eWeek articles from August 2005

eWeek archives from August 2005

Greasemonkey Gets Security Makeover.(product upgrade by Mozilla Foundation)
August 1, 2005... A new beta of the popular Greasemonkey browser extension has been released to fix a well-known--and potentially dangerous--security vulnerability. The security upgrade comes less than two weeks after the discovery of the flaw which...

China Emerging as Chip Design Center.
August 1, 2005... SHANGHAI (Reuters)--Chips designed, or partly designed, in China will account for 14.8 percent of global semiconductor sales this year, making the country the world's third-biggest for chip design, according to an industry report. Design...

Developers Tools Are Never Good Enough.(Column)
August 1, 2005... It's often said, and I agree, that "'Better' is the enemy of 'good enough'"--but I'm not prepared to declare myself the loyal ally of one or the other. There are times when I'm prepared to hold the line against the assault of "better," but...

Nokia Picks Kallasvuo to Succeed Ollila as CEO.(Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo appointed)(Jorma Ollila)
August 1, 2005... HELSINKI (Reuters)--Finland's Nokia has picked Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to take over as chief executive next year from Jorma Ollila, who transformed the company from a maker of rubber boots into the world's biggest cellphone producer. ...

Where Does Truth Lie in Lynn/Cisco Case?(presentation of Michael Lynn about product defects of Cisco Systems Inc.)(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... There's general agreement among security researchers that disclosure of security vulnerabilities is a good thing. There isn't, however, agreement in the industry as to what full disclosure is and what the best practices are. Some say that...

AMD Adds Low-End Athlon 64 X2, Cuts Prices.(product launch by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday released a dual-core version of its existing AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processor, cutting prices in the process. The addition to the low end of the AMD dual-core desktop microprocessor line is AMD's first...

Microsoft Forms New Connected Systems Division.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Microsoft Corp. quietly has formed a new Server and Tools subunit, known as the Connected Systems Division, designed to bring together a variety of Microsoft Web services, identity management and other middleware products under common...

DHL Adds Supply Chain Services, Signs Sun.(Sun Microsystems Inc.'s contract with DHL Express)
August 1, 2005... European-based shipping giant DHL has added supply chain and logistics services such as distribution warehousing and order management to its package delivery services throughout the Americas, meanwhile signing Sun Microsystems Inc. to a...

Readers Respond: Software: Ideology vs. Progress.(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... [Guest columnist and Association for Competitive Technology President] Jonathan Zuck's claim that the "[Free Software Foundation] and its allies nearly scuttled the standards process for e-mail authentication" in refusing to support a...

SpikeSource Launching Made-to-Order Stacks.(SpikeSource Core Stack)
August 1, 2005... SpikeSource Monday announced a new strategy of providing made-to-order open-source stacks of software fully configured and tested for enterprise customers. Kim Polese, CEO of the Redwood City, Calif., company, said SpikeSource Inc., an...

SCO OpenServer Is a Winner.(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2005... Despite all the pounding I've given SCO lately, I'm actually very fond of SCO's products. The company's policies are another matter. You see, I've been using SCO operating systems for almost as long as I've been using computers. I cut...

Flaws Found in MySQL Tracking System.(MySQL Eventum)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Flaws have been found in MySQL Eventum 1.5.5 and prior that allow malicious users to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks. Eventum is an issue-tracking system that can be used by support departments to track incoming...

Intel, AMD Run Tight Race in Quarterly Chip Shipments.
August 1, 2005... Despite a notable gain in server processor shipments, AMD slipped slightly in overall x86 chip shipments during the second quarter. Intel Corp. gained seven-tenths of a point of share during the second quarter, while Advanced Micro Devices...

Microsoft's CSS Plans for IE 7 Draw Cheers, Jeers.
August 1, 2005... After remaining mum for months over the extent to which it plans to support the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standard with its forthcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 browser, Microsoft has gone public with its plans. Late last week,...

