Computerworld articles from September 2006

Computerworld archives from September 2006

Spreadsheets seen as security hole: companies moving to protect data in excel and other BI tools.(business intelligence)
September 4, 2006... In the wake of multiple high-profile laptop thefts and data breaches, some IT shops are launching initiatives to ensure that sensitive corporate data stored in spreadsheets and business intelligence tools remains secure. The security...

IT execs fight fatigue, labor shortages: operations in New Orleans still far from normal, they say.(Hurricane Katrina 2005)
September 4, 2006... In the year since Hurricane Katrina caused unprecedented devastation, IT managers here have done much to shore up their systems and try to ensure that their organizations can continue to operate, no matter what roars out of the Gulf of Mexico....

Alcatel agrees to buy Nortel 3G business.(Compagnie Financiere Alcatel acquired Nortel Networks Corp.'s third-generation mobile phone network business )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Alcatel SA has signed a preliminary agreement to purchase Nortel Networks Corp.'s third-generation mobile phone network business for $320 million. The nonbinding merger agreement requires the two companies to arrive at final acquisition terms,...

Lenovo hires another executive from Dell.(Lenovo Group Ltd. appointed Gerry Smith)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Lenovo Group Ltd. last week named Gerry Smith senior vice president of its global supply chain. Smith, previously a Dell Inc. vice president responsible for its Singapore design center and displays unit, is the fifth executive from the PC maker...

Microsoft updates virtualization beta.(Beta 2 of Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Microsoft Corp. has released another test version of an update to its virtualization software, which will be built into the next version of the Windows Server operating system. Beta 2 of Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1 adds support...

Emulex to buy Sierra Logic for $180M.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Storage products maker Emulex Corp. has agreed to acquire Sierra Logic Inc. for $180 million in a move to expand its position in the market for embedded storage components. Emulex said the deal should be completed by Sept. 30 and will...

IT can play big brother ...(Symark International Inc.'s security strategies)(Brief article)(Column)
September 4, 2006... ... when you want to watch your IT workers. Two weeks ago in this column, you read about 6th Sense Analytics Inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based vendor of software that monitors the work habits of programmers. But it isn't just developers who are...

Connect with your business partners ...(Hubspan Inc.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... ... via an online integration service. Software as a service may have to make room for integration as a service, if Andrew Dent has his way. Dent is chief technology officer at Hubspan Inc., and he says that if you connect your apps to the...

Software gets a sandbox to play in ...(NaviSite Inc.'s ISV Sandbox)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... ... before it's launched online. In two weeks, NaviSite Inc. in Andover, Mass., will unveil ISV Sandbox, a free virtualized environment that independent software vendors can use to test how well their code runs as a hosted application or shared...

Keep your data archive active ...(PowerFile Inc.'s Active Archive Appliance)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... ... so end users can access info quickly. "An archive is where data goes to die," says Jonathan Buckley, vice president of marketing at PowerFile Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif. The problem is that not all archived information goes to bit-and-byte...

White House seeks fresh info on smart-card efforts: top IT exec calls for updates on plans for complying with security directive.(Office of Management and Budget)
September 4, 2006... FEDERAL AGENCIES last week were told to provide the White House with an update by this Friday on their readiness to comply with a presidential directive requiring them to start issuing smart identity cards to all government employees and...

List of data breach notices lengthening: AT & T, Sovereign and Verizon Wireless among latest to report security snafus.(NEWS)
September 4, 2006... The steady stream of data compromises continued unabated last week, with several more companies disclosing security breaches. One of the biggest snafus involved AT & T Inc., which said that malicious hackers had made off with credit card...

Novell investigates stock-option plan.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Novell Inc. has begun to investigate how the company granted stock options to employees in recent years and to assess whether earnings will have to be restated. The Linux vendor made the announcement when it reported its preliminary...

Sun links storage service business.(Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage Technology Corp.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Sun Microsystems Inc. has combined its service offering with that of Storage Technology Corp., the storage vendor it acquired a year ago for $4.1 billion. The Sun StorageTek Service Plans combine Sun's SunSpectrum and StorageTek's TekCare...

