Computerworld articles from November 2005

Computerworld archives from November 2005

Users remain loyal to Novell despite turmoil: vendor sets layoff plans, names operations chief, looks to focus on high-growth markets.(NEWS)
November 7, 2005... Novell Inc. went back into restructuring mode last week, announcing a series of moves that included a 600-worker layoff, the promotion of its top sales executive to also run development and marketing, and a plan to concentrate its resources on...

Belated SQL Server upgrade retains its appeal to testers: Microsoft launches new database release after two-year delay.(NEWS)
November 7, 2005... Microsoft Corp. is finally set to launch its SQL Server 2005 database today. And despite a two-year delay, several users who have tested the software cited the improved performance and new functionality it brings as positive developments that...

Laws, breaches lend urgency to retail security.(NEWS)
November 7, 2005... Growing privacy concerns and emerging laws governing the use of sensitive personal information are increasing the pressure on retailers to make sure that their data security practices are rock-solid, according to IT managers at a conference...

Oracle CFO to leave after four months.(Greg Maffei)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Oracle Corp. lost a second chief financial officer this year with the resignation of Greg Maffei. In a statement, CEO Larry Ellison said Maffei is leaving for "a terrific professional opportunity." The former Microsoft Corp. executive joined...

Cisco discloses router app flaw.(Cisco Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Cisco Systems Inc. has published a patch for a flaw in its Internet-working Operating System, which powers its routers. The flaw, rated "critical" by the French Security Incident Response Team, affects the IOS timers that run some system tasks....

Veritas deal blamed for Symantec loss.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Symantec Corp. stumbled in its second quarter, reporting a large loss on charges associated with its Veritas Software Corp. acquisition. Symantec also warned that the results in the current quarter will be worse than projected. SYMANTEC...

EDS plans to resell Fujitsu servers.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Electronic Data Systems Corp. has reached an agreement with Fujitsu Ltd. to resell Fujitsu's Itanium 2-based PrimeQuest servers and other hardware as part of its service packages. Over the next three years, Fujitsu hopes to sell 2,000 servers...

HP, Sun take different paths with thin clients: HP rolls out blade PCs; Sun works on server-based clients.(Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc.)
November 7, 2005... SUN MICROSYSTEMS Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are each offering new thin-client computing technologies, but they're giving users different choices: server-based clients versus ones that are supported by rack-mounted blade PCs. HP today...

HP wins bidding for Interex's member data: vendor says it will protect information collected on users.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Hewlett-Packard Co. was the high bidder for the now-defunct Interex user group's customer database and mailing list, which were auctioned off late last month in a sale sanctioned by a bankruptcy court judge in California. HP offered...

Bank of America ready to begin work on SOA update: system expansion needed for surge in transactions.(service oriented architecture)
November 7, 2005... Bank of America Corp. plans to soon begin work on the third generation of its service-oriented architecture to support an expected doubling of Web services transactions from its current 550 million per month. The next-generation SOA,...

Federal panel pushes plan for EHR adoption: sends Congress 14 proposals.(Commission on Systemic Interoperability, electronic health records)
November 7, 2005... A federal commission late last month called for a national patient authentication system to enable faster adoption of electronic health records (EHR). The Commission on Systemic Interoperability, established by the Medicare Modernization...

Dell revenue to fall short of guidance.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Dell Inc. said it will take a charge of $450 million after third-quarter results fell short of projections because of lower-than-expected sales. Dell said it will take the charge to restructure its workforce and replace broken OptiPlex desktop...

Sun sales are up, but losses persist.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Despite some bright spots, with improved sales of its Opteron-based server line and midrange storage arrays, Sun Microsystems Inc. reported another net loss for its first fiscal quarter. SUN BY THE NUMBERS REVENUE PROFIT/LOSS ...

Case resigns from Time Warner board.(BRIEFS)(Steve Case )(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... America Online Inc. co-founder Steve Case has resigned from Time Warner Inc.'s board of directors. Case is leaving Time Warner to devote more time to Revolution Health Group, an investment company he launched in April with stakes in health care...

