Computerworld articles from July 2006

Computerworld archives from July 2006

U.S. puts money on ultrafast supercomputers: awards contracts for systems with petascale performance.(NEWS)
July 3, 2006... The U.S. government is planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years to fund the development of huge supercomputers with power beyond anything available today. The goal is to address the most challenging problems...

VA pushed to pursue IT overhaul: stolen laptop is recovered, but agency is planning reorg to help boost security.(Department of Veterans Affairs)
July 3, 2006... The FBI last week recovered the stolen laptop and external disk drive containing personal information on some 26.5 million veterans and active-duty military personnel. But the return of the equipment did little to stanch the calls for a...

EMC expands into IT security: storage vendor to buy RSA for $2.1B.(RSA Data Security Inc.)
July 3, 2006... In a deal that marries one of the world's biggest data storage vendors and one of the IT industry's best-known security companies, EMC Corp. last week agreed to acquire RSA Security Inc. for $2.1 billion in cash. "The mandate is clear from...

Microsoft further delays Office 2007.(Microsoft Office 2007)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Office 2007 is now likely to ship a few months later than previously expected. Microsoft Corp. said the delay is to help engineers better incorporate feedback from the 2.5 million Office 2007 beta testers. The software will now ship to business...

Red Hat hit with FireStar patent suit.(FireStar Software Inc.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... FireStar Software Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Red Hat Inc., alleging that Red Hat's Hibernate 3.0 software infringes on a patent issued in August 2000. Hibernate 3.0, a persistence engine, is a component of the JBoss...

CA again postpones filing 2006 results.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... CA Inc. for the second time has delayed filing its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 results. The decision was made after the company uncovered problems concerning the granting of employee stock options and the understating of subscription...

Bank hires EDS to merge networks.(Bank of America Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., MBNA Corp.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Bank of America Corp. has hired Electronic Data Systems Corp. to merge the communications network of recently acquired MBNA Corp. into its own voice and data network. EDS is already running Bank of America's nationwide network as part of a...

Unisys confirms shift on mainframe CPUs: ClearPath systems will transition to Intel processors.(NEWS)
July 3, 2006... UNISYS CORP. last week said it plans to phase out the CMOS processors used in its ClearPath mainframes and enable its MCP and OS 2200 operating systems to run on Intel-based hardware. The company first broached the possibility that it would...

White House sets security agenda for federal agencies.(White House Office of Management and Budget)
July 3, 2006... The White House Office of Management and Budget has given government agencies 45 days to ensure that they have a prescribed set of security controls in place for protecting sensitive data when it is accessed from remote locations or stored on...

Microsoft issues road map for unifying communications tools: product bundling plan is expected to drive competition with VoIP vendors.(NEWS)
July 3, 2006... Microsoft Corp. last week laid out a communications product road map that includes plans to ship unified voice, video and messaging capabilities by mid-2007. Jeff Raikes, president of the company's business division, said the plan calls...

Concerns about fraud potential continue to plague users of electronic voting machines: report says flaws must be fixed for upcoming votes.(NEWS)
July 3, 2006... Electronic voting machines will be vulnerable to fraud this election season unless countermeasures are taken, according to a report issued last week by the New York University School of Law. E-voting devices, such as touch-screen or optical...

Two issues restrain open-source Java.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... A Sun Microsystems Inc. executive said the company must resolve two key issues before releasing Java to the open-source world. Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open-source officer, said it must decide how to keep Java compatible and find a way to...

IBM accelerates Linux Cluster.(International Business Machines Corp., ClearSpeed Technology Ltd.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... In a move to get ahead of rival Hewlett-Packard Co. in the high-performance computing business, IBM has signed an agreement with ClearSpeed Technology Inc. to offer the ClearSpeed Advance accelerator board as a supplement to its Linux-based...

Intel ships first dual-core Xeon chip.(Xeon 5100)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Intel Corp. last week released its dual-core Xeon processor, code-named Woodcrest, the first based on its new Core micro-architecture. The Xeon 5100 chip uses 40% less power than its predecessors while improving performance by a factor of...

