Computerworld articles from December 2005

Computerworld archives from December 2005

Sun aims for developer backing with expanded open-source effort: attracting IT support may take time, officials acknowledge.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
December 5, 2005... Sun Microsystems Inc., whose software business has long lagged behind competitors', last week extended its list of open-source offerings to include all of its core software products. Analysts said the move, which makes its middleware,...

Users driven to third-party security: major database vendors don't yet meet user needs.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... Managing a 9TB SQL Server 2005 database full of confidential information such as patients' health claims and Social Security numbers, Adam Solesby knows he can't afford to skimp on security. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The director of...

Ingres loyalists cautiously hopeful for a reversal of database decline: CA spin-off woos enterprises tired of license fees.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... The new owners of the venerable Ingres database are pinning their comeback hopes on enterprise users who are fed up with the hefty commercial license fees and open-source developers who are largely unaware of the long-declining database. ...

Microsoft issues alert for IE bug.(internet explorer)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Microsoft Corp. has issued a warning that hackers are targeting a critical unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The attackers could use the flaw to seize control of a user's system, it said. The bug was first disclosed in May but was not...

Cognos warns of poor Q3 results.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Cognos Inc. warned of grim financial results in its just-ended third quarter. CEO Rob Ashe said that sales forecasting and execution was poor and that the transition to the company's new Cognos 8 software "proved challenging." The Ottawa-based...

Intel to build $3.5B chip plant in Israel.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Intel Corp. is set to begin construction of a $3.5 billion advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility called Fab 28 in Kiryat Gat, Israel. The plant will be the seventh Intel facility that can produce 300mm silicon wafers, from which the...

Novell wins $39M U.K. contract.(United Kingdom. National Health Service)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... The U.K. National Health Services agency has awarded Novell Inc. a $39 million contract to supply security, management and infrastructure technology. The three-year pact calls for the agency to use the Novell technology to eventually connect...

California plans hacking test of e-voting systems: Fla. test found Diebold machines vulnerable.(Diebold Election Systems)
December 5, 2005... LOOKING TO quell fears about potential vote tampering with electronic voting machines, the state of California this month plans to hold a hacking test of an optical scan voting device from Diebold Election Systems. The initial test was to...

Complaints prompt Lenovo to update ThinkPad BIOS.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... Under the heading of laptop computer problems, there are minor issues and major issues. Laptop support engineer Kim Kramaric has identified a third category: annoying issues. Kramaric, a support engineer at 2KDesign in Copenhagen, said last...

Security concerns cloud online shopping: survey reveals consumer fear over data privacy, identity theft and fraud.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... THE BIG increase in online sales that is expected this holiday shopping season comes amid what appears to be unprecedented consumer concern over data privacy, online fraud and identity theft. The results of a new survey of 1,005 consumers...

Users slow to back up data off-site: hurricanes spur move to disk backups, but data still stored locally.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... More companies are making disk-to-disk backups for data protection in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, but there's one problem: Many are keeping that duplicate data locally, where it's still vulnerable to the effects of a disaster. ...

HP's top software executive resigns.(resignation of Nora Denzel from Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... The top software executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. has resigned for personal reasons and will leave the company on Dec. 9. Nora Denzel, senior vice president and general manager of HP's Software Global Business Unit, has been at HP since 2000....

New Firefox browser release finally ships.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... After a host of test releases and a false start, a new version of the Firefox browser shipped last week. Firefox, which was downloaded more than 100 million times in October, is an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. Version 1.5...

HP buys OpenView partner Trustgenix.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... HP has agreed to buy identity management software maker Trustgenix Inc. for an undisclosed sum. HP's OpenView Select Federation product is built around software licensed from Trustgenix. The product lets companies use Web single sign-on and...

Stratus, NEC sign development pact.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Stratus Technologies Inc. and NEC Corp. have signed a 10-year joint development and technology cross-licensing deal. The companies plan to jointly build high-availability servers. The first server is expected to be completed late next year. NEC...