Corel pays $196M for multimedia firm.(InterVideo Inc.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Corel Corp. has agreed to purchase multimedia software maker InterVideo Inc. for $196 million in cash. The move is Corel's second acquisition this year, as it looks to extend its product lines with video-based and multimedia offerings. It...

Intel unveils Merom chip for notebooks.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Intel Corp. announced its Merom notebook chip, which will run new models from Dell Inc., Gateway Inc. and Toshiba America Inc. Merom is the third product launched in recent months in Intel's new line of dual-core, 65-nanometer processor chips...

Insurer takes control of offshore operations.(Aviva PLC, Aviva Global Services )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... AVIVA PLC, an insurer in London, last week announced plans to transfer more than 5,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) staffers from several services firms based in India to its Aviva Global Services unit. The process is slated to be...

Performance problems plague support deal.(Kaz Group Pty., Australia's Department of Defence)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... LESS THAN a year after signing a five-year IT outsourcing deal worth $200 million Australian ($152 million U.S.) with Kaz Group Pty., Australia's Department of Defence said it is experiencing network performance and service-delivery challenges....

Taiwan chip maker files complaint against rival.(Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR Manufacturing Co. has accused Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. of breaking the terms of a January 2005 settlement agreement that ended a patent infringement lawsuit filed in a U.S. federal court. In its...

Intel, Communist Party team on open-source.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... INTEL CORP. has agreed to help Vietnam's Communist Party move its computers to open-source software. Under a memorandum of understanding, Intel will help the party's Central Committee for Science and Education set up a laboratory called...

BEA taps India facility as its development hub.(BEA Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... BEA SYSTEMS Inc. plans to make India its worldwide hub for research and development, a move that the software vendor's top executive said will let it take advantage of skilled workers in that country. Alfred Chuang, BEA's chairman and CEO,...

Alcatel SA.(Compagnie Financiere Alcatel reject the merger proposal from Lucent Technologies Inc. )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Alcatel SA shareholders are being urged by Paris-based Proxinvest to reject the networking vendor's proposed merger with Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent Technologies Inc. Proxinvest said that strategic aspects of the agreement make sense but...

OneSteel Ltd.(services contract with Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... OneSteel Ltd., a steel maker in Sydney, Australia, has extended an IT services contract with Computer Sciences Corp. for three years. The contract is valued at about $50 million Australian ($38 million U.S.) and includes an option for two more...

Bharti Airtel Ltd.(Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Bharti Airtel Ltd. has awarded LM Ericsson Telephone Co. a $1 billion (U.S.) contract to expand and upgrade the Delhi, India-based mobile services provider's network. Under the three-year agreement, Stockholm-based Ericsson will manage the...

Nokia Corp.(Nokia Corp. to integrate intrusion-prevention software from Sourcefire Inc.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Nokia Corp. in Espoo, Finland, said it plans to integrate intrusion-prevention software from Columbia, Md.-based Sourcefire Inc. into its network security appliances by year's end. Sourcefire's technology, which is based on the open-source...

Greenpeace International.(eco-friendly policies of Nokia Corp.)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Greenpeace International has rated Nokia highly for its eco-friendly policies. But the Amsterdam-based environmental group gave low marks to Lenovo Group Ltd., Motorola Inc., Apple Computer Inc. and other vendors. Greenpeace scores companies on...

Hackers still drive open-source development, says Red Hat exec.(Michael Tiemann)(Interview)
September 4, 2006... VOLUNTEER hackers still play an important role in open-source software development, despite an increase in paid open-source developers hired by large vendors, says Michael Tiemann, Red Hat Inc.'s vice president of open-source affairs. Tiemann...

U.S. banks are slow to embrace mobile commerce: regulations, costs keep most on the sidelines for now.(NEWS)
September 4, 2006... Imagine waving your New York subway pass in front of the cash register at a 7-Eleven convenience store to buy a sandwich. Or paying for items you found while surfing the Web on your cell phone by sending a text message. Such futuristic...

