eWeek articles from June 2006

eWeek archives from June 2006

Keeping Tabs in a Virtualized World.(International Business Machines Corp. introduced Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager software)
June 1, 2006... IBM is introducing a product designed to make it easier to see who is using resources in distributed and virtualized environments. The Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager is a Web-based tool that can track the usage of the resources and...

Airlines See 'Fines or Jail' Dilemma in EU Data Row.(if they violate data sharing policy)
June 1, 2006... PARIS, June 1 (Reuters)--Global airlines accused the United States and Europe of failing to coordinate security and trade policies on Thursday, saying a European court decision to halt a data-sharing deal had left them in legal no-man's-land....

Yahoo Makes Web Video Search More Like TV Channels.
June 1, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (Reuters)--Yahoo Inc. is making it easier for Web surfers to find videos by upgrading its search system to become more like saving favorite TV channels with a remote control, the company said on Wednesday. The...

Online Jobs Index Rises to Record High.(Monster Worldwide Inc.)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--A monthly index of online recruitment rose to a record level in May, reflecting hiring demand in most industries, Monster Worldwide Inc. said on Thursday. The parent of job-hunting Web site Monster.com said its Monster...

Net Neutrality Alternative Proposed.(Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report)
June 1, 2006... The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has published a report that addresses the increasingly controversial issue of net neutrality currently making waves on Capitol Hill, in order to offer up an alternative solution. ...

Oracle to Acquire Demantra.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Oracle announced June 1 its plans to acquire supply chain management software developer Demantra. The terms of the deal are undisclosed. Demantra offers software for demand management, sales and operations planning and trade promotion...

Return of Porn-Fetching 'YapBrowser' Raises Eyebrows.
June 1, 2006... A rogue Web browser that was removed from the Internet after security researchers found it was serving up child porn advertising has suddenly reappeared, with a peculiar twist. The YapBrowser, also known as YapSearch or YapCash, now comes...

E-Mail Addresses to Steer Snail Mail?(Inventerprise LLC's Shelmail e-mail-to-snail addressing system)(U.S. Postal Service using email)
June 1, 2006... The U.S. Postal Service was recently asked to start delivering packages and letters based on someone's e-mail rather than street address. The request is from Los Angeles-based Inventerprise LLC, which wants to conduct a trial run of its...

Script# vs. Google GWT: May the Best AJAX Tool Win.(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)(extended markup language)(Script# was developed by Microsoft Corp.)
June 1, 2006... On the heels of Google's announcement of a Java-based development framework for AJAX, a Microsoft Web architect has unveiled a tool designed to provide C# developers with similar AJAX programming capabilities. Nikhil Kothari, an architect...

AMD to Double Down on Chip Designs.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. innovating new processor architectures)
June 1, 2006... Advanced Micro Devices is diversifying its chip design efforts. The chip maker will deliver two new chip architectures in 2007, changing the circuitry that underlies its server and desktop chips as well as its notebook and emerging market...

H-1B Supply Tapped Out in Record Time.(U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service announced on June 1 that the 65,000 H-1B visa supply has been exhausted for the 2007 fiscal year, four months before new ones will be made available. The H-1B, launched in 1990, is a temporary...

Mobile Armor Releases Wireless Suite.(signed contract with the Office of the Secretary of Defense)
June 1, 2006... Mobile Armor is now supplying wireless security solutions to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, said Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Bryan Glancey. According to Glancey, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is the company's biggest...

Sun Is Banking On Its Upgraded Storage Business.(Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems Inc.)
June 1, 2006... If Sun Microsystems is going to pull itself out of a five-year financial nosedive, one of the three key areas in which it will need to perform well is data storage--a very competitive market for which the company is not well known. ...

eWEEK Tech News Podcast, June 2.(Microsoft Corp. is developing web development software based on C# framework)(U.S. Postal Service is to use email addresses)(layoffs at the Sun Microsystems Inc.)
June 1, 2006... eWEEK's Daily Tech News Podcast for June 2, 2006 Sun announced it will lay off 5,000; now analysts are wondering if that's a big enough cut. Microsoft strikes back ag Google's Java tool with a C# framework for AJAX development....

