eWeek articles from March 2007

eWeek archives from March 2007

AMD Execs Talk R600 Models, 'Barcelona' Benchmarks.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO--At a press and analyst briefing Feb. 28 in San Francisco, AMD executives discussed the company's road map for the remaining year and beyond, including new information on the forthcoming "Barcelona" and delayed R600 graphics...

F5 Exploits Web 2.0 for User Community.(F5 Networks Inc.)
March 1, 2007... F5 Networks on March 5 will treat its activist customers to new innovations when it launches the next major version of its DevCentral online technical community site. DevCentral, which already counts 14,000 registered users globally, adds...

Dell Reports Earning, Revenue Loss in Fourth Quarter.(Financial report)
March 1, 2007... Dell, which has watched as other PC vendors continue to take away its market share, wrapped up a difficult financial period March 1 by announcing that its net income for the fourth fiscal quarter dropped 33 percent year-over-year. In...

The Day the Dow Went Dark.(companies manage their IT systems)
March 1, 2007... The day after a computer glitch resulted in a 70-minute period when no one seemed to know where the Dow Jones industrial average was headed, only to see it drop nearly 200 points in a matter of seconds once reporting was resumed, I was having a...

Gateway Launches Five New NAS Servers.(Gateway E-9422R, E-9425R, E-9522R, E-9525R and E-9520T network attached storage servers)
March 1, 2007... PC maker Gateway, which has been focusing more of its resources on the storage hardware business in the 18 months, launched on March 1 five new network-attached storage rack-mounted devices, the first new additions to its line of enterprise...

AMD Goes to 3GHz: The Athlon 64 X2 6000+.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... It's ironic, really. AMD's latest Athlon 64 X2 6000+ runs at 3.0GHz, while Intel's fastest Core 2 Extreme Edition tops out at 2.93GHz. Talk about a turnabout. To be fair, Intel is still shipping higher-clocked Pentium 4 and Pentium D...

Lenovo to Recall Batteries Used in Some ThinkPad Notebooks.(Lenovo Group Ltd.)
March 1, 2007... Lenovo Group is voluntarily recalling about 200,000 ThinkPad notebook battery packs that contain faulty Sanyo Electronic lithium-ion batteries, the company announced on March 1. Lenovo, which is based in Raleigh, N.C., will replace the...

PCI Security Lacks Teeth.(Payment Card Industry)(Column)
March 1, 2007... Earlier this week, MasterCard officially (well, sort of officially) confirmed that retail chain TJX was not in compliance with Payment Card Industry rules at the time of the $16 billion retailer's infamous January disclosure of a massive data...

Oracle Says to Buy Rival Hyperion for $3.3B.(Hyperion Solutions Corp.)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... NEW YORK--Oracle Corp., the world's largest database software maker, said on Thursday it would buy rival Hyperion Solutions Corp. for $3.3 billion, to boost its position in the market for performance management software. Oracle will pay...

Linux Cluster Startup Secures $3M Funding.(Terascala, Ascent Venture Partners)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Terascala, a startup developing a next-generation Linux storage cluster architecture, announced March 1 that it has secured $3 million in first-round funding from Ascent Venture Partners. The company's initial product offering is "powerful,...

ACLU, Outrage Fill in the Silence at Black Hat RFID Session.(American Civil Liberties Union)(multiple breaches of radio frequency identification-enabled passports )
March 1, 2007... After receiving a letter threatening possible patent litigation that caused IOActive to cancel his Feb. 28 Black Hat briefing, IOActive R&D director Chris Paget did give his Hacking RFID talk after all. Sort of. With the ACLU on hand....

March Madness Expected to Threaten Network Security.
March 1, 2007... March Madness may be a great time for college basketball fans, but it can be a nightmare for enterprises when it comes to network security. Earlier in 2007, Super Bowl fans logging on to the Dolphins Stadium site faced an unwelcome...

Marketing By Security Research.(Microsoft Windows Vista security program)
March 1, 2007... Every time Microsoft releases "the most secure version of Windows yet," as they all have been so far, they set themselves up to look like suckers when the problems roll in. And of course they're going to. Almost as common as Microsoft's...