Grid industry groups complete merger.(Global Grid Forum and Enterprise Grid Alliance)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Two grid computing groups--the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance--last week fulfilled a February promise to merge. The new Open Grid Forum aims to speed the adoption of grid technology worldwide. The forum said it plans to work...

Eclipse blots out the future ....(ON THE MARK)(Eclipse Foundation Inc., Eclipse IDE)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... ... for other Java integrated development environments (IDE). In a poll of software developers last December, Huntington, N.Y.-based BZ Research found that 65% of the 621 respondents were using the open-source Eclipse IDE for coding in Java....

Matrix 12 is complete, but don't look ...(IT Compliance Institute)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... ... for Keanu Reeves. The IT Compliance Institute (ITCI) in Seattle has unveiled its twelfth compliance matrix for IT pros who want an overview of a regulatory topic as well as the ability to drill down into the specifics of a given regulation...

Regulation approved in 1988 springs ....(ON THE MARK)(Axway Inc.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... ... to life 19 years later. Next year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin enforcing provisions of the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1988 that require companies to prove the pedigree of pharmacist-dispensed drugs. Now...

Tune in to your lost laptop and ...(John Metzler of Rosum Corp. )(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... ... locate it via TV signals. John Metzler, director of business development at Rosum Corp. in Mountain View, Calif., suggests that as laptop vendors begin to add television tuners to their wares sometime in 2008, CIOs might want to give the...

Xerox, Palm agree to $22.5M settlement.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... After nine years of court battles, Palm Inc. has agreed to pay $22.5 million to Xerox Corp. to settle a dispute over technology for writing notes on the touch screen of a PDA. Xerox filed a lawsuit against Palm in 1997, claiming that the...

Intel sells business unit for $600M.(Marvell Technology Group Ltd.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Intel Corp. plans to sell its communications and application processor unit to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. for $600 million. The sale is part of an effort by Intel to shore up its core businesses in the face of a slowing global PC market and...

Linux sales boost Red Hat Q1 revenue.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Red Hat Inc. credited strong Linux sales for a 38% increase in revenue during its first quarter, which ended May 31. The company said that Linux subscription revenue grew 48% to $71.5 million, during the quarter. RED HAT BY THE NUMBERS ...

Tips ready for mobile Web development.(World Wide Web Consortium)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... The World Wide Web Consortium has released a list of best practices for developing Web pages that can be displayed on small mobile devices. The recommendations were compiled by a team of experts from Nokia Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.,...

New Nortel CTO targets Cisco's network control: but Roese says vendor needs to better coordinate R & D, improve marketing.(John Roese, Nortel Networks Corp.)(Interview)
July 3, 2006... LAST WEDNESDAY, John Roese officially became chief technology officer at Nortel Networks Corp., which announced his hiring the previous week. Before joining Brampton, Ontario-based Nortel, the 35-year-old Roese (pronounced "rose") was CTO at...

SGI adds x86 servers to low-end offerings: hopes new options can help it emerge from bankruptcy.(Silicon Graphics Inc.)
July 3, 2006... Silicon Graphics Inc. last week added low-cost options, including an x86-based server, to its product line, as it continues its effort to return to profitability after its bankruptcy filing in May. The company also brought out new mid-range and...

Austin to host New Orleans data center.
July 3, 2006... The CIOs of Austin and New Orleans met last week to work on plans for a data center in Austin that would keep New Orleans municipal functions running in the event of a natural disaster. The city of Austin is providing the space at minimal...

New PeopleSoft apps improve Fusion links.(introducing PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0)
July 3, 2006... Oracle Corp. last week unveiled Version 9 of the PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. The new version offers tighter links to Oracle's Fusion Middleware than its predecessor version, Oracle said. The integration with Fusion will help users...

European official raps German telecom plan.(Viviane Reding)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... A EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER last week threatened legal action against Germany if its government passes a telecommunications law as the measure is currently drafted. The draft law would grant a so-called regulatory holiday to Deutsche Telekom...

