eWeek articles from August 2006

eWeek archives from August 2006

Cingular to Raise Prices for Users of Older Phones.(Cingular Wireless L.L.C)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Cingular Wireless, a venture of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., said on Monday it would start charging customers with older phones an extra $4.99 monthly fee as early as September unless they upgrade their phones as it moves...

IBM Unveils New Opteron Servers.(International Business Machines Corp. contracts with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
August 1, 2006... NEW YORK--IBM is rolling out a family of servers that combine Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor with its own hardware and software technology to increase performance and system utilization while addressing the growing problems of power...

AMD, Intel Brace for Third-Quarter Showdown.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
August 1, 2006... Chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel intensified their battle in the second quarter. The tumultuous period saw the rivals pare back chip prices--while Intel also battled its own inventory problems--amidst declines in processor...

Combating Skills Shortage, IBM Hosts University Workshops.(International Business Machines Corp.)
August 1, 2006... As part of a larger effort to combat the shortage of skills in the IT marketplace, IBM is bringing its application development technologies right through the front doors of academia. The company is hosting its first statewide university...

IBM to Sell New Computers to Businesses.(International Business Machines Corp. contracts with Advanced Micro Devices for its Opteron processors)
August 1, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--IBM, the world's largest technology services company, on Tuesday is announcing new server computers giving businesses access to computing power typically used by universities and large corporations. The five...

EDS Posts Higher Second Quarter Profit.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Electronic Data Systems Corp. reported higher quarterly earnings on Tuesday after it turned a profit on a mammoth U.S. Naval contract that had lost money a year earlier. EDS, the world's No. 2 technology services...

Verizon Beats Profit Forecasts; Wireless Strong.(Verizon Communications Inc.)
August 1, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Verizon Communications, the nation's biggest telephone company, on Tuesday reported better-than-expected quarterly operating earnings on strong growth in its wireless business. Excluding special items, Verizon earned 64...

Vonage Posts Wider Loss on Marketing Costs.(Vonage Holdings Corp)
August 1, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. on Tuesday reported a wider net loss for the second quarter as it spent heavily to market its Web-based calling service. Vonage, whose shares have lost more than half their...

Four Countries Commit to Buy 4 Million Linux-Powered OLPC Laptops.(One Laptop Per Child program )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child program reported July 31 that the countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina and Thailand have each committed to purchase 1 million Linux laptops through the U.S.-based program. Several media...

EPA Claims Vastly Improved Security.(Environmental Protection Agency contracts with Computer Sciences Corp.)
August 1, 2006... Even with the renewed scrutiny being given to government IT systems in light of the recent laptop theft at the Department of Veterans Affairs, officials working with the Environmental Protection Agency say the organization has significantly...

The Real Windows Housecleaning Begins.(Microsoft Corp. appionts Brian Valentine and Steven Sinofsky and plans for release Vista code to volume licensees)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... The next Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, is beginning to make his presence felt in Microsoft's Windows organization, even before Windows Vista is out the door. On Aug. 1, Microsoft announced internally to its employees some of the changes...

Pasadena Selects EarthLink for Muni Wi-Fi Network.(municipal wireless Internet network)
August 1, 2006... The city of Pasadena, Calif. selected EarthLink Aug. 1 to enter into final negotiations to build, own and operate a 23-square mile citywide municipal wireless Internet network, the fourth major metropolitan project the ISP has in the works. ...

Sun Digging Deep for Dynamic Language Support.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
August 1, 2006... REDMOND, Wash.--Sun Microsystems is planning to increase support for dynamic languages and is looking at various ways to better allow dynamically typed languages to run on the Java Virtual Machine. Gilad Bracha, a computational theologist...

MOM Gets a Major Face-Lift.(Microsoft Operations Manager, System Center Operations Manager 2007)(ystem Center Operations Manager 2007)
August 1, 2006... Microsoft Operations Manager, or MOM, has gotten a major face-lift along with a new name--System Center Operations Manager 2007. Now in beta and expected to ship by January 2007, SCOM 2007 has a new user interface and expanded management...

eEye Warns of Worm Hole in McAfee Anti-virus Products.(McAfee Associates)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... A code execution vulnerability in software products sold by Internet security vendor McAfee could put millions at risk of computer takeover attacks, according to a warning from eEye Digital Security. The flaw affects fully patched versions...