ABBA music to WAN managers' ...(Streamcore System Inc. )(application behavior-based acceleration)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... ... ears as new tool helps keep network humming. Next month, Streamcore System Inc. in Puteaux, France, will move its headquarters to Sunnyvale, Calif., and upgrade the software for its StreamGroomer WAN acceleration appliances. Key to the...

Notes expanding Web services ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... ... features in next release. IBM will be giving Lotus Notes developers tools to let the popular corporate application consume a Web service officially. Today, you can publish a Web service in Notes for other apps to consume, but not the other...

Filter out unnecessary data ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... ... for remote, online backups. Matt Medeiros observes that Hurricane Katrina should have disabused folks of the notion that storing backups across a campus or even across town is a good idea. Still, the CEO of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SonicWall...

Glide through multimedia ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... ... creations effortlessly with a new service. So promises Donald Leka, CEO of New York-based TransMedia--if you sign up for his Glide Effortless service, which stores dozens of file formats, such as PowerPoint, Word, QuickTime, MP3, Flash and...

Americans tops in impatience ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... ... in global poll of help desk callers. Dimension Data Holdings PLC, an IT services and integration firm in Johannesburg, South Africa, conducted a study of 360 call centers across the globe and learned that people calling from the U.S. were...

Tools for integrating mainframes, Web services get a new home: SOA Software buys Merrill Lynch's transaction-processing software.(Merrill Lynch and Company Inc.)
December 5, 2005... MERRILL LYNCH & Co. has sold a mainframe Web services tool set that processes 1.5 million transactions per day to SOA Software Inc., a service-oriented architecture management and governance vendor. SOA Software, which is scheduled to...

IT managers seek help with Web services: emerging tools promise to ease policy processes.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... The spread of Web services has forced IT managers to seek out new tools to ease the cumbersome process of managing policies like security and performance. "There are some policies that we think are best practices that we want to adhere...

Cray chief scientist to join Microsoft.(appointment of Burton Smith )(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... The chief scientist at supercomputer maker Cray Inc. resigned his post last week to take an undisclosed job at Microsoft Corp. Burton Smith will leave Cray this week and is also stepping down as a director of the company. Smith was one of the...

Symantec updates compliance tool.(BRIEFS)(Veritas Enterprise Vault)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Symantec Corp. has brought out upgrades to the discovery tool for its Veritas Enterprise Vault e-mail and instant messaging archiving software. The new Compliance Accelerator Version 6.0 is designed to help financial services companies comply...

Cisco to purchase security service.(Cybertrust Inc.'s Intellishield Alert Manager information service)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Cybertrust Inc.'s Intellishield Alert Manager information service, including intellectual property and customer contracts, for $14 million in cash. Under the terms of the deal, Cisco will buy Cybertrust's...

Japanese firms form RFID Group.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Several major Japanese electronics makers have formed a consortium to study and coordinate the use of radio frequency identification tags for distribution-channel inventory management purposes. The Home Appliance Electronic Tag Consortium will...

IBM launches self-healing tools: expands autonomic computing wares.(IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager)(IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms)
December 5, 2005... IBM TIVOLI unveiled two new self-healing software tools last week, as well as a major revision of its IBM Tivoli Monitoring product, which features a new graphical interface to create programs that automatically respond to system problems. ...

Quantum adds security to storage line.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... Quantum Corp. today will announce various security features for its tape and disk storage products--some available now and others planned for next year--to help IT managers do a better job of protecting stored data from unauthorized access and...

Court puts T-Online acquisition on hold.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... A GERMAN COURT last week dealt Deutsche Telekom AG a setback in its effort to reacquire the piece of T-Online International AG that it doesn't already own. The Darmstadt District Court rejected the Bonn-based firm's purchase of the...

Fujitsu execs lose pay over exchange failure.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... TOP MANAGERS at Fujitsu Ltd. will see their pay cut as punishment for a major computer failure at the Tokyo Stock Exchange that delayed trading on Nov. 1. Fujitsu was blamed by the exchange for problems that delayed the start of trading...

