eWeek articles from December 2005

eWeek archives from December 2005

HP Software Chief Denzel Resigns.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Nora Denzel)
December 1, 2005... Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday announced that the head of its software business unit will resign. Nora Denzel, senior vice president and general manager of HP's Software Global Business, will resign as of Dec. 9 for "personal reasons," a...

Flock Gains Traction with Downloads.(new web browser)
December 1, 2005... Flock, the new Web browser which aggregates services no other browser has yet been able to provide, has attracted widespread user attention with its first beta version after only six weeks in release. But it remains to be seen whether its...

ACLU Joins Fight Against Internet Surveillance.(American Civil Liberties Union)
December 1, 2005... The American Civil Liberties Union today joined an expanding group of organizations filing lawsuits against a new rule that increases the FBI's power to conduct surveillance on the Internet. The rule being challenged is one the Federal...

Blog Away. RSS Worms Are A Phony Threat.(David Sancho of Trend Micro Inc. warns about computer worms)
December 1, 2005... Trend Micro's David Sancho paints a scary picture of a future with ubiquitous RSS capability that will come with the deployment of Internet Explorer 7. History has shown that it often makes sense to assume the worst in computer security, but...

EDS Chief Discusses Turnaround, Globalization.(Michael Jordan of Electronic Data Systems Corp. at a forum for business leaders )
December 1, 2005... BOSTON--;Electronic Data Systems is about halfway toward completing its turnaround, said EDS CEO Michael Jordan in a speech here. Jordan offered a summary of progress in the turnaround of the venerable outsourcer and systems integrator in...

SCO Fattens Its War Chest.(The SCO Group Inc. shares declining)
December 1, 2005... Say what you will about The SCO Group Inc.'s chances of winning its Linux-related lawsuits, but at least some of its loyalist shareholders and a member of its board of directors believe in it enough to put their money where their lawsuits are....

Broadcom Sees Big Chip Demand from Digital Devices.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... BANGALORE (Reuters)--;U.S. chip maker Broadcom Corp. expects demand for chips used in portable video players to surge on the back of rising global sales of digital devices, its chief executive Scott McGregor said on Thursday. "We see...

Nokia Boosts Handset Production in China.(expansion plans)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... HELSINKI (Reuters)--;Top mobile phone maker Nokia will expand its handset production in China to boost capacity and flexibility to meet fast-growing worldwide demand, particularly from Asia, it said on Thursday. The Finnish company said it...

Nokia Launches New 3G Phones.(Nokia 6282, Nokia 6234 and Nokia 6233)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... HELSINKI (Reuters)--;The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia launched three new 3G phones on Thursday, including one aimed at new high-speed networks in the Americas. The Finnish company said the new 3G slider phone for the Americas...

Intel to Build $3.5 Billion Plant in Israel.
December 1, 2005... TEL AVIV (Reuters)--;Intel Corp. will build a chip plant in Israel costing more than $3.5 billion, the U.S. company said on Thursday, the largest investment ever by an industrial firm in the country. Intel's second plant in the southern...

CA to Triple Chinese Sales by 2009.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
December 1, 2005... SHANGHAI (Reuters)--;Business software maker Computer Associates International Inc. aims to triple annual sales in China in the next four years to $100 million or more, as it tries to expand its market share by battling Hewlett-Packard Co. and...

Skype 2.0 Beta Launches.(internet telephony services)(Skype Technologies S.A.)
December 1, 2005... As those at Skype are fond of reporting, many millions of Web surfers worldwide have downloaded the company's client; indeed, it's available in 27 languages. A few million of these folks have even gone so far as to use it to either instant...

Sunbelt Will Buy Kerio Firewall.(Sunbelt Software Inc. purchased Kerio Personal Firewall software from Kerio Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Sunbelt Software Inc. said on Thursday that it was buying the Kerio Personal Firewall software from Kerio Technologies Inc. Sunbelt plans to rebrand the product as the Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall and reduce the price of the full version...

ICANN Plays Down U.S. Influence.(International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
December 1, 2005... The company distributing many of the world's Internet addresses is taking more steps this week to fend off criticism that it gives the U.S. government too much control over its operations. But it remains to be seen if critics will be...