FCC Mulls Taxing VOIP Calls.( Federal Communications Commission)(Voice over Internet Protocol)
June 1, 2006... Businesses that moved to voice over IP calling services to lower their phone bills could see a portion of their savings disappear if the most recent FCC proposal to add VOIP services to the Universal Service Fund is adopted. FCC Chairman...

Sprint to Deliver Broadband BlackBerry.(BlackBerry 7130e developed by Research In Motion Inc. will be shipped by Sprint Nextel Corp.)
June 1, 2006... Sprint Nextel has begun shipping a new version of Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry device, designed to take advantage of its Power Vision mobile broadband network. The company will also upgrade an earlier version of the BlackBerry...

Vapps, Skype Plan Free Conference Call Offer.
June 1, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--A New Jersey start-up that offers conference-calling services to businesses aims to upend the market by offering free conference calls to Skype's 100 million users worldwide, the company said on Thursday. ...

Russian Software Makers Search for Growth.
June 1, 2006... MOSCOW, Russian Federation--In the global software jungle, it doesn't help to be small. Despite growing at 30 percent per year in many cases, Russian software makers are often unknown and in danger of being trampled in the stampede to send work...

M-Systems Launches Options Probe.(M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.'s internal stock options investigation)
June 1, 2006... BOSTON (Reuters)--M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd. on Thursday joined a list of companies engulfed in a widening probe over stock options grants and postponed a stock offering, sending its shares down as much as 15 percent. The...

California Assembly Votes Bill Easing Cable Rules.(Fabian Nunez passed the bill of franchising)
June 1, 2006... SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters)--California's Democratic-dominated Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday that could increase competition among cable television providers and make it easier for telephone companies to enter the market. The...

eWEEK Tech News Podcast, June 1.(Microsoft Corp.'s capital investments and its collaboration tools)(Novell OpenSUSE 10.1)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... eWEEK's Daily Tech News Podcast for June 1, 2006 Steve Ballmer offers no apologies for Microsoft's planned increase in capital investments; Microsoft will roll out a roadmap for collaboration tools in early June; CA's fortunes are drooping...

Mom and Pop Camping Shop Gets E-Commerce Boost.(Campmor )
June 1, 2006... Nature enthusiasts no longer have to make a major hike to take advantage of the vast array of camping, fishing, rock-climbing and canoeing supplies housed within the walls of outdoor specialty equipment retailer Campmor. Since...

A Bargain-Basement MP3 Player.(SanDisk Sansa c150)(Product/service evaluation)
June 1, 2006... The SanDisk Sansa c150 is a flash-based MP3 player available in 1-gigabyte (model c140, $109.99 list) and 2-gigabyte ($169.99 list) models. It runs on a standard triple-A battery, has an FM tuner, does voice and FM recording, and supports...

AOL Says Fixes E-mail Software Glitch.(America Online Inc.)(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Internet service AOL said on Thursday it had resolved a software problem that delayed the transmission of millions of e-mails since the late morning. Many AOL members had been unable to send or receive new e-mails since...

WSJ: Microsoft Expects Adobe to File Antitrust Suit.(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... There is an updated version of this story available. For the most recent version, click here [link omitted]. NEW YORK (Reuters)--Microsoft Corp. said it expected Adobe Systems Inc. to file an antitrust suit in Europe after talks to use...

Will Adobe Take Its Microsoft Malcontent to the Courtroom?(Adobe Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... It's not surprising that Adobe Systems is worried about Microsoft's growing encroachments into its core markets. But now Adobe is said to be ready to take its dissatisfaction to the courts. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 2 that...

CA Releasing Revamped Mainframe Access Tools.(Computer Associates Inc.)
June 2, 2006... Computer Associates will release updated versions of its mainframe identity and access management applications on June 5, promising stronger tools for locking down big iron systems and cleaning out expired user privileges. The Islandia,...