Consortium to build $3B Indian chip plant.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... A CONSORTIUM OF investors is planning to raise up to $3 billion to build a semiconductor fabrication plant in India in collaboration with the Indian government and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The consortium, called SemIndia Inc., hopes to...

Samsung may face probe for apple deal.(An International IT News Digest)(Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... SOUTH KOREA'S Fair Trade Commission is reviewing whether to launch an investigation into Samsung Electronics Co. following press reports that it sold NAND flash memory chips to Apple Computer Inc. at below-market prices. A commission...

Dutch firm launches net address system.(UnifiedRoot S & M BV )(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... A DUTCH COMPANY has launched a new Internet addressing service that does away with common top-level domains (TLD), such as .com and .edu, and allows Internet addresses to end with the name of a business or virtually any other word. ...

China.com Inc.(appointment of Albert Lam)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... China.com Inc. has promoted Albert Lam to CEO, replacing Rudy Chan, who is leaving the company. Lam had been China.com's president and chief operating officer and was CEO of its Newpalm (China) Information Technology Co. unit. China.com, a...

Achievo Corp.(Jeyo Computer Technology Ltd)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Achievo Corp. in Dublin Calif., has agreed to acquire Chinese outsourcing provider Jeyo Computer Technology Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Achievo, also an outsourcing service provider, said the purchase of Guangzhou-based Jeyo will help expand...

Sanyo Electric Co.(resignation of Sadao Kondo, Yukinori Kuwano)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Two former presidents of Sanyo Electric Co., Sadao Kondo and Yukinori Kuwano, have resigned from the Osaka, Japan-based company's board of directors. Sanyo has been restructuring in the wake of widening losses. Its plans call for cutting...

ANZ Banking Group Ltd.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... ANZ Banking Group Ltd. in Sydney, Australia, has confirmed plans to increase its offshore workforce in India from 650 to 1,000 over the next 18 months. ANZ said the bank plans to shift an undetermined number of IT back-office positions to the...

Elitegroup Computer Systems Co.(acquires Tatung Co.)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Elitegroup Computer Systems Co., a Taipei, Taiwan-based contract electronics manufacturer, has completed the purchase of Tatung Co.'s desktop computer division. Elitegroup said the NT$6.7 billion ($200 million U.S.) acquisition will increase...

Cerf explains Google's plan for the enterprise: says new information-based tools can help users control corporate data.(Q & A)(Interview)
December 5, 2005... INTERNET PIONEER Vinton Cerf, Google Inc.'s chief Internet evangelist, is in the midst of an effort to help his company through several challenges, including its aspirations to penetrate the IT enterprise. Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP...

IT detective work helps end WAN slowdown for construction firm: management app finds that internet radio is the culprit.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... When users at Perini Corp. complained early this year about slow performance when using critical hosted project management software, IT managers scratched their heads and undertook a little detective work. "Truthfully, when people say the...

Oracle Applications User Group adds four PeopleSoft organizations to roster: but still trails Quest in sign-up efforts.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... As Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. nears the one-year mark, some PeopleSoft user groups are starting to link up with the Oracle Applications User Group. The OAUG, an independent group based in Atlanta, said late last month...

Bold decisions.(OPINION)
December 5, 2005... LAST week, Computerworld reporter Marc L. Songini brought to my attention an excellent two-part article by Michael Massing on the sorry state of news reporting in the U.S. Massing's piece, which appeared in The New York Review of Books...

Letter to the editor in chief: look past the acronyms and marketing.(CA RESPONDS)
December 5, 2005... CA's Mark Barrenechea writes in response to Don Tennant's Nov. 28 editorial, "Dear John," an open letter to CA CEO John Swainson. YIKES! YOU were pretty tough on CA's EITM (Enterprise IT Management) vision last week. But CA is delivering...

