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In Part 1 of this series, I talked a bit about how COBOL is everywhere. From telephones to credit cards to supermarket checkouts to ATMs -- sometime during the day, just about everyone touches COBOL. They don't see it directly, but drivers don't see under the hood while they're driving either COBOL will stay with us for the foreseeable future becau...
Secure Computing has been delivering solutions for Internet security for 20 years. With more than 11,000 global customers, the company offers support by a worldwide network of partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has sales offices worldwide Secure Computing has gone through huge changes since last year. It had 38 employee...
The number of Internet users in China increased more than 23 percent in 2006, topping out at 137 million with an estimated 104 million of those having some level of access to a broadband connection TheChina Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a government agency that has been tracking online usage since 1997, reported the number of Interne...
In the ever-intensifying race to deliver the most memory in the tiniest chip, SanDisk on Tuesday rolled out its 8-gigabit, 56 nanometer (nm) NAND flash technology and promised to deliver a 16-gigabit version in the second quarter Both versions of the 56 nm chip use multilevel cell (MLC) technology to pack more capacity into a smaller space than has...
Microsoft has just released its ASP .NET AJAX 1.0, a free tool that lets developers create standards-compliant Web applications based on Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) The most ubiquitous Ajax-based applications, for example, are Google Maps and Gmail, which let users interact with them without requiring the full browser page to refresh whi...
Internet security firm Check Point Software Technologies announced that it has completed the acquisition of NFR Security and is nearing completion of it purchase of Protect Data and Pointsec Mobile Technologies Company officials said the acquisitions will help Check Point expand its reach into the data security market. The acquired technologies wil...
During the last quarter of 2006, Cingular Wireless' profits jumped fourfold and Sun Microsystems registered a profit for the first time in more than a year; however, Seagate Technology's (NYSE: STX) earnings dropped by about 50 percent Nevertheless, as many major tech companies report their earnings this week, the results do not provide much guidan...
Intel has unveiled the next generation of wireless chips for its Centrino Duo mobile line used in many Intel-based laptops, which are designed to improve their ability to download music and stream high-definition video The Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection, an upgrade to the wireless component currently used in Centrino Duo mobile techno...
If Microsoft really wanted to make a splash with the upcoming international rollout of its Live OneCare antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall and PC tune-up product, it might have picked a bad day to do it The new version of Live OneCare will ship on Jan. 30, which happens to be the same day Microsoft starts selling Windows Vista, its heavily-hyped new...
Web portal and search engine giant Yahoo on Tuesday posted fourth quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates, despite a sharp drop in profit from a year earlier, and said that its long-awaited ad placement system upgrade would roll out a month ahead of schedule Yahoo said revenue climbed 13 percent to US$1.7 billion for the quarter that ended ...
A year and a half after its first foray into the on-demand space, Kana has introduced the third leg of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM suite -- a self-service application. This release is available as a stand-alone product or as part of an integrated suite of previously released SaaS applications that have been based on Kana's on-premise product portfolio, including Kana Response and Kana Response Live in 2005...
If you're like most of us in IT, you probably have a relatively small number of individuals in your firm that you're used to working with fairly closely For example, if you're a development manager, you probably work closely on a daily basis with the business folks to understand their requirements for the systems you develop. If you're a network ar...
I had meetings last week with each of the big three on-demand CRM vendors -- Salesforce.com, RightNow and NetSuite -- and made some observations. Sometimes I get complaints from some of them when I mention more than one in an article because they like to pretend that they are unique. My grudging conclusion after my meetings is that maybe they are right. Let me elaborate...
It is is a dream come true for energy seekers: a portable energy source that outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market and produces 10 times the power of lead-acid batteries at half the cost -- and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals Is the technology being developed by EEStor the future of vehicle power or another unde...
January has been very, very good toBlizzard Entertainment. Earlier this month, the game maker announced its World of Warcraft subscription-based, massively multiplayer online role-playing games had surpassed 8 million players Tuesday, the company said that its "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" expansion pack smashed one-day video game sales ...
Microsoft and Novell are proudly announcing the biggest proof-point to date that their groundbreaking alliance to work together for the benefit of their customers has real traction: Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is gearing up to take advantage of Microsoft and Novell's collaboration and interoperability efforts between Microsoft Windows and Linux...
Google unwittingly disclosed sensitive login and password information of more than a dozen users, opening up a can of worms for the search giant by exposing a flaw in its anti-phishing tool The security snafu was discovered in Google's anti-phishing extension for the Firefox Web browser, according to security vendorFinjan, which first discovered th...
After years of taking a backseat to big business, climate change has moved up the U.S. political ladder, and even Corporate America is providing ideas on ways to get the government involved Chief executives from some of the nation's largest corporations urged Congress this week to begin setting mandatory limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases,...
Google said Monday it will be expanding tests of its video advertising system by delivering music video clips from Warner Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment along with advertising over its AdSense online advertising service As part of a trial during the next four weeks, Web sites that use AdSense will be able to select a playlist of songs...
Social networking site MySpace is suing a high-profile e-mail marketer, claiming that he violated the site's rules and state and federal laws by deluging members with spam MySpace said Tuesday it had filed a suit alleging that Scott Richter had violated the federal CAN-SPAM Act and California's anti-spam statute....
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