The Answer Is In the Field: An Interview with Turning Recipient, Frances Allen.(A.M. Turing awards)(Interview)
March 1, 2007... What are you most proud of? There are two things; one is my early work on compilers. In 1957 I was involved in compilers and ended up establishing a structure, some of the algorithms and the idea of abstracting the technology so that it...

Month of PHP Bugs Begins.(vulnerabilities in the HTML embedded scripting language)(peraonal home page programming language)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Security expert Stefan Esser has declared war on vulnerabilities in the PHP core with the "Month of PHP Bugs." PHP is an open-source HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. The month-long effort is an attempt to...

Retail Technology Week in Review.
March 1, 2007... PODCASTembedSWF(); Retail Technology Week in Review What's the latest on the TJX data breach and what impact is it having on retail IT around the country? Also, what does an upcoming Forrester Research report about e-eommerce predictions for...

Oracle Buyout of Hyperion to Hasten BI Sector Consolidation.(Hyperion Solutions, business intelligence)
March 1, 2007... Oracle's $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions, a specialist in the field of corporate performance management, has set the fox among the chickens in the broader business intelligence market. This has long been a relatively quiet...

EU Warns Microsoft of Possible Further Fines.(European Commission)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... BRUSSELS (Reuters)--The European Commission warned Microsoft on Thursday it faced further fines in its antitrust case for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for interoperability information. The latest formal charges could...

Black Hat Demonstrations Shatter Hardware Hacking Myths.
March 1, 2007... ARLINGTON, Va.--Unless you were at Black Hat on Feb. 28, you probably woke up safe in the assumption that if a rootkit hit your system, reimaging would remove it. You probably also thought that the best way to search a PC's volatile memory, or...

Nortel to Restate 2004, 2005, 2006 Results.(Nortel Networks Corp.)(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... TORONTO--Nortel Networks Corp. said Thursday it will delay the filing of its 2006 annual report and will restate its results for 2004, 2005 and the first nine months of 2006. Nortel, announcing the latest in a series of restatements, said...

Oracle to Acquire Hyperion for $3.3 Billion.(Hyperion Software Corp.)
March 1, 2007... Oracle announced March 1 that it intends to acquire business intelligence software developer Hyperion for about $3.3 billion, or $52 a share. Oracle expects the transaction to close, pending standard regulatory approvals, in April. ...

Microsoft Releases Final SDK for Visual Studio 2005.(software development kit)
March 1, 2007... REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft has released a new version of its software development kit for Visual Studio 2005, the last release that will focus on Visual Studio 2005, also known as Whidbey. The next version of the SDK will target Microsoft's...

Microsoft Learning Center Targets Beginner Programmers.
March 1, 2007... REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft has launched a new Web site aimed at helping novices learn to write applications and build their own Web sites. Capping its thrust to tap the nascent market for tools for beginners, Microsoft launched its new...

Mylan Raising Nearly $1 Billion in Offerings.(Mylan Laboratories Inc.)
March 2, 2007... CHICAGO--Generic drug maker Mylan Laboratories Inc. said on Friday it is raising at least about $993.6 million in a public offering of notes and common shares, with proceeds intended for global operations and potential acquisitions. Mylan,...

DHS Issues Proposed Regulations for Real ID Act.(Department of Homeland Security)
March 2, 2007... After a rising tide of concern over the security, privacy and monetary implications of the Department of Homeland Security's Real ID Act, the Department has handed down proposed regulations that drastically alter its original intent. The...

Windows Vista: Essential Benefits and Deployment Strategies.(Video recording review)
March 2, 2007... Windows Vista: Essential Benefits and Deployment Strategies Windows Vista is here, but is your business ready for it? Get an update on some of the more practical features of Vista including tighter security measures, like user access control....

U.S. Charges 13 in Insider Trading.(Securities and Exchange Commission)
March 2, 2007... NEW YORK--Employees of some of Wall Street's top banks were among more than a dozen people charged on Thursday in what authorities called one of the most pervasive insider trading rings since the 1980s, accused of using leaked information and...

VMware Launches Second 'Fusion' Beta for Macs.(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... VMware is looking to entice Apple enthusiasts with a new beta release of its "Fusion" virtualization software for Macintosh desktops and laptops. The Palo Alto, Calif., company announced on March 2 that Beta 2 of its free virtualization...

