TECHWEB TODAY: E-BUSINESS Thursday, November 4, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Thursday E-Business Feature: The Economy-Elect 2. E-Business News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Spammer Sentenced To 9 Years In First Felony Conviction 4. Microsoft, Intel Want To Bring 'Digital Joy' To The Home 5. SGI Touts Supercomputer For Japan With Monster Memory 6. IBM Lauches SOA Services Practice 7. HP Goes After Netegrity Customers With Big Discounts Other News This Week 8. Cargo Concerns 9. New IE 6.0 Bug Spotted, No Fix 10. E-Voting Passed The Test, But Remains Controversial 11. Hackers Offer To Sell Cisco Firewall Source Code ------- Advertisement ------------------- This issue sponsored by CDW... Take advantage of special offers from Xerox. Get FREE ink with purchase of a Xerox Phaser 8400 or save $100 on select Xerox multifunction printers. Now at CDW! http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDQ0AL ----------------------------------------- -- Keep Getting This Newsletter -- Don't let future editions of TechWeb Today E-Business 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. THURSDAY E-BUSINESS FEATURE: The Economy-Elect Slow growth and the usual fourth-quarter doldrums won't help the next Bush economy right away. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDJ0AE 2. E-BUSINESS NEWS OF THE WEEK Oracle Issues 'Final Offer' For PeopleSoft The Database giant says enough is enough; sweeter $24-per-share bid ends Nov. 19. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CuRD0AL Indian Software Industry Relieved At Bush's Re-election India's software industry expressed relief saying Bush's re-election lessened the likelihood of U.S. restrictions on the outsourcing of U.S. technology projects to India. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDK0AF Internet Explorer's Still-Huge Share Keeps Falling Microsoft's Internet Explorer's share of the browser universe slipped nearly a full percentage point since September. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CuqK0Ax Shadows Loom Over Sun's Open-Source Plans While Sun Microsystems will officially debut Solaris 10 within two weeks, its plans for an open-source version remain in limbo. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CuqM0Az 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/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CueY0Az Survey: Voice Over WLAN Use To Skyrocket 450% By 2006 The study also found that WLANs have become mainstream as security barriers are overcome. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CueW0Ax ------- Advertisement ------------------- This issue sponsored by CDW... Take advantage of special offers from Xerox. Get FREE ink with purchase of a Xerox Phaser 8400 or save $100 on select Xerox multifunction printers. Now at CDW! http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDQ0AL ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Spammer Sentenced To 9 Years In First Felony Conviction A North Carolina man is sentenced to a nine-year jail term for spamming millions of America Online users, in the country's first felony conviction for spewing junk mail. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDL0AG 4. Microsoft, Intel Want To Bring 'Digital Joy' To The Home Joy during the holiday season usually comes from family and friends, but this year Microsoft and Intel want it to also come from the PC. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDM0AH 5. SGI Touts Supercomputer For Japan With Monster Memory Silicon Graphics said a customer in Japan will soon introduce an SGI Altix supercomputer that will have more than 13 terabytes of memory. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDN0AI 6. IBM Lauches SOA Services Practice IBM introduces consulting services to help companies build and manage service-oriented architectures. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDO0AJ 7. HP Goes After Netegrity Customers With Big Discounts Hewlett-Packard aggressively courts identity management customers of rival Computer Associates. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CvDP0AK OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 8. Cargo Concerns Tens of thousands of cargo containers enter the U.S. every day, the vast majority of them uninspected. We can do better. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CuqH0Au 9. New IE 6.0 Bug Spotted, No Fix Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 has an "extremely critical" flaw that doesn't yet have a fix, a Danish security firm warned. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0CuqN0A1 10. E-Voting Passed The Test, But Remains Controversial Supporters of electronic voting have four words for the technology's detractors: "I told you so." But opponents said the performance of the touch-screen machines on Election Day did little to settle their concerns. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0Cuvv0Al 11. Hackers Offer To Sell Cisco Firewall Source Code Group calling itself the Source Code Club offers Pix firewall software for $24,000 on Usenet newsgroup. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekUP0GpvDH0G4T0Cuvz0Ap -------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBCAST ALERT: IT Governance: The Value Engine Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Time: 11:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET Duration: One hour Leading CIOs are intensely pursuing the critical goal of optimizing the value IT delivers to the business. They are also focused on ensuring that IT is structured to support the imperatives of corporate governance. But what does IT governance really mean, and how do you get started? Join us to discuss how to set your successful path to IT governance. 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