Monthly Archives: July 2007
Microsoft Gets Religious About Data Anonymization
Before it plunges into the world of third-party advertising with the $6 billion purchase of aQuantive, Microsoft is getting its privacy ducks in a...
Red Hat Gains Service Modeler
Red Hats JBoss division is developing a service modeling technology based on a design donated to Red Hat.Thomas Erl, founder of SOA Systems, in...
Appliance Bolsters Cisco Data Center Strategy
ANAHEIM, Calif.—Cisco Systems at its Cisco Networkers user conference here acted on its new data center strategy with a new provisioning appliance and a...
Youre Not the Only One Reading Your E-Mail
Do you know who is reading your e-mail?
Has the fact that there is a good chance that your place of work is reading your...
IBM Readies System i for Power6
IBM is preparing to release its first System i server that will use the companys new Power6 processors.
In addition to announcing the System i...
Excel Latest Vehicle for Pump-and-Dump Spam
"Pump-and-dump" spammers have found a new package for their scam: Excel files.
Commtouch researchers reported the appearance of pump-and-dump spam in Excel files for the...
Software Development the Ubuntu Way
During the Ubuntu Live Conference in Portland, Ore., Canonical announced the beta release of its Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive) service, a new way...
Neoware, HP and (?) Comcast (?)
Yesterday Hewlett-Packard acquired Neoware for $214 million. This was the same day that Hewlett-Packard also acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion. While Opsware is designed...
Linux Foundation Names Markus Rex as CTO
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit group dedicated to accelerating Linuxs growth, announced on July 24 that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE...
Intel Ethernet Controllers Promise System Performance Boost
Despite slow adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet beyond niche applications, Intel on July 23 launched the second generation of its Gigabit Ethernet and 10...