Verizon Wireless Kicks Off Mobile Phone TV.(with the help of QUALCOMM Inc.'s MediaFlo)
March 2, 2007... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Verizon Wireless, the second-biggest U.S. mobile phone provider, launched television services on its phones, run by Qualcomm Inc. unit MediaFlo, in 20 U.S. markets on Thursday. Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon...

Judge Rules for Microsoft in Alcatel-Lucent Suit.(Rudi Brewster )(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... SEATTLE (Reuters)--A U.S. federal judge dismissed Alcatel-Lucent's patent claim against Microsoft Corp. over technology that converts speech into text, the two companies said on Friday. The ruling made late Thursday comes one week after a...

Birthday Whimsy from Wayne's Wireless Wire.(International Business Machines Corp. won the contract of Brownsville, Texas)(Paragon Wireless hipi-2300)(Crackberry.com launches a site)
March 2, 2007... There were no major events, save one, in the wireless world since the last time eWEEK brought you the Wireless Wire. 3GSM is long past, CTIA is a month away, yet the companies that make wireless products and provide wireless services continue...

Free Software Foundation Courts Hardware Vendors.(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... The FSF (Free Software Foundation) is expanding beyond its software boundaries, and reaching out to hardware vendors to encourage them to "work with the free software community" to establish a "mutually beneficial relationship." It's all...

Who Needs a CIO?(chief information officer management)
March 2, 2007... This year along with March Madness basketball and the start of the baseball season is the apparent start of open season on CIOs. The year's first bash comes from "Long Tail" author Chris Anderson. His Feb. 27 blog posting unloads on CIOs, the...

Novell's Revenue Sags, Linux Business Soars.(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... It's hard to say exactly what's happening with Novell's earnings, while it continues to audit its past stock-option practices. Still, while awaiting the results from the audit committee, Novell on March 1 announced preliminary financial results...

Berners-Lee's Talk Goes Back to the Web's Future.(Tim Berners-Lee)
March 2, 2007... When it comes to testimonies in front of congressional committees, the term "sleeping aid" usually comes to my mind. But when I saw that Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, would be...

Riverbed Speeds SSL-Encrypted Traffic Across WANs.(Riverbed Technology Inc., wireless area networks)
March 2, 2007... High-flying WAN optimization provider Riverbed Technology on March 5 will overcome a key hurdle in its otherwise fast-growing market acceptance when it introduces the next major release of its Riverbed Optimization System. Riverbed, which...

Toyota Developing Plug-In Hybrid, Researching Market.(Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Inc.)(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... DETROIT--Toyota Motor Corp. is working on developing a plug-in hybrid vehicle and is open to joining with other automakers in battery development, the president of its North American operations said on Friday. Toyota , which leads the...

Worm's Return Underscores Need to Keep Security Up-to-Date.
March 2, 2007... An old worm made headlines again this week when it infected servers at the Turner Broadcasting System's network, highlighting the need for IT professionals to ensure their security features are current. The worm, known as W32/Delbot-N or...

NAC Is Whack?(network access control schemes for enterprise network and system security)
March 2, 2007... Network access control schemes seem to be all the rage, with IT heavyweights and smaller players alike pushing them full force. While there's no disputing that these NAC initiatives are aimed at worthwhile goals, what remains to be seen is...

Is a Linux Desktop Avalanche Coming?(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... Slowly, ever so slowly, the Linux desktop has been picking up momentum. It keeps getting better and better, but Microsoft's monopoly has kept many PC users from realizing that there really is a viable alternative to Windows. However, that's...

Power Supplies Should Give Dell Food for Thought.(Dan Artusi of ColdWatt)(Editorial)
March 2, 2007... Michael Dell has promised a wide-ranging, top-to-bottom housecleaning and restructuring to get his namesake company back on track. That is all well and good, but maybe he should share a plate of ribs in Austin with a company that, by putting...

Google Says in Dispute with SEC on Tax Accounting.(Securities and Exchange Commission)
March 2, 2007... MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters)--Google Inc. disclosed in its 2006 annual report on Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nearly a year ago had called into question how it accounted for income taxes. In its annual...

