TECHWEB TODAY: SOFTWARE Tuesday, November 2, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Tuesday Software Feature: Microsoft Makes Nice 2. Software News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Group Pushes Open-Source Model For Electronic Voting Machines 4. Dell First, IBM Last Among Online Computer Shoppers 5. PointOne Announces Hosted VoIP Solution To Replace PBXs 6. Survey: Voice Over WLAN Use To Skyrocket 450% By 2006 Other News This Week 7. All You Need Is Wireless Love 8. Toshiba Joins Recall Parade, Blames Bad Memory 9. MessageLabs Warns Yahoo! Users Of Unique Phishing Attack 10. NFC Device Payment Technology Gets Boost ------- Advertisement ------------------- IBM solutions. Designed for the mid-market. Mid-sized companies like General Glass use IBM Express Middleware to give their sales force real-time product data on the road, their customers real-time updates on the Web and their bottom line real-world savings on the fly. All for as little as $2500. See how in valuable case studies, papers and more http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CYYo0Az ----------------------------------------- -- Keep Getting This Newsletter -- Don't let future editions of TechWeb Today Software go missing. Take a moment to add the newsletter's address to your anti-spam whitelist: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're not sure how to do that, ask your administrator or ISP. Or check your anti-spam utility's documentation. Thanks. 1. TUESDAY SOFTWARE FEATURE: Microsoft Makes Nice Redmond cools its competitive juices, taking on partners for PLM and SANs, and offering interoperable instant messaging. But anti-Linux fervor continues. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CugY0AL 2. SOFTWARE NEWS OF THE WEEK Oracle Issues 'Final Offer' For PeopleSoft Database giant says enough is enough; sweeter $24-per-share bid ends Nov. 19. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CuRD0Ad BEA Gets SOA For Effort Under BEA's new Enterprise Solutions Program, the infrastructure software company provides a new go-to-market methodology for its professional services organization and systems integrator partners. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CugZ0AM Microsoft Tweaks Axapta For Life Sciences Microsoft Business Solutions continues to creep up the software stack. It plans to ship a new version of Axapta, its higher-end ERP offering tailored for life science applications. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CuRE0Ae Mandrakesoft Ships Upgrade Of Linux OS Mandrakesoft released the latest version of its Linux operating system, enhanced with extended support for mobile devices, better hardware compatibility, and application upgrades. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Cuga0AT SAP, Hewlett-Packard Offer Hosted Business Software To SMBs SAP AG introduced in the U.S. a hosted version of its best-known business software, which will run on top of HP's data center. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Cugb0AU VMWare Touts New Virtual Server Software Skills VMWare, a division of EMC, put more pressure on rival Microsoft by announcing plans to roll out software that will let one virtual machine use as many as four processors simultaneously to run applications. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Ctc80Ah ------- Advertisement ------------------- IBM solutions. Designed for the mid-market. Mid-sized companies like General Glass use IBM Express Middleware to give their sales force real-time product data on the road, their customers real-time updates on the Web and their bottom line real-world savings on the fly. All for as little as $2500. See how in valuable case studies, papers and more http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CYYo0Az ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Group Pushes Open-Source Model For Electronic Voting Machines Electronic Voting Machines have never been more important or controversial, and there's plenty of skepticism about voting machine integrity. Some see open-source software as the solution. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Cugc0AV 4. Dell First, IBM Last Among Online Computer Shoppers Among the 10 leading computer manufacturers and resellers, Dell delivered the best online experience to shoppers, while IBM provided the worst, a study showed. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CueY0AJ 5. PointOne Announces Hosted VoIP Solution To Replace PBXs StarPoint IP Business also allows businesses to 'cap and grow' by keeping existing PBXs and integrating them with hosted solutions. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Cugd0AW 6. Survey: Voice Over WLAN Use To Skyrocket 450% By 2006 Study also finds that WLANs have become mainstream as security barriers are overcome. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CueW0AH OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. All You Need Is Wireless Love Wireless broadband has been easy to love, but hard to turn into a commercial affair; hardware deals could change that. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0CuQ50AN 8. Toshiba Joins Recall Parade, Blames Bad Memory Toshiba issued a recall for faulty memory modules that were used in over two dozen of its laptop models. It will swap out the defective third-party memory modules free of charge. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Cuge0AX 9. MessageLabs Warns Yahoo! Users Of Unique Phishing Attack E-mails are being sent asking users to create Yahoo! IDs for use by spammers. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekRf0GpvDH0G4S0Cugf0AY 10. NFC Device Payment Technology Gets Boost The idea of paying for things by swiping a cell phone near a payment terminal is a step closer to reality. 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