eWeek articles from March 2005

eWeek archives from March 2005

SAP Splits Software Dev, Product Innovation.(organizational restructuring of SAP AG)
March 1, 2005... To better enable customer responsiveness and speed of decision-making, SAP on Tuesday announced an organizational restructuring of its executive board that realigns software development and product innovation into separate camps. Under the...

Java Data Objects Spec Passes on Second Vote.(Java Data Objects 2.0 specification)
March 1, 2005... The results are in, and a controversial vote regarding the future of a Java persistence standard has been overturned in a reconsideration ballot in the Java Community Process. Initially, the JCP executive committee in January voted against...

RSA Gives eTrade Transactions Extra Layer of Security.(contracts between E*TRADE Financial Corp. and RSA Security Inc.)
March 1, 2005... Following the lead of a number of European banks and financial institutions, eTrade Financial Corp. on Tuesday announced that it plans to offer its online banking customers the option of using RSA Security Inc.'s SecurID tokens as an added...

Microsoft to Sing Visual Studio's Virtues to Eclipse Crowd.(plans of Microsoft Corp. for EclipseCon 2005 of Eclipse Foundation)
March 1, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--Although the Eclipse open-source development platform is the realm of Java and open-source aficionados, Microsoft Corp. will present a talk at the EclipseCon 2005 conference here on the virtues of its proprietary Visual...

Microsoft Hires an Outsider to Run Longhorn Marketing.(appointment of Michael Sievert as vice president)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Microsoft Corp. announced late Monday that it has named former AT&T Wireless and E*Trade executive Michael Sievert as corporate vice president for Windows product management. Sievert is replacing 17-year Microsoft veteran Tom Button, the...

Yahoo Drops Overture Name, Eyes Weblogs.(Overture Services Inc. changed to Yahoo Search Marketing Solutions and weblogging services of Yahoo! Inc.)
March 1, 2005... NEW YORK--On the eve of its 10-year birthday, Yahoo Inc. moved to make its brand synonymous with search advertising and laid out a future focused on personal media. Yahoo is dropping the Overture Services brand and renaming its...

Intel's Barrett: R&D Still Plays Major Role.(Craig Barrett, research and development)
March 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Outgoing Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett told attendees of the Intel Developer Forum here Tuesday that R&D will continue to fuel a future generation of products. Barrett, who will step down from his chief executive position in...

Windows Media Player Update Fails Spyware Infection Test.(defects of Microsoft Windows Media Player 9)
March 1, 2005... Nearly two months after promising to update its media player software to block the threat of malware infection, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday admitted that users of its Windows Media Player 9 Series remain at risk. Redmond has hemmed and...

Intel Revs Up for Dual-Core Push.(product launch plans of Intel Corp.)
March 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Intel is preparing for a quick ramp of its dual-core processors, predicting that more than 70 percent of its processors shipping by the end of 2006 will have two cores on a single die. Intel Corp. will start rolling out...

CA Expands Participation in Eclipse.(Computer Associates International Inc., Eclipse Foundation)(EclipseCon 2005)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Burlingame, Calif.--At the EclipseCon 2005 conference here, Eclipse executive director Mike Milinkovich announced that CA has expanded its participation in the Eclipse Foundation by becoming a Strategic Developer. Rob Levy, Computer...

i2 Names CEO, Delays Return to Nasdaq.(Michael E. McGrath of i2 Technologies Inc.)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Michael E. McGrath, newly named interim president and CEO of i2 Technologies, predicted this week that the vendor's return to profitability will be eased by a growing "blurring of distinctions" between enterprise resource planning and...

Latest Bagle Worm Attacks with Trojan Horse.(reports about computer viruses)
March 1, 2005... Anti-virus vendors are raising the alarm over another batch of Bagle worm mutants crawling through e-mail networks. The latest variants have been equipped with Trojan horse downloaders and new propagation techniques that have led to wide...

IBM, AT&T Bring More Collaboration Options to SMBs.(small/medium business)(alliance between AT&T Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.)
March 1, 2005... LAS VEGAS--IBM and AT&T are combining forces to give small and midsized businesses more options for collaboration over the Internet. The two companies will announce the new offering, dubbed IBM Workplace Services Express, on Wednesday at...

