eWeek articles from February 2005

eWeek archives from February 2005

L-3 Eyes Homeland Security Acquisitions.(L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.)
February 1, 2005... Riding high on a stellar financial quarter, surveillance systems vendor L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. is pondering future opportunities--and possible acquisitions--in cargo security and other antiterrorist aspects of homeland security, as...

CollabNet Leader: Software Development in a Sorry State.(Brian Behlendorf)
February 1, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--The current state of the corporate software market could best be described as a train wreck, Brian Behlendorf, the chief technical officer and co-founder of CollabNet, said here Tuesday at the OSDL (Open Source Development...

SAP Invests in Automotive Software, Mercury Deal.(contract between Mercury Interactive Corp. and SAP AG)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... SAP said in its fourth-quarter 2004 earnings call last week that 2005 would be a year of significant investment. Just out of the gate, the company's making strides. SAP AG, of Walldorf, Germany, announced on Tuesday that it had purchased...

Open Source Initiative Changes Leaders.(reorganization)
February 1, 2005... The Open Source Initiative announced Tuesday that it is replacing its longtime president, Eric S. Raymond, and other officers. The moves are part of the group's plans to expand its activities beyond its management of the Open Source...

Google Profit Soars on Ad Sales.
February 1, 2005... Profits and revenues continued to soar for Google as it posted its second quarterly earnings report since becoming a public company. The search company reported Tuesday that its revenue doubled both for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 and...

Microsoft Will Be Responsive to EU-Gates.(Bill Gates)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates will ensure the software giant is "very responsive" to the antitrust demands of the European Union, he said on Tuesday. The EU's executive Commission believes Microsoft is dragging...

Turning to the Web for Health.(standards of National Committee for Quality Assurance)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Health plans are signing up to find out how well they use the phone and Web to help patients manage their health conditions and understand their benefits. The program is part of the National Committee for Quality Assurance's plans to...

Acrobat 7 Takes Center Stage at Spring AGI Show.(conference of AGI Computer Inc.)
February 1, 2005... Not only did Acrobat 7 get a makeover late last year, but so did the 1.6 PDF spec and many of the LiveCycle PDF server products. And, don't forget, many third-party software developers of plug-ins and stand-alone utilities and applications have...

Skype Releases VOIP Software for Mac, Linux.(introduction of Internet phone software by Skype Technologies S.A.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... VOIP provider Skype released final versions of its software for the Macintosh and Linux on Tuesday morning. Skype originally released both versions of its software in beta form. All of Skype's features, including its global address...

PHP Consortium Tackles Third-Party Application Security.
February 1, 2005... Worried that the credibility of the PHP scripting language is being hurt by high-profile security flaws in third-party applications, an international group of coding experts is taking matters into their own hands. The group, which includes...

Center Offers Open Source License Defense, Legal Services.(Software Freedom Law Center)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... The OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) has raised $4 million to seed a non-profit, independent legal center that will provide free services to eligible open source developers and projects. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) will offer...

OSDL Helps Fund New Open-Source Legal Center.(financing of Open Source Development Labs to Software Freedom Law Center)
February 1, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--The open-source industry is stepping up to the plate to protect its developers and projects from legal attack. The Open Source Development Labs, a global consortium established to accelerate the adoption of Linux, has...

Sun Opening a Global Grid.(opening of six grid centers by Sun Microsystems Inc.)
February 1, 2005... Sun Microsystems Inc. is ready to unveil its Sun Grid. At its quarterly product rollout on Tuesday, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will announce that it is opening six grid centers around the world, according to Sun officials. Sun...

Downloadable Databases Pose Security Dangers.(computer viruses, SANS Internet Storm Center)
February 1, 2005... Are they lazy? Stupid? Or merely inexperienced? It's baffling that so many database administrators or casual non-DBA downloaders were responsible for leaving weak or default passwords on MySQL databases and thus allowing the MySpooler bot...

Dell Rolls Out New Models, Upgrade Program.(introduction of Dell Computer Latitude and Precision computers)
February 1, 2005... Dell rolled out several new notebooks, mobile workstations and services for business users on Tuesday. Dell Inc.'s new Latitude notebooks and Precision mobile workstations are built on Intel Corp.'s Sonoma architecture, which is the latest...

