Computerworld articles from October 2005

Computerworld archives from October 2005

Data scandal: do you know how to respond to the inevitable security breach? You'd better.(data security is the prime concern for today's companies)
October 3, 2005... A DATA SCANDAL roll call would include big names in nearly every industry. Bank of America, LexisNexis, Time Warner, DSW Shoe Warehouse, T-Mobile and the University of California, Berkeley, to name a few, have recently experienced data security...

'What we have here is an IT problem ...'.(information technology services)
October 3, 2005... It seems that IT is the latest in a long line of business scapegoats. Finance, human resources, production and quality assurance have all had turns on the whipping post. Now it's IT's turn to take a few lashes. Or is it? Business has a way of...

Interns 201: tweaking your student intern program now will help you deliver more value next summer.(internship program in National Instruments Corp.)
October 3, 2005... THE IT DEPARTMENT at National Instruments Corp. learned the hard way about the ins and outs of developing projects for summer interns. "We struggled with making sure the interns were getting a good project," recalls Carol Watkins, director of...

Network Systems Design.
October 3, 2005... Oct. 18-20, San Jose Sponsor: The Linley Group Inc. Topics at the Network Systems Design Conference include an overview of networking systems technologies, choosing a network processor, advanced switching, next-generation broadband...

Wireless and mobile.
October 3, 2005... Oct. 26-28, Boston Sponsor: Trendsmedia Inc. The WiMax World Conference includes tracks on business, technology, municipalities and voice over IP. Topics include the state of the industry, the dynamics of successful deployment, service...

Leadership.
October 3, 2005... Nov. 6-8, Boston Sponsor: AMR Research Inc. The 2005 Executive Leadership Conference includes sessions on linking IT to productivity improvement, the intersection of IT and business process, the 25 companies with the best supply...

Security.
October 3, 2005... Nov. 14-16, Washington Sponsor: Computer Security Institute The CSI's 32nd annual Computer Security Conference tracks include an introduction to computer security, training and education, management, government, risk and audit,...

Connected or addicted?(mobile phones are used by managers for four different reasons)(Column)
October 3, 2005... CIOs FREQUENTLY invite me to give presentations to their management teams or to facilitate retreats. I'm always amazed by how many of the managers in those sessions feel compelled to answer their cell phones or monitor their "crack-berries"...

IT consolidates BI tools as use expands: companies look to streamline support, improve ease of use.(Carlson Hospitality Worldwide uses business intelligence tools of Information Builders Inc.)
October 3, 2005... As companies look to extend business intelligence capabilities to growing numbers of end users, IT operations are consolidating multiple BI tool sets and forging closer ties with business units. Attendees at last week's Computerworld...

Sarb-Ox missteps help IT execs fine-tune plans: among lessons from first year of compliance: assign dedicated staffers, test controls centrally.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, information technology workers)
October 3, 2005... Executives who oversaw the first round of Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance for their companies said last week that in hindsight, they likely would have done things a bit differently. The changes they would make include better educating workers...

Palm's embrace of Windows for Treo clouds future of Palm OS: IT managers want to avoid mixed rollouts of mobile devices.(operating systems)
October 3, 2005... When Palm Inc. announced last week a Treo smart phone that will run Windows Mobile, it provoked a debate among IT managers over whether Microsoft Corp.'s operating system or Palm OS is the better choice for users. But 10 IT managers...

GAO: FAA lacks IT security controls.(Government Accountability Office, Federal Aviation Administration, information technology)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... The Federal Aviation Administration lacks IT network security controls and in some cases hasn't installed software patches that are several years old, according to a Government Accountability Office report. These and other FAA IT problems could...

BEA buys Eclipse tool maker M7.(BEA Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... BEA Systems Inc. has acquired M7 Corp., a maker of development tools based on the Eclipse open-source framework, for an undisclosed sum. BEA said it can now deliver a "blended" product line that combines open-source and proprietary...

