Computerworld articles from December 2006

Computerworld archives from December 2006

Piracy, user complaints vex Symantec.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... Symantec Corp. last week said software piracy rings are costing it more than $10 million in lost revenue annually and are partly to blame for a slowdown in the processing of licenses for an upgrade of one of the company's key Veritas data...

IT caught off guard by flu pandemic warning: call to make quarantine preparations a priority is 'eye-opener' for execs.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... Gartner Inc. is recommending that businesses complete planning by the second quarter of next year for a possible avian influenza pandemic and in particular stock up on supplies that would be needed by data center workers who might be...

Feds warn banks of al-Qaeda Cyberthreat.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team last week warned banks and other financial institutions that al-Qaeda had threatened to attack their Web sites in December. But US-CERT, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has...

DOJ probe seeks info from AMD, Nvidia.(Department of Justice, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. both said they have received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice as part of an antitrust-related investigation of the market for graphics processors and cards. AMD said the DOJ hasn't made...

Business Objects buys Web tools vendor.(Nsite Software Inc.)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Business Objects SA said it has acquired Nsite Software Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based vendor of tools for developing software-as-a-service applications. Business Objects plans to use Nsite's technology to build customizable business...

Short takes.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... The U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE approved an agreement for VeriSign Inc. to continue to operate the .com domain for six more years after its current contract expires in late 2007.... The TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES awarded IBM a...

Users likely to drag feet on Vista rollouts: new OS won't surpass Windows XP in business use until 2010, Gartner says.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... MICROSOFT CORP. no doubt wishes all companies were like Sasfin Bank Ltd. when it comes to installing Windows Vista. Sasfin plans to start upgrading to Windows Vista by next March and have all 430 of its employees running the new operating...

Ohio County considers shift on e-voting systems.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... Officials in Ohio's Cuyahoga County are mulling the idea of scrapping a $17 million investment in touch-screen electronic voting systems and switching to optical-scan devices. Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, began using Diebold...

Panel calls on SWIFT to stop giving data to U.S.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... AN ADVISORY panel set up by the European Commission has found that SWIFT, a Belgium-based organization that runs a messaging service supporting financial transactions between banks, is violating European and Belgian data privacy laws by turning...

EMC seeks fix for slow sales growth in Asia.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... AFTER SEVERAL quarters of lackluster financial performance in Asia, EMC Corp. is looking to get its regional operations back on track. Steve Leonard, who took over as president of EMC's Asia-Pacific unit in April with a mandate to revive...

Microsoft submits more documents in Europe.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... MICROSOFT CORP. submitted a new batch of technical information about Windows to the European Commission's antitrust department last Thursday, meeting a deadline set by EC regulators one week earlier. Microsoft, which faced daily fines of...

BT Group PLC.(connecting customers to IP-based network)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... BT Group PLC last week said it has begun connecting customers in the U.K. to its new IP-based telecommunications network. The 21st Century Network will offer a mix of voice, data and video services over a single broadband connection at speeds...

Microsoft.(invests in chinese joint venture of Tata Consultancy Services)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Microsoft said it has signed an agreement to invest an undisclosed amount of money in a Beijing-based IT outsourcing operation set up by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., finalizing a deal announced in June 2005. Microsoft will hold a 10% stake...

Wall Street cold to rural Pa. hot-site proposal: no takers yet in bid to turn Poconos region into a disaster recovery zone.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... An attempt to entice New York-based financial services firms to set up business continuity facilities in nine counties in northeastern Pennsylvania has yet to attract any clients to what is optimistically being dubbed "Wall Street West." ...

IRS drops plan to bid out IT work.(BRIEFS)(Internal Revenue Service, information technology)
December 4, 2006... The Internal Revenue Service has shelved a plan to hold a public/private competition that could have affected up to 2,000 of its IT workers. The IRS had hoped that opening its help desk operations, PC support and other "seat management"...