Intel Takes Aim at IT with Virtualization, Management Capabilities.(technology application by Intel Corp.)
March 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Intel will continue to push performance increases in the data center through the integration of technologies in the silicon, according to Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of the chip maker's Digital...

ASF Releases Apache Lenya Update.(enhancement of Apache Lenya 1.2.2 by The Apache Software Foundation)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Apache Software Foundation's Lenya development community yesterday announced an update to its open-source content management system. Apache Lenya 1.2.2 updates and now ships with OSCOM's (Open-Source Content Management's) Kupu, a...

IBM Extends Workplace Reach to SMBs, Partners.(small/medium business)(alliance between AT&T Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.)
March 1, 2005... IBM Corp. made several announcements Tuesday at its PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas designed to extend the reach of its Lotus Workplace platform both to small and midsize businesses and to partner companies looking to build vertical...

Intel Execs Run Down Dual-Core Roadmap.(plans to develop Intel Pentium D)
March 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Intel executives presented a detailed roadmap of the company's dual-core future at the Intel Developer Forum here on Tuesday, including plans for a processor that will now be called the "Pentium D." According to Stephen...

FilesX Steps Up to Remote IT Consolidation Challenge.(development of FilesX Tapeless Branches)
March 1, 2005... By combining existing vaulting technology with new functionality, backup and recovery, vendor FilesX has developed a remote IT and storage solution that eliminates tape completely. Called Tapeless Branches, the solution allows organizations...

Media Player Flaw Speaks Volumes on Microsoft Security.(defects of Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0)
March 1, 2005... Two schools of thought exist in the world today as to how software developers should address security problems. There is the "trust me" school, with Microsoft as its leader, and the "trust us" school of the open-source movement. Either can...

Hitachi to Boost Output of Small Hard-Disk Drives.(production management of Hitachi Ltd.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... TOKYO (Reuters)--Hitachi Ltd. said on Tuesday it would sharply boost its output of 1-inch and 1.8-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) this year to meet soaring demand created by portable music players and other mobile devices. Hitachi Global...

Updated AOL Web Mail Will Be Free.(enhancement of web mail service by America Online Inc. )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... America Online Inc. is rolling out a major upgrade to AOL Mail on the Web that lays the groundwork for a free Web mail service to be launched later this year. The move furthers AOL's strategy of opening its doors to nonmembers and will place...

Man Charged with Passing Chip Design Information.(Shin-Guo Tsai)
March 1, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--A Taiwanese citizen living in California took computer chip design information from a San Francisco-area firm and e-mailed it to a potential rival in Taiwan, U.S. authorities charged on Monday. The U.S. Attorney...

Intel Brings Dual-Core Tech to Digital Home.(Intel Developer Forum)
March 2, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Intel executives on Tuesday said they hope to bring the PC and consumer-electronics markets closer together through PCs equipped with dual-core processors, which will begin to replace separate devices within the home. Intel...

Intel Promises Mobile Performance at IDF.(Intel Developer Forum )
March 2, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--The bandwidth supplied by next-generation wireless networks is fueling a demand for performance on mobile phones and PDAs, Intel executives said Wednesday. Intel Corp. announced several enhancements in flash memory during...

Prosecutor: WorldCom Ex-CEO a Con Artist.(Bernard Ebbers)
March 2, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Greed, power and worry drove Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom Inc., to mastermind a fraud that cost investors billions of dollars, a U.S. prosecutor said in closing arguments on Wednesday. ...

Tech Data, Intermec Take Aim at POS, Data Capture Market.(point-of-sale)(distribution agreements between Intermec Technologies Corp. and Tech Data Corp.)
March 2, 2005... Distributor Tech Data is expanding the products it offers for point-of-sale and product data capture under a newly inked deal with Intermec Technologies, a manufacturer of asset-management and data-collection solutions. Clearwater,...

Circuit City Ends Amazon Deal.(contracts between Amazon.com Inc. and Circuit City Stores Inc.)
March 2, 2005... NEW YORK--Circuit City Stores, the No. 2 U.S. electronics chain, has said that its chief operating officer, John Froman, is resigning, effective March 1, and it has not yet named a successor. The Richmond, Virginia-based retailer also announced...

