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Microsoft May Use Incentives to Tempt Users to ‘Soapbox’

Microsoft is considering offering incentives to users of its new video-sharing service, Soapbox on MSN Video, which launches early next year. The service represents...

Primavera Finds Success with Flexibility, Adobe

When Primavera Systems needed to upgrade some of its legacy Web applications, the project and portfolio management software maker and services company looked first...

Budget Infusions Perk Up IT

After one of the darkest periods in its half-century history, the IT profession matters again. Budgets are healthy, staffers are being hired and many executives...

Progressing with Parallel Processing

The proliferation of parallel processing hardware is creating a fast-growing need for multithreading skills. A developer who cant write safe and efficient concurrent code...

Survey: Transaction Failures Hurt E-Business

Online transaction failures can prove costly to Web businesses, as many customers lose confidence in the Web sites ability to protect their personal information...

Itanium Consortium Looks to Ease SPARC/Solaris Migration

The consortium of vendors working to increase the reach of Intels Itanium architecture is kicking off a program aimed at enticing software vendors to...

Security: The Final ISP Frontier

The role of ISPs in security is one of the great neglected topics in our industry, and one of my favorite subjects back to...

Readers Respond: Sandia’s Red Teams: On the Hunt for Security Holes

Chris Preimesberger's Sept. 4 story "Sandia's Red Teams: On the Hunt for Security Holes" referred to "systems created in the 1950s and 1960s."I...

Readers Respond: A Black Belt in IT

I just wanted to say that I loved Jim Rapozas Sept. 11 column, "A Black Belt in IT" .I have one certification, Microsoft Certified...

Apple Releases Aperture Update

Apple has released the latest of its Aperture imaging software. The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker announced Aperture 1.5 at the 2006 Photokina trade show in...