Vendor shuts R & D subsidiary in India.(Pervasive Software Inc.'s research and development)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... PERVASIVE SOFTWARE INC., a maker of database and integration software, disclosed last month that it was closing its development subsidiary here and consolidating the operations into its Austin-based facilities. In a statement, Pervasive...

Microsoft faces fines over antitrust ruling.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION today will likely propose fines amounting to as much as [euro]460 million ($576 million U.S.) against Microsoft Corp. for failing to comply with an antitrust ruling imposed by the EC two years ago, sources said. A...

EBay adopts new strategy in Taiwan.(plans to lay off )(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... EBAY INC. said it plans to lay off most of its workforce in Taiwan and turn over its local online auction operations to an Internet portal operator based in Taipei. The San Jose-based company plans to shut down its own auction site in...

Intel invests in four Chinese firms.(An International IT News Digest)(Intel Capital, Montage Technology Co., Star Softcomm Pte., Winking Entertainment Ltd., Campus Media Group Inc.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... INTEL CORP.'S venture capital arm last week disclosed investments in four more companies through its $200 million (U.S.) China Technology Fund, bringing to 12 the number of investments it has made in the country since the fund was set up in...

Research In Motion Ltd.(Briefly Noted)(Taiwan Mobile Co.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Research In Motion Ltd. said it will soon launch its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in Taiwan, via a deal with Taipei-based Taiwan Mobile Co. Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM wouldn't disclose pricing information or specify a launch date, saying...

EMC Corp.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... EMC Corp. said it will open a software development center in Shanghai that is expected to employ 100 workers by year's end and 500 by the end of 2008. EMC didn't disclose the planned cost of the new facility but said it is part of an overall...

Philippine House of Representatives.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... The Philippine House of Representatives has allotted 100 million Philippine pesos ($1.8 million U.S.) to provide wireless Internet connectivity for the country's lawmakers. In a speech last week at the VoIPCon conference in Pasay City, House...

Nokia Corp.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Nokia Corp. in Espoo, Finland, and Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, a Munich-based maker of smart cards, have set up a joint venture that will develop and operate a secure electronic payments service for cell phone users. The service will support...

Toshiba Corp.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Toshiba Corp, said last week that it plans to build a [yen]2 billion ($17.2 million U.S.) factory near Bangkok, Thailand, that will make chips for consumer electronics equipment and mobile phones. Construction is scheduled to begin this month...

Frontier hopes Solaris upgrade boosts Web bookings.(NEWS)
July 3, 2006... Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. last month shifted from Windows- to Solaris-based back-end systems to support its Web site as part of an effort to boost online bookings. Frontier gets about 30% of its passenger revenue through online...

GAO calls on VA, DOD to better share medical data.(Government Accountability Office, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense )
July 3, 2006... The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of Defense must improve efforts to standardize health records, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released late last month. Although both agencies have made...

Pointing in the mirror.(OPINION)(Editorial)
July 3, 2006... WE'VE ALL SEEN IT: An IT vendor does something so stupid that it's downright befuddling. "How could a company with so many smart people be so dumb?" we ask. "What were they thinking?" One of the dumbest vendor moves I've seen in a long...

How to show you're a leader.(Master of business administration degree for IT professionals)(Column)
July 3, 2006... A GRADUATE STUDENT wrote to me to ask whether he should get his MBA and whether it would be possible to demonstrate leadership as an embedded software engineer. They're good questions, so let me share what I told him. I have met successful...

Technology is good; privacy is personal.(usage of electronic health records)(Column)
July 3, 2006... AS A PHYSICIAN at a Harvard-associated teaching hospital, I live in a world of electronic health records, with terabytes of data, images and patient telemetry moving over a 20,000-node secure network. As a CIO, I'm responsible for...

Two sides of the IT union question.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 3, 2006... I HAD ALWAYS thought that unions in high tech would lower the level of knowledge and experience ["IT Union Head Opposes H-1B Increase, Seeks Aid for Workers Hit by Offshoring," April 24]. When I was in college, I worked summers at a plant that...