Google's YouTube Signing Smaller Partnerships: NYT.(Brief article)
March 2, 2007... NEW YORK (Reuters)--Google Inc. may be frustrated in efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major media companies such as NBC or Viacom Inc. to put their videos on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller media partners, The New...

Sanyo to Share Battery Recall Cost with Lenovo.(Sanyo Electric Company Ltd.)(Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission of Japan)
March 2, 2007... TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters)--Troubled Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said on Friday it would shoulder with China's Lenovo Group the cost of recalling 205,000 Sanyo-made laptop battery packs that can overheat. The ThinkPad...

Connecticut Investigating Best Buy's Intrastore Web Site.(Richard Blumenthal)(Interview)
March 4, 2007... Best Buy is getting into some hot water because of an intrastore version of its Web site. The Connecticut Attorney General's Office has launched a probe into the chain's use of an internal version of its Web site that looks and acts...

Bill Gates to Testify on Competitiveness.(Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee )(Brief article)
March 4, 2007... WASHINGTON (Reuters)--Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates will testify Wednesday at a congressional hearing on American business competitiveness, the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee said on Friday. Gates will discuss the...

Balsillie Resigns as RIM Chairman.(Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion Ltd.)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Research In Motion Chairman and co-CEO Jim Balsillie will step down as chairman of the Canadian maker of the popular BlackBerry device. The resignation comes in the wake of reports that the company misstated $250 million in stock options....

Forecast: Xcerion Clouds the OS Horizon, Fuzzes Google, Microsoft Out of Picture.(XIOS, internet operating system)
March 5, 2007... When it comes to talk about computing in "the cloud," my thinking on the subject is, well, cloudy. I know companies like Google and Microsoft are working on getting there, and Salesforce.com is basically cloud central. But nobody's achieved...

Barnes & Noble Issues Weak Forecast, Shares Tumble.
March 5, 2007... NEW YORK--Top U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble Inc. on Monday forecast fiscal 2007 earnings well below the average Wall Street estimate, sending its shares down 10 percent. The company forecast earnings of $1.65 to $1.80 a share, excluding...

RIM Chief Resigns Amid Review.(Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion Ltd.)
March 5, 2007... TORONTO--Jim Balsillie, the co-chief executive of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., has stepped down as chairman on Monday as the company announced a $250-million earnings restatement relating to mistakes in how it granted stock options...

EMC Launches New Storage Support for SQL, Exchange.(Interop Vendor Alliance)
March 5, 2007... Data storage titan EMC enhanced its already-quite-profitable relationship with another IT giant, Microsoft, March 5 with the launch of new software and services designed to augment the performance of SQL Server 2005 and Exchange Server 2007....

Microsoft to Deliver Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista.
March 5, 2007... REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft said it will soon release a new version of its Visual Studio toolset for Windows Vista development. Jay Roxe, group product manager for Visual Studio, said Microsoft will introduce a new release of the Visual...

Sun Announces Ruby Support for NetBeans.(NetBeans Ruby Pack from Sun Microsystems Inc.)
March 5, 2007... While the Eclipse open-source development community opens its EclipseCon conference, Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans community have announced an early-access release of the NetBeans Ruby Pack, which is a plug-in that provides support for the...

Red Hat Snags Exadel Tools for JBoss.
March 5, 2007... As the EclipseCon conference of Eclipse development platform users opens, Red Hat announced a power move that brings a set of mature, Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat's...

All-Access Pass?(RSA Conference)(Network Access Control: Industry Giants Debate the Future)(Discussion)
March 5, 2007... February's RSA Conference included a panel discussion called "Network Access Control: Industry Giants Debate the Future." And debate they did: Cisco Systems bragged about 1,500 installed NAC clients; Microsoft said IP Security implementation...

Lawson Outlines Bevy of New Offerings at CUE.(CUE conference)(Lawson Business Intelligence 9.0.2, M3 7.1, Total Care Platinum)
March 5, 2007... At its annual CUE conference in San Diego March 4-7, Lawson Software is announcing a slew of new and expanded products, including an IBM-hosted version of its enterprise resource planning software, new business intelligence capabilities,...