Putting E-Mail on Phones Poses Problems for Providers.(Column)
August 1, 2005... Which would you rather: make an extra dollar a month per subscriber from mobile consumer data, or make 40 times as much, selling to the business user? Most people will tell you that consumer data is pathetic. Home phone users, heck, they...

WebEx Expands Collaboration Line with Intranets.com Buyout.(WebEx Communications Inc.)
August 1, 2005... Seeking to expand its lineup of business team collaboration products, WebEx on Monday announced that it was acquiring privately owned Intranets.com for $45 million in cash. WebEx Communications Inc. officials said it would use a portion of...

IE 7 Beta 2 Should Give More CSS 2 Support, Insiders Say.(evaluation of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0)(cascading style sheet)
August 1, 2005... Web designers greeted the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 1 with heated criticism when they learned it would not include full support for the CSS 2 standard. Since the Beta 1 release, however, the program manager for...

Taking a Trip Down Denial.(defects of dbms software)(Column)
August 1, 2005... I find it fascinating how differently database administrators react to security alerts depending on the platform they support. There is clearly a caste system when it comes to database software. Mainframe DBAs look down their noses at...

Fox Movie Studio Backs Sony's Blu-ray DVD.(reports of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.)
August 1, 2005... LOS ANGELES--Twentieth Century Fox film studio on Friday gave its backing to Blu-ray technology for next-generation DVDs, becoming the last of Hollywood's major movie groups to choose sides in a pitched battle over standards. Blu-Ray,...

AT&T-Intrado E911 Deal Sign of Things to Come in VOIP World.(voice over Internet protocol)
August 2, 2005... Last week AT&T Corp. announced its selection of emergency solutions provider Intrado Inc. to provide some of its CallVantage subscribers with E911 services. Intrado will deploy its V9-1-1SM Mobility Service so that "nomadic users," whose...

Oracle to Buy Majority Stake in Indian Software Company.(acquisition of I-Flex Solutions Ltd.)
August 2, 2005... At least one of the rumors floating around about another Oracle Corp. acquisition has panned out. The company announced Tuesday morning that it plans to buy a majority stake in India's largest applications business, I-flex solutions Ltd., in a...

Nextel to Seek More Time for Locating 911 Callers.(Nextel Communications Inc.)
August 2, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--Nextel Communications Inc. plans to ask for a waiver from a December deadline that 95 percent of its customers' wireless phones be capable of identifying the location of a caller to emergency personnel. Nextel, being...

IBM to Acquire Data Integration Software Maker DWL.
August 2, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 (Reuters)--IBM on Tuesday said it will buy privately held DWL Inc., a supplier of customer data integration software that allows companies to combine business operations or merge with other companies. Terms of the...

U.S. Court Scales Back Patent Ruling Against RIM.(Research in Motion Ltd.'s case against NTP Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--A U.S. appeals court scaled back a December ruling on Tuesday that had upheld patent infringement charges against Research In Motion Ltd., the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. The...

iWay to Sell .Net Adapter Source Code to Microsoft.(contract with iWay Software)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... iWay Software is helping Microsoft Corp. users better interoperate with third-party applications. The New York-based company, which has a stable of about 280 prebuilt adapters to back-end systems, announced Tuesday it's selling the source...

Oracle Users Shrug at Security Woes.(product defects)
August 2, 2005... Along with Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle was a choice whipping boy at last week's Black Hat USA security conference. Regardless, Oracle users remained nonplussed by revelations about Oracle security both leading up to and coming from the show. ...

Storage Digest: News from Quantum, LSI Logic, Fujitsu, Unitrends.(Quantum SuperLoader 3 launched)(Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc.'s partnership with Enhance Technology Inc.)(LSI Logic Corp. launches LSI7104XP-LC and LSI7204XP-LC PCI-X)
August 2, 2005... Quantum announces a new autoloader platform, Unitrends adds electronic data vaulting to its network storage appliances, LSI Logic introduces 4GB/sec Fibre Channel HBAs, and Fujitsu teams with Enhance Technology to offer a multi-disk storage...