Superstar CIOs See Bigger Paydays.(Chief information officers)
August 1, 2006... There's no sure formula for measuring the worth of a CIO. But we can gawk at what some superstars get paid. Baseline's 2006 CIO compensation ranking shows that most of the 46 technology executives on the list got fatter wallets last year....

Oracle: Open Source No Threat in Enterprise Database Space.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Oracle is holding its own in the open-source database space, while not seeing any competition in the enterprise database market from open-source companies, Bob Shimp, the vice president of Oracle's technology business unit, told eWEEK July 31....

Feds Relax Anti-Fraud Laws on Health IT Donations.
August 1, 2006... New regulations will allow more physicians to accept gifts of technology from hospitals and other organizations. The regulations, announced August 1 by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, are intended to spur adoption of...

Novatel Wireless XU870.
August 1, 2006... Wow. The first ExpressCard/34 for HSDPA, the Novatel Wireless's XU870, is a petite powerhouse of a card that makes the most of high-speed cellular networks. You can't buy it yet, but I hope you will be able to do so soon. Owners of newer...

Report: IT Workers Less Restless.(Survey)
August 2, 2006... Fifty percent of IT workers surveyed said they are not likely to look for a new job in the coming months, up from 44 percent last quarter, which may suggest greater satisfaction in their current employment situations, according to a report...

Free to Be GPL 3?(Free Software Foundation, General Public License 3.0)
August 2, 2006... At the end of last month, the Free Software Foundation released a second discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3. We're now in the midst of a public comment period and, perhaps fortunately for those of us who chronicle...

FTC: Rambus Monopolized Memory Chip Market.(Federal Trade Commission )(Brief article)
August 2, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--The U.S. Federal Trade Commission ruled on Wednesday that computer technology developer Rambus Inc. unlawfully monopolized markets for four memory chip technologies. The FTC said in a statement on its Web site that...

Microsoft Details Server 2003 SP2 Plans.(Microsoft Windows Service 2003 Service Pack )(Brief article)
August 2, 2006... With beta testing under way for Windows Service 2003 Service Pack 2, which also is designed for Windows XP x64 edition, Microsoft is providing a bit more details about the impending upgrade. Windows Server program manager Ward Ralston says...

Alohabob to See Light of Day with Vista RC1.(Microsoft is planning to release acquired application migration technology from Apptimum Inc.)
August 2, 2006... Microsoft is planning to release its recently acquired application migration technology, known as Alohabob, along with the first release candidate for Windows Vista later this quarter. Microsoft acquired the Alohabob technology with the...

FBI: Hackers Must Help Fight Web Mob.(Federal Bureau of Investigation)
August 2, 2006... LAS VEGAS--The FBI's point man for Internet crime wants hackers to join the fight against international gangs of Web mobsters. Dan Larkin, unit chief of the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, used the spotlight of the Black Hat security...

Better Base Pay But Fewer Bonuses for IT Pros.
August 2, 2006... In a change from prior pay structures, more than half of IT professionals are now earning better pay for additional tech skills, but not via cash bonuses, according to a study released Aug. 2 by Foote Partners, a New Canaan, Conn.-based IT...

The Age of Sell Phones.(mobile marketing)
August 2, 2006... A free product coupon is a free product coupon, right? If it's for the same product at the same merchant and the pricing and timing are roughly the same, it shouldn't matter how that coupon is given to the merchant. Andrew Kamps, the vice...

Intel Offers Security Fixes for Centrino.
August 2, 2006... Intel has updated the software behind its Centrino chip bundle to fix three security vulnerabilities that, in one case, could allow an attacker to execute code remotely on a laptop. The chip maker on July 28 posted a trio of updates for its...