Tape not an option.(READERS' LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 3, 2006... SO IBM is going to turn out tape that can store a huge amount of data on one cartridge. In, maybe, five years ["IBM Researchers Extend Magnetic Tape Density," Computerworld.com, May 16]. You say that there may be a 1TB tape next year. But this...

New twist on displays: technological advances could soon bring displays that can bend, conform to virtually any shape or roll up to save space.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES)
July 3, 2006... OVER THE next 10 years, thin-film polymers and other flexible substrates could change how people think about and use displays. In the future, you may "print out" reports to sheets of e-paper: flexible polymer displays about as thick as a sheet...

Business on the map: mind-mapping tools make inroads into corporate IT as they streamline problem-solving and help structure tasks.(as used by Bristow Helicopters Ltd.)
July 3, 2006... WHEN BRISTOW Helicopters Ltd. started losing market share in the 1990s, executives moved to improve business processes across the Redhill, England-based company. "We needed to change facilities and maintenance processes, improve the...

No rush to give Russian engineers net access: our manager is flexible on the matter but has concerns about protecting intellectual property.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(Column)
July 3, 2006... I JUST RETURNED from Moscow, where I visited a company we outsource some of our software development to. Outsourcing software development can be a risky business. The theft of my company's source code could hit revenue hard. Now that USB pocket...

Data exposed on opposite coasts ....(SECURITY LOG)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... The Social Security numbers of more than 600 high school students in Catawba County, N.C., were found on the Internet by someone conducting an unrelated Google search. The page has been removed from the school system's Web site, and Google Inc....

... And the other side of the world.(police officer lost a memory stick containing financial information of customers)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... A police officer at the Australian High Tech Crime Centre lost a memory stick containing sensitive financial data belonging to thousands of Australians, according to The Australian newspaper. The device holds a dossier on Russian phishing...

Exploit released.(Microsoft Corp.)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Microsoft Corp. said exploit code for a critical flaw in Windows Routing and Remote Access service has been released. Computers without a patch that was issued June 13 (MS06-025) are vulnerable to the exploit.

Backup strategies.(QUICK STUDY)
July 3, 2006... EVERY IT manager knows the critical importance of regularly backing up computer systems and data... and of being able to restore any or all of them in the event of a system outage, hardware failure, natural disaster or other data loss. ...

SPI unveils security analysis apps.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Atlanta-based SPI Dynamics Inc. last week released two high-speed security analysis products. WebInspect 6.0 examines Web applications using SPI's Intelligent Engine technology, while DevInspect 2005 combines source-code scanning and black-box...

ECopy builds on scanning suite.(ECopy Desktop 9.0, eCopy ShareScan OP 4.0)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... Nashua, N.H.-based eCopy Inc. recently released two additions to its document scanning and distribution suite. ECopy Desktop 9.0 allows users to modify and manage PDF documents in much the same way they work with paper documents, while eCopy...

Antepo adds IM, VoIP capabilities.(BRIEFS)(instant messaging, voice over internet protocol)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... The latest version of Antepo Inc.'s Open Presence Network communications application, called Rivoli, brings together presence awareness with instant messaging and VoIP capabilities, according to the New York-based company. The beta version of...

HiSoftware rolls out site monitoring tool.(BRIEFS)(AccMonitor Site Quality Module)(Brief article)
July 3, 2006... HiSoftware, a Nashua, N.H.-based developer of Web content governance software, has released the AccMonitor Site Quality Module. The product automatically tracks server response time, reports broken links and imagery, and identifies other...

Economics, not innovation, drives H-1B debate.(TECHNOLOGY)(Column)
July 3, 2006... ECONOMICS is driving the IT industry to doggedly persist in efforts to secure a big boost in H-1B visas for foreign workers this year, despite the move by a divided Congress on June 20 to table the controversial issue and seek voter input. ...

When your outsourcer is acquired: How to prepare for, minimize and deal with the pain.(MANAGEMENT)(Prentice Technologies Inc., Fortrust Solutions, One-Neck IT Services Corp.)
July 3, 2006... IF YOU ASKED Kevin Smith three years ago what it's like to have your outsourcer acquired by another company, he might have said, "No problem." Today, however, he's got a different tale to tell. That's because Smith, information systems director...