Skipping CSS2 in IE7 Is Wrong.
August 2, 2005... Microsoft is about to release IE 7.0, and if you've been hoping that this new release would solve your development problems, prepare to be disappointed. Besides the obvious issues with an X.0 release of anything, word has it that the new...

eEye Flags Another IE Code Execution Flaw.(Microsoft Internet Explorer, eEye Digital Security)
August 2, 2005... Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday confirmed it was investigating a new "high risk" vulnerability in the widely used Internet Explorer Web browser. The software giant's acknowledgement follows the release of a brief advisory from Aliso Viejo,...

Bush Signs Central American Pact After Tough Battle.
August 2, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--President Bush on Tuesday signed a free-trade agreement with Central America, a top legislative priority narrowly won after a bitter fight in Congress over the direction of trade policy that shows little signs of abating....

Oracle Acquires Assets of Context Media.
August 2, 2005... Building on its content management and collaboration strategy, Oracle has acquired assets from content integration software developer Context Media Inc. In addition to acquiring Context Media's enterprise content integration technology,...

MSN Search Is the Newest Dog in the Pile.(service upgrade by Infospace Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... Infospace announced Tuesday that it has added MSN Search results to its Dogpile metasearch engine. Infospace announced in April that it planned to add Microsoft support to Dogpile before the end of the summer. "MSN Search has only been...

Voice Technology Enters the Mainstream.(2005 SpeechTEK conference)(Brief Article)
August 2, 2005... NEW YORK--When hearing terms like "voice integration" and "voice recognition," it's hard not to think about Star Trek and other sci-fi shows, where speech-sensitive technology is almost as standard as spaceships and hyperspace. At the 2005...

Competing IEEE Groups to Join Forces on 802.11n Standard.(reports of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
August 2, 2005... The groups competing to propose a standard for a faster flavor of Wi-Fi have agreed to join forces, IEEE officials have confirmed. For months, the two leading standard proposals--TGnSync and WWiSE (World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency)--have been...

Analysts: Oracle's I-flex Buy to Revolutionize Banking Industry.(I-flex Solutions Ltd.)
August 2, 2005... Analysts praised Tuesday's announcement that Oracle will purchase a majority stake in the banking software firm I-flex Solutions Ltd., saying that the database giant could well revolutionize an industry that's still stuck in legacy mode. ...

TimeLab's Chip Tunes PC Performance.(launch of TotalClock)
August 2, 2005... Timing is everything when it comes to wringing the most out of a PC. TimeLab Corp., a 4-year-old Andover, Mass., startup founded by researchers from Zoran Corp., a maker of chips for products such as DVD drives, is expected to later this...

Sources: Novell Plans to Open SuSE Linux Pro to Community.
August 2, 2005... Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc. with its successful Fedora Project...

Time Warner Settles Shareholder Suit, Posts Loss.
August 3, 2005... NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters)--Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, on Wednesday said it would pay $2.4 billion to settle charges it overstated revenue and posted a net loss for the second quarter as a result of the settlement. ...

I-flex Shares up on Raised Oracle Bid Speculation.(acquisition of I-Flex Solutions Ltd.)
August 3, 2005... BANGALORE, Aug 3 (Reuters)--Shares in Indian banking software firm i-flex Solutions Ltd. leapt on Wednesday beyond the price offered by Oracle Corp., prompting speculation the U.S. giant may raise its bid to secure a controlling stake. ...

RealNetworks Posts Q2 Profit on Revenue Jump.
August 3, 2005... SEATTLE, Aug 2 (Reuters)--Internet media software company RealNetworks Inc. on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit on increased music subscriptions and an investment gain as revenue jumped 26 percent. Shares in RealNetworks rose nearly 11...

Apple Will Target Tiger's Networking Glitches.(launch of Mac OS X 10.4.3)
August 3, 2005... Although two updates to Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X Tiger have fixed many compatibility problems, enterprise networking problems persist. A new update, version 10.4.3, is expected this summer, and will address some of the remaining problems,...

UPS Bolsters Online Shipment Tracking.(service upgrade by United Parcel Service of America Inc.)
August 3, 2005... United Parcel Service Inc. has added new features to its enterprise-oriented Trade Direct service, making it possible for retailers, dot-com sites and other enterprises to now track the status of both small packages and large freight around the...

