Monthly Archives: September 2010
Google Apps Boosts Security with Two-Factor Authentication
Google Sept. 20 said it has added two-factor authentication for Google Apps, a move that should make the cloud collaboration software more palatable for...
Maintaining a Recovery Plan for Those Personal IT Disasters
I'm sure that at one time or another, pretty much everyone who uses computers has had the sinking feeling that greeted me when I...
HP, Yahoo, Apple Partner for Web-Based Printers
NEW YORK-Hewlett-Packard is looking to reinvigorate its line of printers by rolling out 10 new devices that allow users to print documents from the...
Facebook Denies Building Phone to Challenge Google, Apple
Facebook is allegedly building a branded smartphone with deep integration into the handset's contacts list, a move to give the company a horse in...
HP Drops Lawsuit Against Hurd After Mere 13 Days
SAN FRANCISCO-Well, that didn't take long.In an era in which legal cases are often drawn out far longer than they should be, Hewlett-Packard and...
Hurd Talks Oracle Exadata, Stays Mum on HP
Oracle Co-president Mark Hurd may have avoided mentioning Hewlett-Packard during his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference Sept. 20, but he had no shortage...
Oracle Agile PLM 9.3.1 Targets Pharmaceutical Industry
At the Oracle OpenWorld show in San Francisco, the enterprise software giant unveiled a new version of its Agile Product Lifecycle Management application that...
Oracle, Amazon Web Services Certify Oracle Products on EC2
SAN FRANCISCO-Amazon Web Services and Oracle have announced that "a wide selection of Oracle enterprise software has been certified to run on the Amazon...
STEC Unveils Ultra-low Latency Storage SSD
SAN FRANCISCO-Solid-state storage drive maker STEC on Sept. 20 introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that...
Oracle Now Caching More Data, BI in Storage Arrays
SAN FRANCISCO--For the first time, Oracle OpenWorld is about much more than faster databases, middleware, enterprise apps, Linux and the America's Cup.Those items alone...