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Foote Partners reported last week that sending IT jobs overseas is causing domestic IT salaries to slip for the third quarter in a row. The management and IT work force research company also found that application development certifications lost nearly 18 percent of their value of the past two years; Webmaster/Internet certifications were down 22.7 […]

Web services have seen significant developments in standards, usage models and core technologies. A roundtable meeting of technology providers and consultants, convened in December by eWEEK Labs and excerpted here, examines the effects on enterprise plans. Roundtable Participants Adam BlumCTO, Systinet Corp. Mark EricsonCTO, Mindreef Inc. Ted FarrellChief Architect and Director of Strategy, Oracle Application […]

Eastman Kodak last week announced it will stop selling film-based cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe and concentrate on selling digital camera solutions. The company will continue to sell film-based 35-millimeter cameras and Advanced Photo Systems cameras in emerging markets, such as China, India, Eastern Europe and Latin America. “Kodak is and […]

Microsoft last week bowed to customer pressure and announced that it will continue extended support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Millennium Edition until June 30, 2006. Support for Windows 98 and 98 SE was to be phased out last week, with support for Windows ME due to stop Dec. 31. But […]

Global Exchange Services announced last week it is acquiring Haht Commerce for $30 million. Haht develops demand chain software. GXS, formerly part of General Electric, operates a B2B e-commerce network that manages 1 billion transactions a year for more than 100,000 trading partners. With Haht, GXS plans to deliver a combined suite that includes software […]

Microsoft Research has been dabbling with a number of new programming languages and paradigms. Last year, the F# language was big news. Now, another Microsoft Research byproduct, a language called “Xen,” is slowly gaining traction. There are a few pieces of information on Xen floating around the Web. Some characterize Xen as “the hypothetical extension […]

Grid computings an “unstoppable technology wave,” writes Oracles Benny Souder, vice president of distributed database development. Grid will help large organizations with massive amounts of poolable computing resources, but it will also help medium-sized enterprises, where dynamic allocation of compute power might be even more valuable, according to Souder. Read the full story at Line56.

PeopleSoft intends to continue its money-back guarantee program through March 31 or until Oracle stops trying to take it over, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Read the full story at Silicon.com.

On a Microsoft security Webcast held Wednesday, participants were more interested in the whereabouts of a patch for a known Internet Explorer spoofing vulnerability than they were in the three new security bulletins that Microsoft released on Tuesday. During the Webcast, Jeff Jones, senior director of Microsofts Trustworthy Computing initiative, told participants that Microsoft has […]

Theres no denying that Microsoft is worried about Linux — and justifiably so. But, contrary to prevailing “wisdom,” this fear is not dictating Microsofts every move. Wait! Before you burn me in effigy atop a pyre of flaming “Linux for Dummies” books, hear me out. I am discounting neither the value of Linux, nor the […]

Whale Communications Ltd. is pursuing a broad range of channel partners to sell and develop solutions around its SSL VPN appliance. PistolStar, a solution provider focused on IBM and Lotus applications, falls into the primary category of partners Whale is aiming for. Potential partners have the option of becoming a referral partner or reseller partner, […]

A group of ISPs has launched the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). MAAWG will plan actions for carrier-class spam protection, develop best practices and technology and present a unified point of view on public policy. Led by Openwave, the group includes telecoms and Internet service providers, including Abranet, Bell Canada, Bell South, Cox, Internet Initiative […]