Open-Source Leaders Accept New Challenges.(Open Source Development Labs Enterprise Summit)
February 1, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--A slate of Linux and open-source software luminaries took to the stage Tuesday here at the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) Enterprise Summit, as they discussed how their interests and concerns have expanded along with...

Google Targets Internet Domains.(contract between Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and Google Inc.)
February 1, 2005... Google Inc. is continuing to expand its Internet aspiration, this time by adding the title "domain-name registrar" to its list of roles. Google on Friday officially became a registrar after completing a contract with the Internet...

ViGuard Not Close Enough For Virus Work.(ViGuard Security Pack)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2005... The holy grail of malware detection is the generic threat detector, unburdened by the need for updates to account for every new variation of every virus that comes out every day. Such a product could just know a threat when it sees it based on...

Software, Storage Top Tech Spending Lists - Survey.(chief information officers)
February 1, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software and storage are at the top of corporations' technology wish lists in 2005, with services and computers less of a priority, according to Merrill Lynch's survey of 100 chief information officers released on Tuesday....

i2's Revenues Down for 2004.(sales and earnings of i2 Technologies Inc.)
February 2, 2005... i2 Technologies signed a number of deals in the last financial quarter, with customers that included Sun Microsystems, but the supply chain vendor's total revenues dropped for both the quarter and the 2004 financial year. In response, i2...

Privacy Debate Misses the Point.(Ari Schwartz and Scott McNealy)
February 2, 2005... With the debate over renewal of the Patriot Act and talk of turning driver's licenses into national ID cards, the privacy issues long familiar to the tech community are headed for political center stage. "There is a lot of movement'' on...

Rand McNally, TCS Bring Traffic Warnings to Cell Phones.(service introduction of Rand McNally and Co. in partnership with TeleCommunication Systems Inc.)
February 2, 2005... Rand McNally has started delivering real-time traffic information to some wireless phone users, the company announced Wednesday. Rand McNally & Co. is working with Annapolis, Md.-based TCS (TeleCommunication Systems Inc.) to deliver the...

Enterprises Seek Direction on Utility Computing Front.(Panel Discussion)
February 2, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--Utility computing holds promise because of its basis in lower-cost hardware and software, but enterprises require better ways to manage and provision their computing resources before they can fully take advantage of the...

Xign's Order-to-Pay Service Aims to Save Time, Money.("Xign Payment Services Network" of Xign Corp.)
February 2, 2005... Xign's on-demand Order-to-Pay service, called the XPSN (Xign Payment Services Network), offers an electronic order delivery, invoice processing and payment service for business-to-business commerce. The service has processed more than $50...

Power Politics Overshadow $100 PC Concept.(Nicholas Negroponte and Wenchi Chen)
February 2, 2005... DAVOS, Switzerland--Nicholas Negroponte, wandering around this city, was trying to get people excited about the idea of a very small, very cheap PC, costing $100. A favor, if you like, for the poor countries at the World Economic Forum, from...

Clustering Eases Talk America's Replication Woes.(technology application of Talk America Holdings Inc.)
February 2, 2005... Talk America Holdings Inc., a phone and high-speed Internet access provider and an early adopter of Oracle Corp.'s 10g technology, has untangled itself from 50 Informix databases down to two Oracle databases running on an RAC cluster--a choice...

Sun Stakes Future on Grid Computing.(services of Sun Microsystems Inc.)
February 2, 2005... SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Sun Microsystems Inc. senior executives hope to put Sun in a dominant position as a low-cost grid computing system provider before IBM or Dell Inc. are tempted to engage in a price war for a comparable set of services. ...

Rewriting GPL No Easy Task.(Eben Moglen, General Public License)
February 2, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--In 1991, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, rewrote the GNU General Public License and simply put the final version out over e-mail; that was the last time the GPL has seen significant change. ...

Hacker 'Mudge' Returns to BBN.(appointment of Peiter Zatko at BBN Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist. Better known in security circles as Mudge, Zatko was one of the founding members of the...

