Monthly Archives: January 2008
VC Funding Near Dot-Com-Bubble High
Venture capitalists raised $34.7 billion in funds in 2007, an increase of 9.4 percent and the most the industry has raised since 2001, when...
MySpace-AG Pact Foreshadows Social Networking’s Future
MySpace's Jan. 14 pledge to 49 states' attorneys general to make changes on its social network that will better protect minors was not just...
Microsoft Could Make Apple Play with Logitech
Microsoft may be looking to acquire Swiss-based computer peripherals maker Logitech International so it can better compete with Apple and other competitors of the...
Microsoft Warns of Excel Zero-Day Attack
A new, undocumented vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program is being used to launch computer attacks against specific targets, according to a warning from...
Microsoft Working on Document Format Translator
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Microsoft is planning an open-source translator project that will read a binary and then write this out in the Open XML format, bypassing...
Oracle, Sun Deals Further Consolidation Push
The separate acquisitions by Oracle and Sun Microsystems are the latest examples of consolidation within the enterprise software space, according to analysts.Oracle, with its...
Who Wants to Pay Twice for the Same Software?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The security market is always looking for new ways to sell you the same thing...
Salesforce.com Shifts Development to the Cloud
SAN FRANCISCO-Salesforce.com is introducing DevForce, an on-demand platform that will support developers using its Apex programming language.The idea of this "platform as a service"...
Iona, Software AG Lick Their Chops over Oracle-BEA Bid
Oracle's $8.5 billion bid to buy BEA Systems may help the database giant gain some ground against top middleware provider IBM, but some experts...
How to Quit Your Job with Bridges Intact
There are few more active job-hunting months of the year than January, when new years resolutes, brimming with hope that the new year will...