Monthly Archives: April 2007
Boeing: New Jet, New Way of Doing Business
Almost everything about the new Boeing 787 is different—from the cutting-edge materials and electronics used to build the plane, to the technology used during...
Moglen Moves On to Life After GPLv3
While not as familiar a name in open-source circles as Linus Torvalds or Richard M. Stallman, for those in the know, Eben Moglen ranks...
MobileSphere Speeds Release of SMS Services
In an effort to speed up a product release after the shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech, MobileSphere has announced an emergency SMS notification service...
SAP, Microsoft Detail Plans for Duet
ATLANTA—At SAPs Sapphire user conference here April 24, executives from SAP and Microsoft laid out the road map for the next iterations of Duet,...
Red Hat Acquires MetaMatrix, Targets Unix Apps Market
Red Hat announced on April 24 that it will be acquiring MetaMatrix, a company that specializes in data access software and services, in an...
SAP Outlines NetWeaver Road Map
ATLANTA—During the second day of Sapphire, SAPs annual user conference being held here April 22-25, SAP outlined its road map for NetWeaver, the integration...
Acer Joins Sony Battery Pack Recall
It was on Aug. 14, 2006 that Dell first announced it would recall more than 4 million laptops notebook battery packs after reports of...
Microsoft Releases First Public Beta for Longhorn
Microsoft will release the feature-complete, third beta for Windows Server "Longhorn" on April 25, which is also the first public beta of the software.
The...
Sun Wants Its IPTV
Sun Microsystems is preparing to move into the video-on-demand market with a package of hardware and software aimed at creating infrastructure for cable and...
Database Competitors IBM, MySQL Join Hands
Database rivals MySQL and IBM on April 25 announced plans to bring support for the MySQL open-source database to the IBM System i business...