Microsoft Launches EuroScience Initiative.(investment plans of Microsoft Corp.)
February 2, 2005... Microsoft on Wednesday announced a major program to invest in research centers in Europe, touching on traditional scientific research as well as aspects of computer science. The EuroScience Initiative, officially launched with Microsoft...

SBC: AT&T Becomes You.(merger proposals between AT&T Corp. and SBC Communications Inc.)
February 2, 2005... I may be alone in this, but I have always thought the breakup of AT&T was stupid and probably did more to hinder the advance of new technology than to help it. As for pricing, AT&T's prices were always what regulators said those prices were...

First Was Phishing, Next Is Pharming.(Scott Chasin)
February 2, 2005... You probably think you're pretty safe from phishing attacks, right? After all, how difficult is it to ignore a "security warning" from a bank you don't do business with? Or a non-grammatical message purportedly from PayPal that says your...

Exploit Released for Combined RealPlayer, IE Flaws.(defects of RealPlayer 10.5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer)
February 2, 2005... Security researchers have found a way to combine two unrelated--and unpatched--vulnerabilities in RealPlayer and Internet Explorer to launch malicious hacker attacks on PCs. According to an advisory from Secunia, exploit code that could be...

IBM Seeks Documents from Intel.(cases between International Business Machines Corp. and The SCO Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. has requested documents from Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, as it prepares its defense in a billion-dollar dispute with SCO Group Inc. over the Linux operating...

IBM to Buy Irish Business Services Firm.(acquisition of Equitant by International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... DUBLIN (Reuters) - IBM Corp. beefed up its business services unit on Wednesday with an agreement to buy Ireland's Equitant, which caters to companies looking to outsource their financial administration. IBM, which has made a series of...

Symbian Unveils More Powerful Smartphone Software.(Symbian Ltd.)
February 2, 2005... AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - British mobile phone software maker Symbian, part-owned by Psion, unveiled on Wednesday a new version of its operating system that supports high resolution cameras and three-dimensional games graphics. The software,...

Boggled by Google: Wall Street Way Off Mark.(securities of Google Inc.)
February 2, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Google Inc.'s blowout quarterly earnings lit up buy orders for the stock on Wednesday, yet the huge upside surprise shows how Wall Street analysts are struggling in the dark when forecasting Google's results. Google, as...

HP Targets Mobile Workers with New Notebooks, iPaqs.(planning of Hewlett-Packard Co.)
February 2, 2005... Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday launched a series of products, services and partnerships aimed at the mobile workforce. The announcements ranged from new hardware to various plans to improve wireless networking. "No other company...

IBM Widens Net in SCO Subpoena Search.(cases between International Business Machines Corp. and The SCO Group Inc.)
February 2, 2005... IBM has started a round of depositions aimed at gleaning as much information as possible about the contents of communications between The SCO Group and its business partners. A subpoena for one such deposition was served on Intel Corp. for...

Hitachi Third-Quarter Profit Plunges.(sales and sales forecasts of Hitachi Ltd.)
February 2, 2005... TOKYO (Reuters)--Hitachi Ltd., Japan's largest electronics conglomerate, said on Wednesday its quarterly profit fell by nearly half due to lower prices of flat panels and other electronics goods, and cut its full-year outlook. Electronics...

MSN to Support Electronic ID Card Technology.(development of authentication applications by Microsoft Corp. and Microsoft Network L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... Microsoft Corp.'s Belgian subsidiary has launched an electronic ID card pilot program and is looking to integrate authentication for e-ID cards into future versions of the MSN Messenger instant messaging service. Microsoft Belgium on...

Linspire Chief Defies DRM Wave with New Music Service.(digital rights management)(Michael Robertson)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... Challenging the trend toward digital rights management, former MP3.com chief and Linspire CEO Michael Robertson will re-enter the music world next week with MP3tunes, a service that promises music without DRM restrictions. The announcement...