IT moving into its latest up cycle.(Column)
December 5, 2005... YOU DON'T have to be a weatherman to detect a touch of froth in the air. For the first time in more than five years, the IT industry press is pretty much all positive, with the eyes of the Internet world focused on the future. There is even...

H-1B Visa Limit doesn't need expansion.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
December 5, 2005... IT'S TIME to call the industry's bluff on the so-called shortage of IT professional jobs in the U.S. As a price for doubling the H-1B limit, a system should be set up in which a registry of qualified and jobless IT professionals is maintained....

TreasuryDirect system not secure.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
December 5, 2005... THE FEDS are being somewhat hypocritical in imposing stricter user authentication standards on everyone else while failing to do so in their own massive TreasuryDirect system (www.TreasuryDirect.gov) ["Banks Get New Online Authentication...

Law and order on the open-source range: fraught with complexity and risks, licensing is one of the trickiest issues on the open-source software frontier.(TECHNOLOGY)
December 5, 2005... YEARS AGO, when Charlie Brenner encountered open-source technology, he saw a great opportunity, but he also saw some danger. Free, effective source code was great, but Brenner recognized that there would be added complexity in managing what he...

Data from the heavens: European data-flow system gathers astronomers' observations from 11 countries.(TECHNOLOGY)
December 5, 2005... IMAGINE THAT YOUR DATA is as vast as the heavens, with the information as complex as galaxies themselves. Most organizations would find such imagery dizzying, but for the European Southern Observatory, it's reality. And ESO has it under...

Getting real: researchers find ways to tame the complexity in real-world reasoning.(FUTURE WATCH)
December 5, 2005... IT IS surely one of the more mind-blowing PowerPoint slides ever created. It's a graph, and one of the smallest numbers, near the bottom of the vertical axis, is [10.sup.40], the number of seconds from now until the sun burns up. Then comes...

3-D models mean less radiation for young heart patients.(A STROLL THROUGH THE TECHNOLOGY LANDSCAPE)
December 5, 2005... A UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN medical research team reports high levels of success from a new approach that uses a 3-D computer-assisted navigation system to treat children with rapid heart-beats and other heart-rhythm conditions. Researchers...

Make the connection.(DIFFERENCE ENGINES)(ethernet)
December 5, 2005... SINCE THE LATE 1970s, Ethernet has tied computer networks together. Ethernet was originally developed as one of the many pioneering projects at Xerox PARC. A common story states that Ethernet was invented in 1973, when Robert Metcalfe wrote a...

Learning-friendly agents emerge from FSU research.(GROVES OF ACADEME)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... A TROUPE of computer-generated characters will be put to work to make online learning easier--if a Florida State University researcher's vision becomes a reality. Amy L. Baylor, an associate professor of instructional systems and director...

Deciphering options for laptop encryption: by choosing a vendor, our manager takes a big step toward protecting the company's intellectual property.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
December 5, 2005... DURING THE past two weeks, I started up a disk encryption project, one of the technology initiatives under my company's intellectual asset protection program. (I will cover the deployment of the other technology initiative, digital rights...

Security bookshelf.(SECURITY LOG)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 5, 2005... Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions, by Richard Bejtlich (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005). After reading this book, I'm still not sure what to make of the word extrusion, even though the author does explain...

Software assists in risk assessments.(SECURITY LOG)(RiskWatch for conducting the IT security risk assessments)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... RiskWatch Inc. announced RiskWatch for Banks and Financial Institutions, decision-support software for conducting the IT security risk assessments required by myriad bank regulations. Incorporating the rules in regulations such as the...

Adaptec updates OS for Snap Servers.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Adaptec Inc. in Milpitas, Calif., has unveiled its new GuardianOS Version 4.0 operating system for its Snap Server line of network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The product features new Unicode support, new eTrust antivirus software from...

Layton releases database manager.(Layton Technology Inc.'s Layton Database Manager)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Layton Technology Inc. in Tampa, Fla., has released Layton Database Manager. The product is designed to help manage Microsoft Corp.'s free SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, according to Layton. Pricing is $795...

