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Open source in general, and Unix in particular, appears to be far buggier and less secure than is Microsoft's code in general and Windows XP in particular You might not believe that, but any count of security vulnerabilities reported since about mid-2001 will lead you to the same conclusion. Mentions of Unix (including Linux, BSD and Solaris) outnu...
Mazda and NEC today announced that Mazda will start testing grid-computing technology. For the trial, NEC will incorporate the technology into Mazda's core business systems to use the distributed IT resources of many servers as one virtual server This trial is a part of the grid-computing project promoted by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and I...
Infineon Technologies AG announced today that it has reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Infineon will plead guilty to a charge related to the violation of U.S. antitrust laws in connection with the pricing in its Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) business between July 1, 1999 and June 15, 2002....
Borland Software today introduced Borland CaliberRM 2005 and Borland StarTeam 2005, software tools designed to help application developers manage the requirements, resources, tasks, assets and workflow for application development CaliberRM 2005 and StarTeam 2005 offer several new capabilities designed to improve visibility, predictability and contr...
On the surface, at least, Oracle is having a very good month. Last week, it defied many pundits by successfully overturning the Department of Justice's block on its PeopleSoft acquisition. On Tuesday, Oracle turned in first-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations Oracle posted earnings of US$509 million for the quarter that ended in August,...
Microsoft's monthly security update was highlighted this week by a JPEG-handling vulnerability that could allow pictures in the format to provide attackers access to targeted machines Microsoft also announced an "important" code-execution vulnerability in a WordPerfect 5.x converter, but rated the JPEG weakness -- a common buffer-overflow vulnerabi...
Although Internet Explorer still dominates the browser market, there are some rumblings of change being heard, especially as browsers like Mozilla and Opera find more widespread use The latest browser to garner attention has been Firefox, a product of the Mozilla Foundation. The group has updated the standalone browser with a 1.0 preview release th...
By selling "product" at half price, RealNetworks has climbed into second place in the corporate music market dominated by Apple That was Real's claim at the conclusion of its 49-cents-a-pop download offer, under which it sold three million tracks to spotlight its Harmony application that lets songs downloaded through RealNetworks play on Apple's iP...
Today's hot topic is Google and the search-engine ranking of brand identities All businesses, whether big or small, are trying to dominate the accessibility of their corporate images and brand names, mostly via cyber mediums, fluid Web sites, new cyber branding and digital domain name management techniques....
IMlogic today released free software to help companies fight copyright piracy, avoid lawsuits from illegal file sharing and prevent damage from viruses and worms IM Detector Pro is designed to help corporations detect and block unmanaged instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic while they plan the m...
Oracle today announced that its first quarter earnings per share increased 18 percent to US10 cents per share, compared to the first quarter last year, outperforming Wall Street expectations that were closer to 9 cents per share In afterhours trading following the release of the earnings numbers, Oracle shares were up 4.17 percent....
Nokia said that it has applied for membership in the SD Card Association and has signed a licensing agreement for enabling the use of SD memory cards in its devices. According to a statement, Nokia will continue to support MultiMediaCards (MMC) that are currently widely used in Nokia's mobile devices The SD memory cards have gained acceptance in th...
As students all across the United States were getting ready to head back to school, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was busy beefing up its prolonged attack on consumer fair use rights and emerging consumer technologies In a quietly-submitted letter dated August 16, 2004, lawyers for the RIAA warned the Federal Communications C...
IBM has announced several new services and technologies to help push radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial companies. The new services are geared toward the automotive, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, chemicals and paper and electronics companies IBM initially partnered with Philips Semiconductors in providing the RFID tech...
Two new computer worms have security experts both worried and wondering. One new virus is now capable of monitoring a network to steal passwords or other information, and another virus can hijack the voice capabilities of Windows XP to announce its presence to users Experts agree that the network monitoring or "sniffing" capability displayed in the...
A plan to employ Microsoft technology as a standard for identification of e-mail senders to help curb spam has been rejected by a key Internet technical group because of concerns the software giant might seek to enforce its patent rights in the future A subgroup of the Internet Engineering Task Force has come to the conclusion that Microsoft's desi...
The global convenience retailer 7-Eleven Inc. is rolling out custom Hewlett-Packard technology in 5,300 U.S. locations. Both companies believe the partnership will transform convenience retailing, and some analysts agree Chris Selland, vice president of sell-side research at Aberdeen Group, told CRM Buyer that 7-Eleven's decision to customize using...
IBM unveiled a new line of Linux servers Monday, noting that it will specifically target entry-level users with competitive pricing. The company will be competing with entry-level Unix and Linux platforms developed by Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard Paul Rivot, IBM's director of database servers and business intelligence, told LinuxInsider tha...
For companies burdened with legacy systems they can't seem to get rid of, this could be the jackpot they've been waiting for A Los Gatos, California, startup maintains it has perfected a program that allows software applications compiled for one processor and operating system to run on another processor and operating system without any source code ...
Yahoo and Musicmatch today announced they have signed an agreement for Yahoo to acquire Musicmatch for approximately US$160 million in cash According to Jupiter Research, digital music sales are expected to grow rapidly in the near future, particularly with the increasing availability of broadband access....
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