alaska
Cell phones with push-to-talk capabilities are available throughout most of the United States from Sprint Nextel and Cingular, but they have not been available...
IBM Aims System i Servers at Small Companies
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—IBM is looking to use its System i platform to get a foothold among the smallest of businesses, a market traditionally dominated by...
Microsoft Patches 4 Critical Flaws
Patch Tuesday has arrived, and brought with it patches for a number of security vulnerabilities rated "critical" by Microsoft.
The four updates considered critical deal...