TimeSpring releases data protection tool.(BRIEFS)(TimeSpring Software's TimeData)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... TimeSpring Software Corp. in Newport Beach, Calif., has announced the general availability of its continuous data protection product for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. TimeData for Microsoft SQL Server allows users to recover from data loss,...

A cure for storage hardware dependence.(TECHNOLOGY)
December 5, 2005... NETIZENS, like digital drug addicts, keep buying every-larger fixes of storage for all the high-definition content on the planet. But back at the knowledge ranch, weird science is going to help us kick the storage habit and the hardware...

IT under the gun: emergency implementations offer lessons for the corporate world.(MANAGEMENT)
December 5, 2005... Keith R. Thode's clients needed help, and fast. So he loaded up his car with two volunteers and a variety of equipment and hit the road, driving from his Dallas office right into a disaster zone. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thode, chief...

Working through the pain: after rocky starts, some U.S. clients are learning how to get better results offshore.(MANAGEMENT)
December 5, 2005... FIRST-TIME offshoring customers often encounter a rash of unexpected difficulties, such as lower-than-anticipated cost savings and the need to send IT managers overseas for extended periods to resolve project problems. So serious are these...

Deepak Chebbi.(Q & A)(Interview)
December 5, 2005... WHO HE IS: Technology consultant E-MAIL: deepak@flash.net [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Business process outsourcing by U.S. companies to foreign lands worries a lot of people, but Deepak Chebbi has a plan. His vision of a new onshore...

We like IT, we really like IT!(information technology services industry)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
December 5, 2005... How satisfied are you with having pursued a career in technology? Satisfied 49.5% Very satisfied 29.5% It doesn't matter to me--a job's a job 8.5% Not satisfied ...

A course in innovation.(Association for Computing Machinery introduces new curriculum on Computer science)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... PLUMMETING ENROLLMENT in computer science programs has led to a call for a new curriculum by the Education Board of the Association for Computing Machinery. This curriculum would give innovation a more prominent role as a way to improve both...

A new computer science curriculum.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Innovation themes proposed for freshman and sophomore computer science courses by Andrew McGettrick and Peter J. Denning: FIRST-YEAR COURSES AND MODULES * Programming and multimedia * Great innovators in computing * Computers...

Is your company a great place to work?(Career Watch)
December 5, 2005... If your IT department offers great benefits, competitive salaries, opportunities for training, and access to interesting projects--then make sure your company is recognized. Computerworld is conducting its 13th annual Best Places to Work in IT...

Katrina brought out the best of IT.(MANAGEMENT)
December 5, 2005... HURRICANE KATRINA was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. It displaced more than a million people and created a federal disaster area covering 90,000 square miles. Its effects were unprecedented, but the response from the IT industry...

IT careers: the diversity challenge.(Advertising Supplement)(Advertisement)
December 5, 2005... One sure way to create a diverse workforce is to hire new information technology professionals. Nationwide, headquartered in Columbus, OH, is relying on high volume hiring to attract people of diverse experience, diverse background, diverse...

Microsoft beefs up security partner rules: all must now be certified by outside groups.(NEWS)
December 5, 2005... Microsoft Corp. last week said it's now requiring that security partners be certified by one of two third-party organizations. The move marks the first time Microsoft has required that partners be certified outside of its own Microsoft...

Sun executive explains move to open-source.(Q & A)(Sun Microsystems Inc)(John Loiacono)(Interview)
December 5, 2005... FOR YEARS, Sun Microsystems Inc. has tried to improve its software business. Just last week, Sun began offering all of its core software products as open-source technologies, a year after doing the same with Solaris, In an interview with...

Big easy Wi-Fi.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
December 5, 2005... WHY, OH WHY is New Orleans launching a free citywide wireless network? At a time when the hurricane-ravaged city is still largely unlivable, with tap water still undrinkable in some areas, with the local power company saying electricity and...