DSW to Beef Up Computer Security in U.S. Settlement.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--;Shoe retailer DSW Inc. agreed to beef up its computer security to settle U.S. charges that it did not adequately protect customers' credit cards and checking accounts, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. ...

Storage Digest: News from CommVault, Promise Technology, EMC, Addonics, VMware, Adaptec, ADIC, Iomega.(Promise Technology Inc.'s RAID 6 double parity disk storage architecture)(EMC Corp.'s 20-port Connectrix MDS-9020 Fabric Switch)(VMware Inc.'s VMware Workstation 5.5 desktop virtualization software VMware Workstation 5.5)(CommVault Systems Inc.'s QiNetix 6.1)
December 1, 2005... CommVault upgrades its QiNetix software, Promise Technology introduces a RAID 6 double parity disk storage architecture, EMC announces a new fabric switch, Addonics introduces a port multiplier that connects multiple SATA drives, VMware...

AOL Boosts Web Search for Cell Phones.(America Online Inc.)(InfoGin Ltd.'s technology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... America Online Inc. on Thursday released an updated version of its Internet search engine for cell phones. Improvements are mainly to the Web browsing capabilities. Thanks to technology from Israel-based InfoGin Ltd., Web pages...

Iron Mountain to Buy LiveVault.
December 1, 2005... Providing a major boost to its online backup and recovery services portfolio, Iron Mountain Inc. on Thursday announced an agreement to purchase LiveVault Corp. for approximately $50 million in cash. Prior to the acquisition, Iron Mountain...

Sony's Rootkit DRM Raises Legal Red Flags.(Sony BMG's XCP digital rights management technology )
December 1, 2005... Sony BMG Music Entertainment's XCP digital rights management technology may have gotten the company into trouble in several ways. First, XCP technology manipulates the Windows kernel to make its code almost undetectable on Windows systems....

Hope, Fear Surround the BlackBerry Blackout Scare.(Research in Motion Ltd.)(NTP Inc. )(patent cases)
December 1, 2005... BlackBerry customers and industry observers remained hopeful, concerned and in the dark Thursday, following a court ruling that could lead to the shutdown of BlackBerry service in the United States. Research In Motion Ltd. maintains that...

Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature.(Microsoft Windows Vista's new feature Restart Manager)
December 1, 2005... Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine. Microsoft officials...

Agilent Spinoff Begins Business As Avago.(Avago Technologies)(Agilent Technologies Inc.)
December 1, 2005... On Thursday, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s original semiconductor business will have a go of it yet again. Avago Technologies, which spun out of Agilent Technologies, which in turn spun out of HP in 1999, began operations on Thursday as the...

Novell Earnings Report Shows Linux Gains.
December 1, 2005... Novell's Linux investments are finally showing results as its Linux revenue of $61 million jumped 418 percent from last year's fourth quarter. Novell Inc. announced its fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year financial results, which ended...

Windows Live Mail Inches Closer to Public Beta.(Program Manager Imran Qureshi)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Program Manager Imran Qureshi announced this week on the Windows Live Mail blog the release of the Milestone 4 update to Hotmail's successor, code-named Kahuna. The latest update of what is now known officially as "Windows Live Mail"...

HP Picks Up Identity Management Wares, Loses Top Exec.(Hewlett-Packard Co. acquired Trustgenix Inc)(Carly Fiorina and Nora Denzel departs from Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Oracle Corp. buying Thor Technologies Inc.)
December 1, 2005... Hewlett-Packard Co. became the latest big technology vendor to plunk down cash for identity management technology on Wednesday. HP announced plans to buy Trustgenix Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., for an undisclosed sum. The deal will...

Rivals Wait to Serve BlackBerry Customers.(NTP Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd. patent infringement case)(wireless email service discontinuation by Research in Motion Ltd.)
December 1, 2005... Industry experts said Thursday that it remains unlikely that Research In Motion Ltd. will be forced to shut down its wireless e-mail service as a result of its patent litigation with NTP Inc. But if the company does indeed unplug its BlackBerry...