GE Healthcare to pay $1.2B for IDX.(IDX Systems Corp. acquired)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... U.K.-based GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Co., has agreed to buy health care IT provider IDX Systems Corp. for about $1.2 billion in cash. The combined company will offer suites of clinical, imaging and administrative information...

UGA employee data compromised.(University of Georgia employee's personal identification numbers hacked)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... About 1,600 current and former employees of the University of Georgia are being notified that their Social Security numbers, stored on a campus server, may have been seen by a hacker operating from a foreign country. The Athens-based school...

Lack of support, time slow storage projects: IT managers say hurdles are too high.(information technology)
October 3, 2005... INFORMATION technology managers want the benefits of new storage technologies, but several interviewed at the Storage Decisions conference here last week said a lack of time and management support for such projects are stifling those...

StorageWorks CTO says storage still 'top of mind' at HP.(chief technical officer Michael Feinberg, Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Interview)
October 3, 2005... NEW YORK Michael Feinberg, chief technology officer at Hewlett-Packard Co.'s StorageWorks division, must ensure that HP's storage push moves along as it cuts costs through layoffs [QuickLink 55737] and faces life under new CEO Mark Hurd,...

HP user group's bid for operating system faces funding dilemma: OpenMPE.org says it would need $1.5M to start, $1M a year after that.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
October 3, 2005... Hewlett-Packard Co.'s decision to drop its HP e3000 system was unpopular with users, who are fighting back with a plan to keep the midrange line's MPE operating system source code alive so they can continue running the e3000 beyond December...

Hosted services tapped to manage data on chemicals: manufacturers replace paper safety info sheets with online systems.(material safety data sheets )
October 3, 2005... An emerging class of hosted services is designed to make it easier for manufacturing companies to manage the material safety data sheets (MSDS) required for each of the chemicals used in their products. Last week, 3E Co., a Carlsbad,...

Intel invests in software start-up.(Intel Capital, Virtual Iron Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corp., led Virtual Iron Software Inc.'s latest $8.5 million financing round. The 2-year-old virtualization company was formerly known as Katana Technology. It has also signed a nonexclusive...

AMD adds three Opteron processors.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. introduces Model 880, 280 and 180 x86 servers)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has released three dual-core Opteron processors for x86 servers and workstations. The Model 880, which can have up to eight processors, and the 280, which is for dual-processor systems, are shipping at $2,649 and...

Microsoft, JBoss to link offerings.(JBoss Group L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... JBoss Inc. and Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled plans to enhance the interoperability between the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System and Windows Server products. This technical partnership is the first such alliance between Microsoft and...

CSC wins $42.3M defense contract.(Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Computer Sciences Corp. has won a $42.3 million, four-year contract to provide Web hosting and applications support services to the Defense Technical Information Center, which shares technical information among U.S. Defense Department...

IT services concerns are trumping ...(information technology)(widget-centric thinking of information officers, European Union's rules on hardware materials, thin-client market)
October 3, 2005... ... widget-centric thinking among Fortune 1,000 CIOs. And feeding the growing need for IT services also happens to be a nice way for vendors to pocket more of the dollars in those CIOs' budgets, says Thomas Lah, executive director of the...

SAP, Oracle stage events to plug middleware.
October 3, 2005... THE TWO MAJOR rivals in the business applications business, SAP AG and Oracle Corp., touted their middleware offerings while tossing barbs at each other before separate audiences here last week. At its TechEd 2005 user conference, SAP...

Survey finds good communication key to managing data breaches.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Effective communication can help companies limit the damage to their reputations and the loss of business that can result from security breaches in which customers' personal data is exposed. That was one of the findings from an e-mail...

Iron Mountain touts value of encryption.(using Decru Inc.'s technology)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... OFF-SITE DATA ARCHIVING vendor Iron Mountain Inc. last week signed a deal to use Decru Inc.'s technology to encrypt all of its internal data that's backed up to digital tape. Iron Mountain executives said the move was made in part to set an...

