Microsoft plots ambitious SOA roadmap
Microsoft Tuesday laid out an ambitious SOA roadmap around a set technologies code-named Oslo that will be blended into its middleware, development, and management tools and some of its emerging enterprise online services.
Google makes social networking power move — finally
Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking as an online service and advertising vehicle, Google this week will unleash its strongest response yet to the rising threat and skyrocketing popularity of MySpace and Facebook.
Companies tap RSS to tame info overload
As employees struggle to read an increasing amount of work-related material, some companies have turned to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology to improve productivity.
Ingrian updates encryption appliance line
Ingrian Networks announced Monday it has updated its DataSecure encryption appliance line most commonly used for credit-card encryption, adding the high-end 400 Series and discontinuing the 300 Series, while keeping the low-end 100 Series with enhancements.
IBM taps Alcatel for unified-communications strategy
IBM and networking provider Alcatel-Lucent are teaming up to take Microsoft head-on in the unified-communications market.
7-year Internet tax ban heads to president
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban, the final step before the legislation heads to President George Bush to be signed into law. The House on Tuesday approved the Senate version of the Internet tax moratorium, which would ban Internet-only taxes such as access taxes for seven years. The current ban has been in effect since 1998, except for a lapse during most of 2004.
Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It’s a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.
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Real-life scary security stories
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Today on Microsoft Subnetreleases roadmap for SOA, codenamed Oslo and involving the next-generation of BizTalk, .Net and System Center 5; Apple reports that it has sold 2 million copies of Leopard spurring the comparisons between Leopard and Vista; Blogger Tyson Kopczynski weighs in on the perimeter vs. no-perimeter argument.
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Today at Cisco Subnetto triple headcount in India to 10K by 2010; Does the Vyatta router solution monitor how business processes are operating?; Cisco’s profits: 5 trends worth watching; It’s the last day to enter to win free Cisco training worth up to $3,995, courtesy of Global Knowledge. Plus enter to win a free copy of “Monitoring with Cisco Security MARS” by Gary Halleen and Greg Kellogg, published by Cisco Press.
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Buzzblog: Let poker players be free
Pentagon Papers case: check. Bailing out Julia Roberts: check. Lawyer’s next crusade? Freeing poker players from tyranny.
Today on Layer 8, where we fully expect to have our own tractor beam up and running in a few years that will significanlty reduce our commuting time:
Call it Star Trek tech for microscopes. MIT researchers said today they have found a way to use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other objects on the surface of a microchip.
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