ViewCentral Upgrades Collaboration Mgmt. Tool.(ViewCentral 5.0 launched)(management)(Brief Article)
August 3, 2005... Application service provider ViewCentral Inc. this week launched the next version of its namesake collaboration management tool for managing online training and marketing events. ViewCentral 5.0 adds new event pricing and packaging...

Speech Verification Secures More Enterprise Apps.(Speechtek 2005)(use of speech recognition software)
August 3, 2005... NEW YORK--Speech recognition is becoming widely adopted by business with wildly variable results, but one productive use of the technology is speaker verification--the use of a voice print to replace typed passwords and PIN numbers. A...

Open-Source Software Gets Vote of Confidence at OSCON.(O'Reilly Open Source Convention)(beliefs of Jeremy Zawodny)
August 3, 2005... PORTLAND--The ability of open-source software and the Linux operating system to scale and to meet mission-critical enterprise needs got a resounding endorsement from Jeremy Zawodny, who works for Yahoo Inc.'s technical team. In a talk to...

Open-Source BI Stack Could Save Data Centers Millions.(business intelligence)(Greenplum launches Bizgres Clickstream)
August 3, 2005... A trio of companies on Tuesday released what they claim is the industry's first complete open-source BI development stack--a proposition that could save open-source data centers millions of dollars spent on proprietary BI solutions. The...

With Firefox Hot, Mozilla Goes For-Profit Route.(Mozilla Foundation forms Mozilla Corp.)
August 3, 2005... With its flagship Firefox emerging as a legitimate alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer Web browser, the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation wants to cash in on the revenue-generation possibilities. The open-source group on...

Novell to Launch Community Linux Distribution.(Novell SUSE Linux)
August 3, 2005... Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc. with its successful Fedora Project...

Intel Plans a Chip-Set Shift.(production management)
August 3, 2005... Intel is reprioritizing its chip set manufacturing, in an effort to keep up with demand for its most popular models, despite the potential for a shift to delay others. The measure, which the chip giant says will ensure it has enough...

Lax Security Enables ATM Card Fraud, Report Says.(automated teller machines)(Gartner Inc.)
August 3, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--An unprecedented wave of Internet-based bank fraud has been enabled in part by banks that don't bother to check security codes on cash cards, according to a report released on Tuesday. Roughly half of U.S. banks in...

Advertising.com Settles FTC Adware Charges.(cases by Federal Trade Commission)(Brief Article)
August 3, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--An America Online Inc. subsidiary will no longer bundle its anti-spyware program with software that tracks consumers' online habits and force-feeds them pop-up ads, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. ...

Speech Apps Wring New Revenues from Mobile Users.(SpeechTek 2005)(use of speech recognition software)
August 3, 2005... Speech applications with adaptive interactivity are becoming a profitable tool for upselling and extending relationships with current customers. At SpeechTek 2005 in New York, a panel of executives described how many traditional businesses are...

Cisco Web Portal Password Security Compromised.
August 3, 2005... A security flaw in a search tool used on the Cisco Web portal could potentially compromise registered users' passwords, the routing and switching giant warned Wednesday. A Cisco Systems Inc. spokesperson told Ziff Davis Internet News the...

McAfee Sees More Deals Soon With Mobile Companies.
August 3, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--McAfee Inc., the world's second-biggest security software maker, on Tuesday said it was poised to sign several deals in coming months with mobile-device makers, which have increasingly focused on equipping their...

EMC Rolls Out New Clariion to Meet Scalability Demands.
August 3, 2005... Targeting the mushrooming scalability and availability demands within enterprise mid-range storage environments that are growing in complexity, EMC rolled out new Clariion models and disk library products on Monday. The new products...

Open Source Goes Main Street.(Column)
August 3, 2005... Five years ago, if you had asked most people if open-source was a good basis for a business, they would have laughed at you. How things change. Today, major open-source projects, like Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird and the Debian Linux...