RIM commits to Intel's Hermon chip.(Research In Motion Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Research In Motion Ltd. has agreed to use Intel Corp.'s mobile processor, code-named Hermon, in its BlackBerry devices, the companies said last week at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference in San Francisco. RIM is the first company...

Dell, TRW extend pact by three years.(TRW Automotive Holdings Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Dell Inc. said it has signed a three-year extension of its contract with TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. Under terms of the deal, automotive supplier TRW will standardize on Dell enterprise products and services for its 200-plus facilities in 24...

Cisco, Trend Micro unveil service.(Cisco Systems Inc. develops Cisco Incident Control System service)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Cisco Systems Inc. and Trend Micro Inc. have jointly developed a security service for Cisco networking products that's designed to curb the spread of worms and viruses. The new service, called the Cisco Incident Control System, will help...

Microsoft, Intel back HD-DVD.(high definition-digital video disks)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. plan to back HD-DVD, the next-generation DVD storage format being developed by the DVD Forum. The two vendors joined the HD-DVD Promotion Group, which promotes adoption of the optical disc format. Microsoft had...

Microsoft, Symantec ready CDP products: disk-to-disk technology promises to cut costs, speed backup and restores of data.(continuous data protection)
October 3, 2005... MICROSOFT Corp. and Symantec Corp. last week each announced the availability of continuous data protection (CDP) products that can back up incremental copies of files to local servers and restore them in seconds. Cupertino, Calif.-based...

Novell server was used to look for vulnerable ports on other computers: vendor confirms scanning activity, disputes amount.
October 3, 2005... A server belonging to Novell Inc. was hacked into and then used to scan for vulnerable ports on other computers, according to an Internet security consultant who reported the problem to Novell last week. Chris Brandon, president of Brandon...

Microsoft to double workers at Indian unit.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... BANGALORE, INDIA MICROSOFT CORP. will nearly double the workforce at its Indian subsidiary's facilities in Hyderabad and Bangalore by next March, according to sources familiar with the plan. The sources last week confirmed news reports...

German insurer, doctors test E-health cards.(Bundesknappschaft with T-Systems to test electronic cards)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... DUSSELDORF, GERMANY T-SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL GMBH, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom AG, is collaborating with a German health care and insurance group to test electronic health cards ahead of a government mandate to introduce the...

China looks to tighten control of online news.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... BEIJING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT has created a new set of regulations intended to tighten control over news reported on the Internet. The rules replace a set of regulations implemented in 2000 and go into effect immediately, according to...

Karvy Consultants Ltd.(opens new branch named Karvy Global Services Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Karvy Consultants Ltd. in Hyderabad, India, has set up a business process outsourcing unit called Karvy Global Services Ltd. The new business, which will be officially launched this month, now employs 250 people and plans to have 4,000 workers...

World Health Organization.(Satyam Computer Services Ltd. in Hyderabad gets the contract for software implementation)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... The World Health Organization has selected Satyam Computer Services Ltd. in Hyderabad to implement an ERP system throughout the WHO's offices in more than 140 countries. The Global Management System will be based on Oracle Corp.'s applications....

Toshiba Corp.(first notebook computer to be unveiled at Ceatec Japan 2005 exhibition)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Toshiba Corp. plans to show its first notebook computer with a built-in HD-DVD drive at the Ceatec Japan 2005 exhibition next month. The next-generation DVD format, developed by the DVD Forum, will be incorporated in Toshiba's high-end Qosmio...

IT groups push Congress to raise H-1B visa limits.(information technology workers want work visas in more numbers)
October 3, 2005... Nikita Dolgov is a software engineer who lives in Moscow and would like to get an H-1B visa to work in the U.S. He's aware of the controversy surrounding the visa program, but that hasn't lessened his desire to work here. "This is the...

Embedded business intelligence spreads to frontline workers: helps staffs make operational decisions.(Panel Discussion)
October 3, 2005... Companies are increasingly maneuvering to use embedded business intelligence techniques to help frontline workers make operational decisions. But IT officials must make sure that those workers are included in the planning process, said...