Wyse, VMware Split the Desktop from the PC.(Wyse Technology Inc.'s S Class desktop uses Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance of VMware Inc.)
August 2, 2006... Wyse Technologies and VMware are doing the dance of the virtualized desktop. Wyse on August 2 rolled out hardware designed to support VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, software that allows companies to host and distribute a...

An Early Look at Freespire.(Linspire Inc.)(Brief article)
August 2, 2006... In two weeks, Linspire Inc. will release Freespire, its community Linux distribution. This new distribution isn't just another Linux distro. It will represent the first Linux to include most of the legally licensed and available,...

What's Next for Microsoft's adCenter?(online-advertising platform)
August 2, 2006... Few Microsoft watchers would count 'adCenter' as important to Microsoft as Windows, Office, Visual Studio and Xbox. But much of Microsoft's software-services future is dependent on the success of its online-advertising platform, which...

Time Warner Changes AOL Strategy.(America Online Inc.)
August 2, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Time Warner Inc. on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit after signing up more phone and Internet customers, while online advertising jumped 40 percent, bolstering its plan to offer AOL's e-mail and Web services for free to...

Hackers Expose 'Critical' Wi-Fi Driver Flaw.(Black Hat security conference )(wireless drivers flaw which shipped on Apple MacBook laptop)
August 3, 2006... LAS VEGAS--Wi-Fi-enabled computers are sitting ducks for code execution attacks because of gaping flaws in wireless drivers shipped on both Mac and Windows systems, security researchers warned at the Black Hat Briefings security conference...

Apple in Deals to Connect iPod in New Car Models.(Apple Computer teamed up with Ford Motor, General Motors and Mazda Motor)
August 3, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Apple Computer on August 3 said it has teamed up with three major automakers to link its popular iPod music player with car stereos, laying down a new challenge to a fragmented radio industry. Ford Motor, General Motors...

Nortel Hits Profit, but Margins Fall Short.(Nortel Networks Corp.)
August 3, 2006... (Reuters)--A large accounting gain allowed Canadian telecom equipment giant Nortel Networks Corp. to report a second-quarter profit Thursday, but the company said profit margins continued to be squeezed and fell short of its targets. ...

Sprint Profit Falls.(Sprint Nextel Corp.)
August 3, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Sprint Nextel on August 3 reported weaker-than-expected revenue and wireless subscriber growth in the second quarter and cut its full-year outlook, driving shares down 16 percent to a two-year low. Hefty merger charges...

AOL Says Workforce to Shrink by a Quarter.(America Online Inc.)
August 3, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Time Warner Inc.'s AOL online division said on Thursday that some 5,000 workers, or about a quarter of its staff, would no longer be on its payroll within six months as part of a restructuring that includes selling its...

Experts Point to Weaknesses in NAC Security.(Network Admission Control)(Black Hat Briefings security conference)
August 3, 2006... LAS VEGAS--While Network Admission Control technologies are being heralded as a major step forward in helping to secure corporate IT infrastructures, security researchers contend that the tools remain open to a range of threats. At the...

The Dilemma of Reporting Spyware Attacks.(Black Hat Briefings security conference)(Federal Trade Commission's Eileen Harrington)
August 3, 2006... LAS VEGAS--The Federal Trade Commission is asking corporations to report incidents when they are victimized by spyware attacks, but some experts say the process of doing so puts businesses in a tricky position, where they must weigh the...

Security and the Home Enterprise.(Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2)(Column)
August 3, 2006... Here at Larry Seltzer's House, Inc., the computing infrastructure has always been more sophisticated than the neighbors' and more complex than it really has to be. But I have capabilities from which all home networks would benefit, and toward...

Top Chinese PC Maker Lenovo Edges into Black in Q1.(Lenovo Group Ltd.)
August 3, 2006... HONG KONG, Aug 3 (Reuters)--Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's third-largest computer maker, squeezed into the black in the first quarter, beating expectations as it made some headway in turning around a loss-making business bought from IBM. ...

Fujitsu's Light and Super Thin Ultraportable.(Fujitsu Siemens Computers released laptop computer 'Fujitsu LifeBook Q2010 ')(Brief article)
August 3, 2006... For several months now, Fujitsu has been giddy about an ultraportable that's no thicker than a magazine and can be carried just like one. True to that promise, the Fujitsu LifeBook Q2010 is officially the lightest notebook I've ever seen...