Borland Plans to Innovate Atop Eclipse IDE.(integrated development environment)(software development plans of Borland Software Corp.)
March 2, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--Borland said it will innovate around the Eclipse open-source development platform just as it does for Microsoft's Visual Studio and other core development environments. During a press conference at the EclipseCon 2005...

Fiorina Eyed as Potential Head of World Bank.(Carly Fiorina)
March 2, 2005... Sources in the Bush administration have said that ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is in the running to become the next World Bank president, according to The Financial Times. Fiorina is in competition with a host of candidates, the...

ONStor, Nexsan Join Forces for NAS Solution.(alliance between ONStor Inc. and Nexsan Technologies)(network attached storage)
March 2, 2005... ONStor and Nexsan have combined forces to provide an integrated, scalable, general-purpose, price-competitive NAS solution that competes head to head with those offered by industry behemoths like NetApp and EMC. The ONStor/Nexsan solution...

Fiorina's Next Stop After HP: The World?(appointment of Carly Fiorina at World Bank)
March 2, 2005... Is former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina going to run the World Bank? Could be. To tech insiders, steeped in gossipy stories about Fiorina's star-driven management style--and its harsh and sudden contrast to HP's previous CEOs--this may...

High-Risk RealPlayer Flaws Patched.(release of software patches by RealNetworks Inc.)
March 2, 2005... RealNetworks Inc. on Wednesday rolled out new versions of its flagship RealPlayer software to zap a pair of potentially dangerous security bugs. In an advisory, the digital media company, based in Seattle, confirmed that the security holes...

Intel Digs into Dual-Core Architecture Details.(product development plans of Intel Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 2, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Intel is shifting most of its focus in the processor market to dual-core CPUs, suggesting that by the end of 2006, better than 75 percent of the CPUs that the company ships will be multicore processors. We sat in on a...

Court Overturns Eolas Browser Judgment Against Microsoft.(cases between Eolas Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp.)
March 2, 2005... The U.S District Court of Appeals on Wednesday called for a new trial on a key aspect of the $520 million jury verdict that found that Microsoft had infringed on Web browser technology patents held by Eolas Technologies. The appeals court...

Sun Unveils RFID Platform for Manufacturers.(radio frequency identification equipment)(introduction of Sun Microsystems RFID ISA for Manufacturing)
March 2, 2005... The Sun RFID ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) for Manufacturing, released this week at RFID World, is slated to be followed by other RFID (radio-frequency identification) reference architectures from Sun Microsystems Inc. geared to supply...

Former Exec Sues Apple over Termination.(cases between Apple Computer Inc. and Tim Bucher)
March 2, 2005... Lawyers for Tim Bucher, a former vice president at Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Computer Inc., have filed a complaint for damages against the computer maker in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California. The complaint details...

Adobe Releases Code for Building Interfaces.(introduction of source code by Adobe Systems Inc.)
March 2, 2005... Adobe recently released some source code under the open-source MIT License for creating computer interfaces. This code from the ASL (Adobe Source Libraries) at Adobe Systems Inc. consists primarily of two C++ libraries: Adam and Eve2. ...

Verizon Grants MCI 2-Week Window on Qwest.(acquisition of MCI Inc. by Verizon Communications Inc.)(Qwest Communications International Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 2, 2005... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Verizon Communications, which has agreed to acquire MCI Inc. for $6.7 billion, on Wednesday said it would grant MCI two weeks to hold additional talks with rival bidder Qwest Communications International Inc. Long...

Intel Reaffirms Support for TGn Sync Alliance.(IEEE 802.11n standards)(Brief Article)
March 2, 2005... In a talk about the current status of its 802.11n efforts, Intel reaffirmed its backing of the TGn Sync Alliance's approach to achieving 100+Mbit/sec throughput in future-generation wireless networks. This presentation gave a high-level...

Intel, AMD Call for Innovation on Virtual Platforms.(product introduction by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
March 2, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are touting their respective hardware-level virtualization technologies as platforms that will help spur greater innovation around such environments. At the Intel Developer Forum here this...

Netscape Browser 8.0 Beta Goes Live.(beta release by Netscape Communications Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2005... America Online's Netscape team has opened its doors to the public, releasing the first beta of the revived Netscape Web browser. Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both...