Workforce Crisis: ready or not, an IT talent crunch is coming. Here's how to prepare.(Q & A)(Interview)
July 3, 2006... Like global warming, the reality of the looming talent shortage is pretty well established, but that hasn't induced many IT managers to prepare for it. Now there are no more excuses. Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills...

Acing the interview: there's a lot more to a successful job interview than getting an offer.(IT MENTOR)
July 3, 2006... You're sitting across the table from John Q. Smith, manager in a big corporate IT department. He and his cohorts have just spent two hours grilling you about Web services, architecture, project management or whatever it is you're so darn good...

Communications.(EVENTS)
July 3, 2006... July 19-21, Boston Sponsor: Wainhouse Research LLC WR Summit 2006: Unified Collaboration and IP Communications addresses unified collaborative communications with presentations on topics such as desktop collaboration,...

Linux.(EVENTS)
July 3, 2006... Aug. 14-17, San Francisco Sponsor: IDG World Expo Corp. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo includes presentations on mobile and embedded Linux, kernel and system development, high-performance computing and virtualization, the Linux desktop,...

Innovation.(EVENTS)
July 3, 2006... Aug. 20-22, Coronado, Calif. Sponsor: CXO Media Inc. The CIO 100 Symposium: Delivering Innovation to the Enterprise includes presentations such as creating the next wave of innovation; customer-driven innovation; vendors, users and the...

Financial Services.(EVENTS)
July 3, 2006... Aug. 28-30, Boston Sponsor: Gartner Inc. The Gartner Financial Services Technology Summit includes presentations on topics such as the scenario and technology road map for banking in 2012, improving underwriting results through process...

The technical siren's call isn't easy to ignore.(MANAGEMENT)(Column)
July 3, 2006... I RECENTLY had the privilege of giving a speech at my alma mater, Cornell University, and wandering the campus brought back memories. Other than a building boom, the nearly 20 years had brought few changes to the campus. It was still clean...

A good start.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Column)
July 3, 2006... IT'S A START. On June 23, the Office of Management and Budget announced that federal agencies have 45 days to put new data-protection measures in place (see story, page 6). The new requirements (technically, they're "recommendations," but the...

There's always a reason.(SHARK TANK)
July 3, 2006... After several smash-and-grab robberies, this company installs a very high-tech alarm, complete with sensors to detect office windows breaking. But the new system seems to malfunction from the start, frequently sending false alarms to local...

Microsoft shifts ODF stance: Backs effort for free plug-ins to save Office files in the open-source format.(NEWS)(open document format, Clever Age, Dialogika GmbH)
July 10, 2006... In a tacit acknowledgment of the OpenDocument format's increased momentum, Microsoft Corp. said last week that it will back an open-source project to create software that will allow Microsoft Office users to open and save files in ODF. The...

Budget crisis tests N.J. IT operations: Gov't shutdown shows technology is the 'umbilical cord' for state services, says CTO.(NEWS)(Adel Ebeid, chief technology officer, New Jersey Office of Information Technology)
July 10, 2006... Many IT managers have developed contingency plans for dealing with drastic personnel absenteeism due to an emergency, such as a pandemic. But Adel Ebeid, New Jersey's chief technology officer, last week had to manage a man-made crisis when...

Users leery of Microsoft license checks: Question vendor's insistance that SAM program isn't an audit.(NEWS)(Software Asset Management)
July 10, 2006... BARRY LIBENSON, CIO at Ingersoll-Rand Co., was skeptical earlier this year when Microsoft Corp. contacted his company about possible license-compliance problems yet insisted it had no plans to pursue an audit. Microsoft claimed that the...

Microsoft to patch Windows and Office.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Microsoft Corp. plans to release seven software patches tomorrow as part of its regularly scheduled monthly patch update. Four of the updates will fix bugs in Windows, while three of them will address flaws in Microsoft Office. Both sets of...

AMD cuts sales forecast for Q2.(AT DEADLINE)(Advanced Micro Devices Inc)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Citing lower-than-anticipated sales of laptop and desktop PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has lowered its second-quarter sales forecast. The company cut its sales forecast for the quarter by about 9% to $1.215 billion. AMD's...

