Monthly Archives: August 2008
Google Serves Apology Sandwich Over Gmail Outage
Google's latest Gmail outage (from 2 p.m. PDT to 4 p.m. PDT Monday) was well documented and, coming less than one week after another...
Oracle Delivers New WebLogic Release
Oracle is rolling out a new release of the WebLogic application server the company acquired when it bought BEA Systems in January.The new release...
Developers Herald VS 2008, .Net Framework SP1
Microsoft is releasing to manufacturing the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 (Service Pack 1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Aug. 11, and developers have weighed...
WSJ Writes Tech Best Of Breed Obit
Over at the Wall Street Journal business technology blog, writer Ben Worthen has a blog on the end of best of breed software.I'm not...
How Component-Based Authoring Works: Second in a 3-Part Series
This is the second installation of a 3-part series on component-based authoring. Click here to read the first article, "How and Why to Use...
The Biggest Hack Of All Time
The New York Times today has an extensive story on the international hacking ring that allegedly stole about 45 million credit and debit card...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Targets 26 Application Flaws
Microsoft released its August Patch Tuesday update Aug. 12 with 11 bulletins that plug 26 security holes across multiple products.Six of the bulletins are...
Solid-State Drive Industry Craves Flash Standards
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Enterprise flash memory won't be able to realize its true business potential-projected to be in the $60 billion market range by 2012-until...
Dell Launches Latitude ‘E’ Notebook Line
Dell is looking to broaden the reach of its enterprise notebook portfolio with the launch of seven new Latitude "E" notebooks for business users...
Stratus Avance Protects Workloads via Virtualization
Stratus Technologies' Avance Software provides enterprises with a low-overhead solution for bringing high availability to applications hosted in branch offices and extends the benefits...