AMD, IBM extend technology pact.(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has expanded a chip technology partnership with IBM to include exploratory research into a range of advanced chip-related technologies through 2011. The agreement was set to expire in 2008. It calls for the companies...

IT's 'hero culture' stunts growth ...(ON THE MARK)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... ... of mature application development processes. Many IT shops expect their top programmers to save the day on foundering app-dev projects, says Erik Frieberg, vice president of marketing and strategy at Borland Corp. in Scotts Valley, Calif....

Boost your WAN's pokey performance ...(Orbital Data Corp)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... ... by installing data acceleration appliances. Richard Pierce, CEO of Orbital Data Corp. in San Mateo, Calif., says the "demand profile" for WAN optimization has changed from point-to-point needs to servicing numerous branch offices that...

Endpoint security software ...(Network Associates Inc. plans to release beta of its Policy Enforcer software )(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... ... checks up on PCs and other devices trying to get on a network. McAfee Inc. plans to release a beta of its Policy Enforcer software by the end of the month and ship the product early next year. According to Michelle Cobb, a group product...

The corporate share of wireless data ...(wireless data services will barely budge by 2009)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... ... services remains flat, as consumers continue to dominate the airwaves. A report being released this week by Boston-based Yankee Group Research Inc. predicts that the enterprise portion of wireless data services will barely budge by 2009,...

Military-grade security tool is destined ...(Trusted Computer Solutions Inc. signs a nonexclusive deal with Wyse Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... ... for use on thin clients. Ed Hammersla, CEO of Trusted Computer Solutions Inc. in Herndon, Va., says his company has signed a nonexclusive deal to port its NetTop2 data access software to Wyse Technology Inc.'s thin-client devices. With...

Bank moves to prioritize patching of key systems.(Q & A)(Interview)
November 7, 2005... THE CONSTANT NEED to patch systems on its global network has driven Standard Chartered Bank to adopt a risk-based approach to managing security vulnerabilities. Instead of rushing to patch every flaw disclosed by its software vendors, the...

Children's Hospital trims backup with disk-to-disk: now urgent restore requests are met in minutes, not hours.(NEWS)
November 7, 2005... Children's Hospital in Boston was dealing with a tape backup nightmare early this year, with a backup window that at times lasted 18 hours and often caused failed tape drives and shutdowns. On top of at least two drive failures each month,...

Mercury execs resign in scandal.(BRIEFS)(Mercury Interactive Corp.)(Amnon Landan, Douglas Smith, Susan Skaer, Tony Zingale )(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Three Mercury Interactive Corp. executives--CEO Amnon Landan, Chief Financial Officer Douglas Smith and General Counsel Susan Skaer--have resigned after an internal probe into stock-option grants resulted in a scathing report on their...

Nortel blames Q3 loss on penalty ...(BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Nortel Networks Corp., citing restructuring costs and a penalty stemming from a refiling of its tax returns, reported a loss for its latest fiscal period. NORTEL BY THE NUMBERS REVENUE PROFIT/LOSS Q3'05 $2.7B ($105M)...

... as new CEO, Motorola settle.(BRIEFS)(Mike Zafirovski to repay separation money to Motorola Inc. )(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... New Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski has agreed to repay $11.5 million of separation money to former employer Motorola Inc. to settle a lawsuit filed last month after Nortel announced his hiring. Nortel will reimburse Zafirovski for the payment. He...

Investors sell Agilent business.(BRIEFS)(Agilent Technologies Inc., PMC-Sierra Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Chip developer PMC-Sierra Inc. has agreed to buy the storage semiconductor business formerly owned by Agilent Technologies Inc. for about $425 million. PMC-Sierra is acquiring the business from investment firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and...

Microsoft CRM upgrade to ship ahead of schedule: users hope new product addresses v1.2 shortcomings.(NEWS)(Microsoft CRM 3.0)
November 7, 2005... MICROSOFT CORP. last week said its long-awaited CRM 3.0 upgrade will ship early next month, weeks earlier than planned. The product was originally slated to ship during the first quarter of 2006. Microsoft said the release adds a number of...