SBC to Cut 13,000 Jobs After Buying AT&T.(SBC Communications Inc.)
February 2, 2005... NEW YORK (AP) -- SBC Communications Inc. said Tuesday it expects to eliminate about 13,000 jobs after its $16 billion acquisition of AT&T Corp. closes, but the telephone company stressed that many of those positions can be cut through attrition...

Linksys Goes Long with MIMO-based Wireless.(multiple in multiple out)(technology application by Linksys Group Inc., World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency and TGn Sync Group)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... Two large industry "Pre-N" groups, the TGn Sync Group and the World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWSE), each espouse a different approach to achieving 100Mbits/sec of usable throughput in the upcoming 802.11n high-speed wireless standard that will...

Could Cellular Be Added To MP3 Players?(product development by Freescale Semiconductor)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2005... Freescale Semiconductor said Wednesday that it is sampling its Mobile Extreme Convergence embedded cellular architecture to customers, potentially adding wireless capabilities to a variety of mobile devices. One of those customers is...

ISPs Need To Keep Moving Against Spam.(Internet service providers)
February 3, 2005... Back in June of 2004 I argued that ISPs need to start rate-limiting use of their outbound SMTP servers. I was right, although for reasons that were a little off. But it's a good example of a larger point worth making: ISPs need to be diligent...

Plans to Parcel Linux Standards Base Meet with Approval.(standards of Free Standards Group)
February 3, 2005... The Free Standards Group has decided to break up the single, core Linux Standards Base specification into different modules that can be combined to create a server or desktop LSB standard, but what do the companies behind Linux and the analysts...

WebEx Slaps Citrix with Cyber-Squatting Suit.(cases between Citrix Systems Inc. and WebEx Communications Inc.)
February 3, 2005... A week after entering the remote-access market, WebEx Communications has sued one of its top competitors for allegedly cyber-squatting. WebEx Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Citrix Systems...

Microsoft Preps 13 Security Advisories.(release of software patches )(Brief Article)
February 3, 2005... Microsoft's February Patch Day will be a busy one for IT administrators. The software giant on Thursday announced plans to release 13 security advisories on Feb. 8, including "critical" fixes for Microsoft Office, Windows Media Player and...

New HP Software Boosts Business Continuity.(enhancement of HP StorageWorks Business Continuance Software)
February 3, 2005... Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced three new additions to its HP StorageWorks Business Continuance Software portfolio that are designed to drastically improve replication and automatic failover capabilities of HP StorageWorks EVA (Enterprise...

Microsoft Keeps Office 12 Cards Close at Dev Conference.(Microsoft Office System Developer Conference)
February 3, 2005... Microsoft is hosting about 800 of its system partners, ISVs and Office application developers at its Redmond, Wash., campus this week to drill down into deep technical issues, talk about high-level business challenges and explore what the...

The Software Patent Conundrum.(patent law)
February 3, 2005... Patents pose a simple question: Should an idea be protectable and, if so, how should it be protected and for what period of time? You'd think that as important as ideas have become and how long they've been around--like forever--that by 2005...

Philadelphia to Announce Wi-Fi Expansion Plans.(telecommunications policy)
February 3, 2005... The city of Philadelphia will release details of its wireless expansion plan next week. The plan, according to city CIO Dianah Neff, is to cover the entire city from downtown to local neighborhoods with low-cost, wireless broadband access. ...

Grid (Still) Muddies the Licensing Waters.(grid computing usage)
February 3, 2005... Software licensing is a mess. As systems grow more open to linking with other grids and more apt to be used by users across the globe, resources are being virtualized like mad. Web services use is growing, grid computing is leaping...

Municipal Wi-Fi: Let's Keep It Local.(telecommunications policy)
February 3, 2005... Advocates of Big Broadband took their case against municipal Wi-Fi public on Thursday with a new report from the New Millenium Research Council. Six researchers and spokespeople from outside research organizations, all of whom contributed...

HVD: Coming to a Storage Device Near You.(technology application planning of Optware Corp.)
February 3, 2005... Holographic storage drives and other products based on holographic storage technology may come to market as early as this year. Tokyo-based Optware Corp. announced plans this week to create products based on its HVD (Holographic Versatile...