The Biggest Wireless Disappointments of 2006.(Brief article)
August 3, 2006... I try to stay positive, I really do. I whistle in the hallways, crack jokes on Gearlog Radio, and every day wake up my giggling baby girl with a smile. But the wireless world is full of disappointments--expectations raised only to be...

InfoCenter vs. iTunes: The Battle of the Podcatchers?(developed by Marc Mercuri)(Brief article)
August 3, 2006... Would more people subscribe to RSS feeds and podcasts if they were easier to capture and manage? That's the perception of Marc Mercuri, an architect evangelist on the Microsoft developer and platform evangelism team, who has developed in...

FCC Supports Broadband over Power Lines.(Federal Communications Commission)
August 3, 2006... WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission decided Aug. 3 to reaffirm its stance on the deployment of broadband-over-power-line technology. In a Memorandum Opinion and Order adopted by the FCC today, the commissioners affirmed that BPL...

E-Mail Retention: The High Cost of Digging Up Data.(Claudia Quinby sued WestLB for sex discrimination and retaliation)
August 3, 2006... In the cool air of a law firm conference room one day last summer in New York, conversation flares hot. Hostile lawyers handling a sex discrimination case against investment bank WestLB shoot questions at Ken Bigelow, chief information...

ActiveX Fuzzer Runs IE Through Security Mill.(HD Moore ships new ActiveX fuzzer testing tool)(serious flaw reported in Cisco IOS (Internetwork Operating System))
August 3, 2006... LAS VEGAS-- Michael Lynn, the security researcher who provoked a firestorm of controversy at the 2005 Black Hat conference, just wants to fly under the radar this year. Lynn, who quit his job at Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems to...

AJAX Vulnerabilities Could Pose Serious Risks.(Web 2.0)(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
August 3, 2006... LAS VEGAS--AJAX technology is rapidly being adopted by online businesses to help boost the interactivity of their Web sites, but a long list of potential vulnerabilities introduced by inexperienced programmers could create a troubling security...

Microsoft Plans Patch Day Dozen.(Brief article)
August 3, 2006... Microsoft plans to issue a dozen security bulletins on August 8 to cover a wide range of security vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Office users. The Redmond, Wash., software maker said that 10 of the 12 bulletins will contain patches...

Problems Plague Windows Live Spaces.(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
August 3, 2006... Microsoft's Aug. 1 launch of its Windows Live Spaces blogging/social-networking platform has not been a smooth one. Customers of Microsoft's successor to MSN Spaces are reporting a variety of performance, publishing, rendering and...

Readers Respond to Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech.(Letter to the editor)
August 3, 2006... I read with interest the career central section of News & Analysis in the July 10 issue, as well as the article at eWEEK.com, "Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech," both of which quote statistics from the Dice.com job site. ...

Storage Users All Together Now.(storage networking user group)
August 3, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO--Storage networking may take on a new meaning when considering the quick growth of enterprise storage user associations. This city's initial meeting of a SNUG (storage networking user group) took place Aug. 1, and the first...

Microsoft Sways Black Hatters with Vista Security Pledge.(Black Hat security conference)
August 3, 2006... LAS VEGAS--When Microsoft launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002, many industry watchers doubted the seriousness of the software giant's pledge to improve the security of its products. As the company prepares to release its...

IBM Picks Off Another Software Acquisition Target.(International Business Machines Corp., MRO Software)
August 3, 2006... IBM in its continuing march of software acquisitions on Aug. 3 announced its plans to acquire industrial and IT asset management provider MRO Software for $740 million. The move comes a day after IBM announced its acquisition of privately...

Gateway Desktop Has Designs on High End.(E-Series 6610 personal computers)
August 3, 2006... Gateway is getting to the core of business PCs. The Irvine, Calif., PC maker on Aug. 3 rolled out the E-Series 6610, a high-end business desktop based on Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor. Gateway created the new desktop, which pairs...

