Monthly Archives: June 2008
Progress Software Acquires Iona
In something of a surprise, Progress Software announced June 25 that it is buying Iona Technologies for about $162 million.Iona's board of directors has...
Nokia-Symbian Pressures Apple, Microsoft, RIM
Nokia may have just switched the balance of power from proprietary to open-source mobile phone software by buying the remainder of the Symbian operating...
Panasonic Taps the Intel Atom
Panasonic is taking Intel's Atom processor into unexplored PC territory.The Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1, which the company announced June 25, will carry the Intel Atom...
How to Defend Security amid Budget Tightening: Four Approaches
Many predict that 2008 will produce the tightest economic conditions since the dot-com bust at the beginning of the decade. The subprime meltdown and...
Sepaton Can Take a Bow for HP’s New Dedupe
Hewlett-Packard this week announced that it is joining a growing group of data storage providers by adding its own brand of deduplication software to...
Google Is to Salesforce.com as Vendor X Is to Microsoft
When Google and Salesforce.com announced Salesforce for Google Apps, the deal was widely covered by press and analysts, with many in the latter group...
FCC Nails Verizon
In one of the poorest kept secrets at the FCC in recent years, the agency officially sanctioned Verizon June 23 for attempting to keep...
Sun Pushes into Dynamic Languages
var sPath = window.location.pathname; var moviename = new Array();...
Rich Green Gives Project Insight
var sPath = window.location.pathname; var moviename = new Array();...
Malware Avalanche Still Gaining Momentum
It's a surprise to very few who follow the malware economy closely, but new metrics have arrived that chart the continued proliferation of the...