Microsoft exec weighs in on CRM 3.0.(Q & A)(Brad Wilson)(Interview)
November 7, 2005... Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft's CRM unit, talked to Computerworld's Marc L. Songini about the release of the company's long-awaited CRM 3.0 software, which it said last week will ship in early December, a few months earlier than...

Telefonica to buy mobile networks operator O2.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... TELEFONICA SA last week said it has agreed to pay [pounds sterling]17.7 billion ($31.4 billion) for O2 PLC, which owns mobile network operators in the U.K., Germany and Ireland as well as on the Isle of Man. The deal ends speculation about...

Qualcomm disputes unfair licensing claims.(An International IT News Digest)
November 7, 2005... QUALCOMM INC., a San Diego-based developer of chips and software for mobile communications, is challenging charges of unfair patent licensing practices that were filed in Europe late last month by a group of six mobile vendors. In a...

Chinese bank caps online transactions.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF CHINA, which sets that country's monetary policy and regulates parts of its banking industry, has issued a set of guidelines capping the amount that individuals can spend online at 1,000 renminbi ($123.53) per transaction....

Vodafone Group PLC.(to acquire 10% stake in Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Vodafone Group PLC in Newbury, England, has agreed to buy a 10% stake in Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. in New Delhi for 66.56 billion rupees ($1.48 billion). Vodafone said that Bharti has 14.1 million mobile customers and that its fixed-line user...

Lenovo Group Ltd.(revenue report)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Lenovo Group Ltd., citing growth in Asian markets, said its second-quarter profits totaled HK$354 million ($43.8 million), topping a consensus forecast of HK$300 million ($37.1 million) issued by Thomson One Analytics. Second-quarter revenue...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange.(problem in the trading system of the company)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... The Tokyo Stock Exchange was forced to halt trading last Tuesday as a result of a system glitch. The problem was discovered before the market's 9 a.m. opening, which was delayed by more than four hours. Reports blamed the problem on a software...

Sun taps into StorageTek's portfolio for 1TB tape drive.(Storage Technology Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.)(T10000)
November 7, 2005... Sun Microsystems Inc. last week brought out the first fruit of its recent acquisition of Storage Technology Corp.--a high-end, 3.5-in. tape drive that can hold up to 1TB of compressed data. The new T10000 tape drive has a throughput rate of...

Opium wars.(pirated software)(Editorial)
November 7, 2005... TALK ABOUT some vivid flashbacks. As I was reading this week's "China Syndrome" cover story on the global problem of counterfeit hardware and software products, I was transported back a decade to when I was working for the Hong Kong edition of...

Making IT exciting again.(information technology)
November 7, 2005... ADMIT IT: The IT life isn't usually a lot of fun anymore. We spend our days slowing down the pace of change. We no longer upgrade equipment just because it's three years old. We avoid the next release. We worry about money all the time. ...

It, dot-coms and 'getting' business.
November 7, 2005... YOU MAY NOT have noticed recent stories explaining why German book publishers are saying no to Google's--and previously Amazon.com's--requests to put German-language books online. But while it's easy to dismiss this as just another publishing...

IT could transform the power grid.(Letter to the Editor)
November 7, 2005... I ENJOYED Thomas Hoffman's article on modernizing the power grid ["Healing Power: Electric Grid, Repair Thyself," QuickLink 55643]. One collection of activities not mentioned falls under the banner Grid-Wise. It's a vision for the future...

Joining the club.(Letter to the Editor)
November 7, 2005... IN READING THE COLUMN "Reevaluating Accountants" [QuickLink 56208], I was struck by the point that accountants feel threatened by new systems that change their role. Welcome to the club, bean counters! ERP systems and other initiatives like...

Dirty data blights the bottom line: data quality isn't a glamorous topic, but companies ignore it--especially for internal systems--at their financial peril.
November 7, 2005... When Nancy Rybeck was hired by Emerson Process Management six years ago, she was charged with salvaging a data warehouse that had been built to help the company better analyze customer activity. But after a thorough review, she opted to scrap...

