Monthly Archives: November 2008
Flash! Firefox No Longer an Automatic Defense Against Browser Drive-Bys
The playing field for drive-by exploits through Web browsers appears to be evening these days, thanks to the rise of exploits through third-party controls....
Microsoft Slashes at Google Apps Price Point with Rapier of Granularity
When Google launched its GAPE (Google Apps Premier Edition) in February 2007, software experts were awed by the simple, one-size-fits-all pricing model for a...
Teradata Launches Smaller, Customized Data Warehouse
When an enterprise decides to invest in a data warehouse to handle storage and data analytics, it generally takes a warehouse-sized pile of capital...
IBM Acquiring Transitive to Increase Virtualization Capabilities of Power Systems
IBM is planning to increase the virtualization capabilities of its Power Systems by acquiring Transitive, a company that has developed software that allows applications...
Sun Upgrades Its HPC Clustered Storage Packages
One of the mainstays of Sun Microsystems' business over the 26 years of its existence has been high-performance computing. On Nov. 18, at the...
Should Yahoo Join Google, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com in the Cloud?
With Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down, announced Nov. 17, industry experts disagree on the course of action the new CEO will have to...
Ingres Focuses on Application Developers, System Recovery in Database Update
In a nod to developers and database administrators, Ingres has enhanced its database to simplify application development and improve availability and system recovery.The new...
Yahoo’s Yang Steps Down, Leaving Microsoft, Google to Gobble Share
It's hard to stand by a waffling, ineffective leader.Jerry Yang has stepped down from his position as Yahoo's CEO and the company's board is...
Apple of Our Ear: Google’s Voice Search App Finally Live
After much speculation about why Apple did not post the new version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone that lets users search via...
Sorry, AT&T, Net Neutrality Debate Is Still On
James Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs, recently told my colleague Grant Gross that the network neutrality bills currently...