Microsoft Ditching Backwards Compatibility.(Microsoft Xbox 360)(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... Let's rewind to last May before Microsoft announced what was happening with Xbox 360. Rumors were flying that the next-generation Xbox wouldn't even have support for original Xbox games because of the hardware differences; unlike Sony and...

Mozilla Fixes 'Highly Critical' Firefox, Thunderbird Flaws.(Mozilla Foundation)
June 2, 2006... Mozilla's Firefox browser has been updated to fix 13 security vulnerabilities, five rated critical. The open-source group on June 1 shipped Firefox 1.5.0.4, a security and stability release to correct flaws that could cause security bypass,...

Micron Prepared to Raise Offer for Lexar.(Micron Technology Inc.)(Lexar Media Inc.)(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Micron Technology Inc. said on Friday it was prepared to raise its offer for Lexar Media Inc. to quell shareholder opposition, but shares in both companies fell on investor belief that the increase was a final sweetener to...

JetBlue Wins an Air-Ground Wireless License.(of Federal Communications Commission )(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--JetBlue Airways Corp. won a wireless license to offer high-speed Internet and other communications services on commercial aircraft in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction that ended Friday. The company's...

PluggedIn: Runners Join Crowd of GPS Users.(Global Positioning System)
June 2, 2006... AMSTERDAM (Reuters)--The Global Positioning System, already indispensable for soldiers, pilots and truck drivers, is now also useful for a run around the park. The idea was born out of frustration, when Finnish inventor Ville Kampman found...

President Clinton to Supply Chain Conference: 'Do Right and Do Well'.(held by AMR Research Inc.)
June 2, 2006... SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--The supply chain in the 21st century is about a lot more than supply and demand, according to Bill Clinton, the forty-second president of the United States: It's about matching capability and opportunity. It's an...

YouTube Upgrade Turns One-Hit Wonders into Stars.
June 2, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--YouTube unveiled a major upgrade of its Web site on Friday that will transform how millions of YouTube fans find videos by encouraging them to subscribe to channels that focus on the latest work of favorite artists or...

Microsoft to Adobe: Let's Make a Deal.(antitrust case)
June 2, 2006... Following a published report claiming that Adobe Systems is poised to launch an antitrust suit against Microsoft over Microsoft's Office 2007 planned PDF support, Microsoft is going on the offensive and discussing what has led to the impasse...

New CEO: Nokia's Appetite for Acquisitions Higher.(Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo)(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... HELSINKI, (Reuters)--Nokia's interest in buying companies has increased, its new chief executive said Friday, adding that the world's largest cellphone maker aimed to strengthen its multimedia and enterprise solutions units. "I think that...

Report: Disk Storage Market Sees Revenue Jump.
June 2, 2006... Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues continue to spiral up, growing 10.3 percent in first quarter of 2006 from a year ago to $4.2 billion, according to IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker report. The...

AMD Wants to Free Businesses from the Desktop PC.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
June 2, 2006... Advanced Micro Devices is aiming to shake up the business PC. The company, via a project it has dubbed Raiden, is eyeing new approaches to client computing for businesses. Raiden was officially unveiled by AMD during the chip maker's June 1...

Study Finds Companies Snooping on Employee E-Mail.
June 2, 2006... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Big Brother is not only watching but he is also reading your e-mail. According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as...

Paragon Wireless Touts Wi-Fi/Cellular Phone.(Hipi)
June 2, 2006... Calling its new product the "first commercialized voice optimized dual-mode handset," Paragon Wireless has begun selling its Wi-Fi/cellular dual-mode phone in the United States, starting the week of May 29. Previously, the phone had been...

Ubuntu's Dapper Drake Is One Impressive Linux Distro.(Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service))(Brief article)
June 2, 2006... Perhaps the most widely anticipated Linux distribution of the year finally arrived on June 1: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Service), aka Dapper Drake. Already number one on DistroWatch's latest seven-day download tracker, the Dapper Drake...