PanGo upgrades tools for tracking equipment.(PanGo Networks Inc. )
October 3, 2005... PanGo Networks Inc. announced an upgrade last week of its asset-tracking software, as well as a second-generation active RFID tag that's half as big as the original version and less expensive. PanGo's system is primarily deployed in...

VMware chief looks to stay ahead of rivals.(Diane Greene )(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 3, 2005... VMware Inc., a unit of EMC Corp., is the top vendor of server virtualization tools. But the company is constantly scrambling to stay ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape that includes Microsoft Corp. and open-source vendors. In an...

Parallel processing.(information technology will continue to evolve)(Editorial)
October 3, 2005... MY 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, Shelly, recently came across a photograph of me when I was about her age. She brought it to me and tried to say something, but she was laughing so hard she couldn't spit it out. I grabbed the photo, a little put off...

Microsoft ready to go mobile.(Column)
October 3, 2005... A FEW WEEKS AGO, I spent some time at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, which was focused mostly on Windows Vista. There was, however, a good deal of activity centered on Microsoft's mobile technology efforts, and what I saw...

Peace of mind: securing the network at the edge keeps business out of harm's way.(Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Networking solutions)
October 3, 2005... It was the CFO who posed the "show-stopper" question at a recent executive committee meeting: "With all the resources and attention businesses are expending on security, why are we still besieged with continuous threats from viruses, worms, and...

Baby boomers bring needed experience to IT.(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... DAMIAN SMITH'S comments about older IT workers in On the Mark ["Baby Boomers Get Ready for Bed While..." QuickLink 55983] are simple in principle, shallow in understanding and anecdotal in their assumptions. First, today's older IT...

Specialists must also talk with customers.(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... I WAS DELIGHTED to see an article on concrete ways to improve software quality ["ABCs of Software Methodologies," QuickLink 55497]. But I was disappointed that the author blamed "a series of disconnects and miscommunications among the IT...

CEOs are limited in effects on operations.(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... CEOs HAVE very little ability to improve ongoing operations, but they can certainly make mistakes that have great negative effects ["CEOs Are Faking It, Stanford Professor Says," QuickLink a7070]. Similarly, top management's financial...

Not all user groups are in bad shape.(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... WHILE ONE always hates to see a user group disband, one should not infer from Patrick Thibodeau's article ["HP World Canceled; Interex Disbanding," QuickLink 55630] that all user groups are in bad shape. Share, the user group for enterprises...

Data center gets star treatment: Lucasfilm's new data center has the artists behind Star Wars' special effects working at light speed.(located in Presidio National Park, San Francisco)
October 3, 2005... AS IT RUSHED TO COMPLETE work on Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith last February, special effects company Industrial Light and Magic found itself split between two worlds. The new home of the San Rafael, Calif.-based studio was in the...

Geek's garden: one genome comin' right up.(ScalaBlast, a computational tool for analyzing biological data )
October 3, 2005... A new computational tool developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is speeding up our understanding of the machinery of life--which could bring researchers one step closer to curing diseases,...

Podcasting.
October 3, 2005... DEFINITION Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet in which users subscribe to an automatic feed of new files for subsequent downloading to and playback on portable music players or PCs. Podcasting differs...

Playing nice with physical security: there's a fine line between a company's security departments, and you have to be careful in crossing it.(Digital Guardian )
October 3, 2005... AT A SMALL COMPANY, the information security manager is sometimes also responsible for physical security. At very large corporations, the physical security--sometimes called safety and security--is a completely separate department, responsible...

Security Bookshelf.(Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel by Greg Hoglund and Jamie Butler)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 3, 2005... Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel, by Greg Hoglund and Jamie Butler (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005). I picked up this book because I've rarely seen rootkit titles that focus on the Windows environment. I'm glad I did. The book has...

Hack in the Box has prize inside.(VIA Technologies Inc. challenges hackers to break its StrongBox security application)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Taiwanese microprocessor vendor Via Technologies Inc. offered a $5,000 prize to the hacker who could break its StrongBox security application during a hacking contest at the Hack in the Box Security Conference, which took place last week, in...