Getting the message.(SHARK TANK)
December 5, 2005... IT manager is reluctant to buy the help desk new phones that support Caller ID. "He explained he would have trouble justifying the expense to the finance manager, who continually berated the help desk as unresponsive," reports pilot fish on the...

Microsoft plans to issue two fixes.(AT DEADLINE)(software security)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Microsoft Corp. is planning two software security fixes--at least one of which is rated "critical"--as part of its monthly release of security updates slated for Tuesday. Both patches are for the Windows operating system, according to...

RIM in mediated talks with NTP.(AT DEADLINE)(Research In Motion Ltd. and NTP Inc.)(legal dispute over infringement)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Research In Motion Ltd. and NTP Inc. are in talks with a mediator in an attempt to settle their ongoing legal dispute, which could lead to an injunction halting BlackBerry handheld and e-mail service in the U.S. RIM has been unable to overturn...

Sober attack is expected on Jan. 5.(VeriSign Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Commands hard-coded into the latest variant of the Sober worm indicate that its next major attack will come on Jan. 5, according to VeriSign Inc.'s iDefense cyberintelligence service. The trigger coincides with the 87th anniversary of the...

Mozilla slates fix for first Firefox 1.5 bug.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... The first Firefox 1.5 security vulnerability, revealed last week, is not as critical as first perceived, but a patch will be available early next year to fix it, the Mozilla Foundation said. The defect will be repaired when Mozilla releases the...

Cisco moves to support network management: readies tools for planning, analysis and monitoring.(new product Network Application Performance Analysis from Cisco Systems Inc.)
December 12, 2005... CISCO SYSTEMS Inc. tomorrow will announce a set of four network management products and an equal number of companion services, all based on a service-oriented framework that Cisco officials detailed here last week. The Network Application...

Cool chips offer some help to data centers: but demand for higher performance still causes server densities to increase.(NEWS)
December 12, 2005... IN PAST years, David McCarter typically bought the fastest and best-performing chips to run his servers. The power and heating impact of the chip wasn't nearly as important. "Before, you just bought it; now, you look at the big picture,"...

New Sun executive discusses StorageTek integration and the holographic threat.(Sun Microsystems Inc's Randy Kerns)(Interview)
December 12, 2005... Sun Microsystems Inc. this week announced new servers based on its UltraSparc T1 processor but still remained mum on its storage plans. Randy Kerns, the new vice president of strategy and planning for Sun's Data Management Group, spoke with...

Microsoft to add 3k staffers in India.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Microsoft Corp. plans to increase its ranks in India by 3,000 employees over the next three to four years. Chairman Bill Gates told an Indian industry forum in Delhi that the company's Indian workforce will reach 7,000. It wasn't clear whether...

MCI unveils new security service.(security risk management service)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... MCI Inc. has introduced a security risk management service designed to help large organizations proactively deal with system threats and vulnerabilities. The NetSec Security Risk Management Service uses a scorecard-based approach that lets...

Juniper, Symantec in development pact.(Juniper Networks Inc., )(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Juniper Networks Inc. and Symantec Corp. have agreed to jointly create software that makes sure remote machines meet security policies before they can access Juniper Secure Sockets Layer virtual private networks. The software will be based on...

Novell's Identity Manager 3.0 arrives.(enhancements)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Novell Inc. has introduced Identity Manager 3, which is designed to speed up the process of managing employee passwords and user access rights by shifting that function away from the IT department. Version 3 gives business managers the ability...

Stop squeezing desktop apps ...(ON THE MARK)(ClairMail Inc. desktop software)(MiraLink Corp. internet server software)(Appistry Inc. Enterprise Application Fabric software)
December 12, 2005... ... to fit on a mobile device for end-user access. Instead, turn application access into message processing. That notion comes from ClairMail Inc. in Novato, Calif. According to CEO Joseph Salesky, people are mobile, but desktop applications...