Internet on U.S. Planes Moves Closer to Takeoff.
June 2, 2006... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--The prospect of fast Internet connections aboard U.S. commercial airline flights moved ahead on Friday when JetBlue Airways Corp. and another company won licenses for airborne communications services. LiveTV LLC, a...

Sun Cuts Back.
June 2, 2006... In Labs, Jason Brooks gives thumbs up to OpenSUSE 10.1. In commentary, Peter Coffee says Address Space Layout Randomization may be a way to thwart attacks; Spencer Katt thinks he's seeing "Groundhog Day" over and over again at CA. ...

UK Journalists' Union Calls for Yahoo Boycott.
June 2, 2006... LONDON (Reuters)--The union representing journalists in the UK and Ireland called on its 40,000 members to boycott all Yahoo Inc. products and services to protest the Internet company's reported actions in China. The National Union of...

Cisco to Enter Physical Security Market.(Linksys Wireless-G PTZ Internet Camera, Cisco Systems Inc.)
June 2, 2006... Networking gear maker Cisco Systems is taking the first steps of what could be a major initiative aimed at expanding its business into the growing market for products that integrate IT and physical security technologies. The company's...

mValent Matures Automated Configuration Management.
June 2, 2006... As enterprise IT shops struggle with configuration and compliance reporting on increasingly complex application infrastructures, more and more are turning to automation tools to help ease the burden. Three-year-old startup mValent on June 5...

Mandelson Blasts China over Copyright Piracy -Paper.(Peter Mandelson )(Brief article)
June 3, 2006... BERLIN--China must crack down on domestic theft of European firms' copyrights, European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson was quoted as saying on Saturday. "There is a great deal of theft and counterfeiting of intellectual property...

Saudi Firms to Award $267M Deal to Cisco, Thales.(Cisco Systems Inc., Mobily)(Brief article)
June 3, 2006... RIYADH--Three Saudi firms led by mobile telecommunications operator Mobily will award a deal worth 1 billion riyals ($266.7 million) to Cisco Systems and France's Thales, a Mobily spokesman said on Saturday. "We will sign on Tuesday the...

Micron, Lexar Boards Approve Amended Deal Terms.(Lexar Media Inc., Micron Technology Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--The boards of Lexar Media and Micron Technology Inc. on Monday approved sweetened terms for their proposed merger deal, now worth $945 million, despite opposition from a major shareholder. Memory chip maker Micron said...

Cisco Targets Service Providers' Triple-Play Ambitions.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
June 5, 2006... Cisco Systems at the Globalcomm conference on June 5 planted a flag in the fertile service provider ground in its aim to be the triple-play services enabler for telecommunications carriers. Cisco added new hardware and software enhancements...

Finjan Files IP Lawsuit Against Secure Computing.(Patent infringement)
June 5, 2006... Finjan Software, which makes security applications and appliances aimed at fighting viruses and other forms of malicious code, has filed a lawsuit against rival Secure Computing and the company's CyberGuard and Webwasher subsidiaries. ...

Can Microsoft Make Vista Less Annoying?(Microsoft Windows Vista)
June 5, 2006... Microsoft plans to make several significant tweaks to the next beta of Windows Vista to make a key security feature less annoying to users. In response to widespread criticisms that the implementation of the UAC (User Account Control)...

Readers Respond: Save Me from Cleverness.(Letter to the editor)
June 5, 2006... Peter Coffee's May 15 Epicenters column, "Save Me from Cleverness," rightly criticizes elements of the C language. Why not follow 'this' to the logical conclusion--use Pascal? Pascal is far superior to C in its innate error checking. Modern...

Face It: Linux Is Insecure.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... Linux is insecure. Open source is insecure. Windows is insecure. All software is insecure. Deal with it. People keep having this delusion that security is a product. That, if you just buy some magic box, you'll have a program or an...

Accelerated Intel Roadmaps Spur New Mac Speculation.
June 5, 2006... For the first time, talk about new Intel processors is raising the pulses of editors at Mac-centric Web sites. This is a major change from the years when Apple Computer's Macintosh computers were powered by PowerPC chips from Freescale...