3Com to part ways with partner Huawei.(BRIEFS)(3Com Corp, Huawei Technologies Company Ltd)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... 3Com Corp. said it plans to buy out Huawei Technologies Co.'s stake in a networking equipment joint venture the two companies set up in 2003. 3Com will pay $882 million for Huawei's 49% share in the joint venture, which is based in Hong Kong...

Novell pulls out of open-source project.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Novell Inc. has pulled its funding for the Hula open-source project and is reassigning its workers who had been involved in the collaboration server software initiative, according to a newsgroup posting by one of the employees. Novell's Hula...

Short takes.(BRIEFS)(cheif executive officer and cheif financial officer of Computer Services Inc resigns)(Palm Inc lowered the financial forecasts)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES INC. said its CEO and CFO have resigned following an internal probe of the outsourcing vendor's stock-option practices found that the two executives had violated its code of ethics.... PALM INC. lowered the...

Encrypt everything and boost ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Encrypt Everything And Boost... your IT productivity everywhere. That's Phil Dunkleberger's sunny prediction for companies that adopt rigorous steps to scramble up their data, whether it's "in motion, at rest or in use." Dunkleberger is CEO of...

But encryption won't stop ...(ON THE MARK)
December 4, 2006... But encryption won't stop... viruses or spyware on your network. That's why even the folks at PGP will tell you to keep your antimalware tools up to date. One of your options is ZoneAlarm 7.0, which is scheduled to ship on Dec. 18. Laura...

Develop real-time apps within the ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Develop real-time apps within the... Eclipse framework. "The demand for real-time event processing spiked this year," says William Hobbib, vice president of marketing at StreamBase Systems Inc. in Lexington, Mass. The primary causes, he adds,...

End-user behavior often undermines ...(Exploit Prevention Labs Inc)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... End-user behavior often undermines... efforts to block malware. Hence the need for real-time exploit-detection tools, according to Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at Exploit Prevention Labs Inc. in Marietta, Ga. Thompson says his...

Open-source software takes on ...(ON THE MARK)(Zenoss Inc)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Open-source software takes on... proprietary management tools. Critics of the big systems-management frameworks, such as OpenView, Tivoli and Unicenter, often decry their complexity and cost. Bill Karpovich, CEO of Zenoss Inc. in Annapolis,...

Open dialogue: how Microsoft and Massachusetts defused a political battle over ODF; E-mails show that the vendor lobbied for hardball legislation over the file format controversy--and then backed off.(IN-DEPTH)
December 4, 2006... LESS THAN a week after he became CIO of Massachusetts last February, Louis Gutierrez sensed a serious threat to his power--one that was being promoted by a seemingly unlikely source. Within a matter of days, Gutierrez confirmed that Brian...

Salesforce.com expands its integration capabilities.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... Continuing its effort to reduce the cost and complexity of linking its hosted CRM software to other applications, Salesforce.com Inc. last week announced a series of additional integration capabilities. The San Francisco-based vendor said...

CA unifies management of virtual servers.(NEWS)
December 4, 2006... CA Inc. last week released a revised Unicenter tool designed to let data center workers consolidate management of servers that use clustering and virtualization technology from various vendors. Release 11.1 of the Unicenter Advanced Systems...

Handling Microsoft 101.(OPINION)(Novell Inc)
December 4, 2006... AS RON HOVSEPIAN approaches the six-month mark as Novell's CEO, it's difficult not to be impressed with his leadership of what had been a floundering, faltering fiasco under the stagnant watch of former CEO Jack Messman. And nowhere has that...

Keeping two sets of books.(OPINION)(Column)
December 4, 2006... NOW THAT Christmas is approaching, most of my clients are breathing a sigh of relief. The annual planning exercise and budget process is just about over. Time to head to the parties! Not so fast--did you do the second set of books? ...

Radar for the system builder.(OPINION)(Column)
December 4, 2006... AFTER YEARS of designing systems and running projects to build them, I have settled on five key questions that I want answered every week by each project team. These questions cover the full range of things that can make or break a project,...