Alliance Simplifies Ultrawideband Debate.(merger between Multiband OFDM Alliance and WiMedia Alliance )
March 3, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--The WiMedia Alliance and the Multiband OFDM Alliance ultrawideband group joined forces on Wednesday, simplifying the debate surrounding the wireless technology. Analysts said the alliance, now known as the WiMedia Alliance...

Microsoft Loses Key Windows Architect to Google.(appointment of Marc Lucovsky of Microsoft Corp. at Google Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2005... One of Microsoft's key Windows architects has defected to Google. But at least so far, no one is talking about what Marc Lucovsky's new role will be at one of Microsoft's major rivals. A 16-year Microsoft veteran, Lucovsky was one of a...

'Flex Fabs' Keep Intel Humming.(facilities of Intel Corp.)
March 3, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--Who knew that semiconductor manufacturing fabs could turn on a dime? Intel Corp., long known for its grinding manufacturing strategy, revealed that it has facilities dedicated to quickly making changes in its manufacturing...

Google Gives Behind-the-Scenes Peek.(EclipseCon 2005, speech of Urs Hoelzle)
March 3, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--At the EclipseCon 2005 conference here, a leading Google Inc. engineer gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the search powerhouse. In a keynote Wednesday titled "A Look Behind the Scenes at Google," Urs Hoelzle,...

Microsoft Releases Third Community Preview of SQL Server 2005.(development of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview)
March 3, 2005... Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released the third SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview, an incremental release that is most notable for its advanced reporting functionality. The latest CTP is yet another baby step toward the...

64-Bit Computing Is Coming to a Desktop Near You.(processor architecture)(Calendar)
March 3, 2005... They are building it, and users will certainly come. 64-bit computing is going to penetrate the desktop and mobile computer market. But how do you know whether or not your company could benefit from 64-bit technology and whether your users...

Nvidia Offers Sneak Peek of Chips for Intel PCs.(marketing of chipsets by NVIDIA Corp.)
March 3, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--In November, Intel Corp. and chip set maker Nvidia Corp. announced an agreement where the two would license each other's technology, a deal that was years in the making. At the Intel Developer Forum here this week, Nvidia is...

Microsoft Gets 'C' for Effort at EclipseCon.(conference of Eclipse Federation)
March 3, 2005... BURLINGAME, Calif.--When you go to play on the home field of a major competitor, you typically take your "A" game, but some developers at the EclipseCon conference here are giving Microsoft a solid "C" for its appearance at the conference. ...

Search Engines Look Beyond the Web.(Search Engines Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo)
March 3, 2005... NEW YORK--The major search engines are looking beyond the Web to find, display and make money from search results. At the Search Engines Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo here this week, search-engine executives offered a peek into a future...

Intel Looks to 'Multicore' Future.(planning of Intel Corp.)
March 3, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO--By 2015, Intel may deliver processors with tens or even hundreds of individual cores, Intel researchers said Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum here. This "many core" strategy may support hundreds or thousands of...

Company-Name Police Part II.(certification of VeriSign Inc.)
March 3, 2005... The first thing I need to do here is to correct some misstatements from a recent column titled, Should VeriSign Be the Name Police? For that piece, I spoke with VeriSign about a column by Spyware researcher Ben Edelman that enumerates examples...

Cell Phone Users Put Porn in Their Pockets.(market research of sex oriented businesses)
March 3, 2005... You've read all about mobile content. It's the hottest thing in mobile and wireless right now. And what's hottest about it is streaming video. Well, it's about to get a lot hotter, and what's setting it afire is the demand for... ahem,...

Portable EMRs Are Still to Come.(survey of hospital information technology executives about electronic medical records)
March 3, 2005... Fewer than one in five hospital IT executives report that their organizations have fully operational electronic medical records, according to a recent survey by the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society). And, in...

Princeton Softech Adds Security Features to Archive Product.(enhancement of Princeton Softech Archive for Servers and Relational Tools 6.0)
March 3, 2005... Database archiving vendor Princeton Softech has announced a major new release of its Archive for Servers and Relational Tools product focusing on security enhancements. Version 6.0 now allows organizations to better define who has access...