Critical RealPlayer Flaw Flagged.(flaw in RealPlayer digital media software developed by RealNetworks Inc. which is detected by eEye Digital Security )
December 2, 2005... Researchers at eEye Digital Security have flagged another critical vulnerability in RealPlayer, the digital media software released by RealNetworks Inc. The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based eEye said in a brief advisory that the flaw can be...

Firefox 1.5 Is a Small Step Up.(Mozilla Firefox 1.5 from Mozilla Foundation)
December 2, 2005... Calling Firefox 1.5 a major new release is probably overstating things a bit, but the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser does have some fairly significant new features and improvements. Among the new features in Firefox...

Global Chip Sales Rise 6.8 Percent in October.(demand increased for Semiconductor devices)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2005... AMSTERDAM--;Global sales of semiconductors rose 6.8 percent to $20.05 billion in October versus the year-ago period, and revenues were up 2.5 percent versus the month of September, a survey said on Friday. Demand rose across the board, and...

North Carolina Certifies Voting Machine Vendors.(Election Systems & Software Inc. and Sequoia Voting Systems Inc.)
December 2, 2005... The same week that a North Carolina judge refused to shield Diebold Inc. from criminal liability if it fails to comply with a new electronic voting system requirement, the state's elections board certified Diebold to continue selling its...

Google Gets Enterprising.(expanded its search tools)
December 2, 2005... Google Inc.'s enterprise business may be just a small piece of its expanding empire, but the search giant is aggressively courting corporate customers with a variety of offerings designed to challenge rival Microsoft Corp. for enterprise...

Sports Will Turn to Other Media for Rights Money.(Television broadcasting industry contracts)(broadcast rights of sports )
December 2, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters)--;Video of sports highlights and game scores displayed on cell phones and other new media outlets will lift U.S. sports leagues' broadcast rights fees, offsetting any declines in income from traditional television, media and...

Microsoft Names New Shared Source Initiative Chief.(Jason Matusow is the director of Corporate Standards Affairs of Microsoft Corp.)(Bill Hilf replaces Jason Matusow)
December 2, 2005... Jason Matusow, who has headed up Microsoft Corp.'s Shared Source Initiative, is moving to a new position--;that of director of Corporate Standards Affairs for the software giant. Matusow will be replaced at the helm of the Shared Source...

Supply Chain Software Vendor eBots Becomes Ultriva.(name change)
December 2, 2005... eBots, a leading maker of supply chain software for "lean manufacturing," has changed its name to Ultriva Inc., after receiving $4 million in a new round of financing. "eBots was more a name of the '90s," Michael Coates, a company...

Linux Desktop Needs Major Vendor Support.(Column)
December 2, 2005... I have all the respect in the world for the top Linux developers who are gathering the first weekend in December in Oregon to work on perfecting the Linux desktop. While I'm sure they're going to do great work and make the Linux desktop...

Tech Stocks End Higher for Seventh Week.(Brief Article)
December 2, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters)--;U.S. technology shares ended slightly higher on Friday as gains in chip stocks like Intel Corp. lifted Nasdaq to its seventh week of gains, while a strong jobs report reignited worry about rising interest rates and weighed...

Cingular to Offer Enhanced Push-to-Talk Service.(Cingular Wireless L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2005... Cingular Wireless is set to announce the rollout of a push-to-talk service that goes beyond the capabilities of a traditional walkie-talkie. Launching Monday, the service will include a "convert to cellular" feature that allows a...

Is OpenXML for Real?(Microsoft Corp.'s Office file formats specifications)(Column)
December 2, 2005... I was pretty impressed when, just before Thanksgiving, I came across a Financial Times article reporting that Microsoft was pledging to open up the specifications for its Office file formats, although those specs wouldn't be available for 18...

Search Terms Are a Witness for the Prosecution.(case of murder against Robert James Petrick)(using internet search engine for prosecution)
December 2, 2005... Robert James Petrick, 51, didn't exactly point a Web browser to the Internet search engine Google and type in "how do you kill your wife?" But he came pretty close, say prosecutors in Durham County, North Carolina. Petrick used Google...

States Scramble to Test Ballot Machines.(to avoid problems during elections)(Help America Vote Act of 2002)
December 2, 2005... Gearing up for next year's midterm elections and looming federal compliance deadlines, state election officials are racing to test electronic ballot machines and implement safeguards against problems that have cast clouds over recent vote...