In HP's defense.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 4, 2006... THERE IS nothing unsavory about "feeding false information to a reporter as a means of smoking out her source" ["Dribs, Drabs and Dysfunction," Editorial, Oct. 2]. Since the reporter was willing to receive stolen (intellectual) property (HP...

Students go where the jobs are.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 4, 2006... KIDS TODAY are avoiding technical careers not because the jobs are boring or too tactical ["A Scarcity of IT Talent Will Force Piracy," Computerworld.com, Oct. 2]. There are plenty of smart young people in this country who could be engineering...

Predictive history.(READERS' LETTERS)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS has been around for ages ["Predictive Analytics," QuickStudy, Oct. 9]. Nine years ago, a start-up called Trivida used it to drive real-time recommendations on individual and affiliated Web sites and to determine demand at...

Tool was 'just write'.(Letter to the editor)
December 4, 2006... I FOUND WRITELY, Google's word processing offering, a lifesaver ["Toy or Tool? Google Docs & Spreadsheets Reviewed." Computerworld.com, Oct. 13]. As a journalist covering a show in Japan, I was forced to use laptops in the pressroom that lacked...

Long live the Queen.(READERS' LETTERS)
December 4, 2006... YOUR OCT. 12 Computerworld.com article asks, "Is the King's English Dead?" Yes--for the last 53 years, in England at least, it has been known as the Queen's English. Reg Harford Strathroy, Ontario COMPUTERWORLD welcomes comments...

Close encounters with office 2007: Microsoft's new Office suite has some alien features, which raise concerns about backward compatibility, user training and RIO.(TECHNOLOGY)
December 4, 2006... AS MICROSOFT Office 2007 begins its long-awaited rollout, Joe Marshall is ready. Having worked with the beta version, Marshall, a business systems analyst at Geiger Brothers Inc., has decided to recommend that the 400 users in the Lewiston,...

Stopping data from flying off to Google: new desktop PCs come with Google Desktop installed. So, what could be the problem with such a useful program?(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(Column)
December 4, 2006... MY STATE agency's intrusion-detection systems were showing some undesirable activity on our network. Upon investigation, we found that several desktop systems were communicating with Google via Google Desktop. I ran a network security scan and...

Parents appeal hacking expulsions.(SECURITY LOG)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... The parents of two high school students in York County, Pa., are fighting the expulsion of their sons for allegedly breaking into the school district's computer system. The appeals filed against the Central York School Board claim that the...

More data stolen.(SECURITY LOG)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Two computers stolen from a Jeffersonville, Ind., health center last month contain data that may include names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and medical and billing information for more than 7,500 women. The health center...

Initiative to tackle ID Governance.(SECURITY LOG)(identity)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Oracle Corp. announced the Identity Governance Framework, an open initiative to improve the management and protection of identity data as it flows across applications. Several vendors have already reviewed a draft of the framework and plan to...

Firm faces fine for software glitch.(SECURITY LOG)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... A British company may face a fine of nearly $2 million after a software problem caused the London Underground to shut down during rush hour last month. New software uploaded by Metronet Rail over a weekend contained a revised timetable, causing...

Unisys unleashes dual-core servers.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Unisys Corp. last month expanded its ES7000/One enterprise server line with new, less expensive models that are built with Intel dual-core Xeon processors. The new models, previously code-named Tulsa, are the 7110M, 7120M and 7140M. Unisys said...

Appliance finds risky messages.(BRIEFS)(InBoxer Inc)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... InBoxer Inc. in Concord, Mass., last week announced the InBoxer Anti-Risk Appliance to help companies quickly identify risky e-mail messages. The appliance can also monitor e-mail traffic to ensure compliance with government regulations and...

Kyocera unveils color printers.(BRIEFS)(Kyocera Mita America Inc)(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... Kyocera Mita America Inc. last week announced two high-capacity, workgroup color printers with features designed for corporate users. The FS-C5015N printer, which retails for $1,270, and the FS-C5025N printer, which retails for $2,013, each...

