Monthly Archives: January 2008
Hollywood Jumps to MIT
At an MIT event the director and star of the film Jumper team up with physicists to discuss the science and fiction of teleportation.Most...
Google as Global Good Samaritan
Google added another notch to its belt as good Samaritan, rolling out five areas it says will be the focus of its Google.org philanthropic...
SAP Closes Business Objects Deal, Announces 9 Packages
SAP has closed its $6.7 billion acquisition of Business Objects, formally folding the company into its Business User unit, which will operate as a...
SAAS Remains Tough Government Sell
WASHINGTON - Despite the endorsement of one of the government's top-ranking technology officials, software-as-a-service vendors still face a tough battle trying to crack the...
Arbor Networks Reels in Ellacoya Networks for Network Visibility
Arbor Networks is making a move to extend its footprint in network security with the planned acquisition of Merrimack, NH-based Ellacoya Networks.In the proposed...
MS08-001: Open Door for the Next Big Windows Worm?
If you haven't applied Microsoft's MS08-001 patch yet, now might be a good time to hit that 'Download and Apply' button.According to computer security...
Feeling Social, Yahoo Avails OpenID to Its Masses
Yahoo, the maligned Internet company looking to turn things around in 2008, said today it is backing the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, allowing...
Geekspeak: July 15, 2002
Ever wondered how new cracker attack tools or internet worms are analyzed? The results of a fascinating challenge posted earlier this month by the...
AMD Continues Its Struggles Under the ATI Burden
Advanced Micro Devices reported its fifth straight quarterly loss Jan. 17, due in part to the burden of its acquisition of ATI. With this...
Latest Tivoli Lets You Copy Homework to Automate the Data
IBM announced a new version of its data center automation software Jan. 18 that takes the concept of change management to a new, software-as-a-service...