Moving pictures: the technology for mobile video is in place, and it's poised to take off in some industries--but wide adoption is a ways off.
November 7, 2005... CONSUMERS in the U.S. enjoy video clips and even receive live TV broadcasts on their wireless phones and other handheld devices. Teenagers in Japan chat with their friends using wireless videoconferencing over their cell phones. With such...

Can you understand me now? Voice technologies now in the labs mean the answer will be yes.
November 7, 2005... EVERY FEW YEARS, researchers say that automated voice recognition technology has finally arrived, but it seems as though the reality never lives up to the hype. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For the past two decades, systems that enable...

Space elevator contestants go down.
November 7, 2005... No one managed to win top honors in NASA's Beam Power Challenge and its Tether Challenge, competitions to develop technologies that could be used in space elevators. The two $50,000 prizes went unawarded in last month's contests in Mountain...

Researchers find missing link.(quantum bit ring)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Scientists at The University of Manchester in England have made a major breakthrough that could hold the key to creating the first practical quantum computers. Professor Richard Winpenny of the School of Chemistry and a team of...

Get with the program.( Charles Babbage invents computing device which was never made)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Anyone looking for a touch of the romantic in the history of computing need look no further than the woman generally acknowledged as the first programmer. Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, was the product of the brief, unhappy...

Plans for WLANs.
November 7, 2005... For which of the following applications are you planning to use your wireless LAN in the next 12 months? Employee mobility 66% Conference-room access 56% Voice over WLAN 24% Asset tracking 22% Wired port...

How to get a job in the infosec field: lots of readers wondered where all those security jobs our manager talks about are, so she did a little research.
November 7, 2005... MY DECISION to stay in my current job for quality-of-life reasons provoked emotional responses from several readers. Some of those who wrote to me about that column [QuickLink 57182] had made similar decisions. But a few, after reading about...

Security bookshelf.(Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 7, 2005... Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy, by Tom Patterson, with Scott Gleeson Blue (Symantec Press, 2004). The reader of this book traverses the globe through chapters devoted to specific countries...

Proposed India law could hurt BPO.(Information Technology Act, business process outsourcing companies to be regulated)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Proposed amendments to India's Information Technology Act wouldn't include business process outsourcing (BPO) companies among service providers, which means they wouldn't be held liable for data theft or leaks. The legislation would hold...

Employers increase background checks.(background investigation increased)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Employers conducted nearly 4.4 million background checks in 2004, up 16% from 2003 and more than 300% from eight years ago, according to the ADP Employer Services Hiring Index. Of criminal records checked, 5% revealed an infraction.

Tizor launches auditing appliance.(Tizor Systems Inc. )(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Tizor Systems Inc. in Maynard, Mass., has unveiled a new add-in network appliance that allows companies to monitor and audit employee activities with mission-critical applications and data in real time. Designed to help protect against data...

Verano upgrades security appliance.(Industrial Defender 2.0 introduced)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Verano Inc. in Mansfield, Mass., has introduced Industrial Defender 2.0. The latest version of Verano's security appliance suite features enhanced security agents, customizable reporting and analysis, and increased scalability. It's geared for...

Oracle to integrate PeopleSoft apps.(Strategic Network Optimization and Production Scheduling products)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... Oracle Corp. announced that it will integrate the Strategic Network Optimization and Production Scheduling products from the PeopleSoft Supply Chain Planning suite into its E-Business Suite 11i Advanced Planning and Scheduling application. The...

Searching for root cause.(new technologies)(Column)
November 7, 2005... IN A PREVIOUS COLUMN, I outlined the five steps in the problem management process: detection, identification, determination, resolution and reflection [QuickLink 56047]. I explained how new technologies will be required to help IT...

China syndrome: today's hottest global markets are steeped in counterfeit IT products. Here's how to minimize your company's exposure.(Cover Story)
November 7, 2005... EDWARD MACNAMARA was impressed with the local company he had hired to help open a new office in Beijing. The vendor had offered to install a suite of Microsoft products on the computers right away. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But...