Python Slithers into Systems.(ITA Software Inc. is using this programming languaue for airline reservation systems)
March 5, 2007... Last summer's box office hit "snakes on a plane" was the unlikely story of a batch of snakes getting loose in flight on a 747. In what some might view as just as unlikely, ITA Software is using the Python language to empower its airline...

Wal-Mart Fires Technician Who Recorded Phone Calls.
March 5, 2007... CHICAGO--Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it fired a systems technician for intercepting text messages of people who were not Wal-Mart employees and for recording telephone conversations with a New York Times reporter without authorization. ...

Open-Xchange, 1&1 Partnership Is All About SAAS.(software as a service)
March 5, 2007... Open-Xchange's partnership with 1&1 Internet not only puts the collaboration software maker together with the world's largest Web-hosting company in 1&1, it also signals a huge opportunity for both companies to better tap the burgeoning...

Iomega UltraMax Hard Drive Courts Mac Pros.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... It's clear at a glance that Iomega designed its UltraMax 640GB hard drive ($340 direct) with the Mac professional market in mind. The UltraMax's distinctive silver case and "cheese grater" front panel are compatible in appearance with...

Microsoft's OneCare Finishes Last in Anti-virus Tests.(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... A well-regarded anti-virus testing laboratory has released its latest quarterly results, and placed Microsoft's OneCare anti-virus solution squarely at the bottom of the list. In each of three categories&#151 viruses, macros, worms and...

StillSecure Provides All-in-One NAC Protection.(network access control)(Safe Access 5.0)(Product/service evaluation)
March 5, 2007... StillSecure's Safe Access 5.0 is a complete, flexible network access control solution that has the potential to accommodate tomorrow's technology advances. Safe Access 5.0, which started shipping in October 2006, is competitively priced at...

Cisco Wrote the Book on NAC.(Cisco Network Admission Control: NAC Architecture and Design, vol. 1)(Cisco Network Admission Control: NAC Framework Deployment and Troubleshooting, vol. 2)(Book review)
March 5, 2007... "Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume I: NAC Architecture and Design" Denise Helfrich, Lou Ronnau, Jason Frazier, Paul Forbes, 2006, Cisco Press, 264 pages, $55 "Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Framework Deployment and...

Extreme Networks Automates VOIP Handset Provisioning.(will introduce Handset Provisioning Module)(voice over internet protocol)
March 5, 2007... Extreme Networks will make it faster and easier to add VOIP handsets to enterprise Ethernet networks when the company launches an extension of its Universal Port software on March 6. The company will introduce its new Handset Provisioning...

AMD Warns on Revenue.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
March 5, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 microprocessor maker, warned on Monday that it will likely miss its quarterly revenue target as it loses market share among computer resellers, a traditional bulwark of its business....

NetApp Launches Midtier Storage System, FC Switch.(Network Appliance Inc.'s MDS 9124 multilayer fabric channel switch, FAS3040)
March 5, 2007... NetApp had a busy day March 5, announcing the worldwide launch of a new Cisco Systems switch designed for its own storage area networks and a new midrange SAN or network-attached storage system that can also be used as a virtualization...

IBM Isn't Opposed to Oracle Linux.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Oracle Enterprise Linux)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... Recent news stories have stated that IBM was refusing to support Oracle Linux. That's not true. Further investigation has shown there was little follow-up on the original Reuters story, and that some of the confusion came because the story...

Blue Cross and Blue Screen of Death.(Podcast)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... PODCASTembedSWF(); Blue Cross & Blue Screen of Death In this week's Top 5, Spencer counts down the Top 5 things to expect after Microsoft accquires Medstory. Host: Spencer F. Katt Length: 00:01:58 var...

Google Says Using Cash for Merger Spree Unlikely.(Morgan Stanley Technology Conference)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... SAN FRANCISCO--Google Inc. is spinning off growing mounds of cash from operations, but Chief Executive Eric Schmidt appeared to rule out seeking big mergers or making other dramatic changes in how the company uses cash. Speaking to...

Vista: Best Practices.(Microsoft Windows Vista)(Podcast)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... PODCASTembedSWF(); Vista: Best Practices Microsoft Watch Editor Joe Wilcox talks with Lee Nichols, global solutions director for Getronics, about best practices for deploying Vista in the enterprise. Host: Joe Wilcox Length: 00:20:19...

