IT News Digest

Archive: 02-2008

• Service level agreements of paramount importance to software-as-a-service adoption

  Software-as-a-service has been the buzzword that promises to provide prompt services while keeping companies shielded from the problems of implementation and maintenance of software. However, with...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | February 29, 2008, 7:29 AM PST

• Are you prepared to Google your medical records?

  In the world of healthcare, a patient’s medical record is maintained by its author — the doctor and nurses. So, what would the benefit be if a patient had some control over his or her...

  Posted by Tricia Liebert | February 29, 2008, 4:46 AM PST

• Will the latest EU fine change Microsoft's behavior?

  The EU has fined Microsoft for the second time in four years in a long running antitrust case over IE and Media Player bundling as well as the inner workings of Windows. The software giant will...

  Posted by Andy Moon | February 28, 2008, 4:00 AM PST

• Apple's iPhone SDK unlikely to arrive in February

  Wednesday saw Apple issuing invitations to the media for a briefing on its “iPhone Software Roadmap.” With the date of the event set for March 6, it is literally confirmed that the...

  Posted by Paul Mah | February 28, 2008, 12:01 AM PST

• Goolag security tool uses Google to scan sites for vulnerabilities

  Goolag Scanner is a Web auditing tool released by the hacker group Cult of Dead Cows. The tool uses the prowess of the search engine to surface vulnerabilities on Web sites.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | February 27, 2008, 4:00 AM PST

• Comcast may be in the hot seat, but who did it pay to sit in it?

  On Feb. 26, the public hearing in Boston between the FCC and Comcast was packed. Hundreds of concerned citizens took the time to show up in an effort to speak on the importance of an open...

  Posted by Tricia Liebert | February 27, 2008, 3:52 AM PST

• Comcast in the hot seat

  A public forum has been convened by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starting Monday at the Harvard Law School. Yet the pertinent question on this issue might just have eluded everyone...

  Posted by Paul Mah | February 26, 2008, 4:03 AM PST

• Adobe announces AIR to much fanfare, but the mobile applications space is already crowded

  The mobile application space got a little more crowded on February 25th as Adobe introduced its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) software, a development environment that allows applications to be...

  Posted by Andy Moon | February 26, 2008, 4:00 AM PST

• Judge opens door for 'Vista Capable' class-action lawsuit

  December 2006 was a great time to buy a new computer. Intel and AMD had some great choices in the market and you could buy the XP OEM experience with the knowledge that if the computer was...

  Posted by Tricia Liebert | February 25, 2008, 3:41 AM PST

• Silicon Valley start-up breaks traditional limits of memory

  MetaRAM, a Silicon Valley start-up, has come out of stealth mode with what it says is the answer to memory limitations faced by increasingly powerful servers.

  Posted by Paul Mah | February 25, 2008, 3:34 AM PST

• Vista SP1 causes reduced functionality for some programs

  The long awaited release of the first service pack for Vista is now just around the corner. Software maker Microsoft is still planning a mid March release of the update that is reputed to...

  Posted by Tricia Liebert | February 22, 2008, 5:15 AM PST

• Microsoft announces small and midsize Windows Server offerings

  As part of its Essential Server Solutions Server products, Microsoft will offer Windows Small Business Server 2008 for small businesses and the Windows Essential Business Server 2008 for midsize...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | February 22, 2008, 4:35 AM PST

• When will Blu-Ray hit your data center?

  Sony has finally won a format war and redeemed itself from the Betamax debacle in the 1980s. The immediate impact will certainly be in the consumer market, but it won’t be long before the...

  Posted by Andy Moon | February 21, 2008, 4:00 AM PST

• One week after latest outage, BlackBerry trips again

  Within a week after our latest report of a BlackBerry outage comes news of another confirmed issue with BlackBerries in North America. Unlike last week’s incident, the downtime was limited...

  Posted by Paul Mah | February 21, 2008, 1:42 AM PST

• Prerequisite Vista SP1 update pulled

  In response to reports of endlessly rebooting PCs flooding support newsgroups, Microsoft has pulled an update designed to prep Vista for Service Pack 1. This pair of prerequisite files modify...

  Posted by Tricia Liebert | February 20, 2008, 5:12 AM PST

• The resurgence of COBOL

  If you are an aging programmer, you have likely seen and/or programmed in COBOL at some point in your life. Indeed, most baby boomers learned COBOL as a first, second, or third language as they...

  Posted by Tricia Liebert | February 20, 2008, 4:27 AM PST

• Siemens announces professional and managed services portfolio

  Siemens Communications Inc. announced its end-to-end integrated multi-vendor global communication service called OpenScale.

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | February 20, 2008, 4:00 AM PST

• Is VMware's technology lead big enough to hold off Microsoft?

  VMware, currently king in virtual computing, is beginning to feel the pressure that Microsoft tends to bring to bear when a new technology threatens the Redmond-based giant.

  Posted by Andy Moon | February 19, 2008, 4:00 AM PST

• Microsoft development tools to be given completely free to students

  To get even more students to use its software tools, Microsoft will be giving away its software in an initiative called DreamSpark. From this week onwards, college students in 10 countries —...

  Posted by Paul Mah | February 19, 2008, 12:01 AM PST

• Amazon's S3 storage service suffers downtime

  Hot on the heels of the latest outage over at RIM’s North America NOC came news of Amazon’s S3 cloud computing service experiencing some hiccups for several hours on Friday morning,...

  Posted by Paul Mah | February 18, 2008, 4:40 AM PST