Phone security spec in the works.(Trusted Computer Solutions Inc. develops a mobile security software)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... A new mobile security specification being developed by the Trusted Computing Group is expected to be released in the first half of 2006.

OQO upgrades handheld PC.(personal computer)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... San Francisco-based handheld PC vendor OQO has launched its newest device, Model 01+. It features upgraded memory, a larger hard drive, faster USB support and an improved universal power supply, according to OQO. Model 01+ runs Microsoft...

Nortel updates Contact Center.(Nortel Networks Corp. introduces Contact Center 6.0 )(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Nortel Networks Corp. announced Expert Anywhere Contact Solution, a feature of its new Contact Center 6.0 release that gives corporate users the ability to send a customer call to any expert customer service agent, regardless of location....

Symbol launches bar code scanner.(Symbol Technologies Inc. introduces LS4208 )(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Symbol Technologies Inc. in Holtsville, N.Y., announced the LS4208 laser bar code scanner for use in retail, health care and warehouse settings. The device uses a multiline scan pattern for scanning of one-dimensional bar codes. it offers a...

Sun releases StarOffice 8.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Sun Microsystems Inc. has released Version 8 of its StarOffice desktop productivity suite. The software now complies with the OASIS OpenDocument standard to improve its ability to share documents with competing software suites, including...

Keep humans in the authentication loop.(device authentication )(Column)
October 3, 2005... PROVING THE IDENTITY of a human computer user is so yesterday--all those what-you-have, what-you-know and what-you-are questions. Biology is so trivial compared with well-designed authenticating devices, though the missing human raises big...

So long, boomers.(International Business Machines Corp. introduces consulting services for baby boomers)(Column)
October 3, 2005... GOOD NEWS! IBM has a solution for your baby-boomer problem. You know, that one you've been losing sleep over: the fact that corporate employees born during the post-World War II baby boom will start hitting 60 next year, and once they begin to...

Can you hear me now?
October 3, 2005... Sysadmin pilot fish is on a camping trip when he gets a cell phone call from a business user about a Web application that's having problems. Right, says fish, just have a computer operator go to the data center and call me, and I'll talk him...

Regional health exchanges slowly start to share data.
October 10, 2005... Hospitals, physician practices and health insurers are slowly forming regional data exchange networks that the federal government hopes can one day become the backbone of a national health information infrastructure. Hundreds of regional...

Microsoft adopts virtual licenses: new policies for Windows, other products may lower software costs for virtualization users.
October 10, 2005... Microsoft Corp. today plans to unveil new licensing policies that will apply to Windows Server and related products installed in virtual machine environments--no matter whether users are running Microsoft's Virtual Server software or VMware...

Japanese bank expects server consolidation to save it millions: virtualization helps Sumitomo Mitsui reduce total number of physical servers.(Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.)
October 10, 2005... Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. has consolidated 149 of its physical servers into 14 blade servers, an effort that IT officials expect will save the company millions of dollars over the next three years. Sumitomo's IT operation began...

Data security risks missing from disaster recovery plans: scope of contingency programs needs to be expanded, execs say.
October 10, 2005... Corporate officials need to consider disruptions from major information security failures when making business continuity and disaster recovery plans, security managers and analysts said last week. Failure to do so, they added, could leave...

Microsoft plans nine October patches.(software patches)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... After a quiet September, Microsoft Corp. plans to release on Tuesday nine security fixes in its monthly release of security updates. Eight of the patches, including at least one rated "critical," are updates to the Windows operating system. The...

Users warned of Symantec flaw.
October 10, 2005... Symantec Corp. has advised users of its AntiVirus Scan Engine to upgrade the software because of a critical security bug in the product. The flaw could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system, according to Symantec. Users of...

