Andy Patrizio

Sun Microsystems today released NetBeans 5.5, an update to its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) featuring full support for Java EE 5, the newest version of its enterprise Java platform. In addition to the Java EE support, NetBeans 5.5 contains new features like the Java Persistence API and JAX WS 2.0 productivity tools, Subversion support, and […]

Reporter’s Notebook: With the news this week that he had broken the digital rights management (DRM) protections in iTunes, 22-year-old Viking hacker Jon Johansen once again put himself front and center in the issue of copy protection vs. intellectual properly. Only this time, he’s taking a much greater risk. In 1999, the then-15-year-old Norwegian was […]

UPDATED: Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for its first fiscal quarter ended September 30 but expects to take a minor hit in the current quarter due to its recently-announced coupon promotion. The company posted an impressive net income of $3.48 billion, or 35 cents per share, on revenues of $10.81 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Only Larry Ellison could be so bold. It wasn’t enough to convince the city officials here to close part of a busy downtown street for the Oracle OpenWorld conference; now he’s gone and conducted what is practically a hostile takeover of Red Hat Linux’s enterprise support. As the highlight of his […]

Microsoft can’t get the consumer version of Vista delivered in time for the holidays, so it’s planning to offer what may be the next best thing, an upgrade coupon on new PCs. The move was more or less a necessity since both Window Vista and Office 2007 are shipping in January, much to the consternation […]

DigitalPersona has introduced version 4.0 of its enterprise-scale biometric  reader, featuring improved accuracy and single sign-on support. The announcement is well-timed. Just one week ago, the global research firms Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm released a report that one in three people write down computer passwords, which defeats the purpose of security in the first place. […]

Microsoft has released its Sender ID framework for email under the Open Specification Promise (OSP), thereby making it freely available to anyone who wants to use it to improve their email security. Sender ID is an anti-spam technology born out of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which Microsoft participated in and holds a number […]

UPDATED: SAN FRANCISCO — Dell Computer expanded its high-performance computing offerings with the unveiling of a pair of dual core AMD Opteron-based PowerEdge servers here at the Oracle Open World conference. Dell  founder and Chairman Michael Dell, touted the new servers as more powerful and energy efficient than previous offerings during an address here to […]

Give Microsoft credit for eating its own dog food. The company has used itself as a guinea pig to test its own products for years. The latest product put through the internal wringer is RoundTable, a video-conferencing camera/microphone designed for Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Live Meeting that offers a 360-degree perspective. There are […]

Microsoft announced plans to release a set of new desktop tools that will augment and improve Active Desktop in helping IT managers get their arms around their application assets. The Microsoft  Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance will ship in January and consists of four tools. The first is Asset Inventory Services, which scans and […]

UPDATED: Microsoft has quietly pushed back the third official service pack for Windows XP to 2008. Whether or not this is an issue seems to be one for debate. This isn’t the only service pack that’s pulling a Godot, according to Microsoft’s Service Pack Road Map. The second service pack for Windows Server 2003 has […]

Internet Explorer 7 hasn’t been available for 24 hours and already a security vulnerability has been found. The vulnerability was first posted on Thursday morning by Secunia, a security Web site. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the “mhtml:” URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)  handler. MHTML, or […]