Data tools help schools meet federal mandates.(SPSS Inc.)
September 4, 2006... As students head back to school, several states are turning to predictive analytic tools to meet the data aggregation and analysis requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Schools are also hoping the tools can help teachers boost...

Disturbing defeatism.(information technology)
September 4, 2006... LET ME ACKNOWLEDGE at the outset that I have never been laid off, so I don't pretend to be able to genuinely identify with the pain of that experience. That said, in last week's issue, Thomas Hoffman's feature "Discarded and Demoralized"--and...

The myth of 'versatilists'.(information technology sector)(Column)
September 4, 2006... COMPUTERWORLD recently took on the difficult task of forecasting the state of the IT sector in four years ["The IT Profession: 2010," July 17]. It was a thoughtprovoking package of forward-looking stories--especially the report predicting the...

Readers don't see a workforce crisis.(Letter to the editor)
September 4, 2006... I HAVE BEEN in IT for 25 years, and I can understand why younger people are not entering the field ["Workforce Crisis," Management, July 3]. All you hear is "outsourcing, outsourcing." Why go into the field when that threat is always hanging...

Mastering the middleware muddle: successful integration projects require a strategy to manage silos of middleware spread across organizations.(TECHNOLOGY)
September 4, 2006... WHAT'S THE MEASURE OF A SUCCESSFUL INTEGRATION PROJECT? For Jamey Harvey, the deputy chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, it was the ability to get a map of all the abandoned cars that needed to be towed in the city. "A...

Pain for gain: SAP deployments are notoriously difficult, high-stakes projects. Here's why that's so, with tips for making them go more smoothly.(SAP AG)
September 4, 2006... CERTAIN IT initiatives fall into the "bet the company" category. Setting up an ERP system from SAP AG is one such choice. These complex undertakings carry both greater opportunities and greater risks than other enterprise software projects....

Subatomic IT: previously untapped properties of electrons and nuclear particles may lead to unimaginably small and power-efficient computers.(FUTURE WATCH)
September 4, 2006... THE WORK of Jim Allen, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is so far removed from everyday experience that he has to explain it by analogy: a tabletop covered with refrigerator magnets. "They all interact with each other...

The auditors are coming, but not yet: our manager has to move fast to set up an engagement a year in advance because of the agency's budget cycle.(Editorial)
September 4, 2006... FOR THE first time in my experience, I have an entire year to prepare for a technology risk assessment. And the assessment will be done by an outside consulting service. I'm a bit excited. From my perspective, this is an opportunity to come out...

Juniper enhances ScreenOS product.(Juniper Networks Inc.'s ScreenOS 5.4)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Juniper Networks Inc. announced an updated version of the ScreenOS operating system that powers its firewall and VPN appliances. ScreenOS 5.4 adds content security capabilities and is available free to existing users of the company's security...

Industries affected by network attacks.(cybercrime)(Brief article)(Statistical data)
September 4, 2006... Industries Affected by Network Attacks Government 23% Retail 22% High tech 20% Finance 16% Communications 8% Manufacturing 4% Education 4% Health care 2% SOURCE: TRUSTED...

FaceTime updates IM security tool.(FaceTime Communications Inc.'s IMAuditor 8.0)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... FaceTime Communications Inc. announced an upgrade to its enterprise instant messaging security tool. IMAuditor 8.0 works across all sites in a distributed enterprise and can capture and archive file transfers. The product will ship later this...

CipherTrust Edge version 2.0 debuts.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... CipherTrust Inc. announced an upgraded version of its Edge appliance that includes new features for blocking annoying or malicious e-mail messages before they enter the network. CipherTrust Edge 2.0, available now and priced starting at $9,995,...

Senforce upgrades security software.(Senforce Technologies Inc.'s Endpoint Security Suite 3.2)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... * Senforce Technologies Inc.'s Endpoint Security Suite 3.2 is now available, featuring new policy controls for removable storage devices to prevent transmission of data. ESS 3.2 allows IT administrators to choose what options to give to users...

