Year: 2006

  • E-Mail, IM Are in the Hot Seat Again

    E-Mail, IM Are in the Hot Seat Again

    Michael Caton

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    It seems as if we hear every week about another organization that has failed to manage both its communications and its people. The latest incident, concerning former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate communications with congressional pages, illustrates failure of governance at many levels. One question that immediately comes to mind: How can an organization that… Read more

  • Back in the Doghouse

    Matt Hines

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    As rivals complain ever louder over Microsoft’s move into the security applications space, antitrust analysts predict that the company may soon be defending its business practices to government regulators once again. European regulators have already begun to warn Microsoft against trying to thin competition in the security market via the addition of security measures in… Read more

  • Massachusetts CIO Change Worries ODF Supporters

    Massachusetts CIO Change Worries ODF Supporters

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Massachusetts has a problem. The Commonwealth can’t keep its CIO or pass an IT budget. Louis Gutierrez, the of CIO Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division, resigned earlier this week. Does this mean the end of the state’s pioneering ODF rollout? First let’s look at why Gutierrez is leaving. As he said in his resignation letter, it’s… Read more

  • Oracle Buys Data Integration Software Maker Sunopsis

    Oracle Buys Data Integration Software Maker Sunopsis

    Scott Ferguson

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    Oracle announced Oct. 9 that it has purchased Sunopsis, a Burlington, Mass.-based company that produces data integration software. Oracle will integrate Sunopsis’ data integration products into its Fusion Middleware offerings, the Redwood Shores, Calif. company said in a statement. That integration will support both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources, according to the company. Sunopsis offers… Read more

  • Dive into the PhishTank

    Dive into the PhishTank

    Larry Seltzer

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    Everybody complains about phishing, but how many of us actually do something about it? Now everyone can. Of course the fact that a site is submitted as a phish doesn’t make it a phish, so it isn’t listed as a phish until enough users vote for it. The voting is Cloudmark-style, where users themselves develop… Read more

  • Tools That Teach Mustn’t Overreach

    Tools That Teach Mustn’t Overreach

    Peter Coffee

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    This week’s sold-out Eclipse Summit Europe, in Esslingen, Germany, will include a presentation on the Topcased project, an effort driven by the French National Center for Aeronautical and Space Technology Research to construct “an open-source CASE environment [to] perpetuate the methods and tools for critical embedded system development.” The goals of Topcased include “high-quality open-source… Read more