TECHWEB TODAY: SOFTWARE Tuesday, November 23, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE 1. Tuesday Software Feature: ILM Makes Your Data Immortal 2. Software News Of The Week
Today's Top News 3. Firefox Gains, IE Slides 4. Torvalds, Open-Source Pioneers Take On EU Patent Issue 5. Ad Banner Attack Involved Comedy Central 6. Swainson Pledges Forward Momentum At CA Other News This Week 7. Complex Races Shape The Mobile Enterprise 8. Java Bug Makes IE, Firefox Vulnerable 9. Group Demands Camphone Vendors Protect Privacy 10. U.S. R&D On The Budget Chopping Block ------- Advertisement ------------------- ARE YOU SARBOX COMPLIANT? Experiencing gaps in your IT controls with people, processes or technology? Learn how BMC Software can help you close the gap and prepare for Sarbox. Download a complimentary white paper from BMC Software to learn how you can maximize ROI value beyond the compliance checklist. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytZ0AI ----------------------------------------- -- 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: ILM Makes Your Data Immortal Information life-cycle management software can help enterprises keep data organized for eons to come -- and comply with new regulations. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytP0A7 2. SOFTWARE NEWS OF THE WEEK Computer Associates Cancels 2005 Partner Conference The company announced that there would be no annual partner conference next year in an e-mail to many former conference attendees. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytQ0A8 PeopleSoft To Oracle: Sweeten The Pot To probably no one's surprise, the PeopleSoft board again has rejected Oracle's $9.2 billion bid for the company as insufficient. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0Cyeh0AH Duck, Microsoft: Firefox Is Coming To Retail Stores Linspire has found another way to challenge Microsoft: it's offering its OpenOffice.org product suite and the Firefox browser in a single package in retail channels. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0Cyef0AF Developers Preview Microsoft's Avalon Microsoft's Avalon windowing elements technology is slated to appear in Longhorn Windows due in 2006. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytR0AA Kazaa Revs To 3.0; Includes Skye The latest version of Kazaa, one of the most popular file sharing programs, includes an integrated peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet phone service. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0Cyei0AI How Google Threatens Microsoft If Google's many initiatives are successful, it could make people less reliant on Microsoft-powered desktop computers. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0Cyee0AE ------- Advertisement ------------------- ARE YOU SARBOX COMPLIANT? Experiencing gaps in your IT controls with people, processes or technology? Learn how BMC Software can help you close the gap and prepare for Sarbox. Download a complimentary white paper from BMC Software to learn how you can maximize ROI value beyond the compliance checklist. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytZ0AI ------------------------------------------- TODAY'S NEWS 3. Firefox Gains, IE Slides Microsoft's grasp on the browser market continues to loosen; a Dutch Web monitoring firm says new numbers show the open-source Firefox making inroads. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytS0AB 4. Torvalds, Open-Source Pioneers Take On EU Patent Issue A group of open-source software pioneers, led by Linux developer Linus Torvalds, has issued an appeal to the EU Council to block the legalization of software patents. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytT0AC 5. Ad Banner Attack Involved Comedy Central More details emerge about the attack that compromised a German Web advertising company's server and infected users who visited Web sites run by the firm's clients with the MyDoom/Bofra worm. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytU0AD 6. Swainson Pledges Forward Momentum At CA Computer Associates made it official, naming IBM veteran John Swainson as president and CEO-elect. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytV0AE OTHER NEWS THIS WEEK 7. Complex Races Shape The Mobile Enterprise Even as Microsoft tops PalmSource in PDAs, Symbian leads the smartphone operating system race. Why this matters to the enterprise. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CyeW0Ay 8. Java Bug Makes IE, Firefox Vulnerable A flaw in Sun's Java Virtual Machine can open up the two most popular browsers, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, to attack, security researchers said. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytW0AF 9. Group Demands Camphone Vendors Protect Privacy Cameraphone vendors are called upon to add a mandatory flash every time a picture is taken to prevent unauthorized photos. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0Cyec0AC 10. U.S. R&D On The Budget Chopping Block Government-funded research and development programs are likely to get the budget ax in the next federal budget cycle, observers predict. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/ekop0GpvDH0G4S0CytX0AG -------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW! 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