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Hoping to synchronize better with IT security's private sector, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has enlisted Symantec vice president for managed services Amit Yoran as director of its cyber security division and has forged a partnership with the CERT Coordination Center to speed warning and response time Security industry leaders praised b...
In a bid to light a fire under its software offerings, Sun Microsystems has unveiled new names, configurations and pricing for its enterprise-level offerings. The company said it will rename Project Orion, which aims to revamp the way enterprises license software, as the Java Enterprise System (JES). In fact, that moniker will become the catch-all...
Asia's PDA markets have long been dominated by local players that have developed their own proprietary operating systems, with support for local languages serving as one of their strongest selling points. But Palm and Microsoft have targeted the Asian PDA market, and regional players are increasingly turning to Linux to fight against the global giants...
In part 1 of this two-part article, the E-Commerce Times explored Linux' potential to win market share from Solaris, Sun's proprietary version of Unix, as Linux is used to power ever more mission-critical functions What is the future of Solaris in a world where Linux shares the limelight? In part 2, we will examine why the rise of Linux may not be ...
Verizon's U.S. District Court appeal over the subpoena powers granted to the Recording Industry Association of America, to be considered Tuesday, calls into question the music industry group's tactics and highlights privacy concerns The RIAA has pushed forward with its strategy of pursuing individual Internet subscribers who allegedly trade copyrig...
After nearly two years in development, Borland announced today two updated tools for C++ developers: C++BuilderX and Enterprise Studio for C++. The company is calling the tools the first technology-independent development suite designed to address the complexity of modern-day application development While newer languages, such as Java, Jini, Perl a...
Hoping to hook manufacturers and shippers beholden to modest radio frequency identification (RFID) implementation requirements from companies like Wal-Mart, IBM has announced new service and software offerings to help roll out the wireless tag-tracking technology Wal-Mart is putting manufacturers under the gun to implement RFID for cases and pallet...
In an effort to extend the reach of its operating system from desktop computers to more mobile devices, Microsoft has announced it will work with Motorola to sell a Windows-loaded cell phone geared toward on-the-go workers. The software giant said its alliance with the world's second largest maker of mobile phone handsets will help workers access ...
Setting up the perfect enterprise server system architecture seemed pretty straightforward just a few years ago "You went with [Sun Microsystems'] Solaris for the OS, put Oracle on top of Solaris for the database, used EMC for storage, and Cisco for routers," Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner told the E-Commerce Times....
You are walking past a coffee shop one morning, your mobile phone beeps, and up pops a coupon for a free croissant. You are driving on the highway when your computer screen displays a message telling you that an accident has occurred 10 miles up the road, so you take an alternate route Zealous vendors have been talking about such applications for a...
Informatica, a supplier of data integration and business intelligence solutions, has announced it plans to buy Striva Corporation in a cash-and-stock transaction worth about US$62 million Sanjay Poonen, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Informatica, told the E-Commerce Times that Striva's mainframe data integration software is the gol...
An Internet-connected grid of potentially millions of personal computers is being launched by a group of UK-based universities, weather services and software companies in an effort to predict global climate As a collaboration of Oxford, the Open University, Met Office, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and other institutions, the project that bega...
Microsoft has moved up the public prerelease date of the new edition of its office productivity suite to Monday, September 15, to let some of its business customers download its new Office desktop application bundle about two weeks sooner than originally planned. The new Microsoft Office 2003 software suite -- which will be released to the general...
Coming to a notebook near you -- it's 3D display technology from Sharp. But industry observers say it is likely to be a slow start for the Mebius PC-RD3D notebook, which the electronics giant is planning to release in Japan next month and in the United States by the end of the year Sharp said its 15-inch, three-dimensional LCD display, which allows...
Oracle boosted earnings in its first quarter, with net income rising 28 percent to US$440 million, but did so largely as a result of internal cost controls put in place during 2002, when the company had some of the most difficult quarters in its history. Revenues in the latest quarter barely increased, up just 2 percent to $2.07 billion, while new license sales actually fell 7 percent year over year, to $525 million.
Colocation. Co-location. Colo. Collocation from the Latin collocare. It's one of those words we can't make up our minds how to spell. But they all mean the same thing in IT terms: Colocation is the practice of housing servers -- usually Web or telecommunications servers -- in secure, well-connected facilities Strictly speaking, colocation applies t...
In the past few months, it seemed as if new mergers were being announced every week. High-profile players like PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, as well as EMC and Legato Systems, found they had enough in common to join forces. Meanwhile, an even more high-profile company, Oracle, attempted to convince PeopleSoft shareholders that it would be a better partner for the ERP giant...
If you're one of the remaining 260 defendants targeted in lawsuits by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for music piracy on the Internet, don't count on being bailed out of your jam by P2P United The group, which represents major file-sharing sites on the Net, has pledged to pay the US$2,000 settlement in the case of a 12-year-ol...
A day before the two-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a series of phone calls threatening the presence of a bomb at San Francisco's Moscone Center forced the evacuation of thousands from the Oracle and Seybold trade shows Authorities, on guard with the approach of September 11, reported a series of calls at about 1:30 PM Wedn...
In a bid to grab a larger share of the booming market for managing stored data, Microsoft has released the latest version of its storage server software, though the launch was overshadowed by word of more security flaws in its flagship operating system The software giant unveiled Windows Storage Server 2003 at the Storage Decisions 2003 conference ...
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