AmberPoint's SOA Management Looks Outside SOAP.(Service Oriented Architecture)(Simple Object Access Protocol)
December 2, 2005... AmberPoint Inc. on Monday will launch the latest release of its namesake SOA application-management software that addresses the growing complexity and increasing maturity of service-oriented architecture implementations. Release 5.0 of the...

Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE's Multimedia Handling.(patent case between Microsoft Corp. and Eolas Technologies Inc.)(changes in Microsoft Internet Explorer )
December 2, 2005... The browser patent spat between Microsoft Corp. and Eolas Technologies took another twist Friday with an announcement from Redmond that it will change the way Internet Explorer handles embedded content on Web pages. The...

AOL Releases Stand-Alone Security App.(for internet security)(AOL Spyware Protection 2.0)(Brief Article)
December 2, 2005... In an effort to better protect its members from the ever-increasing tide of worms, viruses, spyware and other security risks, America Online Inc.'s AOL on Friday rolled out a stand-alone application called Safety and Security Center. The...

Del Monte Cuts Help Desk Calls by 90%.(information technology services of a food company)
December 2, 2005... When two major food companies--select H.J. Heinz food operations and Del Monte--merged a few years ago under the Del Monte umbrella, it forced Del Monte CIO Marc Brown to do some radical consolidation. Almost 100 systems were eliminated and...

The Barriers Are Gone, and the Race Is On.(demand for infdormation technology workers)(Column)
December 4, 2005... The race to the top of the economic ladder is on, as jobs are increasingly becoming digitized and therefore virtualized, enabling knowledge workers from all over the globe to compete for coveted high-paying positions. The Internet,...

Source: Virgin Mobile, NTL Talk Merger.(Virgin Mobile Telecoms Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 4, 2005... LONDON--;Britain's Virgin Mobile Holdings Plc is in merger talks with UK cable operator NTL, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday. "This is just the start of a process that could bring about a group capable of offering a wide...

Paper: NEC Develops 55-Nano Chip Technology.(NEC Electronics Corp. developed Finer circuitry )(Brief Article)
December 4, 2005... TOKYO--;Japan's NEC Electronics Corp. has developed a technology to make advanced microchips with circuitry width of 55-nanometres, or billionths of a meter, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily said on Sunday. Finer circuitry decreases...

Black Duck Adds Prominent Names to Advisory Board.(Black Duck Software Inc)
December 5, 2005... Black Duck Software Inc. is slated to announce Monday a significant expansion of the company's corporate advisory board, including some prominent entrepreneurs and proponents of the open-source model. The Waltham, Mass., company is a...

Mindreef Tool Improves SOA Collaboration.(Mindreef Coral)
December 5, 2005... Mindreef Inc. will announce Monday Mindreef Coral, a new Web services lifecycle collaboration platform for organizations building Web services and service-oriented architectures. The Hollis, N.H., company is expected to make its...

Stratus Offers New Linux Server.(Stratus Technologies Inc.)
December 5, 2005... Stratus Technologies Inc. is expanding its line of fault-tolerant servers running standard Linux with the unveiling today of the ftServer T60. The server, which will be powered by up to four single-core Intel Corp. Xeon chips, will run Red...

Intel to Invest $1 Billion in India.
December 5, 2005... NEW DELHI--;Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, plans to invest more than $1 billion in India to strengthen its research and development and invest in telecoms and technology start-ups, its chairman said on Monday. ...

Virgin Still Trying for China Mobile Deal: Branson.(Richard Branson)
December 5, 2005... SHANGHAI--;A year after announcing he aimed to set up a mobile reselling service in China, Richard Branson said on Monday his Virgin Group was still trying to get a slice of the world's biggest cellular market. Branson said last December...

Java Surpasses C++ on SourceForge.
December 5, 2005... Last week, Java became the dominant language on the SourceForge site for the first time, surpassing C++ in the number of projects on the repository of open-source projects site. As of last Thursday, Java surpassed C++ with 16,738 projects...

