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Customers Win in Database Vendors Race to Linux

Two splashy Linux announcements coming from major database vendors underscore the fact that Linux is profoundly shaking up the database market.First, Oracle on Tuesday...

AOLs Singingfish Fine-Tunes Multimedia Search

America Online Inc.s audio and video search division is getting ready for prime time as it focuses on becoming a destination site.Singingfish Inc., which...

Holiday Retail Web Site Performances: Steady but Slow

If the "Max" in Office Max is supposed to refer to the amount of time its e-commerce server takes to respond, its aptly named. And...

Microsoft Delivers XP SP2 for Embedded Devices

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it had released to manufacturing the version of its Windows XP Service Pack 2 for embedded devices. Called "Windows XP Embedded...

MSN Launches Blog Service with IM Ties

MSN began rolling out its Weblog service late on Wednesday in a move likely to rattle the still-emerging market for blog-creation tools.With the new...

Sun and Microsoft: Fixing Each Others Flats?

Some eight months have passed since Sun Microsystems and Microsoft signed their landmark settlement and technical collaboration agreement, and a number of significant milestones...

Full-Scale RFID Could Take a Decade

As the year 2004 winds down, many product suppliers are looking to launch their first implementations of RFID sometime in 2005. But full-fledged RFID...

BITS Publishes Telecom Guide for Financial Industry

BITS, a nonprofit consortium of 100 of the largest financial institutions in the United States, last month published the BITS Guide to Business-Critical Telecommunications...

New VOIP Exploits Coming Soon

Before long, VOIP systems will be filled with spam, open to hackers and taken down by worms. But security, infrastructure and VOIP vendors say...

The Year in Review: Apple Thrives in Surprising Ways

If you had told someone five years ago that Apple would someday have a rapidly growing business in the server market, a huge share...