IBM to ship Linux client for Notes.(AT DEADLINE)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... IBM's Lotus unit is set to start shipping its first Linux client for Lotus Notes, starting July 24. The new release, a free download for licensed Notes 7.01 users, was built using the Eclipse development environment. It will work with any major...

Cisco buys security software firm.(AT DEADLINE)(Cisco Systems Inc., Meetinghouse Inc.)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Meetinghouse Inc., an endpoint security software maker, for $43.7 million. Meetinghouse's Aegis line of authentication software helps to manage network access using the IEEE 802.1x standard. The move is part...

Keep tabs on the ethics ....(ON THE MARK)(EthicsPoint Inc.)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... ... of your workers, managers and partners. If you're like most people, you're not perfect. But some people are even less perfect than you, and your company probably needs to know more about how employees' imperfections can put it at risk....

SAN, NAS worlds get continuous ....(ON THE MARK)(storage-area network, network-attached storage, Exanet Inc., Mendocino Software Inc.)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... ... data-processing updates. Whether you run a storage-area network or a network-attached storage environment, managing the data archive can be a burden when you need to recover an application to a particular point in time. [ILLUSTRATION...

Partial SaaS approach yields ....(ON THE MARK)(Klir Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... ... a complete IT monitoring service. James Maiocco is a big believer in SaaS. But the CEO of Klir Technologies Inc. in Seattle offers a twist to the fast-growing movement for delivering software to people's desktops: It puts software on your...

Get control of your office ....(ON THE MARK)(NextPage 2.0)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... ... docs to avoid "the smoking-gun document problem." That's the advice from Darren Lee, CEO of NextPage Inc. in Draper, Utah. Billions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office files clutter the world's disk drives annually. Lee...

Indiana hospital readies voice-over-Wi-Fi for nurses.(NEWS)(Hancock Regional Hospital)
July 10, 2006... Nurses will soon be using voice-over-Wi-Fi phones in a hospital in Indiana as part of an effort to improve their mobility and reduce network costs, an IT o cial said last week. "We think that technology will really take off, giving each...

Mercury officials face charges.(BRIEFS)(Mercury Interactive Corp., Igal Kohavi, Yair Shamir, Giora Yaron)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Mercury Interactive Corp. announced that it has restated its earnings for 2002 to 2004 and disclosed that three board members are facing possible civil enforcement proceedings. Mercury refiled financial statements for its fiscal 2002, 2003 and...

Microsoft faces lawsuits over WGA.(BRIEFS)(Windows Genuine Advantage)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Microsoft Corp. has been hit with a second lawsuit over Windows Genuine Advantage, its antipiracy program that checks whether the Windows operating system on a machine has a valid license. The class-action suit, filed in U.S. District Court in...

Oracle reports $2B in Asian revenue.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Oracle Corp.'s Asian revenue topped $2 billion for the first time during its most recent fiscal year. The software vendor said revenue from the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, totaled $2.02 billion during the company's 2006 fiscal year,...

Microsoft names EMEA executive.(BRIEFS)(Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Michel van der Bel )(Brief article)
July 10, 2006... Microsoft last week promoted the head of its Dutch subsidiary to vice president for the public sector for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Michel van der Bel replaces Jan Muehlfeit, who was earlier named EMEA vice president for...

Visa, MasterCard unveil new security rules: Updated PCI standard will cover Web applications and third-party controls.(NEWS)(Visa U.S.A. Inc., MasterCard International Inc., Payment Card Industry)
July 10, 2006... VISA U.S.A. INC. and MasterCard International Inc. will release new security rules in the next 30 to 60 days for all organizations that handle credit card data, a Visa official said last week. The rules will be the first major update to the...

Metastorm closes BPM loop.(NEWS)(business process management)
July 10, 2006... Metastorm Inc. this week will foray for the first time into system-based process management, with new software designed to give users end-to-end business process management capabilities. With the introduction of Metastorm BPM Version 7, the...