Why Bluetooth is still a pain.(TECHNOLOGY)(Column)
December 4, 2006... BLUETOOTH products have a certain cachet. They're sexy and smart-looking, they're small, and they can be fun to use. But supporting them from an enterprise IT perspective can be a real toothache and may require some significant extractions, or...

Moving target: the role of the information security professional, like the risks it seeks to mitigate, is continually evolving.(MANAGEMENT)
December 4, 2006... BRIAN HADDOCK, Patricia Myers and Marjan Rajabi started their careers in very different places: Haddock repossessed cars, Myers worked in banking, and Rajabi was an electrical engineer. Now, however, they share a common link: They're all...

Talking the walk: don't describe IT's activities; highlight IT's business impact.(IT MENTOR)(Column)
December 4, 2006... AFTER ALMOST 40 YEARS in IT (sadly, my first programming experience was on a computer with glowing vacuum tubes), I remain surprised that we are still talking about how IT people--whether they be the kids on the help desk, the CIO or anyone in...

IT employment.(QUICK HITS)
December 4, 2006... Who does the CIO report to? CEO: 45.2% CFO: 25.4% COO: 15.9% Business unit executive 8.7% Other: 4.8% Note: Table made from pie chart. How...

Expectations and violations.(MANAGEMENT)
December 4, 2006... AS A CONSULTANT, I regularly get calls to help rescue struggling projects. These rocky initiatives usually involve at least a million dollars of direct cost, if not tens of millions, but more important, future business prospects and personal...

Symantec licensing changes cause customer angst: CIO Thompson says impact on users is 'unfortunate,' but points to benefits.(NEWS)(Interview)
December 4, 2006... Symantec CIO David Thompson spoke with Computerworld last week about the company's new unified online licensing system and the upgrade delays and customer support problems that some users are facing. Excerpts from the interview follow: ...

Vet all code.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
December 4, 2006... NO ONE KNOWS what's in software that's developed overseas. It might have trapdoors, time bombs or other malicious code put there by saboteurs. And that has a Department of Defense task force worried. "There are very clever things that can be...

But it did kill that spam.(SHARK TANK)
December 4, 2006... Spam is heavy at this mortgage company, so a consultant is brought in. He reviews six months of accumulated spam, designs a filter and sets up an antispam appliance that should kill 98% of the junk. Everyone's happy. Then it goes live. "On the...

IBM alleges PSI infringed patents.(Platform Solutions Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... IBM filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court charging Platform Solutions Inc. with patent infringement and breach of contract. IBM contends that PSI needs an IBM license to sell its technology, which allows IBM's z/OS and OS/390 software to...

HP, Calif. settle in pretexting case.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to pay California $14.5 million in a step toward resolving the controversy surrounding its pretexting scandal. The settlement with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer was filed in Santa Clara County Superior...

Police raid IBM's Moscow offices.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Russian police raided IBM's Moscow offices as part of an investigation into alleged procurement fraud. An IBM spokesman wouldn't say if documents or computer equipment were seized. Police also raided two Russian IT companies, Lanit Group and...

Windows Media Player flaw found.(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Security experts have discovered a flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player Versions 9 and 10 that could allow a hacker to run unauthorized software on a victim's PC or cause a denial-of-service attack. French security organization FrSIRT...

Panel shifts direction on e-voting audit trail: federal board OKs plan requiring that new machines create vote records.
December 11, 2006... A GOVERNMENT board charged with improving the security of electronic voting last week took a first step toward requiring that new e-voting machines include independent audit mechanisms. The move came just a day after the same board had...

Firms invest millions in e-health records plan: executives expect joint effort to cut health care costs.(Omnimedix Institute)
December 11, 2006... FIVE MAJOR corporations last week announced plans to fund the development of a Web-based system that would allow their employees and retirees to access and maintain personal medical records. Officials at the companies--Applied Materials...