Double dipping on Sarb-Ox: some companies are leveraging Sarbanes-Oxley investments for business; others are leveraging business investments to comply.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
November 7, 2005... MENTION the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to a CIO or a corporate executive, and he's likely to roll his eyes or grimace. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That's because most executives view the compliance requirements as a grim burden, like cleaning out a...

Derek Smootz.(Q & A)(Interview)
November 7, 2005... TITLE: Software quality assurance engineer COMPANY: BMC Software Inc., Houston There's a widely documented skills shortage coming to the mainframe world, as baby boomers begin to retire and young programmers focus on other areas....

Tech job cuts up 18%.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... TECHNOLOGY-SECTOR job cuts for the first three quarters of the year were up 18.8% over the same period in 2004, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a global out-placement company in Chicago. There are some promising indicators,...

Women and the unexamined IT life.(Career Watch)(Brief Article)
November 7, 2005... The Collegiate Times, the student newspaper at Virginia Tech, reports that three scholars at the school have identified five factors that influence women who are interested in or are pursuing careers in IT. The article says study participants...

Outsourcing.(EVENTS)
November 7, 2005... Nov. 10, Chicago Sponsor: The Outsourcing Institute Reality Outsourcing: Real People, Real Stories includes presentations on adapting to change, best practices in action, postcontract challenges, outsourcing relationship management,...

Business transformation.(EVENTS)
November 7, 2005... Nov. 15-16, Boston Sponsor: Forrester Research Inc. Enabling Business Model Transformation: IT's Strategic Role in Driving Global Competitiveness includes tracks on business model transformation for global competitiveness, IT's...

Security.(EVENTS)
November 7, 2005... Nov. 17-18, New York Sponsor: The Conference Board Inc. The 2005 Corporate Security, Business Continuity and Crisis Management Conference will address topics such as corporate crime and corruption; nuclear, chemical and biological...

Content management.(Lighthouse Seminars LLC, conference)
November 7, 2005... Nov. 29-Dec. 1, Boston Sponsor: Lighthouse Seminars LLC The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies includes tracks for content managers, content technologists, marketing managers and business and compliance managers, as...

You're fired!(employment terminations)(Column)
November 7, 2005... WHILE DONALD TRUMP may issue these words with mock sadistic glee, most of us with a tad of compassion struggle with uttering the phrase, "You're fired." And it's right that we should. In the popular press, when we hear about firings, it's...

Out of the loop.(software applications)(Column)
November 7, 2005... YOU'VE SEEN THEM BEFORE--news stories or ads pushing yet another code generator that "anyone can use to create real applications." Infuriating, aren't they? The basic pitch is always the same: Business users can build their own applications,...

What were they thinking?(humor)
November 7, 2005... CFO stops by IT to ask why the new e-commerce Web site is taking so long. Pilot fish explains that project team members just started on it a month before, using a new language per the CFO's specs--on top of which they've been dealing with...

CA pushes integration strategy for Unicenter: upgrade widens internal connections, links to rival tools; users look to new capabilities to ease management tasks.(Computer Associates International Inc.)
November 14, 2005... Computer Associates International Inc. will announce a major upgrade of its systems management software at its CA World user conference in Las Vegas today, focusing on increased integration among its Unicenter products and between them and...

Microsoft has big plans for SQL Server: vendor tries to shake database's low-end image.
November 14, 2005... SQL Server's roots as a product used by small companies and departments within larger enterprises have left the Microsoft Corp. software with the tag of being the little database that couldn't handle the data center needs of IT managers. ...

IT execs seek cohesive data storage policies: tools, management support are lacking.(data management techniques)
November 14, 2005... Despite advances in tiered storage technology, many IT managers say they have no idea of the value of their companies' data and can't manage it in any automated way. For example, Laura Fucci, chief technology officer at the Las Vegas-based...

SUSE Linux founder leaves Novell.(Hubert Mantel resigns)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Hubert Mantel, one of the founders of the SUSE Linux project, has resigned from Novell Inc. SUSE Linux AG was acquired by Novell in January 2004. Mantel was one of four founders of SUSE, a German consulting group that focused on creating a...

