Year: 2005

  • Microsoft Buffs Sparkle ‘Flash Killer’

    Microsoft Buffs Sparkle ‘Flash Killer’

    Darryl K. Taft

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    At its upcoming Professional Developers Conference next month, Microsoft Corp. is set to shed more details on its developer-oriented graphics tool, code-named Sparkle. Sparkle will be one element of the upcoming Expression Studio suite of design and developer tools for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), formerly known as Avalon. Expression Studio also is expected to… Read more

  • IBM Rolls Out Training, Funding for Emerging-Market VARs

    IBM Rolls Out Training, Funding for Emerging-Market VARs

    John Hazard

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    Beginning today, VARs in the emerging markets of Brazil, China, India and Russia will have access to a funding and support network designed to bolster the training, resources, and, ultimately, sales for IBM’s Open Standards Solution providers in those countries. Two IBM programs that were announced today—IBM Venture Capital Advisory Council and IBM Virtual Innovations… Read more

  • Intel to Reveal Updated Multicore Schedule

    Intel to Reveal Updated Multicore Schedule

    John G. Spooner

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    Intel will have a multitude of multicore processors on hand this week at its fall developer forum, which opens Tuesday. Paul Otellini, CEO of the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker, will kick it off by unveiling what is likely to be the biggest news from this year’s fall event. Otellini will open the three-day fall… Read more

  • Security Firm: Oracle Opatch Leaves Firms Uncovered

    Security Firm: Oracle Opatch Leaves Firms Uncovered

    Lisa Vaas

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    Think you’re patched? Think you’ll get the thumbs up from the auditor when he or she comes knocking on your door to make sure you’re in compliance with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), or GLBA, or Visa CISP and MasterCard PCI? According to an upcoming paper from Next Generation Security Software Ltd., a… Read more

  • Worms Exploit Plug and Play Vulnerabilities

    Worms Exploit Plug and Play Vulnerabilities

    Paul F. Roberts

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    In 2003, the blaster worm infected as many as 10 million computers just three weeks after Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for the hole the worm exploited. Today, IT administrators would love to have even a week to patch their systems before a worm appears to exploit a new flaw. A mob of malicious programs… Read more

  • IP PBX Company Turns Focus to Channel

    IP PBX Company Turns Focus to Channel

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Vertical Communications was born a little less than a year ago, when the company’s leadership merged two longtime IP PBX players, Artisoft and Vertical Networks, in hopes of gaining critically needed traction in the crowded computer-based telephony field. In recent months, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company has been busy–both working to merge the best of Vertical… Read more