Monthly Archives: January 2008
IBM Makes SOA Play with AptSoft Buy
IBM is looking to beef up its service-oriented architecture portfolio by buying AptSoft, a private company that develops infrastructure software to help companies determine...
Building the Core of the NextGen Web
This week the World Wide Web Consortium released the first working draft of the HTML 5 standard. Of course this has received lots of...
My New iPhone, My Disappearing Privacy
My loss of privacy all started at a company-sponsored health and wellness fair in October.I got my blood pressure tested and my flu vaccine...
Intel Investing $10M in Endeca
Intel Capital is investing $10 million in Endeca Technologies, a company that competes against the likes of Google, IBM and others in the enterprise...
Moto Still Losing Mojo
Another sharp decline in mobile handset sales resulted in an 84 percent decline in fourth quarter net income for Motorola. And that wasn't even...
HP Offers Open-Source Tracking Tools
After a soft-launch in December, Hewlett-Packard on Jan. 23 officially released a pair of new open-source initiatives to help businesses and developers track their...
Symantec Says More Acquisitions Possible As Company Defends Turf
Symantec officials emerged from the third quarter of fiscal 2008 upbeat about both the possibility of acquisitions and Symantec's place in the security market.While...
mValent Eases Application Configuration Headaches
Managing myriad application configuration changes in large-scale, multi-tiered application environments can be a nightmare when done manually or with homegrown scripts.Application configuration management provider...
Symantec Sees Growth in Q3
Symantec beat revenue forecasts for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 with a revenue increase of about 7 percent.The company earned $1.52 billion...
PCI Compliance Among Retailers Growing
PCI compliance for the nation's largest retailers hit 77 percent for the end of last year, according to Visa.In addition, the credit card company...