Intel launches high-end processors.(Intel Xeon )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... * Intel Corp. upgraded its high-end, dual-core Intel Xeon processors last week with its new 7100 series. There are eight processors in this series, previously code-named Tulsa, and Intel said they offer twice the performance of its Xeon MP...

Pragma releases 64-bit log-in apps.(Pragma Systems Inc., Pragma FortressSSH ClientSuite 5.0 and Pragma TelnetServer 7.0)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... * Pragma Systems Inc. is offering 64-bit versions of its Pragma FortressSSH Server 5.0, Pragma FortressSSH ClientSuite 5.0 and Pragma TelnetServer 7.0 applications for Windows Vista, 2003, 2000 and XP. They will allow corporate IT managers to...

Open season on unsecured Wi-Fi.(TECHNOLOGY)
September 4, 2006... THE POPULARITY of wireless Internet connections is growing at an incredible pace. And because so many users fail to secure those connections, the question arises as to whether it is legal (and/or ethical) to connect to a wireless account that...

Speedy recovery: how Humana turned the Medicare prescription challenge into a growth opportunity.(MANAGEMENT)
September 4, 2006... HUMANA INC. is on a mission to do what many U.S. consumers would consider nothing short of a miracle: simplify buying and using health insurance. Its most recent target audience is the millions of Americans eligible for Medicare Part D, the...

Sink or swim: 10 steps to rescue a foundering project.(MANAGEMENT)
September 4, 2006... SLIPPING SCHEDULES and budget-busting costs were the primary warning signs that prompted Pete Gibson to halt a project that was under way in 1998 when the U.S. Navy was updating its Tomahawk missile program. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In...

Out to get you.(Career Watch)(Brief article)(Statistical data)
September 4, 2006... What companies say they are doing to find talent in what is perceived as a tight market for IT professionals Invest in online assessment 23% tools for skills of internal and external candidates Improve company brand ...

Careers in the heartland.(Silicon Valley )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... When companies in technology hotbeds like Silicon Valley say they are struggling to fill IT positions, how hard must it be in the Rust Belt and the rural Midwest? Pretty tough, but some recruiters have come up with some innovative...

Deborah Cooper.(president of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society)(Interview)
September 4, 2006... TITLE: President ORGANIZATION: IEEE Computer Society, Reston, Va. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Deborah Cooper is making increased representation of women and minorities in the IT profession a focus of her year in office. She talked with...

Finance.(EVENTS)
September 4, 2006... Sept. 17-20, Las Vegas Sponsor: CFO magazine The CFO Rising West Conference and Expo features presentations on creating business value through effective risk management; understanding incentives and behavior patterns; culture change,...

Human resources.(EVENTS)(Calendar)
September 4, 2006... Sept. 19, New York Sponsor: IDC The IDC Human Resources Forum: Strategies and Technologies to Acquire, Retain and Engage Talent brings together senior human resources and IT executives. Topics include how superior talent affects...

Women in IT.(EVENTS)
September 4, 2006... Oct. 4-7, San Diego Sponsor: Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2006 focuses on the research and career interests of women in IT. Presentation topics include navigating the...

Knowledge and content management.(EVENTS)(Calendar)
September 4, 2006... Oct. 31-Nov. 2, San Jose Sponsor: Information Today Inc. The KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition includes presentations on building organizations; strategies, practices and tools; innovation; information and knowledge flows;...

Who's in?(MANAGEMENT)(Column)
September 4, 2006... IN MY CONSULTING WORK, I've often found that my fascination with borders comes in handy. I suppose that I'm not alone in my amusement that one can stand literally straddling a boundary, with one foot in one country and the other in another. I...

Midsize users testing free Google Apps: beta version unveiled last week; high-end version expected this year.(Your Domain)
September 4, 2006... WITH LIMITED IT budgets and technical staffs, some small and midsize businesses have started kicking the tires of Google Inc.'s free, Web-based Google Apps for Your Domain desktop application suite. Some early users said last week that the...