Supercomputer Serves as Weapon in AIDS Fight.
June 5, 2006... Researchers at Stony Brook University's Center for Structural Biology wanted to understand how an essential HIV protein switched between two known conformations. They used computer simulation to model the transition and identified a new...

Lenovo Still Loves Linux.(Lenovo Group)
June 5, 2006... A company executive's recent statement that Lenovo Group would no longer support Linux on its ThinkPad line sparked disapproval among aficionados of the operating system. However, the PC maker, whose ThinkPad notebooks are said to be...

Robots Clean Floors--and Save Lives, Panel Says.
June 5, 2006... WASHINGTON--Calling robots a "disruptive technology," iRobot Chairman and Founder Helen Greiner said that robots made by her company have already saved the lives of dozens of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. She said that robotics will be...

Survey Shows Mobile App Gap.
June 5, 2006... Wireless users in the United States are adopting advanced applications, but the level of adoption is far behind the rest of the world, according to a survey of wireless usage habits conducted by Siemens, AG. The survey, which was released...

Intel to Shed Communications Chips?
June 5, 2006... Intel may sell off two communications processor product lines, exiting a major portion of its communications chip business, a published report says. A San Jose Mercury News report says the chip maker has been shopping a package consisting...

Samsung, Toshiba Go Big with New Disk Drives.
June 5, 2006... Samsung and Toshiba on June 5 introduced their largest storage disk drives yet--Samsung with two new 400GB desktop/server drives and Toshiba with a 200GB drive for laptops and notebooks. Samsung's SpinPoint T133 series disk drives are aimed...

Swedish Security Police Probe Suspected Web Attacks.(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... STOCKHOLM--Sweden's domestic intelligence agency said it would probe why the government's Web site crashed on Sunday amid reports hackers had sought revenge for a crackdown on alleged online piracy. The government Web site went off line in...

New Security Tools Debut at Gartner Show.
June 5, 2006... A range of security technology providers used Gartner's ongoing IT Security Summit in Washington to introduce new products on June 5. Among the firms launching products at the 12th annual security gathering hosted by the market analyst...

VMware Not Resting on Laurels, President Says.(Diane Greene )
June 5, 2006... CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--More players may be coming into the increasingly competitive virtualization space, but VMware is not ready to relinquish its leadership role, according to the company's top executive. At the company's analyst meeting here...

ExaGrid Adds Compression, CommVault Support.(ExaGrid Systems Inc.)
June 5, 2006... ExaGrid Systems is continuing its quest to become the disk-based backup vendor of choice for the midmarket by adding compression technology and support for an additional major backup software product to its flagship product. ExaGrid is an...

Is Developers' Tool Choice Rational(ized)?(Column)
June 5, 2006... As several thousand developers head for Orlando to attend this week's IBM Rational Software Development Conference, I'm trying to get used to the idea of an IBM Web site using a turn of phrase like "cranking the volume up to 11, so you can hear...

IBM Upgrades 'Ready for Rational' Plan.(International Business Machines Corp.)
June 5, 2006... ORLANDO, Fla.--IBM has announced the expansion of its Ready for Rational Software program to enable IBM developers, customers and business partners to create and validate their applications on the Rational Software Development Platform. ...

IBM Rational Tool Set Gains Momentum.(International Business Machines Corp.)
June 5, 2006... ORLANDO, Fla.--IBM ushers in its annual Rational Software Development Conference that began June 4 touting the momentum the company has made in reaching out to and attracting developers to the IBM Rational tools platform. In addition to...

HP Targets the Midrange with New NonStop Server.(Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Integrity NonStop NS1000 server)
June 5, 2006... Hewlett-Packard is looking to bring its high-availability platform for the midrange market. The Palo Alto, Calif., company on June 5 is launching the Integrity NonStop NS1000 system, an Itanium 2-based server that offers the same level of...

Dell Customer Looks to HP for Opteron Servers.(Hewlett-Packard Corp.)
June 5, 2006... A longtime Dell customer that had been outspoken in its urging of the computer maker to adopt technology from Advanced Micro Devices is turning to Hewlett-Packard as its source of Opteron-based servers. The move by Rackspace Managed...