End of Innocence for Mozilla?(Mozilla Foundation forms new subsidiary)(Column)
August 3, 2005... The danger of the Mozilla Foundation forming a for-profit business, Mozilla Corp., is that the result may be as nasty and political as your average nonprofit and as money-grubbing as your typical software company. Nothing wrong with that,...

The Passion of the Database.(market share forecasts of IBM DB2)(Column)
August 3, 2005... In one of my recent articles I described, what I view, as a dim future for IBM DB2 in the Linux, Unix and Windows market. I received a number of e-mails and was directed to a number of discussion threads where the article was debated. ...

Lenovo Partners Left Empty-Handed.(market size of Lenovo Group Ltd.)
August 3, 2005... Sales of IBM PCs under new owner Lenovo have proven so successful that the company is having trouble filling orders for some models, according to a Lenovo executive. For Lenovo Group Ltd. channel partners trying to fill customer orders,...

Microsoft Rolls Out 30 New SharePoint Applications.(Brief Article)
August 3, 2005... On Tuesday, Microsoft quietly rolled out 30 free, downloadable applications that build on top of the company's SharePoint Services collaboration/workflow technology that is built into Windows Server. Among the plethora new applications are...

Mozilla Goes Corporate; Analysts Say It's All Good.(Mozilla Foundation planning for a new company named Mozilla Corp.)
August 4, 2005... Mozilla's gone corporate, and analysts of all stripes say that's a good thing. The company's announcement this week that it is creating a for-profit addition to the company, in order to bring in cash from the successful Firefox browser,...

Analysts: Novell vs. SCO Is No 'Slam Dunk'.(The SCO Group Inc.)
August 4, 2005... When Novell, in the latest move in the SCO-Novell lawsuit, demanded royalties from SCO's recent Unix licensing business, the company served notice that it was playing for keeps. But how good are Novell Inc.'s chances of winning its...

Sprint Purchase of Nextel Wins Approval.
August 4, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--Sprint Corp. on Wednesday won approval from U.S. authorities to acquire Nextel Communications Inc. to solidify its spot as the No. 3 U.S. wireless company. The Federal Communications Commission said it had unanimously...

EMC Sees Revenue Growing 14 pct in 2006 to $11B.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2005... NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters)--EMC Corp., the world's largest maker of corporate data storage equipment, expects to grow at twice the industry's rate in 2006 and generate revenue of $11 billion, up about 14 percent from 2005, Chief Executive Joe...

Taking Sides for the Municipal Wireless Showdown.(new telecommunications regulations)
August 4, 2005... Every big piece of legislation--omnibus bills like the 1996 Telecommunications Act--has a simmering issue that helps move it forward. It's usually a consumer-friendly issue, something that politicians can point to as a demonstration of how...

National Health Network Carries $200B Price Tag.(capital investment plans)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2005... In a landmark paper released in the August issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, a panel of experts determined a model for a national health information network in the United States and created a cost estimate for the project. The...

Microsoft Ships Word Doc Redaction Tool.(Microsoft Word 2003)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2005... Microsoft Corp. has quietly released a redaction tool for Office Word 2003 to let users black out sections of confidential data from documents. The security tool, available as a free download, plugs into Microsoft Office Word 2003 to offer...

The Good and the Bad of Self-Service Call Centers.(SpeechTEK 2005)(beliefs of Lynda Kate Smith)
August 4, 2005... NEW YORK--The people who make those maddening speech-enabled call center systems met this week at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel, where the management just installed an even more maddening and irrational elevator dispatch system, to the...

Novell Expands Partnerships with HP, JBoss.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)
August 4, 2005... Novell Inc. continues to make strides in giving enterprises fully qualified and supported software stacks. Together with Hewlett-Packard Co., Novell this week announced an integrated, tested and validated solution for HPC (high-performance...

MS Patch Day: Six Bulletins on Deck.(enhancement of Microsoft Windows)
August 4, 2005... Microsoft plans to release six security bulletins on Aug. 9 to fix a range of potentially serious Windows vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities carry a maximum severity rating of "critical," meaning they could put Windows machines at...