Just Follow the Sirens.
December 5, 2005... Well, eWEEK's Jim Rapoza warned Firefox users of likely problems with extension compatibility in his review last week of Firefox 1.5: Others have since confirmed that there's more than a slight speed bump on the road to adopting this Web...

Flaw Found in SQL Server 2000 Profiler.(Microsoft SQL Server)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... A recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 2000 database allows users to mask their log-in names. The vulnerability was discovered by Imperva, a researcher and vendor of data-center security products. The flaw...

T.Italia to Test WiBro Technology at Turin Olympics.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... MILAN--;Telecom Italia has signed a deal with South Korea's Samsung Electronics to run trials of new Wireless Broadband (WiBro) mobile technology at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Telecom Italia, racing to claim a bigger slice of the...

Is a New Vulnerability the Tip of the Perl Iceberg?(Perl_sv_vcatpvfn Format String Integer Wrap Vulnerability)
December 5, 2005... Last week a serious vulnerability was revealed to relatively little attention from the press, or even from security circles. I think it's a real nasty one, especially in as much as it will go widely unpatched. The program at issue is the...

Time Warner Cable Digital Phone Service Grows.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... NEW YORK--;Time Warner Cable on Monday said its digital phone service has more than 1 million customers, a month ahead of when the Time Warner Inc. unit told Wall Street it would hit that milestone. The company told Wall Street it would...

Cape Clear Joins Eclipse.(Eclipse Foundation)(Cape Clear Software Inc)
December 5, 2005... Cape Clear Software Inc. Monday announced its membership in the Eclipse Foundation, the open-source community focused on building and maintaining an open-source development platform that spans the application lifecycle. By aligning its...

JBoss Buys Technology from HP, Arjuna.(Arjuna Technologies Ltd)(Hewlett-Packard Co)
December 5, 2005... JBoss Inc. Monday announced the acquisition of Web services and transaction management technology from Hewlett-Packard Co. and Arjuna Technologies Ltd., with plans to open source the technology and blend it into the JBoss open-source middleware...

BlackBerry Dispute Goes Way Too Far.
December 5, 2005... Greg Aharonian, who follows patents pretty closely, says there is probably a book to be written about the four-year battle between Research in Motion and NTP Inc. that now, at least theoretically, threatens e-mail service to 3.5 million...

Podcast 'Hijacker' Says Business as Usual.
December 5, 2005... According to George Lambert, creator of the Podkey redirection service that allegedly hijacked a Podcast and held it for ransom, the alleged victim registered with his service to begin with and the "ransom" simply represents fees that would be...

nLayers' New Release Adds Discovery, Relationship Mapping.(nLayers Inc.)
December 5, 2005... nLayers Inc. ratcheted up the competition in the application discovery and mapping arena on Monday at the Gartner Data Center Conference with the latest release of its InSight software. With its new InSight Release 4.5, the San Jose,...

Authentication Vendor RSA Reshuffles, Grabs Cyota.(RSA Security Inc)
December 5, 2005... Secure authentication company RSA Security Inc. announced a number of moves that will refocus and streamline the company, including the acquisition of Cyota Inc., which makes software that can detect malicious software programs. RSA, based...

Two Years Later, Blaster Worm Still Squirming.
December 5, 2005... More than two years after Blaster turned the summer of 2003 into an IT administrator's worst nightmare, the worm is still very much alive and there are fears within Microsoft that thousands of Windows machines will never be completely dewormed....

Sonic Seeks to Clarify Enterprise Service Bus.(Sonic Software Corp.)
December 5, 2005... Sonic Software Corp. on Monday introduced its definition of an enterprise service bus. In a reference model called "Sonic ESB: An Architecture and Life Cycle Definition," Sonic laid out its definition of an ESB and offered a comprehensive...

America Online Lends Podcasting an Ear.
December 5, 2005... CHICAGO--;Imagine if librarians organized book collections based on a 14-word description of each title. The results, no doubt, would leave much room for improvement. That's loosely the case for the growing number of features for finding...

Microsoft Plans 30 Innovation Centers.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2005... NEW DELHI--;Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it would set up 30 new innovation centers around the world, adding to its existing 60, in partnership with local governments, academic institutions and industry organizations. It gave no details,...