NYPD launches third phase of data warehouse project.(New York City Police Department)
September 4, 2006... The New York City Police Department is launching a third update of a massive data warehouse that officials hope will one day become a hub for data from dozens of area law enforcement agencies. Officials said that when the latest update is...

Hey, problem-solver.(information technology)(Column)
September 4, 2006... WHO DOES YOUR BUSINESS TRUST? That's a crucial question for the state of IT work on this Labor Day 2006. Do your users and managers trust you to use technology to solve business problems? Or do they believe that your IT shop can't do the job,...

Arrrrrrggggghhh!(SHARK TANK)
September 4, 2006... This office is installing emergency lighting--the kind that plugs into a wall outlet and comes on automatically when the power fails. "My boss had the bright idea. 'Let's plug them into one of the UPSs so they'll last longer,'" says a pilot...

NetBackup poses problems for IT managers: some putting off upgrades until year-old 6.0 release is fixed.(Symantec Corp.)
September 11, 2006... Problems with the latest version of Symantec Corp.'s Veritas NetBackup software are still keeping some users from rolling out the product almost a year after it started shipping. Steve Bally, a systems engineer at RadiSys Corp., a...

IT needs to make its case for security: priority placed on facts, objectivity.(information technology)
September 11, 2006... IT managers should focus on explaining business risk, customer impact, regulatory requirements and due diligence when justifying the need for IT security investments to corporate executives. IT and business managers at The Security Standard...

Users wonder if Microsoft exec's security claims are Trustworthy.(NEWS)(Discussion)
September 11, 2006... Since Microsoft Corp. launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative in January 2002, the company has substantially improved the security of its products, its security chief said here last week. However, some Microsoft users at The Security...

Suit over Target's Web site to continue.(National Federation for the Blind)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... A federal court in San Francisco has rejected Target Corp.'s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the National Federation for the Blind that calls on the retailer to make its Web site accessible to blind people. A request for a preliminary...

Microsoft to patch Windows, Office.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Microsoft Corp. tomorrow is set to release three security updates for its Windows and Office products. One of the updates, to patch a flaw in Office, is rated "critical." The other two, which fix problems with Windows, are rated no higher than...

JPMorgan Chase CIO Adams to retire.(Austin Adams retires from J.P. Morgan Chase and Co.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Austin Adams, who gained attention in 2004 for canceling a $5 billion outsourcing contract with IBM, is retiring as CIO of New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. next month. Adams, 63, oversees a $7 billion annual technology budget and 19,000 IT...

Capgemini buys 51% of Indian firm.(Unilever India Shared Services Ltd.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Capgemini has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in Unilever India Shared Services Ltd., an Indian finance and accounting business process outsourcing operation, for an undisclosed sum. Baru Rao, CEO of Capgemini India, said the purchase is the...

Probe of data leaks at HP ignites controversy: company says 'pretexting' used to investigate board members, reporters.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
September 11, 2006... A FUROR ERUPTED last week over Hewlett-Packard Co.'s acknowledgment that private investigators probing media leaks from the company's board of directors had accessed the personal phone records of some board members and of nine reporters who...

Philadelphia, Oracle strike initial deal on stalled systems project: agreement would add third-party software at no extra cost, city says.(NEWS)
September 11, 2006... PHILADELPHIA officials last week announced the signing of an agreement in principle with Oracle Corp. to restart the suspended rollout of a new water billing system called Project Ocean at no extra cost to the city. The amended contract...

Correction.(Correction notice)
September 11, 2006... The last name of Humana Inc. CEO Michael McCallister was misspelled in last week's cover story ("Speedy Recovery") about the Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer's use of the Web and other technologies to manage its Medicare Part D prescription...

Supercomputing slow to win over supply chains: despite market pressure, adoption hurdles remain.(NEWS)
September 11, 2006... Over time, competitive pressure may force many manufacturers to turn to high-performance computing (HPC) for product design and testing. But it could be years before the kind of systems used now by companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and The...