Conway joins board of Salesforce.com.(Craig Conway)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Craig Conway, who was ousted as CEO of PeopleSoft Inc. while Oracle Corp. was trying to take over the firm last year, has been named to fill a new seat on the board of directors at Salesforce.com Inc. The San Francisco-based company has become...

EC appoints expert to monitor Microsoft.(European Commission, Neil Barrett)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... The European Commission appointed professor Neil Barrett, a British academic specializing in computer science and cybercrime, to oversee Microsoft's compliance with its antitrust ruling against the company. The commission named Barrett a...

Grid use on hold for transaction workloads: proponents seek more applications, standards support.(uses of grids in financial sector is more)
October 10, 2005... IT ISN'T HARD to find enthusiastic supporters of grid computing, such as Mike Oltman, a vice president at Bank of America Corp. who manages grids used to analyze financial risks. The grids are projected to save the bank "tens of millions of...

Vendors seek to push grids into the mainstream.(grid computing in focus)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... SOME IT VENDORS are releasing products that are designed to help companies move grid computing into their mainstream business processes. For instance, SAS Institute Inc. said at GridWorld that its flagship SAS 9 business intelligence, data...

Feds make security a priority in IT purchases: proposed rule goes into effect, requires new procurement practices at agencies.(Federal Information Security Management Act)
October 10, 2005... An interim rule published at the end of September by two federal government councils specifies new steps that IT procurement workers at federal agencies must take to ensure that information security considerations are an integral part of all...

Visa CEO says laws, incentives needed to improve credit card data security: supports tougher penalties for ID theft and e-fraud.(John Coghlan of Visa U.S.A. Inc.)
October 10, 2005... Visa U.S.A. Inc. is exploring ways to reward businesses that enhance their security practices to protect against credit card fraud and online scams, the company's CEO said last week. Visa is looking to "make it financially attractive" for...

Symantec buys BindView for $209M.(BindView Development Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Symantec Corp. has agreed to buy security compliance software vendor BindView Development Corp. for $209 million in cash. The two companies provide what officials said is complementary software to help IT operations comply with regulatory...

IBM to resell Globus middleware.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... IBM has signed a nonexclusive agreement to license commercial releases of Globus middleware from open-source grid software start-up Univa Corp. The Univa software replaces IBM's internally developed Globus implementation. IBM plans to offer the...

HP buys RLX for blade management.(RLX Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy RLX Technologies Inc. and plans to use its technology to improve systems management capabilities on HP blade servers running Linux (see related item at right). The deal is part of HP's strategy to buy...

Microsoft to support PDF in new Office.(Microsoft Office 12.0 to support portable document format )(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Microsoft Corp. said Office 12 will include native support for PDF documents when it ships next year. Microsoft disclosed the plan to partners in Redmond, Wash. Office 12 will allow users to save Office files as PDF files using the "save as"...

Hey Larry, small is beautiful ...(big infortechnology companies acquire small companies)(Computer Associates International Inc. acquires Niku Corp.)(Hewlett-Packard Co. acquires RLX Technologies Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... ... and probably better, too. That seems to be the lesson learned by Hewlett-Packard Co., which has recently eschewed megadeals for a series of smaller ones. For example, HP's agreement to nab RLX Technologies Inc., which was announced last...

Does the world really need yet another ...(Congoo LLC)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... ... search engine? Maybe not one like Google or Ask Jeeves, but Ash Nashed, CEO of Congoo LLC in Branchburg, N.J., has something else in mind. Congoo's namesake software searches premium sites along with the rest of the Web, then lists the...

Spyware keyloggers are trying to ...(authentication codes are being targeted first)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... ... steal your user authentication codes. Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd., a Tel Avivbased security vendor, says it conducted a two-month study of 2,000 known spyware programs and found that 15% were keyloggers designed to steal user IDs,...

Networking appliance boosts application ...(Citrix Systems Inc. to release next week Citrix NetScaler Application Switch SE)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... ... performance by offloading processing tasks from servers. Citrix Systems Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this week will release the Citrix NetScaler Application Switch SE, a small, rack-mounted appliance with an awfully long name. According...