OASIS Blesses UDDI Directory Spec for Web Services, SOA.(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems; universal description, discovery and integration; service-oriented architecture)
February 3, 2005... Aiming to boost business uses of Web services, OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, on Thursday announced that UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) specification Version 3.0.2 was...

High-Risk Flaws Patched in Eudora.(enhancement of Qualcomm Eudora 6.2.1)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2005... Qualcomm has pushed out an update for its Eudora e-mail client to fix multiple security flaws that put users at risk of computer hijacking. The San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., which offers a free version of the client alongside premium...

OneVision Updates Speedflow Impose.(enhancement of Speedflow Impose 2.2 by OneVision Software AG)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2005... OneVision Software AG, a print and media production software solutions provider, has released an updated version of its imposition software aimed at strengthening the focus on network production. Speedflow Impose supports PDF 1.6, the new...

Global Software Patent Scrap Continues, EU Restarts Process.(trade policy of European Union)
February 3, 2005... The European Parliament's legal affairs committee, called JURI, has voted nearly unanimously to ask for a restart to the process around the European Union's proposed IT patents legislation. The decision will continue the turmoil over...

Google Surges Past eBay as Valuation Debate Rages.(market value of Google Inc. and eBay Inc.)
February 3, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. overtook eBay Inc. as the biggest Internet company in terms of stock market value on Wednesday after posting strong quarterly earnings, but some investors remain leery of whether the shares are worth the price....

Yahoo Builds Search into Web Pages.(service introduction)
February 3, 2005... In its latest move to expand the reach of its search results, Yahoo Inc. released a service late Wednesday that provides related search results within the context of a Web page. Yahoo launched a beta test of the service called Y!Q in an...

Study Finds Doctors with EHRs Have More Complete Patient Information.(survey of physicians about electronic health records)
February 3, 2005... Patients' care may be adversely affected by missing information in as many as 220 million patient visits each year, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association this week. Electronic medical records...

Photoshop Cloning Tool Automatically Corrects for 3-D Perspective.(Mok3)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2005... Mok3, a provider of solutions for creating and editing photo-realistic 3-D scenes from 2-D images, has introduced a Perspective Clone Brush plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. According to Mok3's Jan. 31 press release, this plug-in lets graphic...

Acartus Utility Converts XML Data to PDFs.(Acartus Inc.)(Portable Data Format)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2005... Acartus Inc., a developer of enterprise report management software, this week announced the release of an XML-to-PDF plug-in for its ERM platform, ApertureONE. The utility introduces support for XSL-FO (extensible style language -...

MCI Weighs Qwest Bid, Talks with Verizon.
February 4, 2005... PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - MCI Inc. has received a $6.3 billion takeover bid from Qwest Communications International Inc. and has held talks with another potential suitor, Verizon Communications Inc. , sources familiar with the situation said on...

Telecom Deals Create Buzz.
February 4, 2005... When Congress came up with its plan to let long distance telephone companies sell local phone service, local phone companies sell long-distance service, and the market move toward open competition, legislators likely never envisioned what is...

IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration.
February 4, 2005... IBM's and Microsoft's collaboration software strategies are headed for a collision this spring when they pit, respectively, all-in-one products against integrated, a la carte offerings. Microsoft Corp., in the first half of the year, plans...

Cisco Wireless Networking Leader Takes a Break.
February 4, 2005... The vice president and general manager of Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit is leaving his post for at least six months, officials at the San Jose, Calif., networking giant confirmed Friday. Bill Rossi, who joined Cisco Systems Inc....

Gates Pins Hopes on SharePoint.(Brief Article)
February 4, 2005... Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has some big hopes and dreams for SharePoint, Microsoft's collaboration technology. Gates sang SharePoint's praises Friday during his keynote address at the first Office System Developer Conference. Microsoft...

PalmSource to Present Linux Roadmap at DevCon.(Brief Article)
February 4, 2005... PalmSource will present its product roadmap for feature phones and Linux at its annual Developers Conference, set for May 23-26 in San Jose, Calif. Registration is open for the conference, which will feature a Mobile Summit to "identify and...