Time Warner, Microsoft Near Ad Deal: WSJ.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2005... NEW YORK--;Time Warner Inc. is closing in on a deal with Microsoft Corp. to team up on an online advertising service to compete with Google Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the talks. The paper...

Linux Desktop Developers Find Common Ground.
December 6, 2005... Open Source Development Labs Inc. this weekend called together architects from over two dozen key desktop-oriented Linux projects to work out their differences and to find common cause in their efforts to create the best possible Linux desktop....

Google Desktop Tweaked to Avoid IE Flaw.
December 6, 2005... Google Inc. has made an "adjustment" to its Google Desktop application to protect users from an unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser. The bug, which was discovered and reported by Israeli hacker Matan...

Garages Have Mythic Power in Silicon Valley.
December 6, 2005... PALO ALTO, California (Reuters)--;Garages are a thing of lore in Silicon Valley. Tucked away down a narrow driveway on a leafy, quiet street here is perhaps the most famous garage in the valley and, arguably, in all of the technology...

Microsoft RTMs Windows Server 2003 R2, Cuts Price.
December 6, 2005... The long march to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 is over, as the company on Tuesday released to manufacturing the final code for this long-awaited server software, throwing in a $100 price cut on its Virtual Server for a little holiday bling...

Quantum's New Security Framework Protects Tape.
December 6, 2005... Shifting storage network defenses toward an access control model capable of securing stand-alone tape drives, tape cartridges, tape automation and disk-based backup systems, Quantum Corp. this week unveiled a new security framework and...

MCI Launches Network Security Service.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2005... MCI Inc. Monday launched the NetSec Security Risk Management Service, a repackaging and automation of a number of security offerings the company has delivered in the past. The NetSec service allows enterprises to quantify, prioritize and...

9/11 Commission Criticizes Preparedness.(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 report)
December 6, 2005... The government has fared poorly in implementing the 9/11 Commission's recommendations to reduce critical infrastructure risks and assess vulnerabilities, according to the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, which is made up of the 10 individuals who...

Irish Eyes Are Smiling on Open Source.(Open Source Center of Excellence )
December 6, 2005... BELFAST, Northern Ireland--;Initiatives are under way to create an Open Source Center of Excellence across Ireland that will provide the expertise to examine and discuss the use and potential of open source going forward. Momentum NI, a...

Microsoft: Stealth Rootkits Are Bombarding XP SP2 Boxes.(Windows XP SP2 systems)(Service Pack 2)
December 6, 2005... More than 20 percent of all malware removed from Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) systems are stealth rootkits, according to senior official in Microsoft Corp.'s security unit. Jason Garms, architect and group program manager in Microsoft's...

Cisco Technology to Boost Software Performance.
December 6, 2005... NEW YORK--;Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday said it is introducing technology to speed the performance of software programs running over long-distance corporate networks, as the communications equipment leader seeks out a stake in how the next...

Google, Rivals Go Separate Ways on Books.
December 6, 2005... CHICAGO --;At the most, there was maybe 10 feet separating executives from the world's three leading Internet search engines as each shared the same stage here at an Internet search conference. But as each exec spoke of their company's...

Sun Pushes NetBeans Worldwide.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2005... On the heels of news that Java is surpassing C and C++ for use in many open source projects, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced a broad-based program to distribute its NetBeans open source Java development platform to developers throughout...

Cingular Wireless Launches High-Speed Data Network.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2005... Cingular Wireless on Tuesday launched its highest-speed data network service in several major U.S. cities. Based on HSDPA (high speed download packet access,) the BroadbandConnect service provides average throughput rates of 400K bps to...

SAP Buys Data Integration Software Developer.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2005... SAP AG quietly acquired a small data integration software developer, Callixa Inc., several months ago that it will use as a core component of its NetWeaver platform, according to SAP officials. Callixa's technology is "around helping...

Intalio Buys FiveSight Technologies.
December 6, 2005... Intalio Inc. Tuesday announced the acquisition of FiveSight Technologies, a privately held provider of an open-source implementation of the Business Process Execution Language 2.0. Redwood City, Calif.-based Intalio, which calls itself the...