Online Office Apps Fall Short for Enterprise.
August 3, 2006... When Microsoft releases Office 2007 later in 2006, the major overhaul of the venerable office productivity suite is likely to spur an examination of lower-priced alternatives. Competitors such as Sun Microsystems' StarOffice,...

Gateway Posts Loss as Legal Costs Gain; Shares Fall.
August 3, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO--Gateway Inc., the third-largest U.S. personal computer maker, on Thursday posted a quarterly loss as legal expenses increased and it added to warranty reserves, sending its shares sharply lower. Gateway said its second...

Caltrain Tests Onboard Wi-Fi.
August 3, 2006... Within a year, the Caltrain commuter rail system expects to have public wireless access available to its riders on the 80-mile line that runs from San Francisco to San Jose's southern suburbs. The rail system announced the successful...

MS Watches as Vista Gets '0wn3d' by Rootkit.(Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista)
August 4, 2006... LAS VEGAS--Ben Fathi slipped into the darkened, standing-room-only conference room and took a seat on the carpeted floor. On the Black Hat stage, malware researcher Joanna Rutkowska, of COSEINC, was discussing a new technique that could...

VMware to Give Demo at Apple's WWDC.(Apple Computers Worldwide Developers Conference)(Brief article)
August 4, 2006... Virtual machine developer VMware will make an announcement on Aug. 7 in conjunction with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. VMware said it would give demonstrations to the press a few hours after Steve Job's keynote address. A...

Oracle Adds IDS Scheer's BPM to Fusion Middleware.(Business Process Management)
August 4, 2006... Earlier this week, Oracle announced, finally, that it has inked a deal with IDS Scheer to add the company's business process modeling platform, Aris, to the ever-expanding Fusion Middleware collection. As part of the agreement to include...

Tesla Roadster Electric Car: Is the Time Right?
August 4, 2006... On paper, the Tesla Roadster is the electric car that's finally going to revolutionize transportation. I want to see it happen. I hope it happens. If Tesla wants to change the course of history, it has to change the mixed history of electric...

Is GPL 3 Dead on Arrival?(General Public License 3)(Brief article)
August 4, 2006... We've been talking, meeting and arguing over GPL 3 for nearly two years. Recently, the second draft of the long-awaited rewrite of the popular free-software license arrived. The debate has begun all over again. If we're lucky, we'll see a...

Lenovo to Load Linux on ThinkPad Laptop.(Lenovo Group Ltd.)
August 4, 2006... Lenovo Group is planning a full embrace for Linux. The PC maker, at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo beginning Aug. 14 , will announce a plan to pre-load Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on one of its ThinkPad notebooks, sources...

Microsoft Takes LSD to Test Vista Security.(Last Stage of Delirium)
August 4, 2006... LAS VEGAS--Remember the LSD--or Last Stage of Delirium--hacking group? Back in 2003, the group of four Polish security researchers discovered the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) interface vulnerability that would later be used to unleash the...

Desktop Linux Breakthrough: Lenovo Preloads SUSE on ThinkPad.(Lenovo Group contracts with Novell, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0)(ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation)
August 4, 2006... Finally. For years, the holy grail of the Linux desktop has been to get a major computer vendor to commit to preloading a Linux desktop. It finally happened. On August 4, we found out that Lenovo Group, the company that has taken over...

Cyber-Thieves Steal $700K Via ATM Hacking.
August 4, 2006... Cyber-thieves who hacked into the ATM information of at least 800 retail customers in California and Oregon have stolen as much as $700,000 from personal accounts during the last two months, according to police reports. People who used ATM...

Report: State, Local Health IT Spending to Swell.
August 4, 2006... New legislation and certification programs will boost state and local government spending on health and welfare IT from $7.6 billion in fiscal year 2006 to $12.2 billion by fiscal year 2011, concludes a report from Input, a firm that helps...

SLED 10 Is a Linux Distro Windows Users Can Love.(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0)
August 4, 2006... In a fairly short time, Novell has transformed itself from a firm that had next to nothing to do with Linux into one of the Penguin's most visible and aggressive flag-bearers. For evidence of this metamorphosis, we need look no further than...

