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No Web Tax Yet

Like a Java version of the sword of Damocles, the threat of a Web tax has loomed over e-Commerce players since the Web was...

EU States Propose Massive Data Retention Plan

The European Union has unveiled plans to require all telephone and Internet traffic to be logged and stored for up to a year in...

Giving Scum a Bad Name

I really shouldnt let the Internet get to me like this. But, right now I am ready to shut down my server and go...

Office 12 Note-Taking App Gets Collaborative

Microsoft is revealing, piece by piece, some of the new features that will be in the next versions of the products that comprise the...

Samsung Invests Billions in Future Chips

Samsung Electronics, already a chip giant, appears to be gearing up to take an even bigger piece of the semiconductor market. Best known for being...

Mozilla Zaps Thunderbird Security Bugs

The Mozilla Foundation on Friday shipped a new version of its Thunderbird mail client to plug a potentially serious URL parsing security hole affecting...

Rethinking Compute Power in the Data Center

Azul Systems Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., wants to do with processing power what others have done in storage and networking—create an environment where...

BEA Tools Could Pave the Way to SOA Adoption

SANTA CLARA, Calif.— Adoption of SOA is still in the very early stages, but the introduction of new development tools from BEA Systems, combined...

Forms Follow Function, but XML Doesnt, Necessarily

At the PDF Conference in Washington, D.C. this week I walked the halls searching for an answer to this question: Now that IBM is...

Quest Upgrades Java Performance Management Software

Quest on Thursday at BEAWorld launched an upgraded, consolidated version of its PerformaSure and JProbe tools for managing J2EE application performance. The new and renamed...