News

Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding

Venture capital injections will help both companies expand services, employee ranks

Cisco’s Chambers pushes video, Web 2.0

The company's chairman and CEO sees today's social communication modes, including video and text messaging, as how enterprises will soon communicate

Companies open wallets for secure data

Amplitude's annual survey of IT admins finds an increase in satisfaction with IT spending and more companies taking steps to use secure technology and practices

Open source conference homes in on patent issues

Executives criticize Microsoft claims of patent infringement while detailing the difficulty of shifting to an open-source business model

Suits Swarm on “Web 3.0” Conference

Semantic technology, the foundation for "Web 3.0," is finally breaking free of its roots in the academic community and standards organizations, attracting interest from enterprises and VC. That's big news, but don't expect to see

IT failure as currency of success

EC urges coordinated effort against cybercrime

Commission sites known crimimal gangs and Russia's attacks against Estonia as reasons for organizing to battle criminals

Group calls for more patent office resources

ITIF calls for Congress to stop diverting patent fees away from the PTO

Intel, STMicroelectronics merge flash units

New venture will make nonvolatile memory, including nascent phase-change memory

Symantec-eBay piracy suit settled

An accused seller of counterfeit Symantec products over eBay has agreed to pay the firm $205,000 in restitution. The Software & Information Industry Association claims the practice remains a serious problem for many vendors.

Business Objects to go on demand all the way

BI vendor will put its complete product line online in hopes of offering users easy deployments, cost savings, greater flexibility

Ritek to start mass producing BD-RE discs

Mass producing rewritable Blu-Ray discs is important step to reducing the cost for users

CA completes court deal, all remaining charges dropped

CA can begin to emerge from four-year accounting fraud scandal

Business Objects buys Inxight

Business Objects broadens its portfolio of business intelligence offerings, upgrades EPM

AMD cozies up to contract chip maker TSMC

Extension of manufacturing ties to TSMC fuel speculation that AMD might seek a partner for a joint venture chip plant

Cisco, Nortel, Meru smarten up WLANs

Vendors at Interop introduce a new generation of wireless LAN products that may replace wired LANs entirely

Networking trouble caused nuke plant to shut down

Lack of firewall may have led to faulty networking code causing the plant's water pumps to fail

HP says SOA is ready for prime time

Mercury acquisition bears fruit as HP introduces software, services to help businesses implement SOA

Cisco to buy BroadWare for video security

Cisco sees the video surveillance and security market as a high growth opportunity

Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft

Cisco, Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent, and others pledge support for Microsoft's OCS 2007 interoperability spec

Washing Microsoft away

Linux users say ‘Sue me first, Microsoft’

Public wiki invites users to flaunt the open-source OSes and software they use

Supreme Court ends Baby Bell antitrust suit

Baby Bell telephone companies were not found to have colluded to prevent new players from entering local markets

Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay

Pair of tools for Office 2003 and 2007 Office are designed to defend against zero-day attacks

Hyperic: Open sourcing systems management

Startup using open source, business savvy to challenge systems management giants

Do Google and Salesforce fear becoming rivals?

Many analysts see the potential Google-Salesforce deal as a way to avoid competing directly against each other in addition to Microsoft

Cisco jumps into wireless sensor market

Alliance with RFID player WhereNet indicates a move into new wireless territory for giant networking company

GestureTek’s Wii-like control could be next killer enterprise tech

Yahoo courts Bebo to boost social networking

With its own Yahoo 360 site failing to meet expectations, Yahoo is looking to acquire Bebo to stengthen its presence in the social networking market

Benioff quiet about Google rumor

Dell Linux machines to debut Thursday

In response to customer requests, Dell will offer two desktops and one laptop model with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS preinstalled

EMC adds de-duplication support to VMware

EMC CEO Joseph Tucci notes that storage management needs to increase efficiency in order to cope with exploding data amounts

Regulators to begin SOX reviews

The financial reporting legislation may be changed in order to relax stringent regulations and reduce the cost of compliance

Norton smartphone suite to ship next week

Windows Mobile users will have their pick of two new software suites

Network show blooms, thinks green

Two-hour panel at Interop in Las Vegas will focus on environmental issues, include key players

Rails creator doubts Silverlight can win converts

In this interview, David Heinemeier Hansson also comments on open source, JavaFX, and differentiators in Ruby on Rails framework

Google leases more space in Seattle

The search giant is leasing 60,000 square feet, expanding its engineering operations in the city and perhaps attempting to poach workers from Microsoft

Changing nature of enterprise architecture

MySpace to turn over sex offender data to AGs

After initially refusing to furnish attorneys general with the data, MySpace has decided to provide authorities with the names of users who are sex offenders

SenderBase.org gets a revamp

SenderBase.org gets a refresh including a new UI and more detailed reports about the origins and spread of e-mail borne malware.

The Grid and the Web – Open Standards and Open Source

Fast IBM Power6 chip enters slowing Unix market

New chip runs at double the speed of the Power5 line while using the same amount of power

Microsoft, TCG get closer on NAC

New specification should remove significant barriers to the adoption of NAC tools

Vodafone aims handsets at developing markets

Vodafone launches two ultra low-cost handsets

Chinese PC users still dealing with Symantec foul-up

Millions of Chinese computers running Symantec AV software were incapacitated by a faulty virus signature update

Noose tightens around allofmp3.com

Recording industry battles to shut down Russian Web site that it says sells cut-rate music without paying royalties

PC dealers strike against Microsoft in India

Computer dealers are protesting Microsoft's attempts to clamp down on the use of pirated software

U.S.-backed loan finances Chartered’s expansion plans

Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor will use the $610 million loan to expand its most advanced chip plant

Hurts big time: Ellison’s team loses America’s Cup bid

Oracle CEO's costly sailboat racing team goes down to defeat in semifinal

Mobile provider Alltel agrees to $27.5B buyout

Deal likely to spur more such acquisitions in the mobile phone market