Monthly Archives: June 2007
Oracle: SOA to Fuse Financial Services Package
Oracles June 21 announcement of a massive new business unit geared to the needs of the financial markets raises as many questions as Stonehenge....
Law Firms Video a Blatant Disregard for American Workers
A video in which an immigration law firm offers advice on avoiding hiring U.S. workers when a foreign worker is preferred for a position...
Apple Patches More Holes
Apple has updates out for security problems in WebCore—Mac OS Xs HTML layout engine—and WebKit, the application framework that serves as an underpinning for...
Microsoft, Houghton Mifflin Team for Education
Microsoft is partnering with publishing house Houghton Mifflin to better enable students to learn using Web-based resources.
At the 2007 National Educational Computing Conference June...
Firewalls Gain Strength as Main Line of Network Defense
Sometimes in IT, the best defense is a good defense moved further up the network stack. At least that is what some vendors and...
No More Mr. Open-Source Nice Guy
For many years, the term "open source" has been subject to abuse.
Despite efforts by the OSI (Open Source Initiative) to trademark the phrase, the...
SUSE Linux to Speed Up Real-Time Trading
Novell the week of June 18 announced that it has entered into an agreement with server and storage switch vendor Voltaire on a joint...
IBM Aims to Cure Virtualization Management Headaches
IBM is introducing a version of its server virtualization management software that adds new automation capabilities for the management of virtual and physical systems...
IBM ISS: No SDK Means No(?) iPhone Security Bugs
The allergy to the iPhone security analysts have acquired? IBM Internet Security Systems isn't buying it. As a matter of fact, Neel Mehta, team...
Coming Soon: Microsoft Job TV. And Penguins.
Intrepid Australian Microsoft-watcher Long Zheng, in stumbling upon what he called "a cr*pload of patent applications from Microsoft" learned June 22 that Microsoft is...