Graphics: But Seriously.
August 4, 2006... You're a serious IT professional who deals only with serious IT issues, such as storage, enterprise content management, server arrays, high-performance computing and complex development. When you go to technology conventions, you go only to...

Cisco Quarterly Revenue Seen up But Outlook Cloudy.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
August 4, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Cisco Systems Inc. is expected to post higher quarterly sales as companies upgraded their communications networks, but analysts say the outlook is clouded by an economic slowdown and mergers among rivals. Analysts said...

Apple Keeps 'Em Guessing.(Apple Computer Inc. plans for Worldwide Developers Conference )
August 4, 2006... With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference about to kick off in San Francisco, the usual rumors, innuendo and sheer guessing of what CEO Steven Jobs is about the reveal is well underway. It is no surprise to anyone that, as in years past,...

Viacom, Google Aim Ad-Backed Videos at Web Sites.(contracts with MTV Networks)
August 6, 2006... NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Viacom's MTV Networks has agreed to distribute clips from its cable networks over Google's advertising network, in a test of what could become a new economic model for Web-based video delivery, the companies...

Lenovo Means Business with AMD Desktop PC.(Lenovo Group, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
August 7, 2006... PC maker Lenovo Group says its business customers want more choice, so it's offering machines with processors from Advanced Micro Devices. Lenovo, as expected, will on August 8 unveil ThinkCentre A60, a new line of business desktops...

Sun Slashes 5,000 Jobs, 950 in U.S.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... After boasting fiscal fourth-quarter revenue gains the week prior, Sun Microsystems laid off approximately 5,000 workers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Aug. 4 as part of an ongoing plan to improve profits. The job cuts,...

Borland Brings Back Its Turbo Tools.(Borland Software Corp.)
August 7, 2006... Borland Software's Developer Tools Group is moving back to the company's roots and relaunching its Turbo brand of products--offering the tools both for beginners and nonprogrammers, as well as for professionals. Borland officials said the...

VMware Tool Allows Macs to Run x86 OSes.(VMware Server 1.0)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Virtual machine developer VMware will unveil software on Aug. 7 that will allow Intel-based Macintosh computers to run x86 operating systems. The announcement, first reported on Aug. 4, will take place during the first day of Apple's...

Giant Health Insurance Claims Database Pilot Unveiled.
August 7, 2006... Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is creating a database of health insurance claims from 79 million of its clients. The data will have no personal identifiers and is intended to be a resource for evaluating health care trends, treatments,...

Leopard Spotting Piques Developers' Interest.(Apple Computer Inc. display their plans for new version of operating system and servers)
August 7, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO--The new Leopard version of Mac OS X with its Time Machine feature, along with the briefly mentioned Xcode 3 application development environment, held attendees' attention Aug. 7 at Apple Computer's keynote speech at this year's...

Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs.
August 7, 2006... Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said. As Virtual PC...

The Next Research Frontier: Game Cheating.
August 7, 2006... After recognizing that I had a computer gaming problem in college (this is where I spent my time in the early '80s), I basically swore the things off. Back then, decent gaming hardware could only be found in arcade games; graphics hardware...

QuarkXPress 7 Available as a Universal Application for Mac OS X Tiger.(Quark Inc. released DTP software)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Quark is making QuarkXPress 7, its desktop-publishing package, available as a universal application for the Mac OS x 10.4 Tiger. The QuarkXPress 7.01 update is available at no cost for Macintosh users of QuarkXPress 7.0. The Denver, Colo.,...

Apple's Leopard Leaps Out at WWDC.(Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple Computer Inc.)
August 7, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO--Steve Jobs was at his jovial best, and why not? The Apple CEO and co-founder had a slew of interesting new products to introduce, and he was preaching to a cheering choir of developers Aug. 7 at the opening of Apple Computer's...

Apple's Mac OS X Leopard: A 3-D Impossible Dream.(Apple Computer Inc.)
August 7, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO--Apple Computer once again showed it still owns the secret sauce when it comes to computer interface design (and maybe even with hardware industrial design). At the keynote address on Aug. 7 to Apple's faithful developers...