Intel to cut 10,500 jobs by mid-2007.(BRIEFS)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Intel Corp. has announced plans to lay off 10,500 employees by mid-2007. The company said it expects the restructuring to help it save $2 billion in expenses in 2007 and $3 billion annually in 2008 and beyond. Intel said it expects its...

Microsoft releases Vista pricing plans.(Microsoft Windows Vista)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Microsoft Corp. last week released a price schedule for the next-generation Windows Vista operating system, about a week after online retailer Amazon.com Inc. disclosed a pricing plan for the product on its Web site. Microsoft's suggested...

i2 charges SAP with patent infringement.(i2 Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... i2 Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit accusing SAP AG of infringing on seven of the CRM software maker's patents. The suit, filed in a Texas federal court, alleges that SAP violated patents related to supply chain management models and tools...

IBM, Cisco to build Silicon Valley net.(Wireless Silicon Valley Task Force, Cisco Systems Inc., International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... The Wireless Silicon Valley Task Force has chosen a group led by Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM to build and operate a Wi-Fi wireless network throughout Silicon Valley. The agreement calls for Cisco to provide the infrastructure and IBM to be the...

Math wizards untangle ...(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... ... complex business problems with IT equations. If you're trying to schedule thousands of dispersed airline crew members on hundreds of flights per day around the world, you need more than paper and pencil. And if you're trying to detect...

Goin' .mobi might become ...(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... ... a speed bump in the data center. On Oct. 11, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to clear the path for registering Web sites under the .mobi top-level domain, which is designed for lowest-common-denominator cell...

When you've got a big file, you ...(YouSendIt Inc.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... ... might want to send it to someone else. But if it's too big, usually around 10MB, your Internet service provider is likely to stop you. If that happens, consider YouSendIt Inc.'s large-file mailing service, which the Mountain View,...

IPv6 may not improve the performance ...(says Gary Messiana of Netli Inc. )(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... ... of Web applications. Gary Messiana, CEO of Netli Inc. in Mountain View, is concerned that Web site managers may hope the improved routing features and larger payload capacity of IP Version 6 will make their online apps perform better. Uhuh,...

Symantec discloses flaw in Office 2000.(Microsoft Office 2000)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Symantec Corp. last week warned of an unpatched flaw in the Windows 2000 version of Microsoft Office 2000 that is being used by attackers to run unauthorized software on victims' computers. Microsoft Corp. confirmed the bug but would not...

Sybase to acquire messaging service.(Mobile 365 Inc.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Sybase Inc. has agreed to buy messaging service provider Mobile 365 Inc. for about $425 million in cash. Sybase expects the acquisition to help it offer managed services hosted on Mobile 365's global network. Sybase said the 330 employees at...

IBM to build DOE supercomputer.(Department of Energy, International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen IBM to build a new $35 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner, for its Los Alamos National Laboratory. The agency said Roadrunner could be used to monitor and maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons...

Microsoft licenses data mining tech.(Digital Resolve Inc.)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... Microsoft has licensed data mining technology from Digital Resolve Inc. that guards against phishing attacks, in which counterfeit Web sites try to gain personal information from unknowing victims. Digital Resolve's Trusted Server technology...

CA broadens integration links, database support in Unicenter: upgraded management software works with Microsoft's SQL Server.(NEWS)
September 11, 2006... CA INC. today plans to announce an updated release of its network and systems management tools featuring a new version of its central data repository built on top of Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server. Earlier releases of the Unicenter Network...

SAP updates compliance, risk management tools.(Governance, Risk and Compliance )
September 11, 2006... SAP AG last week brought out three new compliance tools as it expands its effort to help corporate executives stay in compliance with government regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Basel II. SAP officials said the new Governance,...

Members rip EU over Microsoft penalty.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
September 11, 2006... FOUR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT members last week warned the European Commission that its actions toward Microsoft Corp. could delay the release of the Vista operating system. Such a delay could hurt the competitiveness of European businesses, they...