U.S. awards health care network pacts.(United States. Department of Health and Human Services gives contract to Accenture Ltd., International Business Machines Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded contracts totaling $18.6 million to four groups of health care and IT companies to develop prototypes for the Nationwide Health Information Network architecture. The groups, led by...

Dell results fall short of projections.(losses reported)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Dell Inc. reported that third-quarter revenue and earnings came in short of the company's original expectations, as it had warned a week earlier. DELL BY THE NUMBERS REVENUE PROFIT Q3 '06 $13.9B $606M Q3 '05 $12.5B...

Microsoft offers aid online for licensing.(product licensing advisor web site)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Microsoft Corp. today will unveil an online adviser to provide customers with product licensing details. Next spring, Microsoft will add data to the Product Licensing Advisor Web site, including information on product use rights, Software...

Bird flu prompts calls for IT to plan for disruptions: staff shortages feared if major outbreak occurs.
November 14, 2005... THE AVIAN flu has been spreading slowly, with bird infections reported from Southeast Asia to Siberia and a growing number of people dying from the illness. But although the threat of a major outbreak is raising alarms among governments, it...

IBM unveils midrange NAS arrays: second product line to come from deal with NetApp.(International Business Machines Corp., Network Attached Storage)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... IBM last week brought out a line of midrange storage arrays that offer network-attached storage capabilities and can transfer data via Fibre Channel and the IP-based Internet SCSI protocol. The new IBM System Storage N5000 series is aimed...

GAO says Navy sank $1B into four failed ERP pilot projects: military branch disagrees with report's findings.(Government Accountability Office, enterprise resource planning)
November 14, 2005... THE U.S. NAVY has wasted $1 billion since 1998 on four flawed ERP pilot projects based on SAP software, according to the Government Accountability Office. The GAO said in a September report to Congress that the installations were redundant...

Private consortium tapped to advise DOD on its IT efforts.( World Wide Consortium for the Grid, Department of Defense)
November 14, 2005... In an effort to improve its ability to adopt new technologies, the U.S. Department of Defense has turned to a DOD-funded consortium to help it develop a business process to better tackle IT problems. The effort is being spearheaded by the...

Juniper hires former ISS researcher.(Internet Security Systems Inc.'s Michael Lynn joins Juniper Networks Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Former Internet Security Systems Inc. researcher Michael Lynn has landed at networking vendor Juniper Networks Inc. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Juniper confirmed Lynn's hiring for the undisclosed job just months after he created an international...

Investment firm to acquire CRM vendor.(Francisco Partners, customer relationship management, FrontRange Solutions Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Investment firm Francisco Partners Management LLC in Menlo Park. Calif., has agreed to acquire all of CRM software maker FrontRange Ltd.'s outstanding shares. South Africa-based Front-Range valued the deal, expected to close within 90 days, at...

Former Oracle exec named Liberty CEO.(Greg Maffei, Liberty Media Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Greg Maffei, whose resignation as Oracle Corp.'s chief financial officer was disclosed earlier this month, will soon become the CEO of Liberty Media Corp., an Englewood, Colo.-based investment company. The longtime Microsoft Corp. executive was...

CEO pledges more Palm OS products.(Ed Colligan )(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Palm Inc. President and CEO Ed Colligan has penned a letter to Palm's developer community promising to continue releasing Palm OS personal digital assistants and smart phones. There has been unrest among Palm developers over fears that the...

Price of security breaches ...( PGP Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... ... reaches nearly $14 million per incident. That's according to a study conducted by Ponemon Institute LLC for PGP Corp., a security software vendor in Palo Alto, Calif. Just another vendor-sponsored report slanted to back up breathless...

Control scary protocols ...(CipherTrust IronMail released)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... ... on your network via software running on an appliance. CipherTrust Inc. is releasing software called IronNet that runs on its IronMail appliance and is designed to manage HTTP, peer-to-peer and voice-over-IP protocols, says Jay Chaudry, CEO...