Monthly Archives: May 2007
Enterprise Apps Vendors Vie for Position
The enterprise software market is in flux, with applications vendors morphing into platform providers, service-based architecture concepts ruling development investments, consolidations dominating the marketplace...
Yahoo Offers Unlimited E-Mail Worldwide
Yahoo is expanding its offer of unlimited e-mail storage worldwide today. The unlimited capacity wll roll out to all users over the next few...
Does Googles New Tagline Imply a Shift to Enterprise Apps?
With a new tagline of "Search, Ads and Apps" announced May 14, and a new presentation application coming soon to complete the desktop quatrain...
Vendor: Cisco IOS Server Backdoor May Have Been Planted
A security vendor is questioning whether the IOS FTP Server vulnerabilities Cisco reported on May 9 may constitute an intentionally planted backdoor, as opposed...
Microsoft Research Aims to Make Computing Ubiquitous
LOS ANGELES—Microsoft is doing research on multiple fronts aimed at bringing computing into every aspect of peoples lives and improving the ways that they...
Sun Licensing More Patents
Sun Microsystems is increasing the number of patents its licensing to other vendors.
A May 15 agreement between Sun and ARM Holdings gives the British...
New DB Auditing Platform Lets Users Pick Data Collection Method
To hear the staff of Acton, Mass.-based Lumigent Technologies tell it, its the database auditing equivalent of a triple play—support for all three common...
Unisys Continues Its Intel Revamp
Unisys is continuing to revamp its server architecture in an ongoing effort to unite its legacy mainframe platforms with newer Intel-based servers on the...
Standards and the State of NAC
Hows NAC working for you? Are you even implementing or planning for it?
Depending on whom you talk to, youll hear that network access control...
Gates to Tout First 100 Days of Vista at WinHEC
LOS ANGELES—The 2,700 attendees at Microsofts annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here are going to get an earful about Windows Vista, the upcoming Windows...