Monthly Archives: August 2007
IBM Buys Web Conferencing Service
SAN FRANCISCO—IBM announced on Aug. 22 at VoiceCon San Francisco that it has agreed to acquire Web conferencing service provider WebDialogs.Although IBM already provides...
Trend Micro Fixes Security Flaws
Trend Micro has patched several vulnerabilities in its ServerProtect, Anti-Spyware and PC-cillin products that could be exploited remotely to allow hackers to execute arbitrary...
Is Microsoft Negotiating to Buy Yahoo?
Is Microsoft negotiating to buy Yahoo? How big a competitive threat is Google? What is the biggest threat to IT at this point? These...
HP Tests Mobile Printing Service
Hewlett-Packard is testing an innovative, new Web-based service that will allow mobile users to print documents virtually anywhere.Currently in beta, Cloudprint is a free...
Iron Mountain Opens Canadian Data Center
Iron Mountain announced Aug. 21 that it has opened its first data center in Toronto, Canada and will offer online PC and server backup...
BeyondTrust Reins in Vista UAC Prompts
Microsofts Windows software forms the basis for an ecosystem of applications that run on top of it, but sometimes those programs are designed to...
Sun Goes for the Green with New Data Center
Sun Microsystems vision of the data center is a green oasis.
After 12 months of design and construction, Sun will open the doors Aug. 21...
Workdays ERP-Like Beta Gets Web 2.0
Workdays ERP-Like Software Gains Financials Beta">Workday, with the beta release Aug. 20 of applications like payables, receivables and general ledger, now offers a more...
Salesforce Names Cakebread President, Hires CFO
Steve Cakebread, Salesforce.coms CFO, has been promoted to the position of president and chief strategy officer—a reversal from previously announced plans.Salesforce.com announced in June...
SAP Sets Date for A1S Unveiling
Finally, after months of hype, rumor and company innuendo, SAP has set the date to unveil its new midmarket on demand suite, code name...