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Microsoft has released details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls Microsoft created SecPAL, or Security Policy Assertion Language, as a research project to develop a language for expressing decentralized authorization policies. The project also in...
As voice, data, wired and wireless telecommunications converge, conditions are ripening for the extension of e-commerce to mobile, or m-commerce, in markets around the world So, what countries -- and companies -- are on the bleeding edge?...
Databases have been a tool for business and research analysis sincecomputers replaced typewriters in the workplace. Once the domain ofproprietary database management programs, database development is now seeingmore influence from open source programming Several industry surveys show a trend among small to mid-sized businesses of atleast trying open...
As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA (service-oriented architectures) offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. However, there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh, N.C Red Hat has announced ...
In today's world of application development, software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects face an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations worldwide are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago Software developers have found themselves stuck between the need for multil...
Unspam Technologies, a Utah-based antispam provider, has filed a federal lawsuit against so-called e-mail harvesters -- anonymous parties who collect addresses from Web sites and other lists, which they then sell to spammers The suit was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia under the federal CAN-SPAM law and the Virginia Computer Crimes Act, w...
Mattel, maker of the iconic Barbie doll, announced Thursday that Barbie will go online with BarbieGirls, a new virtual world. The site offers the opportunities to create a virtual character, play games and chat with other girls. The toy company also plans to release the "Barbie Girls" device, a doll-shaped MP3 player, in July "Our focus since the e...
The head of AT&T has announced that he will step down as chief executive and chairman after 44 years with the telecom giant Edward Whitacre Jr., who helped maneuver the company's expansion from regional telephone provider to the largest telecom in the nation, says he will retire on June 3....
The head of AT&T has announced that he will step down as chief executive and chairman after 44 years with the telecom giant Edward Whitacre Jr., who helped maneuver the company's expansion from regional telephone provider to the largest telecom in the nation, says he will retire on June 3....
The head of AT&T has announced that he will step down as chief executive and chairman after 44 years with the telecom giant Edward Whitacre Jr., who helped maneuver the company's expansion from regional telephone provider to the largest telecom in the nation, says he will retire on June 3....
World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One The flight took off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida. Zero Gravity cofounders Peter...
SourceLabs released on Wednesday the Open Source Management System (OSMS) to help control the legal, security and operational risks associated with open source software The OSMS is a platform to centralize and manage open source software code. The new platform will help organizations maximize the benefits of open source programming while mitigating...
Word that the price of the so-called (US)$100 laptop will now be upwards of $175 per unit is not sitting well with long-time observers of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program, who fear the numbers might mean the initiative is in trouble Reacting to reports that OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte now figures the innovative little units will cost at...
Two congressmen have introduced new legislation designed to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that threatens to wipe out many Internet radio broadcasting firms If the "Internet Radio Equality Act," introduced this week by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.), is passed, it would make the recent ruling by the U.S. Cop...
VMware has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its planned initial public offering The firm will offer 10 percent of its Class A common stock in the IPO, which will give shareholders of EMC, VMware's parent company, a boost and help VMware attract and retain the software industry's top talent, the company said....
Unica has introduced a new version of its marketing resource management platform, Affinium Plan 7.3 Though it is a point release, some of Version 7.3's new functionality is new to the industry as well....
After years of speculation and delays, Microsoft's Windows Vista is finally aiding the software giant's bottom line. The first wave of sales from the new operating platform helped to propel the company to one of its strongest third quarters on record Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said it earned US$4.93 billion, or 50 cents per share, in the quarte...
The executive who led electronics giant Sony into the game console business is leaving his post atop the company's computer entertainment business The retirement of Ken Kutaragi, who is known within Sony as the "Father of the PlayStation," comes as Sony continues to struggle with the PlayStation 3, which has been bogged down by high costs and other...
The chairman of a powerful Congressional committee filed a bill Thursday that aims to repeal the ban on Internet gambling passed last year Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, filed the measure Thursday morning....
OK, I admit it. I am an avid Boston Red Sox fan. For me and the rest of Red Sox Nation, a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees and four back-to-back home runs is just too good to be true. Baseball is often called the thinking man's game, and I couldn't resist the chance to correlate baseball and Web analytics, which both rely on statistics, data and a deep understanding of your business...
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