Delta set to launch three-year SOA project: plans to replace Tuxedo IT backbone with standards-based technology.(Delta Air Lines Inc. contracts with Delta Technology Inc.)(service oriented architecture)
December 11, 2006... Delta Air Lines Inc. this week is launching a three-year project to replace its core IT backbone with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Delta Technology Inc., the IT arm of the Atlanta-based airline, this week will begin the process of...

Sun, StorageTek unit sued for fraud.(Netbula LLC, Storage Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Netbula LLC has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oakland, Calif., against Sun Microsystems Inc. and its StorageTek unit alleging copyright infringement and fraud. Netbula, a development tool maker, claims that Sun and StorageTek breached a...

IBM to acquire security firm.(International Business Machines Corp.)(CONSUL risk management Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... IBM plans to acquire privately held Consul Risk Management Inc. in an effort to improve the compliance and security auditing capabilities of its Tivoli systems management software. The deal is expected to close early next year. Consul will...

OSDL CEO resigns amid layoffs.(Open Source Development Labs Inc., Stuart Cohen)(chief executive officer)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Open Source Development Labs Inc. has laid off nine workers, or about a third of its staff, and announced the resignation of CEO Stuart Cohen. The nonprofit Linux development consortium said that it will focus on fewer projects, allowing it to...

Business Objects buys SaaS vendor.(Nsite Software Inc., software-as-a-service)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Business Objects SA has agreed to acquire Nsite Software Inc., maker of a software-as-a-service delivery platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Business Objects said it will integrate some of Nsite's SaaS technologies into its own...

Yahoo realigns Ops; COO to depart.(reorganize its operations, Dan Rosensweig)(chief operating officer)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Yahoo Inc. plans to reorganize its operations into three new units: an audience group, an advertiser and publisher group, and a technology group. The head of each group will report directly to CEO Terry Semel. The shake-up also includes the...

Dell, Microsoft roll out storage system.(Dell PowerVault NX1950 server)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have jointly rolled out a new storage system for file and application data that uses products from both vendors. The system integrates Dell's PowerVault NX1950, a serial-attached SCSI back-end storage array, with...

Washington settles first Spyware case.(Secure Computer LLC and its president, Paul Burke)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... The state of Washington has settled the first case prosecuted under its 2005 Computer Spyware Act. Under the settlement announced last week, Secure Computer LLC and its president, Paul Burke, will pay $725,000 in legal fees and $200,000 in...

LSI to buy Agere for $4B in stock.(LSI Logic Corp., Agere Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... LSI Logic Corp. has agreed to acquire Agere Systems Inc. for about $4 billion in stock. The combined firm will have 9,100 employees and an estimated $3.5 billion in annual sales. The companies said they expect to cut combined costs by about...

Turn important e-mail into ...(RPost U.S. Inc. lauched new email services)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Turn Important E-mail Into... legally valid registered mail. Not every missive you send is worthy of registered mail, but for some documents and messages, you want proof that the recipient got what you sent. The U.S. Postal Service charges...

InfiniBand jumps from high-performance ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... InfiniBand jumps from high-performance... computing to being a data center option. With most hardware makers adopting InfiniBand as the standard way to interconnect racks of blade servers, the 10Gbit/sec. protocol is making inroads into data...

Switch to SaaS salvages ...(Astoria Software switching to software as a service)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Switch to Saas savages... software vendor's future. Next month, content management system developer Astoria Software Inc. will formally shift from selling on-premises software to being a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. The long buying...

Overseas troops have collaboration tool ...(WebEx Communications Inc.'s WebOffice )(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Overseas troops have collaboration tool... at their fingertips--for free. Kary Zate, a marketing manager at WebEx Communications Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., thinks it's about time the online conferencing company began talking up the fact that...

Open-source tool cuts development ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Open-source tool cuts development... complexity, of sorts. This week, the popular Eclipse integrated development environment gets another boost, with the release of Mylar 1.0, an open-source technology designed to dramatically reduce the...