CrackBerries, Anonymous?(International Business Machines Corp.'s municipal WiFi )(Podcast)(Brief article)
March 5, 2007... PODCASTembedSWF(); CrackBerries, Anonymous? In this edition of Wayne's Wireless Wire, Wayne talks about a new wireless security product, IBM's municipal WiFi efforts, the Big Picture, and CrackBerries in Canada. Host: Wayne Rash ...

Fujitsu Launches New AMD-Based Notebook.(Fujitsu Computer Systems)(Brief article)
March 6, 2007... Fujitsu Computer Systems wants it customers to think thin. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced March 6 that its latest notebook, the four-pound Lifebook S2210, is now available. The notebook, which is based on dual-core Turion...

Opsware Fills In Missing Automation Puzzle Piece.(acquired iConclude)
March 6, 2007... Opsware on March 6 plunged into the nascent IT process automation market when it announced its deal to acquire startup iConclude for roughly $54 million. The acquisition, expected to close in May, will bring to Opsware a new presence in...

Oracle Expands Eclipse Presence, Proposes New Persistence Project.(EclipseCon 2007 conference)
March 6, 2007... SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Oracle has announced that the company has been appointed an Eclipse Board Member and Strategic Developer, and Oracle also will donate its Java persistence framework, Oracle TopLink, to the open-source community. Oracle...

UnitedHealth Completes 12-Year Options Restatement.
March 6, 2007... NEW YORK--UnitedHealth Group Inc. said on Tuesday it completed an earnings restatement of up to $1.5 billion tied to its stock options accounting, sending its shares up as much as 3 percent on hopes an end to the scandal was in sight. ...

Intel's RFID Move To Slash Reader Prices.(radio-frequency identification)
March 6, 2007... Intel on Tuesday is expected to make its first move into the radio-frequency identification space and will try and cram enough discrete components into its chip to slash reader prices, reduce power consumption and shrink the needed footprint....

Was Best Buy Diabolical or Doddering?
March 6, 2007... In any dramatic story--and this Best Buy dual-Web-site story is starting to become deliciously dramatic--there are good characters and bad characters. In a really good dramatic story, those good/bad distinctions are much more complex, and they...

Best Buy Officials Concede Dual-Site System Caused by 'Human Error,' 'Employee Confusion'.
March 6, 2007... As it tries to navigate the minefield that today's multichannel retail strategies have become, Best Buy officials are conceding that "human error" and employee "confusion" were the reasons customers were shown a site displaying higher...

OSGi Takes Off at EclipseCon.(Eclipse Foundation adopted Open Services Gateway Initiative framework standards)
March 6, 2007... SANTA CLARA, Calif.--These are big times for the technology known as the Open Services Gateway Initiative framework, as the Eclipse Foundation has adopted it and several other large enterprise vendors and users have followed suit. The...

Switching Your Linux Systems to the New DST.(daylight-saving time)(Brief article)
March 6, 2007... "Spring forward; fall back." That's the way the saying goes. Some years I get it backward, but I eventually catch on. I've never had to worry about my PCs getting it wrong before, though. Now, with the recent changes in the DST...

Eclipse Delivers for Dynamic Languages and AJAX.(Eclipse Foundation, EclipseCon conference 2007)(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
March 6, 2007... SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The Eclipse Foundation has announced three new project milestones that extend the Eclipse platform to better support dynamic languages and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The three projects include the Eclipse...

McAfee Gets (Another) New Head.(Dave DeWalt)
March 6, 2007... The latest twitch in McAfee's top-management shudderings came on March 5 when the anti-virus security vendor announced that its board has named Dave DeWalt as the company's new CEO and president. McAfee said in a release that DeWalt will...

New Alliance Plans to Tackle Mountains of E-Waste.
March 6, 2007... OSLO (Reuters)--A new U.N.-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday. Three U.N. agencies, 16...

Apple Patches QuickTime Flaw.
March 6, 2007... Apple has addressed a heap corruption vulnerability in its popular QuickTime media player. The flaw can be exploited remotely, and allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the current user. Security researchers at VeriSign's...