Microsoft Offers Patch Day Reprieve.(management of Microsoft Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2005... Microsoft is giving security administrators a day off next Tuesday. One month after releasing a whopping dozen bulletins to cover 17 security flaws in a range of products, Microsoft Corp. announced that there would be no new advisories this...

'Least Privilege' Can Be the Best.(control of malware)
March 3, 2005... Want fewer security hassles? Demote yourself! Want to do something right now that can help protect you from malware? Then stop being an administrator. No, I am not suggesting a career change, though I suppose that would have much the same...

SCO Must Restate 2004 Earnings.(The SCO Group Inc.)
March 3, 2005... SCO announced on Thursday that it would be restating three of its quarterly financial statements for 2004 because of accounting errors. The SCO Group Inc. is facing delisting from the Nasdaq SmallCap Market stock market because of its...

Health Sites Found Lacking in Services.(evaluation of web sites of health care and pharmaceutical industry)
March 3, 2005... On a scale of 1 to 10, health care and pharmaceutical Web sites score a measly 5.8, according to an evaluation of more than 50 sites by research and consultancy company Consumer Research Group. But considering that a broader survey of almost...

Paying for Flaws Pays Off for iDefense.(release of iDefense IDA Sync to the open-source community)
March 3, 2005... Internet security specialist iDefense Inc. has released a reverse-engineering tool to the open-source community as part of its controversial strategy of buying the rights to information on security flaws found by underground researchers. ...

eBay Redirect Becomes Phishing Tool.(crimes against eBay Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 3, 2005... Online auctioneer eBay, a prime target for phishing schemes, has been used as an unwitting accomplice. A flaw in eBay's server configuration paves the way for spoofing attacks when a specially crafted URL, which is a valid eBay link, is used to...

Microsoft Research Lifts the Curtain on Its Latest Wares.(TechFest)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2005... "Robots to Watch Children": A scene from a B-movie starring Eric Roberts? Guess again. The "Teddy" project was one of the many emerging technologies showcased at Microsoft Corp.'s two-day, in-house TechFest showcase this week. Teddy brings...

As Digital Imaging Evolves, So Does Photoshop.(forecasts and trends of Adobe Photoshop)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2005... Over the past decade, digital imaging has become an immensely complex field that reaches into publishing, Web design, graphics, video games and movie production, among others. And while there are multitudes of applications catering to this...

EU Patent Law Could Impede Open Source.
March 4, 2005... The European Union's proposed law on software-related patents will affect any IT company doing business in the EU, according to legal experts. In its current form, the proposed directive on "computer-implemented inventions" could harm...

Microsoft Hones BizTalk's Vertical Teeth.(enhancement of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Accelerator for RosettaNet)
March 4, 2005... Microsoft Corp. marked BizTalk Server's fourth anniversary this week by releasing an upgrade to Accelerator for RosettaNet, one of a series of software accelerators that's been helping to widen BizTalk's reach across multiple vertical supply...

Oracle Exec Says J2EE Matters Despite Murmurs.(speech of Ted Farrell at TheServerSide Java Symposium)(Java 2 Enterprise Edition)
March 4, 2005... LAS VEGAS--Oracle Corp.'s Ted Farrell is about to give a keynote presentation at a geeky Java show here that he expects will get mixed reviews, but he says he sees both sides of the issue he plans to discuss, so he's ready. Farrell, chief...

Researchers to Tackle SCADA Security.(research of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems by Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection)
March 4, 2005... A group of researchers backed by the Department of Homeland Security is launching a new program to identify flaws in the security of current SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems and look for ways to build more resilient...

Judge Makes Tentative Ruling Against Sites in Apple Case.(cases of Apple Computer Inc. against Powerpage.org and AppleInsider)
March 4, 2005... On Thursday, Judge James Kleinberg of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California, issued a tentative ruling that three Web sites cannot seek protection under journalist shield laws. At issue is whether these sites are viable...

EMC Heads the Pack in Storage Race.(market share of EMC Corp. )
March 4, 2005... Buoyed by numerous acquisitions and a laser-sharp focus, EMC overtook Hewlett-Packard in 2004 as the leader in external disk storage systems for the first time. EMC Corp.'s market share rose from 18.6 percent in 2003 to 21.1 percent in...