Oracle and bug hunters clash over flaw reports: vendor blasts 'irresponsible' practices; researchers say their work helps users.(NEWS)
December 11, 2006... THE LONG-STANDING tension between software vendors and independent researchers who try to find security holes in products came into public view late last month, when Oracle Corp. criticized bug hunters after it came under fire for its security...

DOJ report airs concerns about key FBI project: agency accepts recommendations but says Sentinel system remains on track.(Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation)
December 11, 2006... THE U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general raised concerns last week that the FBI doesn't have enough money to fully fund development of its Sentinel case management system. In a 112-page report that was released with some portions...

New office file format gets nod as standard.(Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML got the approval from European Computer Manufacturers Association)
December 11, 2006... Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML file format won approval from the Ecma International standards body last week, giving it needed credibility as a rival to the OpenDocument format. But Ecma's vote could also make it easier for users and vendors...

Cisco plans to set up more facilities in India.(Cisco Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... CISCO SYSTEMS Inc. CEO John Chambers announced here last week that the company plans to open a "globalization center" in the Indian city of Bangalore as part of an effort to boost its visibility among users outside the U.S. Chambers also...

China Mobile, Microsoft sign a push e-mail pact.(China Mobile Communications Corp. using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... CHINA MOBILE Communications Corp., the largest mobile network operator in China, this month plans to begin offering its subscribers a push e-mail service based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system. The two companies jointly...

Yahoo offers Web site for Filipino workers.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... YAHOO INC. last week launched a Web site aimed at helping Philippine nationals who work overseas to stay in touch with their families and friends at home. "Many Filipino families are living apart and breaking down because there is no real...

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.(building a facility in Bangalore for developing software for Sony Corp.)
December 11, 2006... Satyam Computer Services Ltd. last week said it is setting up a 40-seat development center in Bangalore, India, that will do software work for Sony Corp.'s European operations. Satyam will handle SAP application development and support,...

Huawei Technologies Co.(planning to invest in research and development)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... Huawei Technologies Co. plans to increase its research and development investments in an effort to make itself less dependent on mobile phone technology from other vendors. A Huawei executive said at ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong last...

SAP AG.(enhancement to its mySAP ERP 2005 software)(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... SAP AG last week released the first in a series of planned enhancements to its mySAP ERP 2005 software. SAP previously brought out full new versions of its ERP applications every 12 to 18 months, but now it plans to release two or three sets of...

School taps interim CIO while search continues: professor to take over IT at Ohio U.; current CIO will be given new job.(Shawn Ostermann replaces William Sams at the Ohio University)(chief information officer)(information technology)
December 11, 2006... Ohio University last week named the head of its electrical engineering and computer science school to take over IT operations on an interim basis from outgoing CIO William Sams, who said in July that he would step aside following a series of...

Travel Guard tightens development processes: new tool and formula help ensure that high-priority projects get done.(Travel Guard International Inc. uses Borland Software Corp.'s Tempo software)
December 11, 2006... TRAVEL GUARD International has completed an overhaul of its software development processes as part of an effort to better prioritize the 600 to 700 projects in the company's IT pipeline at any one time. The Stevens, Wis.-based provider of...

Hyperion unveils gadgets for real-time BI: will provide IM audit capabilities, Windows access.(Hyperion System 9 Smart Space tool from Hyperion Solutions Corp.)(business intelligence)(internal managerial)
December 11, 2006... Hyperion Solutions Corp. has unveiled software that it says can split its business intelligence and performance management products into small, customized applications that provide real-time data feeds to desktop systems. The new Hyperion...

True adorning.(PREMIER 100 IT LEADERS 2007)(Computerworld is honoring information technology professionals)(Editorial)
December 11, 2006... IF YOU were to ask this year's Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader honorees to identify the skills that were most essential to them in achieving their goals, you'd probably be able to predict many of the top responses before you even posed the...