Will Your PC Run Windows Vista?(product details of Microsoft Corp.)
August 4, 2005... Not all PCs will gain a full view of Windows Vista. Microsoft Corp. has yet to finalize the minimum requirements for a PC to run its forthcoming operating system. But numerous PC industry watchers predict a dichotomy for the OS, which is...

Expand Tunes WAN Optimization.(services of Expand Networks Inc.)
August 4, 2005... WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks Inc., following the trend of melding application-performance optimization techniques in a single offering, next month will add support for moving WAFS and CIFS traffic across WAN links. The wide-area...

Microsoft, Google to Tangle in LinuxWorld Trivia Game.(LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)(Brief Article)
August 4, 2005... Two tech giants--Microsoft and Google--have clashed head-on in a few arenas recently: over leadership in the Internet search market, over the use of open-source software--even over employees, like Kai-Fu Lee. Now comes the real test of...

Home Users Need to Plan for the Worst.(analysis of disaster recovery)(Editorial)
August 4, 2005... Businesses, or at least the larger ones, have an easy time spending the time and money to implement some sort disaster recovery scheme. Consumers are a completely different matter. So what is a disaster? It could be a fire, it could be a...

SSA Global to Buy CRM Maker Epiphany.(SSA Global Technologies Inc.)
August 4, 2005... Enterprise resource planning software developer SSA Global Technologies Inc. expanded its breadth Thursday with the acquisition of Epiphany Inc. SSA Global, of Chicago, plans to acquire Epiphany, which develops CRM (customer relationship...

Microsoft Posts How-To on Working with RSS in Vista.(really simple syndication)
August 4, 2005... Microsoft on Wednesday posted the first installment of a blog to advise developers on creating Web pages and RSS feeds that work correctly with IE 7 and Windows Vista. Microsoft plans to provide a common feed list of subscriptions and a...

Microsoft Hires New COO from Wal-Mart.
August 4, 2005... SEATTLE (Reuters)--Microsoft Corp. appointed Kevin Turner, the chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Sam's Club warehouse stores business, as its new Chief Operating Officer, the world's largest software maker said on Thursday. Turner,...

Do Microsoft's Vista Hardware Guidelines Meet the Mark?(Microsoft Windows Vista)
August 4, 2005... While the final hardware requirements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system won't be made public until next summer, testers say the first beta release of the operating system is performing moderately well on existing PC hardware. ...

Commercializing Open-Source Stirs Debate.(Debian Core Consortium, Mozilla Foundation plans)
August 4, 2005... As Mozilla and the Debian Core Consortium move toward commercialization of open-source projects, open-source supporters debate whether this trend is a good idea. While analysts tend to see events like Mozilla spinning off a commercial...

Dell Targets Exchange Procrastinators.(users delaying to use Microsoft Exchange 5.5)
August 4, 2005... With a new migration bundle of hardware, software and services, Dell Inc. is taking aim at the large number of procrastinators now facing the end of support for Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange 5.5. "People haven't moved because it's hard and it...

AOL Purchases Online Storage Company Xdrive.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2005... America Online Inc. announced its purchase of privately held Santa Monica, Calif.-based Xdrive Inc., which offers online storage and backup services. With this acquisition, AOL seeks to provide to its subscribers remote media storage and...

IBM Silicon Process Speeds Communications Chips.(new microchip manufacturing process)(Brief Article)
August 5, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--International Business Machines Corp. plans to introduce on Friday an improvement to a microchip manufacturing process that it says will allow for the production of faster silicon devices for cellular handsets and other...

SarbOx: The Next Generation.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
August 5, 2005... By now, most large companies have had to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which mandates that chief executives certify that their companies have controls in place to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting. To achieve...

Ex-WorldCom Executive Gets Prison Time.(case against Betty Vinson)
August 5, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Betty Vinson, a former midlevel manager at WorldCom Inc., was sentenced on Friday to five months in prison for participating in the $11 billion fraud at the telecommunications company that triggered its bankruptcy. ...