Vendors Release Click-Fraud Detection Tools.(Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo)(service launch by Clicklab LCC and Net Applications)
March 4, 2005... NEW YORK--As concerns over click fraud increase, vendors are beginning to launch new services and technology to detect and combat the practice of inflating clicks in search-based advertising. This week at the Search Engine Strategies 2005...

Study: Many PeopleSoft Users Inclined to Ditch Software Post-Merger.
March 4, 2005... Post-merger, Oracle Corp. has PeopleSoft customers in the palm of its hand--or does it? Recent research from The Yankee Group shows that a sizable portion of PeopleSoft organizations report that they're inclined to bail on the software...

Judge Delays Decision on Mac Rumor Sites.(cases of Apple Computer Inc. against PowerPage.org, AppleInsider and Think Secret.)
March 4, 2005... On Friday, Judge James Kleinberg delayed a final ruling on whether three Web sites can be classified as legitimate journalistic outlets and can claim protection under reporter shield laws, thereby avoiding subpoenas from Cupertino, Calif.-based...

Zeus Releases New Load Balancer.
March 4, 2005... Zeus Technologies, a small company with an international presence, hopes to squeeze into the crowded field of application front-end players in the United States with new partners, a new software release and new form factors for its appliance....

WinFS Will Be Available on Windows XP.(Windows File System)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2005... Microsoft may not be willing to talk file-system futures, but it is working to back-port its WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP, the same way that it is doing with its Windows presentation and communications subsystems, according to...

IDF Notebook: Show Us Your Cards, AMD.(Intel Developer Forum,)
March 4, 2005... Well, that was refreshing. The most convincing indication that a company has its act together is the information it's willing to put out to the press. A company with nothing to hide typically feels confident that its competition will be...

Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization.(release of source code by International Business Machines Corp. for open source community)
March 4, 2005... System virtualization, seen as offering enterprises and smaller organizations major benefits in application availability and server capacity management, has had several boosts in the past few weeks. While not a product, IBM's recent release...

New OSI President Steps Down.(Open Source Initiative)
March 4, 2005... The open-source world was caught by surprise this week when Russ Nelson, the newly elected president of the Open Source Initiative, resigned his office retroactively to Feb. 23. The OSI (Open Source Initiative) is the body that approves...

Sun Tests the Waters with 'Niagara'.
March 4, 2005... Sun is looking to build software support for its upcoming "Niagara" processors. Scheduled for debut in early 2006, Niagara will be the first major step for Sun Microsystems Inc. in its Throughput Computing initiative, with eight cores that...

FCC Says Telco Must Allow VOIP Traffic.(Federal Communications Commission)(Voice Over Internet Protocol)(Madison River Communications)
March 4, 2005... In response to a complaint by broadband communications company Vonage Holdings Corp., the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced on Thursday its ruling that "Madison River shall not block ports used for VOIP applications or otherwise...

Microsoft Shows Off Prototypes to Blunt Network Attacks.
March 4, 2005... Microsoft Research is showing off prototypes for two security projects aimed at containing zero-day Internet worms and thwarting malicious code execution attacks. At the company's annual TechFest event in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft Corp....

States Race to Cut Taxes to Attract Intel.(lobbying of Intel Corp. for tax abatement)
March 6, 2005... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)--Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, is offering U.S. states the promise of dollars of capital investment in exchange for an overhaul of their tax laws, which it says are making the United States less...

Open-Source Leader Highlights Technologies for Developers to Watch.(speech of Rod Johnson at TheServerSide Java Symposium)
March 6, 2005... LAS VEGAS--Rod Johnson, an outspoken member of the open-source community, rallied Java developers to wave their Java flags high but to look beyond Java and hone their business and communications skills as they look for new opportunities in a...

Cingular Frustration Not a Singular Sensation.(management of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.)
March 6, 2005... When eWEEK.com recently reported some of the problems that Cingular has been having selling and supporting data after its merger with AT&T Wireless, some Cingular officials said it was not the typical experience of its data-buying customers....

Citadel to Adopt Usage-Based Pricing for Hercules Vulnerability Remediation Software.
March 6, 2005... Citadel Security Software Inc. plans to move to a dramatically different pricing model with the next release of its Hercules software in May, CEO Steve Solomon told eWEEK.com in an exclusive interview. According to Solomon, the...