Jim Louderback

After discussions with NewsGators CEO, Ive gotten a better understanding of the API process used by his new service. Its still unpublished, and still proprietary, but limited to accessing premium feeds, building customized feeds and subscription related services. However, as any Microsoft watcher can attest, a proprietary API is the first step towards the walled […]

SAN DIEGO—Wednesday at Oracle AppsWorld here, Larry Ellison was one busy CEO. In between meeting with customers, he managed to fit in an hour-long keynote, a briefing with various groups of the press—including a trade press briefing attended by eWEEK reporter Renee Ferguson—and another long Q&A session with two dozen financial analysts—along with eWEEK.com and […]

SAN DIEGO—Calling its “Unbreakable Linux” campaign a big success, Oracle Corp. President Chuck Phillips announced a new focus on the Windows market. Speaking at Oracles Financial Analyst Day at Oracle AppsWorld here Wednesday, Phillips said its time to go on the offensive against Microsoft. Referring to SQL Server, Phillips announced that pricing for the Windows […]

Update: Less than 24 hours after writing this analysis, a tersely worded statement landed in my In box confirming that Larry Ellison had married his longtime fiancee, novelist Melanie Craft, shortly before Christmas. “We have no additional comment or detail,” stated Oracle spokesperson Jennifer Glass, beyond the basic facts. The wedding apparently happened on Dec. […]

It was a great year for wireless, as new capabilities seemed to come out with stunning regularity. But even in a year when so many great things were released, a few products rose to the top. Here, in no particular order, are my favorite new products and technologies for 2003. TREO 600: You can just […]

In what will certainly be a preview of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this January, Motorola and Scientific Atlanta recently rolled out new HDTV set-top boxes that double as TiVo-like digital video recorders (DVR). At the Western Cable Show this month, three different models were on display. Scientific Atlanta had the most intriguing […]

ANAHEIM, CALIF.—Corporations looking for alternatives to expensive T1 service may soon get benefits from an unlikely place—cable TV operators. At the cable industrys Western Show 2003 here on Wednesday, networking startup Advent Networks Inc. of Austin, Texas, showed off its new Ultraband line of switch routers, designed to let cable operators increase cable modem bandwidth […]

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. —Geoffrey Chaucer, “Troilus and Criseyde” A year ago, I thought 802.11g was a dumb idea, but Ive changed my tune. With a ratified standard, and 802.11b interoperability, Ive become a big fan of the 54Mbps wireless networking scheme. Even Cisco and Microsoft have released 802.11g […]

If Deion Sanders can do it, I can, too! If you dont follow football, you might not know what Prime-Time Deion—former star football player and now TV commentator on CBS The NFL Today—did last week: He publicly called out Dan Reeves, the coach of the hapless Atlanta Falcons football team. “I could do a better […]

Last week, I wrote about how VOIP, cellular and WiFi will combine to make traditional phones and POTS obsolete. But based on a discussion I had with a development manager at Intels Systems Technology Lab, there are still some thorny problems that need to be resolved. First some background. Intel has put together an internal […]

Here we go again. According to a paper by security expert Robert Moskowitz, the new WPA security scheme designed to protect 802.11 wireless networks has a fundamental flaw. The problem isnt with the scheme itself, but with how keys are exchanged. Using a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) scheme—as opposed to 802.1X—can leave a network wide open […]

Weve all worn those name badges at conferences, and chances are weve all looked pretty geeky strolling down the street after we forget to take them off. Now name badges have entered an entirely new level of geekiness with the new nTag. Instead of just a pre-printed badge, these are actually tiny computers with wireless […]