Monthly Archives: July 2008
IBM to Buy Ilog for $340 Million
IBM has announced its plans to acquire Ilog, a maker of business rules software and more, in a transaction valued at $340 million.IBM officials...
IBM Beefs Up PLM Investments
IBM Corp. is expected to announce on July 29 that it will increase product lifecycle management (PLM) resources and investments to help companies manage...
Open Source Diva: Stop Whining, Start Doing
PORTLAND, Ore.-Don't complain about your situation; do something about it.That's the gist of what Danese Cooper, senior director of open-source strategies at Intel, said...
Ex Google Staffers Launch Cuil Search With Spotty Access
This morning around 8 a.m. EDT, I entered www.cuil.com to check out search startup Cuil (pronounced "cool" and derived from an Irish word for...
Financial Site Security Research Weak On Methodology and Timeliness
A study by researchers at the University of Michigan finds that more than 75% of bank web sites had at least one design flaw...
New Payback for Card Issuers in Breach Suits
An interesting new angle emerged in the arena of data breach fallout last week, as the issue of just who should be forced to...
DNS Vulnerability Crisis Brings DNSSEC To Forefront Again
Before we go anywhere else with this, if you haven't yet patched your DNS servers against the DNS spoofing bug revealed earlier this month,...
Highly Critical RealPlayer Vulnerability Discovered
Security researchers have identified a serious flaw in the RealPlayer multimedia software program that could be exploited remotely via malware attacks.According to an advisory...
Riverbed Makes It Official with Microsoft
The folks at Riverbed Technology had a problem. The company, which makes WAN optimization solutions and shipped its first product in 2004, has always...
Rumored Google Target Rearden Plans Merger, Mobile News
Rearden Commerce, the Web concierge service that makes it easier for working stiffs all around the world to book travel arrangements, rent cars and...