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Michael Newdow may not be a household name to the open-source community. The California atheist sued a Sacramento school district to prevent his third-grade daughter from having to recite or listen to the Pledge of Allegiance because it includes the words "under God." But Newdow's case has some interesting parallels to the dispute between Computer ...
Telecommunications service providers are adding a new item to their product lines: cable TV services. Carriers view this as a natural addition to their ever-expanding service lines, which include local service, long distance communications, Internet access and wireless capabilities While video promises a new revenue stream, the companies must meet ...
Circuit City and Verizon Wireless have signed an agreement to create a Verizon Wireless store within each of more than 570 Circuit City stores around the country Verizon Wireless will operate the Verizon Wireless stores and be responsible for the employees and inventory....
Plans were announced today for the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization to become part of the global OASIS standards consortium. Through this shift in proprietorship, the DCML Organization could benefit from the OASIS membership base -- more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members across 100 countries...
FrontBridge Technologies today announced the acquisition of MessageRite to broaden the company's service portfolio to include e-mail and instant message archiving. FrontBridge's existing technologies include inbox management tools such as perimeter-based spam filtering, virus scanning, secure e-mail, policy enforcement and disaster recovery Complia...
New research from Forrester predicts that spending on IT goods, services and staff will grow 7 percent in 2005 and continue at a similar pace through 2008 -- only slightly faster than overall economic growth. This finding is consistent with the cyclical nature of IT spending, where periods of digestion and refinement follow periods of heavy technology investment...
Aruba Wireless and Ortronics announced they have developed a WiFi wall outlet. Financial details of the development agreement were not disclosed The new Wi-Jack WiFi wall outlet will be marketed and manufactured by Ortronics and will integrate Aruba's enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) technology directly into an office network wall outlet....
Pushing the number of transistors it can cram onto silicon, chip giant Intel announced a step forward in its advance to the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a move toward further miniaturization to boost chip efficiency and performance In a sign it is on course to begin manufacturing computer chips with the new process -- and maintain the Moore'...
Just a month after finalizing a billion-dollar settlement with California consumers, Microsoft was sued again, this time by several cities and counties that believe the software giant used its market dominance to charge artificially high prices The suit, filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court by the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and ot...
Orion Multisystems has announced two models of the Orion Cluster Workstation, a computing platform for engineering and scientific professionals who need to solve computationally complex problems ...
Ciber today reported that it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire, subject to approval by German antitrust authorities, approximately 67 percent of the net outstanding shares of Novasoft AG, a Heidelberg, Germany, international consultancy specializing in implementation of SAP's products Founded in 1989, Novasoft is a SAP integrator for...
I had a chance to chat with the recently promoted director of IT from Cummins awhile back on a large deployment of Windows XP machines. She saved her company around US$10 million, which resulted in promotions for her and her team. I thought it would be interesting to explore this because it represents what is likely a good practice when it comes not only to deploying lots of desktop hardware very quickly, but also to addressing any complex project...
Offshore outsourcing of IT infrastructure management is likely to be the next big wave, according to results of a recent survey conducted by Wipro Technologies According to the online survey of 145 executives from various industries, more than 30 percent of the respondents are planning to offshore their IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, and ...
Computer users, faced with never-ending security attacks from surfing the Internet and opening e-mail, are showing increased interest in switching Web browsers. Downloads of popular non-Microsoft Web browsers have doubled this summer, software makers say The trend toward considering alternative browsers comes on the heals of a warning in June by th...
Microsoft announced it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system codenamed "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform, which Longhorn provides, available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 ...
Microsoft announced it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system codenamed "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform, which Longhorn provides, available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Microsoft said Longhorn will deliver major improvements in user productivity, important ne...
ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, has issued an order dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- with prejudice. In dismissing VeriSign's antitrust claims, Judge Matz noted that VeriSign had failed in its first amended complaint to sufficiently allege an antitrust claim...
A mandated price cut in so-called local loop unbundling in the UK, a requirement for UK providers to offer broadband service, and an allowed price increase for wholesale broadband products has two sides arguing the move will either boost broadband adoption and competition, or kill off all but the biggest service providers Ofcom, the UK's regulatory...
A federal judge has tossed out an antitrust claim filed by VeriSign against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), saying that the domain registrar failed to prove antitrust activity has taken place The decision came after VeriSign was ordered to file additional information to support its antitrust claims by the court in M...
Sprint and SBC Communications today announced a reciprocal WiFi roaming agreement that will provide their customers access to each other's public WiFi networks Under the agreement, customers will be able to roam on the WiFi networks of each company using their existing user IDs and passwords. Service charges will be billed according to the customer...
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