TECHWEB TODAY: SOFTWARE Tuesday, September 21, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Tuesday Software Feature: Browser Wars, Part II? 2. Software News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Sun Looks For Wall Street Comeback 4. Blocking JPEGs No Defense Against Windows Vulnerability 5. AOL To Offer RSA Security's Password Protection 6. Cisco Named One Of Top Three Most Trusted Security Vendors 7. Yale Team Builds Chips For Quantum Computing Other News This Week 8. Sun Touts Solaris For Low-End Servers, Targets Red Hat Linux 9. Wireless Broadband: This Magic Moment 10. AOL Makes AIMBots Available To Enterprise Users 11. Gates, Ballmer Get Pay Raises ------- Advertisement ------------------- IBM Express Middleware. Designed for mid-sized companies. IBM Express Middleware is proven software like IBM DB2, Lotus, Tivoli, and WebSphere. Easy-to-implement. Easy-to-install. Simple-to-maintain. IBM Express Middleware is designed, developed and priced for mid-sized companies. On demand software is now more accessible than ever. See how it works in animated case studies, free papers and more. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CYYo0Ay ----------------------------------------- 1. TUESDAY SOFTWARE FEATURE: Browser Wars, Part II? Firefox, Opera, Safari . . . oh my! Buzz about alternative browsers builds, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer gains a security-risk rep. Should you switch? http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXQ0Ao 2. SOFTWARE NEWS OF THE WEEK For Businesses, It's Slow Going With Windows XP's SP2 It could take months for many businesses to test and deploy Microsoft's most-secure operating system. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0Cm6w0Ar PeopleSoft Forges Ahead With Product Plans At Connect conference, customers will hear about the progress of its Total Cost of Ownership initiative, as well as upgrades to its HR and J.D. Edwards' manufacturing software. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnQs0AH Microsoft Expands Sharing Of Source Code Microsoft offers select government accounts a view into the inner workings of Office. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnOV0Ak Judge Weighs Evidence in IBM, SCO Case IBM attorneys argued that SCO has failed to provide evidence. SCO attorneys said IBM was stonewalling. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXR0Ap Gupta Fills Gap Between Windows And Linux Gupta Technologies shipped a database that the company says makes it easier to transition applications from a Microsoft Windows environment to the Linux platform. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXS0Aq Microsoft Now Has Backup-And-Recovery Software Its new Data Protection Server is a disk-to-disk approach to backup and recovery. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXT0Ar ------- Advertisement ------------------- IBM Express Middleware. Designed for mid-sized companies. IBM Express Middleware is proven software like IBM DB2, Lotus, Tivoli, and WebSphere. Easy-to-implement. Easy-to-install. Simple-to-maintain. IBM Express Middleware is designed, developed and priced for mid-sized companies. On demand software is now more accessible than ever. See how it works in animated case studies, free papers and more. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CYYo0Ay ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Sun Looks For Wall Street Comeback Sun Microsystems Inc. is trying to lure financial services companies back to the fold with promotional bundles of hardware and software. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXU0As 4. Blocking JPEGs No Defense Against Windows Vulnerability There's new security trouble: The JPEG bug can't be defended by blocking JPEG images at the gateway. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXV0At 5. AOL To Offer RSA Security's Password Protection AOL, this week, will offer RSA Security Inc.'s purportedly ironclad password-security service to its 23 million customers. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXW0Au 6. Cisco Named One Of Top Three Most Trusted Security Vendors A Yankee Group survey names Symantec and Network Associates as other most-trusted security vendors. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXX0Av 7. Yale Team Builds Chips For Quantum Computing Yale University researchers have built what they call QED integrated circuits to manipulate quantum bits. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXY0Aw OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 8. Sun Touts Solaris For Low-End Servers, Targets Red Hat Linux Sun Microsystems has set its sights on Linux vendors, seeking to jump into the low-end but high-volume market. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXZ0Ax 9. Wireless Broadband: This Magic Moment Reality is replacing speculation, as wireless broadband is close to achieving critical mass. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnOM0Ab 10. AOL Makes AIMBots Available To Enterprise Users AOL's successful robot technology is now available for applications ranging from phone directories to interactive CRM. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnOT0Ai 11. Gates, Ballmer Get Pay Raises Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, earned $901,667 during the company's 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from a year ago. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ejaW0GpvDH0G4S0CnXa0A5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Register Today For TechXNY Join us October 5-7 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York for TechXNY where you'll find the business solutions you need. We'll be covering storage, networking, security, database, Internet, wireless, Linux solutions and more. 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