Reports: FBI Shutters Public E-Mail System.(Federal Bureau of Investigation)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2005... The FBI has shut down an e-mail system it uses to communicate with the public as it investigates a potential security breach, according to multiple media reports Friday. Citing FBI officials, The Associated Press reported that the e-mail...

Chicken Swimsuit Model Hides Nasty Worm.
February 4, 2005... Anti-virus vendors have raised the threat level on a double-barreled MSN Messenger worm that lures users with the promise of sexy image files. The worm, identified as W32/Bropia, arrives as a download link within MSN instant messaging...

Sears Switching from NYSE to Nasdaq.(NewYork Stock Exchange)(Brief Article)
February 4, 2005... Sears will move to Nasdaq once it completes its merger with Kmart in March, joining high-tech firms like Intel and Microsoft. One-letter ticker symbols are used on the NYSE, but the Nasdaq requires four-letter tickers. There was a cachet to...

Tech Industry Seeks Novelty at DEMO, VSLive.
February 4, 2005... Hot new technologies (and no doubt, novel spins on old technologies) will be showcased next week at two conferences: DEMO, the computer industry's exclusive winter gathering in the desert, and VSLive, Microsoft's annual developer meeting...

Analysis Finds MySQL Code Low on Bugs.
February 4, 2005... Just in time to counter security taints from last week's MySpooler worm, which spread via weak MySQL passwords on Windows installations, MySQL on Friday got a clean bill of health from code analysis firm Coverity Inc. The five Stanford...

MySQL Criticized in Wake of MySpooler Worm.
February 4, 2005... In the wake of the MySpooler worm that spread via weak MySQL passwords on Windows installations last week, database users criticized the open-source database for lax security lockdown on installation, saying that it should be held to the same...

Search Startup Targets Digital Downloads.(GoFish Technologies Inc.)
February 4, 2005... As Google and Yahoo dive into indexing television programs and video, a San Francisco-based startup company is taking a different approach to searching for multimedia content as it prepares to expand. GoFish Technologies Inc. has created an...

FBI Unable to Launch New Computer Program -Audit.(investigation of Federal Bureau of Investigation)
February 4, 2005... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI has squandered $170 million on a failed computer system agents can use to instantly share information, and seems to know neither how long it will take nor how much it will cost to build one, a Justice Department...

Matson Integrated Logistics Buys Texas Transportation Firm.(Aquitaine Assets Ltd.)(Matson Navigation Co. Inc.)
February 4, 2005... Matson Integrated Logistics, a division of ocean carrier Matson Navigation Co. Inc., has acquired Aquitaine Assets Ltd., a $20 million transportation and technology company in Texas, for an undisclosed sum. MIL's main reason for acquiring...

Japan FTC Thinks Intel Violated Antitrust Law.(Fair Trade Commission)(investigation of Intel Corp's Japanese unit)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2005... TOKYO (Reuters)--The Japanese unit of Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip maker, declined comment on Saturday on media reports that it would receive a warning from Japan's antitrust regulators about its business practices. The daily...

Sox Hurting Small Business?(reform of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)(Brief Article)
February 5, 2005... After a deluge of complaints by such organizations as the American Bankers Association and the American Electronics Association that Sarbanes-Oxley is wreaking havoc on small business budgets, the SEC in late December formed the SEC Advisory...

Fujitsu in Talks with Sharp on LCD Ops.(liquid crystal display operations)(Fujitsu Ltd., Sharp Corp.)
February 6, 2005... TOKYO (Reuters)--Japanese chips-to-computers conglomerate, Fujitsu Ltd., said on Sunday it is in talks with Sharp Corp., the world's largest maker of LCD televisions, to sell its loss-making LCD panel operations. The deal would mark...

Anti-Spyware Vendor Webroot Raises $108 Million.(finance of Webroot Software Inc.)
February 6, 2005... Enterprise anti-spyware software vendor Webroot Software has raised $108 million in a first round of funding. The Boulder, Colo.-based Webroot Software Inc. said the round was led by TCV (Technology Crossover Ventures), a venture capital...