Recent Articles
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Not Quite Y2K, but Glitches Loom with ’07 Daylight-Saving Change
Sounding a little like the Y2K concerns at the turn of this century, the U.S. Congress’s expansion of daylight-saving time, which moves the clock change from early April to March 11, may cause some VARs to lose a little sleep. The change will require patches for many software products, some which will require manual installations.…
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TIBCO Teams with DWR for AJAX Push
TIBCO Software, a leader in AJAX, Web services and service-oriented architecture technology, is teaming up with the Direct Web Remoting project to extend event-based SOA to the browser, the principals involved said. Moreover, Palo Alto, Calif., company announced that it has become a sponsor of DWR, a popular AJAX communications library. Through this sponsorship DWR…
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Gosling: Another Language Debate?
It seems Java creator James Gosling is back in the middle of a language debate … well, sort of. In recent posts on his blog, Sun Microsystems Fellow Gosling said he has never been happy about language debates. Yet, Gosling is no novice when it comes to such debates, having taken flak for comments he…
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Microsoft Releases Titan Code to Select Partners
Taking the next step in its walk toward an on-demand version of its Dynamics customer relationship management software, Microsoft announced Jan. 10 that it’s releasing the code for its next major upgrade, Titan, to about 300 partners. The early look-see could help ease some partner fears around the impact of an on-demand model from Microsoft.…
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RSA Catches Financial Phishing Kit
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, announced Jan. 10 that it has identified a new phishing kit that was being sold and used online by hackers to target users’ personal information in real time. The phishing kit, known as a Universal Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Kit, is meant to help online hackers create attacks involving financial organizations…
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Motorola Unveils Two Linux-Based Phones
Motorola is bringing Linux-based phones with strong entertainment features to the consumer marketplace. Two new phones, introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, are the MOTORIZR Z6, a slide-to-open phone similar to the company’s existing Z3, and the MOTOMING A1200, a flip-open, touch-screen communications and entertainment device. Both are quad-band GSM phones, while…
