Monthly Archives: January 2008
FCC Launches Net Neutrality Probe
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started the clock ticking Jan. 14 on its investigation of allegations that telecom and cable carriers are violating the...
How to Evaluate Products Based on Appropriate Usage
Use Cases in Product TestingUse Cases are a concept from software and system engineering that is employed to capture the functional requirements of a...
Mac Malware Arrives with Market Share Gains
We've seen these kinds of fake security applications floating around Windows-land, using clever social engineering lures to trick computer users into buying malware to...
A Price Checker that Makes Phone Calls
Motorola introduced a wireless scanner designed for price and inventory-checks on Jan. 14 that also makes voice calls over a VOIP connection.Motorola said that...
A Little Intel Uncertainty Goes a Long Way
Intel's latest quarterly report did little to soothe anxiety on Wall Street.On Jan. 15, the chip giant reported 2007 fourth-quarter earnings of 38 cents...
SAP to Oracle: Back Off, We’re Winning Too
SAP released preliminary earnings on Jan. 14 that should give it something to crow about next time Oracle trots out its metrics on how...
MuleSource Ups Open-Source SOA Ante
MuleSource is building onto its Enterprise Service Bus technology with the Jan. 15 announcement of a subscription-only offering of its open-source service-oriented architecture infrastructure...
Integrien Tool Predicts Performance Problems
IT operations management provider Integrien has ratcheted up the sophisticated analysis of its Alive tool in a release to be launched Jan. 22 that...
Oracle Security Update Packs 26 Critical Patches
Oracle has released its first critical patch update of 2008 with 26 new security fixes.The update included a total of eight fixes for Oracle...
The Low-Volt Intel Insides of the MacBook Air
A small Intel processor is proving to be a big part of Apple's new lightweight laptop.At the start of the 2008 Macworld Expo in...