Expedia: the Latest Victim af a New Kind of Threat.
June 5, 2006... More than a quarter of a million Hotels.com customers are now at high risk for credit card theft after a password-protected laptop computer containing their credit card information was stolen from an Ernst & Young auditor's locked car in what...

E&Y Gaffe Exposes Hotels.com Customer Info.
June 5, 2006... Hotels.com and auditors at Ernst & Young are warning consumers of an incident that may have exposed the personal data of roughly 243,000 customers of the online travel site. According to the two companies, an Ernst & Young auditor working...

Juniper to Provide Microsoft IPTV Security.(Juniper Networks Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Computer network equipment maker Juniper Networks Inc. will offer security services for Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Protocol television (IPTV) software, the companies said on Monday. Microsoft TV's IPTV Edition is...

Level 3 to Acquire Looking Glass Networks.(Level 3 Communications Inc.)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Telecommunications infrastructure company Level 3 Communications Inc. said on Monday it agreed to buy Looking Glass Networks Inc., a privately held provider of metropolitan fiber optic networks, for $96 million in stock and...

Japan Fund Chief Murakami Arrested for Insider Trading.(Yoshiaki Murakami)
June 5, 2006... TOKYO (Reuters)--Star Japanese fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami was arrested on Monday after admitting to insider trading, in the latest fall-out from a scandal surrounding the once high-flying Internet firm Livedoor. Murakami, known for...

Our Modern World--Weirder by the Minute.(digital cameras, cell phones, smoking outside buildings)(Brief article)
June 5, 2006... I've often thought about the new commonplace practices in society that someone from 1920 might find odd if they suddenly landed in the here and now. We all take them for granted, but if you pay attention, you have to find these phenomena weird....

HP Revises Quarterly Results Higher on Tax Settlement.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday revised its reported quarterly results higher due to a settlement it reached with U.S. tax authorities over a multi-year audit. The settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, signed on...

Where Are the Vista Killer Apps?(Microsoft Corp. delays on new operating system 'Microsoft Window Vista')(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Users don't buy operating systems for operating systems' sake; they buy them for the applications that run on them. Given that truism, it's not too early to wonder about the whereabouts of Windows-Vista-optimized apps. Microsoft will...

Regulator: Hewlett-Packard Recalls Digital Cameras.(HP Photosmart R707)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--About 679,000 Hewlett-Packard digital cameras are being recalled worldwide because they can cause some batteries to overheat when the camera is connected to an AC adapter or docking station, posing a fire hazard, U.S....

McAfee Adds Preventsys for Compliance.
June 6, 2006... Security applications maker McAfee announced May 6 that it has acquired risk management and compliance software vendor Preventsys for an undisclosed sum. McAfee said it plans to blend Preventsys' security risk management and automated...

IBM to Invest $6 Billion in India over Three Years.(International Business Machines Corp.)
June 6, 2006... BANGALORE/SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 (Reuters)--IBM, the world's largest computer services company, announced on Tuesday plans to invest nearly $6 billion in India over three years, underscoring the country's growing importance as a global hub for...

eWEEK Daily News Podcast, June 6.
June 6, 2006... In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Questions about how much Google Paid Dell to switch from MSN; Opinions about Adobe's recent spat with Microsoft; Security firms debut new tools at the Gartner IT Security Summit; Micron, Lexar Boards...

IBM Jazzes Collaboration.(IBM Software Group plans to enhanced support for collaborative development to its Rational tool set)
June 6, 2006... ORLANDO, Fla.--IBM is doing some very interesting things in the area of collaborative development, and it wants the world to know. Danny Sabbah, general manager of IBM's Rational business unit, said IBM is about to move swiftly and surely...

Red Hat Completes JBoss Acquisition.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Red Hat is the world's best-known Linux distributor, but with its acquisition of JBoss, completed on June 5, it also wants to become a well-known service-oriented architecture company. The Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux distributor announced on...